CNN host Rips Fox for ‘sowing doubt’ with baseless report on officer’s fractured eye socket (video)

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“Frankly, I’m surprised that Fox ripped the information off this blog and repeated it on air,” Stelter said on Sunday. “And later in the day, Fox did find its own anonymous source, and publish its own story. And every one of Fox’s primetime hosts picked up on it.”

“After all, this seemed like it changed the whole story, casting the officer as the victim of a dangerous aggressor, a dangerous black aggressor.”

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Stelter pointed out that the most public officials had ever confirmed was that the officer had a swollen face. And in fact, a CNN source refuted the broken eye socket claim.

“I have yet to see any firm evidence of an eye socket injury,” Stelter said. “But that does not seem to matter because these claims have spread all over the place, sowing doubt in people’s minds about what happened that terrible day in Ferguson.”


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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/24/cnn-host-rips-fox-for-sowing-doubt-with-baseless-report-on-officers-fractured-eye-socket/


CNN's Reliable Sources Slams Fox For "Rush To Report Anonymous Claims" About Questionable Ferguson Officer Injury
http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/08/24/cnns-reliable-sources-slams-fox-for-rush-to-rep/200530
Fox Report On Darren Wilson Eye Injury Cited Conservative Blogger Jim Hoft

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. They should be ashamed...if they had any bones of shame in their bodies...

but obviously they are spineless and boneless...

[Fred Sanders]

2. CNN are the ones that relied on the Gateway Pundit, a hellhole of lies and propaganda, and still

refer to it as a "news source", it is owned by Jim Hoft, who I swear that geeky, lying, moral free, crazy internet guy on VEEP is based on.

CNN is now officially entertainment on par with Fox.

[War Horse]

7. That was whole process was scary to watch

A notorious liar posted a fake image, and not only did it go straight to Fox, but the "MSM" ran with it there for a while. Chilling.

[Fred Sanders]

10. Freaking criminal negligence....now look how they avoid mentioning their own fuck up.

[spanone]

3. all our media is seriously broken.

[SomethingFishy]

6. +1 I can count on one hand the "journalists" I actually

trust to tell me the truth.

[Quayblue]

9. yep

and CNN needs to own their bullshit too

[SwankyXomb]

4. There's a guy that needs to be slapped with a hypocrite fish.

Not sure what a hypocrite fish would look like, but since it was CNN that started pushing the lie among Big Media, they deserve it most.

[RandiFan1290]

5. Fox was spreading it with Clear Channel, too

During their "news" breaks Fox was repeating the bs all over the radio.

[UTUSN]

8. 2 wks ago STELTER did a 2-part *gushing* profile of BecKKK because $90M/yr doncherknow!1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025334999

Plus in his castigating Faux today, he managed to work in the phrase, I agee with HANNITY..." (about not jumping to conclusions!1)