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Unnamed Editor of ‘Major News Outlet’ Wants the Media to Stop Using Iconic Photo of Trump After Assassination Attempt Because it Helps Trump
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/unnamed-editor-major-news-outlet-wants-media-stop/
Axios is reporting that an unnamed editor of a ‘major news outlet’ is advising the media not to use the now iconic image of Trump defiantly raising his fist after the attempt on his life this weekend.
This editor recognizes the inherent power of the image and believes that it helps Trump.
This is the way progressives in news rooms across the country think. They are terrified of anything that can be seen as helping Donald Trump. It’s an important reminder that our media is full of Democrat activists posing as journalists.
From Axios:
After the Trump rally shooting, three images stood out immediately. They’ve come to be known in newsrooms as the “Evan photo” by AP’s Evan Vucci, the “Anna photo” by Getty’s Anna Moneymaker, and “the bullet photo” by the New York Times’ Doug Mills.
The big picture: Each photo covering Saturday’s shooting that’s being investigated as both an assassination attempt on former President Trump and domestic terrorism is an example of technical know how, on-the-ground experience, and a deliberate curation process…
Zoom in: Multiple photographers worried privately in conversations with Axios that the images from the rally could turn into a kind of “photoganda,” with the Trump campaign using them to further their agenda despite the photographers’ intent of capturing a news event.
– None would comment on the record for fear of losing future work.
– A photo editor and photographer from a major news outlet said the “amount that publications have been using Evan’s photo is kind of free P.R. for Trump in a way, and its dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is.”
This is an amazing admission of media bias.
Widow of Slain Rally Attendee Says She Received Call From Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/us/widow-call-trump-biden.html
https://archive.is/miok8
The widow of the slain victim in Saturday’s shooting in Pennsylvania spoke with President Trump on Tuesday, she said in a social media post.
“He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks ahead,” Helen Comperatore wrote, adding that she had told the former president that her husband, Corey Comperatore, “left this world a hero, and God welcomed him in.”
Mr. Comperatore’s sister, Kelly Comperatore Meeder, said members of the family had also spoken with representatives of the Trump campaign on Monday night. Ms. Comperatore Meeder said they had declined an invitation to speak with President Biden.
Mr. Comperatore, 50, was an ardent supporter of Mr. Trump and was eager on Saturday to see the former president for the first time in person. His sister said on Tuesday that her family believed that anger toward Mr. Trump was sown by President Biden and media outlets and had led to the fatal shooting.
“We’re not offering them anything,” Ms. Comperatore Meeder, 56, said of President Biden and his administration.
Mr. Comperatore was a father of two daughters and worked at a local plastics manufacturing company. He was also a longtime volunteer firefighter.
He had been so excited to attend his first rally for Mr. Trump that he woke up early to get in line, even after a late evening at a Chris Stapleton concert, Ms. Comperatore Meeder said. He texted their mother that he and his family had been able to switch seats to get closer to the president. Their mother, Ms. Comperatore Meeder said, wanted him to wave at the television cameras so she could watch him.
When the shooting occurred minutes into Mr. Trump’s speech, Mr. Comperatore dove to shield his family members from gunfire, according to Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Comperatore Meeder said she held media outlets “very much responsible” for her brother’s death because of the way she believes they have depicted Mr. Trump and his supporters.
“This was a 20-year-old boy on the roof,” Ms. Comperatore Meeder said. “He didn’t come back here from Vietnam. He didn’t see all of these terrible things. He just knows what he’s been hearing, what the media has portrayed this man to be, and it’s very unfair.”
Federal investigators are still trying to determine what drove the suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, to attempt to assassinate Mr. Trump. They have been searching his online activity and his phone but have not yet found indications of strongly held political beliefs.
Mr. Comperatore’s widow, Helen Comperatore, did not respond to requests for an interview this week, but she told the New York Post on Monday that she was not interested in talking to President Biden because her husband was an ardent supporter of Mr. Trump.
“I didn’t talk to Biden,” she told the newspaper. “I didn’t want to talk to him. My husband was a devout Republican, and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.”
Ms. Comperatore, however, added that she didn’t have any ill will toward President Biden. “He didn’t do anything bad to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did.”
When she was a child, Ms. Comperatore Meeder said, she nicknamed her younger brother “Bud,” because he was her buddy. She remembered him riding his dirt bike as a child in Sarver, their rural community outside of Pittsburgh. Except for one time that he was caught riding without a helmet, she said, he never got in trouble.
He married his high school sweetheart, Helen, and put down roots where he was raised.
“You couldn’t have paid him to move from his hometown,” she said. “This was his home. These were his people.”
When Ms. Comperatore Meeder moved about 25 minutes up the highway, her brother expressed disbelief that she would go “that far away.” Their entire family lives in the area, she said.
“There just isn’t an adjective strong enough for you all to understand exactly how shattered we are,” Ms. Comperatore Meeder said. “We’re shattered.”