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Over a Thousand Migrants Safely Arrive in Italy, Wednesday

Rationale:              The original article (http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/23/over-a-thousand-african-migrants-arrive-in-italy-wednesday/) is a Breitbart article, about one thousand migrants arriving in Italy, and mentions it in context with the migrant crisis and how the more conservative/right-leaning parties sought to solve the crisis. Recently Breitbart has become rather famous (to be more precise, it’s more like infamous) for being part of the ‘alt-right’ media selection, especially since Steve Bannon was, and still is, heavily involved in it, in an executive role. The original article employs the use of bias by omission to a certain degree – the right-leaning political point of view on the issue is given far more text, and uses quotes from right-leaning politicians, whilst not having any quote from the other sides – not even the side that is actually governing the country nor the UN. Furthermore, a lot of the language carries bias, for example the ‘migrant’ word rath