CNN Media Critic Hammers Fox News for Covering Rockville Rape Case

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 26, 2017
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Just when you though CNN host Brian Stelter couldn’t become any more of a “ridiculous figure” he found a new level of low to crawl to, during Sunday’s Reliable Sources. As had been extensively covered by the MRC, the liberal networks have been blacking out the rape of a girl on school ground by illegal immigrants in Rockville, Maryland, with Fox News being the only TV news outlet covering it in detail. But according to Stelter, that’s apparently a problem for Fox.

Rapes and assaults and murders are local news stories on a daily basis. But when do they break through to become national news and when do they not,” he wondered at the top of the segment and before taking it to Fox.

He then immediately whined that “This week health care bill, the talks in the House dominated cable news coverage all over the place, but Fox News also focused heavily on another story and sometimes tying it to the President's immigration agenda.

Now on Fox, all roads lead back to media bias,” he chided, “So Tucker Carlson called out channels like CNN for not covering this story thoroughly, for not covering it extensively.” He also wrote off how Carlson slammed the Big Three networks for their lack of coverage. 

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