| Hey, | Last week was one of those weeks where the news was serious — terror incidents with clear radical Islamist ties, Iran escalating threats against the US — and the coverage somehow made it harder to understand, not easier. | A few examples from just last week: | CNN posted on social media describing two suspects — who allegedly threw homemade bombs at a protest — as teenagers whose "normal day" suddenly went wrong. These weren't bored kids who made a bad choice — they're accused of an intentional, ISIS-inspired attack. CNN deleted the post after getting called out, but by then it had already spread. | Then on air, CNN's Abby Phillip and contributor Ana Navarro said the attack targeted NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It didn't. The bombs were thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protesters outside his residence. The target was the crowd, not the mayor. Basic facts, wrong on live television. | ABC ran a story about the FBI warning California law enforcement about a potential Iranian drone attack on the West Coast. Sounds alarming. Except the White House later clarified the alert was based on a single, unverified tip — a detail ABC left out entirely. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt countered it directly: there was no credible threat to the US homeland. | And then a clip went viral online, supposedly showing Karoline Leavitt calling for a military draft during a Fox News interview. She didn't. Maria Bartiromo raised the fear of a draft in her question. Leavitt said the military operation has been "largely an air campaign" and that ground troops are "not part of the current plan right now." She never mentioned a draft. But the clip spread anyway. | This is the pattern: selective framing, missing context, corrections that come too late – if they come at all. | The threat from radical Islam is growing, and large parts of the mainstream press won't say so plainly. Since the Obama years, there's been an unspoken rule in mainstream newsrooms that Islamic extremism is a topic you tiptoe around. So when an ISIS-inspired attack happens on American soil, CNN frames it as a bad day for two teenagers. | And on Iran — Trump's air campaign is working. But that's not the story they want to tell. It's more useful to stoke panic about a draft that nobody called for and amplify unverified threats than to report what's actually happening. | This is what Brandon and I spend our days on, working overtime. Reading the transcripts. Checking what was actually said. Then, writing the version you can trust. | I'm telling you all this because you're on the free list, which means our best work from last week — the full breakdowns, the source tracking, the pieces that take a full day to report — didn't reach you. | I'm not going to pretend this isn't a pitch. It is. It's just me and Brandon running this thing — no advertisers, no corporate backers, no big staff to fall back on. The only way we keep doing this work is if readers like you decide it's worth funding. | We're offering 15% off right now if you've been on the fence. Weeks like last week are exactly why we built Upward News, and we can't keep doing it without reader support. | Plus, we want you to have access to all the most important information we publish, so you can be informed without being overwhelmed, and share it with people you love. | For example, look at this note a reader sent us: | "On a personal note: I printed out this article for my very very Democratic, Trump/MAGA hating, MSNow watching husband...who read it and said: 'Whoever these guys are, give them some money.' So you really ARE making a difference…" | If that's something you want to be part of, we'd love to have you. |
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