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  • 2019-01-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Was President Trump's Visit to Walter Reed Hospital Ignored by the Media? (en)
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  • A photograph purportedly showing President Trump awarding a Purple Heart to a wounded veteran at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was widely shared on social media in December 2018, along with the claim that the pictured event went unreported by the mainstream news media: While it's true that the mainstream news media did not publish many articles in December 2018 about President Trump's visit to Walter Reed, but that wasn't because of any perceived anti-Trump bias -- rather, the press didn't cover this event in December 2018 because it had occurred a year earlier and thus was no longer news. President Trump paid a holiday visit to Walter Reed a few days before Christmas in 2017 and bestowed a Purple Heart medal on a wounded soldier, as the Associated Press contemporaneously reported: It's not even accurate to say that President Trump's visit to Walter Reed in December 2017 was ignored by the news media. Video reports of the event were published by national news outlets such as PBS News Hour, USA Today, ABC News, HLN and Inside Edition. The Seattle Times, CNN, The Hill, Fox News, PBS, WRC-TV (D.C.), WJZ-TV (CBS Baltimore), the Boston Globe, and Lohud also published articles about President Trump's visit to Walter Reed Hospital in December 2017: President Trump had bestowed a Purple Heart upon a wounded soldier during a previous visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in April 2017. That event, too, received coverage from national news outlets. Here, for example, is an excerpt from an article on the subject published by the Washington Post: (en)
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