Conway concedes some terror attacks had 'wall-to-wall coverage'

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway conceded some of the terror attacks on a list released by the White House Monday criticizing the media for a lack of coverage did receive “wall-to-wall” coverage.

“What the president, I believe, is saying, though, is that the ones you are pointing out, we had a high number of casualties and got international coverage and wall-to-wall coverage, as well they should have,” Conway said during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday morning. “We're becoming inured to some of these attacks that don't, thank God, lead to mass casualties but still don't get the attention.”


The discussion about media coverage of terrorists attacks picked up after Conway mentioned a “Bowling Green massacre” that did not happen in a couple of interviews. Earlier Monday, Trump mentioned the issue during a visit to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

“You’ve seen what happened in Paris, and Nice. All over Europe, it’s happening,” the president said. “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.”

Following this claim, the White House released a list of 78 terrorist attacks that the administration claimed the press did not cover sufficiently. However, the list included some major attacks that were widely covered, other attacks that had no casualties and others whose connection to terrorism is questionable or don’t meet customary definitions of terrorism, as Politico reported. It also didn’t include mention of the Charleston church shooting in June 2015 or the mass shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in November 2015.

“Anybody who thinks that this is just an issue and a movement of terrorists fading into the background is just wrong and the president just wants to shine a light on that,” Conway said.