Trump's "Animal" quote taken out of context

In May of 2018 the media, including New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and The Associated Press, all put out stories saying that President Trump called illegal immigrants “animals”. This was taken completely out of context and used in these articles to make the President look bad. Who Trump was calling animals was not illegal immigrants but rather MS-13 gang member(MS-13 is a vicious and violent street gang responsible for murders and rapes). The reason Trump said this is because, “the president made his comments immediately after Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims expressed frustration with regulations which prohibit her from alerting ICE to the location of MS-13 gang members”(Student News Daily). The ethical dilemma behind this is the fact that journalist have to responsibility of reporting real news and not editing any quotes or take them out of context. This dilemma could have been avoided if biased journalist did not quickly jump onto a quote were Trump called any group of people "animals" and they should have read the whole conference.

-Joey

source:
StudentNewsDaily.com. “‘Animals’ Quote Taken out of Context.” Student News Daily, 23 May 2018, www.studentnewsdaily.com/example-of-media-bias/animals-quote-taken-out-of-context/.


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