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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Hey! This Is Actual News!

About six hours ago, a motorcade carrying the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority was attacked in Gaza by an IED.  The bomb missed its target, but it damaged two of the vehicles in the motorcade.  The Palestinian Authority announced that it holds Hamas responsible for the attack.

This is big news, so you would think that CBS and NBC and the other mainstream media would cover it, right?  If you thought that, however, you would be wrong.  As of 8:45 this morning, neither or those networks had any mention of the attack on their websites.  Neither did many other media outlets.  I only found mention of it on the ABC News site among all the mainstream media outlets I checked.

Think about that.  Not long ago, Egypt brokered a deal under which the Palestinian Authority (which controls the Palestinian areas of the West Bank) made peace with Hamas (which controls the Gaza Strip).  These two had been fighting for the last ten years.  Now, the Palestinian Prime Minister gets attacked in Gaza and the PA, not surprisingly, holds Hamas responsible.  If the two go back to fighting, the already small chances for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians disappear.  One would think that this deserves at least a mention in the mainstream media other than ABC.  But not, the mainstream media is too involved with "issues" like whether there will be protests during President Trump's visit to San Diego today (hint:  there will be some, even if CNN has to manufacture them) or whether or not the end of the House Intelligence Committee investigation (which found no Trump - Russia collusion) was premature even though the committee looked at something like 300,000 documents and questioned something like 80 witnesses.  It's sad.

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