ANALYSIS: Trump Coverage Reveals How Media Frame and Exclude

News Analysis
The indictment of former President Donald Trump had dominated the news cycle for weeks, but by April 13, the name “Trump” appeared nowhere on the front page of Google News.
There and elsewhere, the arrest of 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, accused of leaking classified national defense material, claimed the limited attention spans of those in the American community of journalists.
Trump and the indictment didn’t make the very top of The New York Times’ digital front page. Yet, the title of a subsection about a quarter of the way down, “The Trump Investigations,” offers some clues as to how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s controversial case may be recast—namely, as one of many legal quagmires through which the former commander-in-chief must trudge….

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