No, that headline isn’t fake news. Washington Post deputy editorial page editor Jackson Diehl dedicated his August 20 column to arguing that President Trump has been “in more ways than one, enabling famine”everywhere from Nigeria to Yemen due to the constant media attention he’s drawn towards other topics.
Diehl began by noting how July saw “eight large private U.S. relief organizations formed an unprecedented alliance to call Americans’ attention to the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II: 20 million people at imminent risk of famine in four countries, including millions of children the United Nations says are ‘acutely malnourished.’”
He noted that “the two-week campaign didn’t work” and cited the lack of news media coverage as the problem. Instead of actually taking blame, Diehl acted as if the media have been held hostage by the President and forced to ignore this story.
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