MEDIA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Almost as soon as the bombs arrived in the mail, the debate began: What role does violent political rhetoric have on these real-life acts of violence? Well, truth be told, a version of this debate has been raging for a while. Witness the reactions to President Trump’s recent praise of a congressman for body-slamming a reporter. But the debate has been renewed now, in the wake of the threatening deliveries to CNN’s New York office and several prominent Democratic politicians on Wednesday [10-24-18]. The intended recipients all had something in common: They were frequent targets of right-wing criticism. Or as the Washington Post succinctly put it: ‘Amid incendiary rhetoric, targets of Trump’s words become targets of bombs.'”
–Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, “Trump’s attacks on media have real-life consequences,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, October 24, 2018 10:19 am