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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe caravan has all but vanished from cable news
On Monday, both CNN and Fox News mentioned the caravan more than 80 times. On Tuesday, more than 40. On Wednesday and Thursday, the subject was raised fewer than 80 times across CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and Fox Business combined.
The caravan still exists, in several parts. Having reached Mexico City still hundreds of miles from the U.S. border many caravan participants paused for several days, but the procession voted Thursday night to begin walking again Friday morning.
Why did caravan coverage drop off? One reason, certainly, is that theres been a glut of other news: the midterm elections results, the resignation of former attorney general Jeff Sessions, Trumps interactions with the press. More pressing news didnt curtail Fox News and Fox Business from consistently talking about the migrants. In late October, the arrest of a suspect in a series of attempted mail bombings and the mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh prompted CNN and MSNBC to taper off discussion of the caravan. The Foxes didnt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/09/caravan-has-all-vanished-cable-news/
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But Trump will seize on another racist meme fairly soon, if past history is a guide.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)corporate Media is still carrying the Trump Propaganda message.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)LunaSea
(2,892 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)Funny how that works, though. You'd think all the networks would have video when a tsunami hits.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The most likely timing is Xmas or later. The European Press is embedded with the Refugees and are reporting that Mexican Families are taking many of these folks in as the group moves northward.
Notice it was the NYTimes that seemed to drive the Narrative for Political Reasons and was picked up by Fake Noise where as Trump was the mouth piece for this Narrative.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)The way Trump made it sound, I didn't think he'd be able to go on his European trip. He made it sound like they're were ready to invade our border....now it's nothing but crickets. The reason it tapered off is because Trump couldn't use it for a fear-mongering election issue any further now that the elections are over.