Fox eschews live coverage of recruiting station attack survivor's presser, goes with Newt instead

June 09, 2009 11:28 pm ET by Karl Frisch

In recent days, Fox's Bill O'Reilly has criticized the "liberal media" and CNN for what he viewed as a paucity of coverage of the deadly attack on the Army-Navy recruiting station in Little Rock, AR last week. "Only Anderson Cooper at 10 o'clock covered the story," O'Reilly said of CNN. (In fact, CNN had reported on the attack over a dozen times.) Despite O'Reilly's insistence that Fox News has been following the attack story more closely than its competitors, when the lone survivor of the attack, Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, spoke with reporters earlier today, only CNN and MSNBC carried the press conference live. Fox News never cut to the press conference, choosing instead to focus on Newt Gingrich's criticisms of the Obama administration from last night's congressional Republican fundraiser.

So the question is, will O'Reilly complain about his network's failure to cover today's presser? Or is Fox News above such complaints because its not part of the "liberal media"?

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- by pete592 (June 10, 2009 12:38 am ET)
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  I was at the gym on the treadmill during my lunch hour watching this press conference. Fox News and CNN were both on the TV array and I was hoping MMFA or one of my other online haunts was going to pick up on this. Fox News was going off on the usual right-wing propaganda crap while Rick Sanchez was bringing us Pvt. Ezeagwula's press conference. I've always enjoyed Sanchez's program but what happened today is the icing on the cake in terms of what sets him apart from the rest of cable crap news.
  
  Pvt. Ezeagwula may be man of few words, but he spoke volumes during his press conference and I couldn't be more proud of him. His bravery and composure throughout this ordeal have truly been above and beyond.
  
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- by LuvLuLu (June 10, 2009 1:31 pm ET)
  
  The fact is that FoxNews has been paying more attention to this, but it's not because they recognize a newsworthy story that the other media sources don't recognize. It's because it allows them to criticize the other media sources who are covering the murder of Dr Tiller, and it allows them to present the false equivalency between a murder of a nationally-known figure, a man who has been attacked multiple times and targeted even more often, a man who was stalked, then killed at his church on Sunday morning, a man who was killed because of his occupation as a abortion provider, a really hot button issue here in the USA. Any murder is wrong, but the more unique and horrific it is, the more news coverage it will get, and FoxNews et al doesn't want the Tiller murder to get as much coverage as it has gotten.
  
  They can't even be honest about this kind of a thing - they are pathologically deceitful.
  
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  - by eweston8542983 (June 10, 2009 11:38 pm ET)
    
    They traffic in the noble lies, as defined in Straussian terms.
    
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