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Report: U.S. Cable News Aid Acceptance of Trump’s Rhetoric

HeadlineDec 18, 2015

A U.K.-based media watchdog group is criticizing U.S. media outlets for the coverage of Donald Trump, saying the outlets have aided the rise of his presidential campaign and the acceptance of his xenophobic rhetoric. The Ethical Journalism Network says the three major U.S. cable news outlets devoted twice as much airtime to Donald Trump than to any other Republican candidate and that the majority of this coverage did not fact-check his false claims or push back against his “unapologetically xenophobic anti-immigration rhetoric.”

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