You know, the one time the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) stuff should be put away at least in the short term is in the immediate aftermath of a national tragedy.
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But that, of course, is just simply not the way it works in our hyper-politicized times, as exemplified by the number of leftists/media figures who rushed to the Twitter/X machine in the aftermath of the horrific mid-air military helicopter/commercial plane collision that took place Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan National Airport to immediately blame President Donald Trump.
As we reported, there were 64 people on board the American Airlines flight that was flying into D.C. from Wichita, Kansas, and there were three on board the Army helicopter. Tragically, officials announced Thursday morning that they fear there are no survivors.
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To compound matters, the morning after what some media outlets have described as the deadliest aviation disaster “involving a U.S. passenger jet” since February 2009, the Washington Post, which is the “hometown” newspaper in this case, decided to feature mostly anti-Trump articles about the President and his various nominees on its front page and above the fold.
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It relegated news of the crash – the biggest story in America the moment it happened – to a tiny below-the-fold spot (in case you can’t see it in the screengrab, it’s on the lower right side of the front page as you’re looking at it):
There’s a major plane crash in your home city. Scores dead. It’s the first major air crash on US soil for over a decade.
Do you:
a) Lead your front page on it
b) Relegate it to below the foldThe Washington Post, inexplicably, chose b) pic.twitter.com/HPiY2HeCXe
— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) January 30, 2025
Worst airline disaster in years and the local paper buries it under five stories attacking Trump. pic.twitter.com/kZeOzl8CxU
— John Ashbrook (@JohnAshbrook) January 30, 2025
This is just not cool. Not cool at all:
This is unbelievable. To Ashbrook’s point – this not only is the worst airline tragedy in many years, but it happened *in* Washington. And this is what the editors decided to go with??? https://t.co/QvrEQidRle
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) January 30, 2025
Now, I know what’s going to come from media apologists, who are probably going to say the time of the accident didn’t leave much time for editors/publishers to rearrange the front page before they ran up against print/publishing deadlines. But that’s just not the case, as Bobby Warren, founder of the Wooster Media Group, explained in a couple of tweets:
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Likely some editor/paginator/page designer (do they still do all that locally??) didn’t want to mess with the original design of the package at the top. My former publisher would have me in his office as soon as I walked in the next day wanting to know why I buried that info.
It would have been easy enough to move the entire top package down and add the crash at the top. Not that difficult.
I’d like to say “do better” to the Washington Post but it wouldn’t do any good because, as has been the case with so many other “news” outlets post-Election Day, they continue to demonstrate that they haven’t learned a darned thing.
