Article in Poynter by Angela Fu, 6/24/25
Headline: “News outlets don’t usually publish the f-word. Then came Trump’s Israel-Iran ceasefire rant.”
Subhead: “Some censored the word in text, but not in video. Others published it in full.”
“Mainstream outlets generally don’t include profanity in their news reports. But when President Donald Trump condemned Israel and Iran for breaking their ceasefire Tuesday, some outlets broke from tradition.
“ ‘We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing,’ Trump told a group of reporters Tuesday morning just outside the White House. He was railing against Israel and Iran for launching attacks against each other just hours after he had announced a ceasefire agreement. . .”
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https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2025/trump-censored-bleeped-f-bomb-media-coverage/
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Article in Raw Story by Daniel Hampton, 6/24/25
Headline: ” ‘Getting slammed!’ Trump rages at CNN and NYT for trying to ‘demean’ Iran strike”
“President Donald Trump unloaded a late-night tirade Tuesday against multiple top media outlets whom he accused of trying to ‘demean’ what he called one of the ‘most successful military strikes in history,’ referring to the U.S. bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities.
“After Trump’s Middle East envoy melted down on Fox News over the leaking of an intelligence report to CNN, Trump himself blasted CNN, along with The New York Times, which also received the top secret report. The initial U.S. intelligence assessment undercut Trump’s boast that Iran’s nuclear program had been ‘obliterated.’ . . .”
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