Fox Newsworthiness
June 11th, 2009at 07:57pm Posted by Eli
So, according to BillO, the fatal shooting of an Army recruiter should have gotten a lot more media coverage, the fatal shooting of Dr. Tiller by a right-wing nut was over-covered, and the shooting of two Holocaust Museum guards by another right-wing nut isn’t even interesting at all:
O’Reilly never covered the shooting on his show. In fact, the only mention of the act of domestic terrorism came in a segment that, ironically, decried the media’s inadequate coverage of Long’s death:
O’REILLY: But the central question remains according to a new Pew study, the American media spent far more time on the murder of Tiller than on the murder of Private Long. … 10 to 1 the Pew study which was released yesterday, 10 to 1 more coverage. I mean, come on, come on.
[…]
O’REILLY: All right. Now, we had a murder today at the Holocaust Museum in D.C.
HENICAN: That was an awful case. Awful.
O’REILLY: Now, this is an 89-year-old anti-Semite bigot kills an innocent guy in the Holocaust Museum. OK? Now, what about the newsworthiness of this? … Is it as newsworthy as Private Long?
I can kind of see BillO’s point. After all, is it really news anymore that the far right is populated by homicidal crazies? It’s almost a dog-bites-man kind of thing. Now, if someone from the left goes off and starts shooting people, that would be some news.
(Note: As best I can tell, that doesn’t appear to be what happened with the recruiter shooting.)
Entry Filed under: Media,Republicans,Terrorism,Wankers
