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  • 2018-09-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Was the Appointment of Dr. Jerome Adams as Surgeon General Ignored by the Press? (en)
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  • As of this writing (September 2018), a meme continues to circulate on social media holding that Americans didn't see news of the swearing-in of Dr. Jerome Adams as Surgeon General, because the news media purportedly didn't want the public knowing that a supposedly racist President Trump had appointed a black man to a prominent position: Dr. Adams is an anesthesiologist who previously served as Health Commissioner of Indiana, having been appointed to that post by Indiana governor Mike Pence in 2014. He was later nominated for the position of Surgeon General of the United States by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate four days later. It's true that hardly anyone has seen news coverage of Dr. Adams' swearing-in lately -- because it's old news, given that he took office well over a year ago, on 5 September 2017. And, rather than being ignored at the time, Dr. Adams' appointment was contemporaneously covered by national news outlets such as CNN, USA Today, UPI, and the Associated Press, as well as metropolitan newspapers such as the Baltimore Sun and the Indianapolis Star. Dr. Adams also received a good of national press coverage in May 2018 when he assisted with a medical emergency on a Delta Air Lines jet as he was preparing to fly to Jackson, Mississippi: The putative point of this meme is somewhat undercut by the fact that Trump White House does not include a single African-American among its senior staff. In fact, outside of Dr. Adams, the only black person to hold a prominent position in the Trump administration is Dr. Ben Carson, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary: (en)
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