Maybe they think their viewers are deplorable

Ace of Spades observes,

...CNN buries this tidbit, deliberately, it seems to me:

Rahami was born in Afghanistan and traveled home often -- common for immigrant families. He is married to a woman from Pakistan, who was in the United States recently but left just before the bombings.

CNN subscribes to the notion that the most important thing in any terrorism case isn't protecting American citizens, but rather downplaying highly curious facts in order to keep bloodthirsty American citizens from going into "backlash" frenzies.

If CNN thinks so little of its own audience as to have to bury highly, highly newsworthy bits of information for fear their audience will begin lynching people, maybe CNN's audience should consider seeking out another news outlet that holds them in higher regard.

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