How's that "Diversity is our Strength" thing going, Europe?
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You will not be surprised that the world's international "objective" news agency failed to mention a key detail in the motive for the attack.
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Remember, the Associated Press is used by thousands of other outlets around the world as a basis for their own reporting. Consider how The Washington Post copied and pasted the AP's report for their own readers.
The AP even referred to the attacker as "a 31-year-old Swiss man."
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Those dang Swiss men and their Norwegian grannies!
Credit where credit is due, however. Both CNN and the BBC did actually provide the key fact in question, albeit several lines into their respective stories:
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And The Telegraph? Well, they got an A+ in journalism by not burying the lede:
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The New York Post is another outlet that reported the facts quickly and succinctly:
Three people were stabbed by a knifeman who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' multiple times as he launched an attack in front of a group of schoolchildren at a Swiss train station Thursday morning.
The armed attacker, described as a 31-year-old Swiss national, stabbed three men with a 'bladed weapon' just after 8:30 a.m. at the Winterthur train station outside Zurich, the Zurich Cantonal Police said.
Eyewitnesses said a group of schoolchildren had passed the knife-wielding man, as a teacher stepped in to protect the defenseless minors.
Here's what the president of the Young Swiss People's Party had to say about the attack:
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Couldn't have said it better myself.
Another witness, a student traveling through the station, reported seeing the attack less than 100 feet from where they were standing.
'I heard a man behind me shout "Allahu Akbar" five or six times in a very emotional and agitated manner,' the witness told Blick.
All this in front of a class of schoolchildren out for the day.
The three victims' status is currently unknown.
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