CNN's front page was literally covered in it yesterday, a small box for Vance's appearence on CNN's own sunday show was the only other story above the fold. Youtube's "BREAKING NEWS" chumbox was exclusively "assassination attempt" stories last night (I basically never watch political videos on YT)

Super irritating that this sad assassination attempt happened the same day as JD Vance going on TV like "Actually it's all complete lies Dana, I just make racist shit up for attention, and fuck you even bringing it up."

The reason they give Trump this sort of "whatever they feel like would be best for his chances" coverage is because they like Trump and want him to win the election bsky.app/profile/okse...

my phone alarm plays a little NPR podcast in the AM, like a special 5 min news update thing. 2 days in a row it's been about this and only thismy phone alarm plays a little NPR podcast in the AM, like a special 5 min news update thing. 2 days in a row it's been about this and only this

It's baffling JV and trump keep pushing their Haitians-eat-pets lies. They were offered a chance to move the media off this topic (and it did!), so why not let the previous news cycle die? Probably because 1) they're racists 2) they think it's a winner.