Fox News downplays the Holocaust Museum killing
June 11, 2009 10:21 am ET by Eric Boehlert
You could almost see the moment yesterday afternoon when the Fox News team lost interest (or at least lost a lot of interest) in the breaking story about the shooting at the Holocaust Museum. That moment seemed to be when it was revealed that the alleged shooter, James von Brunn, was a white supremacist who, according to a CNN report last night, had strong ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
For some reason, Fox News suddenly pulled back its coverage of the shocking shooting that had political overtones. In fact, the story virtually disappeared during Fox News' primetime block.
Nothing to see here people, just keep moving along.
According to TVeyes.com, Fox News trails far behind its cable news rivals in mentioning "Holocaust" and/or "von Brunn" in the last 21 hours. In fact, Fox News anchors and reporters have used those phrases approximately 40 percent fewer times than their CNN counterparts, and 30 percent fewer than reporters and anchors at MSNBC.
As of 10 a.m., the totals looked like this:
CNN: at least 168 mentions.
MSNBC: at least 121 mentions.
Fox News: at least 89 mentions.
Just imagine what those Fox News tallies would have looked like if the shooter had been a Muslim.
UPDATE: According to TVeyes.com, Fox News last night during primetime (8-11 p.m.) mentioned "Holocaust" and "von Brunn" a grand total of three times. For the entire night.












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Maybe they don't want to upset the crazies.
Did he mention this?
My guess is that they had this Talking Point prepared in advance for an incident of this kind... it was out there too quickly for them to have fabricated and circulated it after the shooting.
http://www.geocities.com/onlythecaptain/
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/ghosttroop/message/6356
http://www.spiritone.com/~ghosttroop/Captain_Eric_H_May.html
Now, get a load of THIS comment posted to Captain May's yahoogroup by Von Brunn, followed by May's response. Von Brunn literally advocates violent insurrection, calling for a group of "five or six well equipped martyrs" to take action against our government:
http://ca.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/ghosttroop/message/6012
"Re: Pravda Article - WTC and Bush
james von brunn wrote:
BY THE WAY, YOU'RE A VERY FINE WRITER, AMONG OTHER VIRTUES.
I'm of the opinion that only a military coup d'etat can save our once great Republic. And soon. However, a coup is doubtful as the military too has been infected by the Marxist/Liberal/Jew virus.
Perhaps we must settle for a team of Special
Forces, say six (6) well-equipped martyrs. Count me in.
jvb
www.holywesternempire.org
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I'm most obliged at your praise, Mr. Von Brunn! Writers always have their vanities, even when they're doing military missions. For what it's worth, I called for a military coup d'etat on the night of July 28, 2005, when the Bush Boyz tried to blow up Texas City last time.
You can find it in an article published shortly afterwards at http://www.vfvs.com/GhostTroopCaptainEricMay.html or you can listen to it as I called for it, in the second of the two interviews at http://www.cloakanddagger.de/media/Captain%20May/capt1.htm
Again, thanks for the encouragement. I'm sure that you've endured the same kinds of frustrations that I have in the course of your infowar, whenever it began. I'd sure like to turn the Texas City Inquest into a public tribunal for the Jewish Zionists and the Bush Boyz who took their advice and used their media like (embedded) whores.
Yours, CPTMAY"
They said that the criminal has been know for years via his publications and web-site as a racist anti-Semite.
It is the same information I was able to gather form other news resources.
Is the argument that a degree of story saturation during a news cycle is a reflection of information control?
I would argue that I was able to gather the same information and more disparate information with the current degree of story saturation.
Take a look at the multiple items on the shooting at this site, from today & yesterday. Count the number of comments from the usual defenders of the conservative media. The bloviating dittoheads who enable all of the propaganda, advising everybody to just laugh it off as "humor", they've all slithered off into their holes.
Unless you go to the item about Obama showing the sole of his shoe ans insulting Israelis. A few of them managed to creep over to that minor item and post a few comments.
Come on, Wingnuts, show some conviction.What about Von Brunn? Not a word??
So far, I think TNosePickens is the only conservative to make a comment on the Conservofascist terrorist, and while he condemned the killing, he described anybody who made a connection between the right wing "Rush is Right!" conservative killer and conservatives as "despicable".
I wonder if he'll find Rush's insane description of dittobot Von Brunn as a leftist despicable.
Just as a person who is cheating on a spouse is unlikely to want to talk about adultery, FOX is unlikely to want to talk about hateful acts when they wallow in hate talk on a daily basis.
They have written this shooter off as a lone wingnut when the reality is even wingnuts need others to, in some way, validate their acts.
I'm not saying only FOX is to blame. I'm saying that FOX, together with the other merchants of hate, lies and smears, fan the flames of intolerance instead of smothering them.
So, last night, Fox News had more reporting on the June 1 army recruiter shooting than it did on yesterday's Holocaust Museum security guard shooting. They continue to prove they are not interested in reporting news.
With that being said, I would like to say that this country has no place for extremism, on either side of the political spectrum. If an atheist killed a pastor, this story would run on Fox News nonstop. The fact that they are giving so little credence to this story, likely because the guy is a right wing believer, shows that they are not worthy of being called a "news organization", and instead are merely a propaganda machine for the right.
It pains me that people are actually intolerant enough in this country to believe so strongly in their side of an argument that it gives them reason to be violent towards those that disagree with them. That is how they do things in Iran and Pakistan, not the United States. If you want to live in a country where solving problems through violence is acceptable, go live there.