Donald Trump and Kellyanne Conway and whoever else this regime puts in front of a microphone have been recently chiming away that the press does not cover the extent of terrorist activities. The implications are that the media is biased and that the Muslim ban is warranted because of so many Islamic terror attacks the American public does not know about. Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer has the unenviable job of having to spin the insane things his employers say and Sean Spicer has the putrid soul of someone more than willing to do so. Spicer released a list of 78 attacks that the White House has deemed as being “under-reported.” The Sydney Morning Herald decided to walk down the first 25 events on the list and add links to the news stories covering them. They stopped at 25 because of how transparent this fool’s errand was.
Trump's point about the media not reporting on terror attacks wasn't necessarily that he thought the media was burying stories - though it very well may have been. Spicer, at least, was smart enough to understand that this was an opportunity to get the media to run with a lengthy list of terror attacks that, he hoped, would reinforce Trump's broader message that terror attacks were a constant threat that demanded a strong response. Spicer, in other words, hoped to work the refs.
The problem with this effort is that it's both transparent and irrational. Should the media write dozens of stories about terror attacks in Egypt in which a couple of people were wounded? Notice that in the first 25 attacks listed above, only three were in America. In none of those three was anyone killed.
The main reason Trump and his Bannonites are pushing these lies is that it fits in with their long-running misinformation campaign to scapegoat Islam for white people’s problems.