Fox News get their ass handed to them on their Baltimore coverage

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HomerJS

HomerJS

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Young black man gets in the face of Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera. I'm sure their loyal viewers are thinking, oh just another loud mouthed thug. Just pay close attention to what he is saying and you will realize he is articulate and spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTcJwYVHi6w

Stories like these are when I tune in Fox to see how they are spi... I mean covering them.

FnF this morning are more concerned about Baltimore's mayor taking back the word thug then what happed to Freddie Gray.
 
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waggy

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trouble is it wasn't just fox news. ALL of them fit his rant. He is also correct in the rant.

It seems today "news" is only bad shit. Then they harp on that for days. Good news? hell sometimes you find it on the local news. IF it's on the big news channels its just a short blurb in passing.

The media today is fucked up
 
xBiffx

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Oh look another fail Fox News obsession thread. How cute for a Friday.
 
sandorski

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waggy said:
trouble is it wasn't just fox news. ALL of them fit his rant. He is also correct in the rant.

It seems today "news" is only bad shit. Then they harp on that for days. Good news? hell sometimes you find it on the local news. IF it's on the big news channels its just a short blurb in passing.

The media today is fucked up
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Indeed.
 
Blanky

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This is what happens. A limited number of blacks are engaging in riots and those who want to elevate above the sewage have to try and walk through it without getting dirty. But their story is less interesting and more complex so all the media just prefers to report on them burning buildings. You can sense this guy's desperation at not being able to relay his thoughts to an unreceptive media.
 
norseamd

norseamd

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Nice.

However he is wrong about his words not being something for youtube as thousands if not millions of times has someone else done the same thing as him and it is not going to make a difference in changing most minds of those who support the problems of society.
 
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fskimospy

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This guy has the same misunderstanding that conservatives have about the media. The media doesn't care about your issue, they care about things that make people watch. Grinding poverty? Not so much. Burning cars? Absolutely.

What is funny to me about this is that conservatives will point to this guy and say 'it's sensationalism, duh' without understanding he is simply mirroring their complaints from the other side.
 
HomerJS

HomerJS

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MSNBC and CNN were on the scene during protests before riots broke out.

Yes all the media like to cover sensationalism but is you listen to what he said

Fox is only interested in feeding their base the narrative black people behaving badly. They have no interest in the underlying cause only the symptom
 
HTFOff

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cubby1223

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HomerJS said:
Young black man gets in the face of Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera. I'm sure their loyal viewers are thinking, oh just another loud mouthed thug. Just pay close attention to what he is saying and you will realize he is articulate and spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTcJwYVHi6w

Stories like these are when I tune in Fox to see how they are spi... I mean covering them.

FnF this morning are more concerned about Baltimore's mayor taking back the word thug then what happed to Freddie Gray.
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Meh.

Complaining that poverty in Baltimore is not national news? There is poverty in every city in America. No, your poverty is not national news, your poverty is not more important than anyone else's poverty. Protests that involve burning of many parts of a city? Yes that is national news.
 
ivwshane

ivwshane

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Uh oh, looks like the Fox News apologists have been awaken!

It seems most people here missed his point.


Rivera looks like a deer in headlights, I have no idea what he's smiling about.

This is how Rivera responded when he talked about the incident.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/geraldo-annoying-protester-got-in-the-way-of-important-story/

“They were so filled with emotion and passion and misguided anger, I didn’t want to, you know, go overboard,” Geraldo said.
“But he was becoming so truly annoying and obstructionist. I had an important story to tell standing there with the state Senate Majority Leader after the night they had seen here on Monday. We were worried it would become that on Tuesday. It’s exactly that kind of youthful anarchy that led to the destruction and pain in that community.”

“The enemy is anarchy,” he said later in the segment. “The enemy is broken families. The enemy is people with a sense of desperation or frustration that they take out on the innocents.”
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What the moron doesn't realize is that these Freddie gray stories wouldn't be getting attention if black people would just protest quietly (which was one of the points the guy was making).
 
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fskimospy

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ivwshane said:
Uh oh, looks like the Fox News apologists have been awaken!

It seems most people here missed his point.

Rivera looks like a deer in headlights, I have no idea what he's smiling about.

This is how Rivera responded when he talked about the incident.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/geraldo-annoying-protester-got-in-the-way-of-important-story/

What the moron doesn't realize is that these Freddie gray stories wouldn't be getting attention if black people would just protest quietly (which was one of the points the guy was making).
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Now that is an incredibly dumb response. Even though I don't really agree with his critique, to say that guy represented 'youthful anarchy' by doing that is completely ridiculous.
 
Subyman

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I'm not so sure about the OP's critic, but I've cruised over to Fox's website to see the headlines over the past few days and they certainly try to write their own narrative. Its pretty shameless.
 
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cubby1223

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We've learned time and time again you cannot report assumptions as facts. What are media outlets supposed to do with a Freddie Gray situation? Local outlets probe the story until a clear set of facts are known, then it gets fed out nationally.

What is irresponsible is for national media to come in on such a situation and dictate the story based on assumptions. We saw that happen in the Travon Martin incident, and we saw it in the Ferguson incident. National media aided in the destruction of those situations.

Freddie Gray and the riots are both worthy news items. And the exact weight of them are individual opinions. It's when some begin to say this one news item hurts the perception of this other news item, therefore we must fight to suppress the one as much as possible, that is wrong. And that's what some are trying to do. The riots are a part of the story, and should be covered.

Geraldo Rivera has equal right to be on that street telling the story he wanted to tell (it's a public street), the same as anyone else has equal right to be there telling the story they want to tell.
 
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Subyman

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cubby1223 said:
We've learned time and time again you cannot report assumptions as facts. What are media outlets supposed to do with a Freddie Gray situation? Local outlets probe the story until a clear set of facts are known, then it gets fed out nationally.

What is absolutely wrong is for national media to come in on such a situation and dictate the story based on assumptions. We saw that happen in the Travon Martin incident, and we saw it in the Ferguson incident. National media aided in the destruction of those situations.

Freddie Gray and the riots are both worthy news items. And the exact weight of them are individual opinions. It's when some begin to say this one news item hurts the perception of this other news item, therefore we must fight to suppress the one as much as possible, that is wrong. And that's what some are trying to do. The riots are a part of the story, and should be covered.

Geraldo Rivera has equal right to be on that street telling the story he wanted to tell (it's a public street), the same as anyone else has equal right to be there telling the story they want to tell.
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Sure, they have the right. Others have the right to call them out on what they perceive as a misrepresentation or misdirection of the story. The stakes are heightened when the channel involved is #1 in news ratings. No one is arguing Fox's right to report the story as they see fit.
 
trenchfoot

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Subyman said:
I'm not so sure about the OP's critic, but I've cruised over to Fox's website to see the headlines over the past few days and they certainly try to write their own narrative. Its pretty shameless.
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They have an agenda, which does not in any way, shape or form include factually reporting the news. Every word that comes out of their talking head's mouths are meant to further their conservative ideologue agenda, truth be damned if it (quite often) gets in the way.

That's blatantly obvious to even the most staunchest of conservatives, yet they will, to a person, deny what they know as fact in order to justify their willingness to......"tolerate" FOX's ridiculously false and slanted style of presenting the "news" ONLY because FOX "is on their side" and "represents their interests like no other."
 
soundforbjt

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Flipping through the "news" channels just now, MSNBC & CNN are still covering/discussing the story...FOX has moved on. So predictable.
 
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