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The Washington Post calls Freddie Gray “the nation’s most prominent symbol of distrust in police.” The Post can’t call him a symbol of police violence, because as far as the paper is concerned, there’s no way to tell whether any police violence occurred at all.
“Rush Limbaugh talks race relations.” You know, that Rush Limbaugh–the guy who once quipped, “Have you ever noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
On Fox News Channel, the real “bad guy” in Ferguson was the victim Michael Brown. The New York Times softens language around police violence. And a commercial for a new movie is “news”–on the movie studio’s TV network.
Perhaps Richard Cohen is sensitive to people being called racist because he’s been called a racist by many observers–and not without good reason.
How Fox News covered the Ferguson grand jury announcement.
Back in August ABC reported on Darren Wilson’s ‘serious facial injury.’ What will they say now?
Sensationalized stories feed the perception that protesters are prone to use violence, and that harsh crackdowns are necessary in order to keep the peace. This is true even when, as is the case in Ferguson, protests are overwhelmingly nonviolent.
On the show this week: On the day of his funeral, the New York Times declared that Michael Brown was “no angel.” We look at that and other shoddy reporting from Ferguson. Plus Newsweek spreads farfetched fear about Ebola and African immigrants, and we look at how often union leaders appear on the Sunday chat […]
The Newspaper of Record wants you to know that you shouldn’t trust Twitter’s coverage of Ferguson. But their examples of inaccuracies aren’t all that convincing
The New York Times makes some curious choices in its coverage of the victim in the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting.
Some good–and not so good–media reactions to the police killing of Michael Brown. Plus pundits wonder what took Obama so long to bomb Iraq, and two papers try to raise doubts about the death toll in Gaza.
USA Today’s original headline: “Police Seek Order as Ferguson Furor Builds.”
