In covering this weekend’s deadly anti-Semitic terror attack in Australia, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today engaged in a throwback of sorts on Monday to past terror attacks in Europe by refusing to refer to the attack as having been committed by two Islamists who may have been followers of the Islamic State (ISIS). Instead, they insisted the attack was “targeted…terrorism” by two men “motivated by extremist ideology” though authorities “have not yet revealed a motive.”
Starting with ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts teased coverage of “[t]error on the first night of Hanukkah” with 15 dead in an attack by “two shooters…targeting the Jewish community[.]”
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