Time to turn off Fox News?
Posted by Niall in America, Death, Media, controversy on 03-Jun-2009 at 12:15 pm BST.
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Most Americans I know would know to take Fox News with a pinch of salt about the size of the salt lake in Larnaca but many take their often wildly inaccurate and opinionated tripe seriously, so I was interested to see this reply from MSNBC – who are directly apportioning some of the blame for the extraordinarily controversial murder of abortionist, Dr. George Tiller onto Fox News. Tiller was assassinated on May 31st (just 3 days ago) as he served as an usher during the Sunday morning service at his church in Wichita, Kansas.
As this video shows, Fox News – and particularly Bill O’Reilly – constantly labelled Tiller as “Tiller the Baby Killer” and regularly gave him more coverage than was necessarily merited from a journalistic point of view – saying he “killed thousands,.. thousands of late term foetuses without explanation”… “has blood on his hands”… “was acquitted today of murdering babies – there’s got to be a special place in hell for this guy”.
Are Fox complicit in the murder? Are they guilty of incitement to hatred? You decide.
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Olbermann is a legend.
Are they complicit? Who can say…its a tricky one to say when and where the buck stops…but they definitely have fueled the fire, no doubt.