... Fox News has routinely paid very little attention to breaking news stories that feature right-wing, or anti-government, gunmen who target law enforcement officials as a way to deliver their warped political messages. And critically, when they have touched on those deadly attacks, Fox talkers have stressed that its not fair to blame politics. Note that in 2013, after racist skinhead Michael Page started killing worshipers at an Oak Creek, WI., Sikh temple, and then murdered a police officer, Foxs Andrea Tantaros stressed that the killing spree was an isolated event that didnt have any larger implications. How do you stop a lunatic? she asked. This is not a political issue. At Fox, that has been the pattern: These kind of deadly right-wing attacks are treated as isolated incidents that are mostly void of politics. Instead, the perpetrators are portrayed as lone gunmen (and women) who do not represent any cultural or political movement.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:51:18 +0000
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