CNN Blames Fox News for Pittsburgh Massacre

Ryan Foley | October 30, 2018
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During Tuesday's edition of CNN's New Day, media critic Brian Stelter compiled a report suggesting that Fox News bears responsibility for the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh over the weekend. Co-host John Berman prefaced the segment by saying "Social media posts by the man who police say carried out a massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue showed that he was railing against what he called immigrant invaders. Now that is language you have heard from the President and somewhere else a lot. A whole lot." At the beginning of the package, Stelter remarked: "The Pittsburgh shooting suspect's hatred of Jews merged with his hatred of immigrants to deadly results. He called migrants 'invaders,' using the same dehumanizing language that's been saturating right wing radio and TV." Stelter admitted that "we may never know where the suspect heard these ideas, or why he believed them, but we do know that the hate crime coincided with a rise in hateful language from the Info Wars fringe to Fox's primetime lineup." 

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