How much is CNSNews.com slavishly devoted to Donald Trump? It somehow managed to get three entire articles out of his relatively short speech following the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
In the first article, posted at 11:14 a.m. on Oct. 2, Melanie Arter summarized the speech and hit all the salient points from it. For some reason, though, that was insufficient.
Fourteen minutes later, at 11:28, Susan Jones wrote her own story under the editorializing headline “Trump Invokes God, Prayer, Unity and Love,” and reproduced Trump’s speech in its entirety — despite it being sufficiently summed up in Arter’s article.
Somehow, that still wasn’t enough praise for Trump and his rote speech. At 11:43, an anonymous writer under the name of “CNSNews.com Staff” penned an article about how Trump “thanked the Las Vegas police and other first responders for making courageous efforts to stop the shooter and save the lives of the wounded.”
Three articles on a five-minute speech, by at least two different writers (it’s entirely possible that either Jones or Arter wrote this and didn’t want to have a second byline about a single short speech). Is such redundant pro-Trump stenography really the best use of the time of CNS’ reporters?