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That kind of tidy, to-the-point framing, apparently, was lost on the legacy media this week. Rather than report the obvious facts, outlets tied themselves in knots to muddy the waters about what had been thrown, and by whom. NBC News called the IEDs merely "suspicious devices" thrown "during [an] anti-Islam rally." CBS reported that "suspicious devices ignited during protests near Manhattan's Gracie Mansion." The New York Times published an all-timer of a headline, "Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses Thrown at Protest Near Mayor's House."
