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Trump's extreme comments – vowing to turn away those who don’t like “our religion”; lashing out at “liberal Jews”; claiming migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”; complimenting the terrorist group Hezbollah – have gotten scant coverage. https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/tv-news-networks-are-giving-trump-pass-his-extremist-statements

Pictured: A chart. Full explanation at the link. Excerpt: Trump has recently vowed to implement “ideological screening” for migrants, saying he’d turn away anyone who doesn’t like “our religion”; accused “liberal Jews” of voting “to destroy America & Israel”; claimed migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”; and complimented the terrorist group Hezbollah as “very smart.” Yet these extreme and alarming statements received scant coverage across major TV news networks: Three of the four comments received no more than 22 minutes of attention each, with only one nearing an hour. In total, across major broadcast and cable news outlets in the two weeks after each comment occurred, the four comments together received less than 2 hours of coverage combined.