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While the World Watches Trump, Its Missing Whats Really Going On
Fisk, Robert http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/10/while-the-world-watches-trump-its-missing-whats-really-going-on/
Publisher: Counterpunch Date Written: 10/06/2019 Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article
The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.
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After what were obviously weeks of reporting work alongside The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, The New York Times revealed this week, in a story with four reporters' bylines, that an American-made precision GPS-guided bomb had indeed killed Mubarezs wife Amina; his four daughters Anisa, aged 14, Safia, 12, Samina, seven and Fahima, five; his three sons Mohammad Wiqad, 10, Mohammad Ilyas, eight and Mohammad Fayaz, four; and four of their teenage cousins....
In days gone by, this would have been a front-page story in The New York Times. There would have been follow-up reports, perhaps an editorial. But this week it was confined to the "World/Asia" section of the paper. In the international edition, it was at the bottom of page three. Like Le Canard enchaines report also at the bottom of page three, although in a paper of only eight pages the story appears to have fallen into a ditch
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