The editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was not a huge fan of the way Fox News covered the Ferguson protests following the death of Michael Brown in August.
Editor Gilbert Bailon lamented that Fox focused more on the looting during the protests than on the broader situation.
“I think Fox took a different angle, their view was more of the view of the chaos, was really focusing on the looting and less of what was going on in the community pre-dating the looting. The looting was very dramatic,” he told Media Matters in an interview published Tuesday. “But there was the deeper story there. Some stayed on in town longer, I think there was a different viewpoint on them and less on the undercurrent.”
Bailon said that Fox didn’t “look at it as deeply” or stay as long as other networks like CNN and MSNBC.
He also criticized the Washington Post and the New York Post for stories he thinks had questionable sourcing.
“I don’t know whether these are wrong but we haven’t been able to verify it,” Bailon said.
He mentioned a Washington Post story citing a “person familiar with the county’s investigation” who said that Brown has marijuana in his system when he was shot by a police officer.
He also said that a New York Post story citing a report that the officer who shot Brown sustained a fracture to his eye socket has been “has been debunked by many.”
What?!? The tabloid media was more interested in the sensational and not so much on reality?!? I’m shocked! Really! Shocked.
It’s good to see a serious newspaper person of the old school stand up and point out how low Fox goes. It’s a shame we don’t see this more often.
Obviously, this newspaper editor has no idea of the true meaning of “fair and balanced.” It means that the quality is fair at best, and that sustaining the illusion of accuracy of the right wing’s beliefs is like balancing on the point of a pin.
Did this editor comment on his paper’s request to see the juvenile records of a dead teenager?
Yeh
Fox busy trying to figure out where the President was on this while wearing a Tan suit contemplating how to give a sloppy salute and not commenting on RayRice.
Geez!!! Fox has priorities, ya know.