The Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes appeared on Fox Business Network’s Risk and Reward on Tuesday and called the media out for playing games with terrorist attacks. “So they have to stop trying to play games with this and definitional games and deal with this,” he explained to host Liz MacDonald, “You know, put all 78 together, and you got yourself a major terrorist threat that has been going on. It looks like an attack pretty much every other week for the last two-plus years.”
He also noted that even though the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) dedicated large amounts of time to the San Bernardino and Orlando attacks they spent a lot of that air time pushing liberal cause:
The spin of that coverage was very much about things the liberal press wanted to push. So San Bernardino. Remember, it was about gun control. The New York Daily News, “God isn’t fixing this.” It was not a push for more action against ISIS. It was a push for more action against gun owners in America … Same with Orlando it was gun control and, sort of, things on the Obama agenda. Not the ISIS threat. And I think what the President Trump is saying let's talk about the ISIS threat about these attacks.
As for how they play “definitional games,” Noyes recalled how the media held off on admitting the Orlando terrorist was killing in the name of ISIS. “Omar Mateen before he killed himself called in and basically said, you know, “I'm doing this on behalf of ISIS” and gave a lengthy statement,” Noyes recollected, “And it took hours and hours before they would admit that, yes, in fact, he's doing this in the name of ISIS. It is one of those lone wolf attacks. No way of getting around it.”
MacDonald seemed to agree and described the media’s reaction to the attack at on a university. “Remember the attack at the university in Ohio where the Somalia refugee took a knife and a car, and he mowed people down? That too appeared to be initially downplayed as not being terrorist related; right? Initially,” she said.