Fox News is showing week-old clips of unrest to convey that it's still happening (it's not)

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/conservative-media-reliable-sources/index.html

New York (CNN Business)Watch Fox News for a few hours, and you might think rioters are still prowling America's biggest cities, smashing windows and stealing handbags. You might think Minneapolis is still burning. You might think the unrest is getting worse.

In the "Fox & Friends" and "Hannity" alternative universe, the rioting is still a present-tense threat and could restart at any time. This is contradicted by every news report from every other outlet. The story now is about peaceful, powerful, sustained protest all across the country. But "riot porn" video is irresistible to Fox's producers and hosts, even though the video is out of date now.

I've been noticing this for several days now. Sometimes the video has a little label in the corner with the date, like "May 28" for fires in Minneapolis, but not always. And if you think the label is sufficient, you're kidding yourself. The video is often accompanied by talk of "unrest," violence and inner-city chaos. One of the banners on Sean Hannity's show Tuesday night said "GROWING LAWLESSNESS IN MAJOR CITIES." His show, and others, have been blurring the unrest seen in the wake of George Floyd's death with other, generalized types of crime. Statements like "we have to restore law and order" have implied that law and order has not been restored.

Look, I live in Manhattan and I hated what happened in this city on May 31 and June 1. The looting and mayhem was appalling. But it was more than a week ago. The graffiti has been scrubbed off the bodega on my block. The broken windows have been cleaned up.
And today I noticed the city's garbage can -- taken away last week because vandals were lighting fires in them -- back on my building's corner today. I took it as a small but telling sign that things are getting back to normal. It is grossly misleading to show old video of looters on a loop while omitting what's going on today.

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They're inciting, not reporting.

[dewsgirl]

1. K and R😔

[Iliyah]

2. Billy Graham had a . . .

commercial on CNN showing only the violence from the protest and stating a come to GOD segment, which had me saying WOW this is bullshit.

[obamanut2012]

4. Franklin?

[Cirque du So-What]

3. They'll probably run clips until the election

in case anyone ceases being all a-skeered.

[lettucebe]

5. JFC why? They want continued unrest? It was never the protestors doing the damage but ...

the right-wing nutjobs that saw on opportunity and jumped on it. Tearing things down and blaming black and brown folks is their hobby. Notice as soon as tRump threatened police action they all ran for their bunkers and the rioting/looting stopped abruptly. Since then, peaceful protests rule the day.

So Fox now showing these clips, as if they are still happening is pretty troubling. They so desperately want to win back tRump's favor.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Deception. It's what they do.