The Fox News reporter who drew an angry on-air reaction from a protestor in Ferguson, Mo. this week doesn’t seem too bothered by the profanity hurled at him on live television.
A former war correspondent, Steve Harrigan told Business Insider on Tuesday that reporting on the mayhem in the St. Louis suburb represented uncharted waters for him.
“I’m used to talking to a furious Chechen. I’m used to talking to a furious Afghan,” he said. “Now I’m talking to an American on the street who’s absolutely furious. I haven’t done that before, in my own country. It’s new territory.”
While reporting on the ground late Monday, Harrigan described the protests as “child’s play,” prompting a man standing nearby to unleash a profane on-air tirade.
But Harrigan believes the moment was valuable both for the disaffected man and Fox’s viewers.
“It’s interesting when you’re reporting about something and a lot of people are all around you hearing every word and can object to what you say,” Harrigan said. “And one man did object to what I said, and I gave him a chance to express his very real anger and rage on live television. You don’t always get the ability to do that — to respond in real-time to a reporter.
“I think that gives people a sense of what he was angry about and the situation on the ground here.”
C’mon.
You didn’t give him “the chance to express” anything, he took it.
Get over yourself.
Of course he is. It reinforces the stereotype of the unhinged scary negro for the Fucked News target demographic, i.e. resentful old white fucks.
You see! Imma gud reporter! It was the plan all along!
black people need to start doing to fox news caster what they do to them - character assasinate
This just goes to show why FOX should never be let NEAR anything approaching “breaking news”.