While the World Watches Trump, It’s Missing What’s Really Going On

http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/10/while-the-world-watches-trump-its-missing-whats-really-going-on/
Date Written:  2019-06-10
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23715

The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.

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After what were obviously weeks of reporting work alongside The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, The New York Times revealed this week, in a story with four reporters' bylines, that an American-made precision GPS-guided bomb had indeed killed Mubarez’s wife Amina; his four daughters Anisa, aged 14, Safia, 12, Samina, seven and Fahima, five; his three sons Mohammad Wiqad, 10, Mohammad Ilyas, eight and Mohammad Fayaz, four; and four of their teenage cousins....

In days gone by, this would have been a front-page story in The New York Times. There would have been follow-up reports, perhaps an editorial. But this week it was confined to the "World/Asia" section of the paper. In the international edition, it was at the bottom of page three. Like Le Canard enchaine’s report – also at the bottom of page three, although in a paper of only eight pages – the story appears to have fallen into a ditch