http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/10/how-fox-news-covers-right-wing-cop-killers/199651
For Fox News, the Las Vegas killing spree represents a toxic mix of
guns, far-right insurrectionism, tea party implications, and the Cliven Bundy ranch standoff.
For Fox News, the story about right-wing gun violence and the seeds of a
bloody political revolution present all kinds of problems for the
channel and its outspoken hosts, some of whom have previously championed
limitless gun rights, insurrectionism, the Tea Party, and racist rancher Bundy.
In the 36 hours after the shooting, Fox News tread lightly around the
Las Vegas story, producing regular news updates about the crime spree.
But Fox provided almost no commentary, no context, and certainly no
collective blame for the executions.
And that's how Fox News deals with right-wing domestic terrorism in
America, when it even bothers to acknowledge the killings and the
crimes. (The channel barely covered Georgia's courthouse siege last
week.) At Fox, the deadly and disturbing events are treated as isolated
incidents that are mostly void of politics. And more importantly, on Fox
the perpetrators are always portrayed as lone gunmen (and women) who do
not represent any cultural or political movement.
But when Fox covers breaking U.S. news events involving terror acts
by Arabs or Muslims? Recall that in the wake of the Boston Marathon
bombing last year it was a Fox talker who suggested American mosques be bugged and other Constitutional rights for Muslims be eliminated.
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