After US President Donald Trump made the baffling claim in a speech on Monday that the media was not reporting on terror attacks - "It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that" - Press Secretary Sean Spicer hurried to do damage control.

It wasn't that the attacks weren't being reported at all, Spicer told reporters on Air Force One. It was that the attacks weren't being reported enough.

"Protests will get blown out of the water, and yet an attack or a foiled attack doesn't necessarily get the same coverage," he said. He promised to release a list of those so-called under-reported attacks shortly.

A few hours later, he did. The White House produced a list of 78 attacks that it felt met the criterion of receiving less attention than deserved, unlike, say, anti-Trump protests involving millions of people.