White House Says Minnesota Mall Stabbing Didn't Receive Enough Attention

The Trump administration believes the Sept. 17 Minnesota mall stabbing that left 10 victims injured and the suspect dead did not receive adequate attention from the media.

On Monday, the White House released a list of the locations of 78 terror attacks they say "did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources." Among them was St. Cloud, Minnesota, where a man stabbed several people at the Crossroads Center mall before he was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer at the scene.

Trump told service-members at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida Monday that attacks have been happening "all over Europe" and that "it's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported," CNN reported. "And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer later promised to provide a list of examples of terrorist attack the news media did not cover enough, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

CNN's Angela Dewan and Joe Sterling, refuted the White House's claim, stating that "reporters in print, on air and on social media have robustly covered many of those attacks and terror in general."

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The Star Tribune said Tuesday that it had five front-pages with stories detailing the attack. MPR's Cody Nelson said their reporters and "dozens of other local and international journalists" dedicated many hours to report on the stabbing.

Nelson noted that MPR had at least six stories on the attack in the first week after it took place.

The list of terror attacks was released within a week after Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway discussed an attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that never occurred. Conway called her comments an "honest mistake."

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