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Matching Media Memorandum – VARIOUS OUTLETS

The problem with “it just has to be” reporting is that it requires facts.

As soon as the news came out Saturday of the flooding along the Guadalupe River in Central Texas, numerous journalists rushed out their versions of reporting to highlight and blame the fact that President Trump had cut jobs and services within the National Weather Service.

It was a non-stop torrent of journos who were positively convinced that devastation was caused and lives lost due to the cuts.

Among the worst was Juliette Kayyem of CNN, who has been on a steady stream of claims blaming Trump, all while lacking anything approaching tangible evidence that there were staffing problems causing carnage.

This is an absolute tragedy. The question we have to ask is whether any ability to notify or warn was impacted by decreases/DOGE on weather services. I don't know the answer and we can't assume it; the camp may have been isolated. But I'd........

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