Why Trump's Raised Fist After Surviving Assassination Attempt Is Triggering the Liberal Media

Townhall ^ | 07/17/2024 | Matt Vespa

[SeekAndFind]

On July 13, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. It led to an iconic image of the former president, who had just escaped death from a would-be assassin, perched less than 200 yards from the stage, raising his fist in defiance, face bloody, telling his supporters to “fight.” It’s become a viral sensation. It’s also made some media photographers and editors queasy because—get this—it could hurt Biden and give “free PR” to Trump.

You can’t make this up. They’re afraid to do their jobs because it could hurt the Democrats. This is precisely what’s wrong with the industry and what the late Andrew Breitbart referred to as the “Democrat-media complex” (via Axios): 

30 of the top 50 local news websites featured the historic photo, or a very similar shot, from AP's Evan Vucci of a defiant Trump raising his fist in the air on their homepage Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, national outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Times featured pictures from their own photographers, Jabin Botsford and Doug Mills, on their homepages. The NYT's Mills took the incredible photo of a bullet whizzing by Trump's ear that's gone viral online.

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The big picture: With only a limited number of outlets attending the rally, many national newsrooms also had to rely on reporting, video and photography on the ground from a few major outlets. 

Yes, but: The overuse of the same photos, eyewitness videos and reporting from the ground can also pose risks. 

Multiple photographers worried privately in conversations with Axios' Aïda Amer that the viral 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. 

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 PR for Trump in a way, and it's dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is." 

“Photoganda” Are these people serious? Not that it needs to be rehashed, but this attitude is why you guys got thrashed for not doing your job when it came to reporting on Joe Biden’s rapidly deteriorating condition. You didn’t want to hurt the Democrats, which was the primary motivator. No one believes the Biden staff guardrails or fear of losing access reasons. Losing access is a concern, but it’s also not an excuse not to do your job. Nothing is kept secret for long in Washington, so anyone with cognitive function roundly rejected this veil of impenetrable secrecy excuse the media doled out concerning their coverage of the Biden White House.

Axios: a "photo editor" at a "major news outlet" suggests media should bury the photo of Trump raising his fist because it's "kind of free PR for Trump in a way, and it's dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is."

pic.twitter.com/pLcrLi6mnH— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 16, 2024

Journalists trying to convince other journalists to stop spreading photos from a major news event because it would hurt Biden politically, nbd. https://t.co/6fPQx8I3Ic— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 16, 2024

The photos we took can hurt Biden and the Democrats, so we shouldn’t use them. Yes, let’s smother history to feed our political bias. Such a corrupt and sad group of people.

[ansel12]

Photoganda, the people who have taught generations of Americans that JFK was the greatest man since George Washington, one of our most athletic and one of our greatest war heroes, and that presented Obama as practically a deity, does know the power of choosing and using photos.

[fuzzylogic]

Hahahahahaha....bwahahahaha!!!!

The democrat media know the ‘compare and contrast’ to these pictures is...............JOE BIDEN, who looks like he’s almost dead anyway.

They’re all about ‘imagery’ - these images are so epic that it’ll make things almost impossible for them to combat. What can they say? “Trump abuses almost being killed for a photo-op?”. Can you imagine if it were Biden doing this? They make sure we saw the images 24/7.

The Biden campaign must be devastated. They can’t compare candidates, with or without Joe, Trump is just too epic at this point. The only thing they can do is devolve into issues like abortion, ‘tax cuts for the rich’, etc.. We’ll be seeing those 24/7. Guarantee it, it’s all they have left.

Pathetic.

[Political Junkie Too]

The bullet is seen passing behind Trump’s head, from Trump’s right to left.

If you don't mind my asking, how can you tell the direction of travel from a still picture? How do you know it's not traveling from Trump's left to right?

-PJ

[fuzzylogic]

Considering the reaction of some at the rally, at the very least the media would get what is coming to them. It wouldn’t surprise me if the crowd would have turned their sights on them right then and there. Some were furies anyway, pointing out, loudly, this was their fault.

Somebody would take out TV talking heads. It would devolve. I wouldn’t be surprised if some Antifa types were taken out. The only question is, how far would it devolve and how quickly?

[ViLaLuz]

This is the perfect graffiti opportunity. Every BLM poster and black power image should be tagged with Fight Fight Fight.

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I like it!!

[Pappy Smear]

Trump's fist pump was the best since March of 1984, when John Bender left detention at Shermer High School via the Shermer football field.