{"id":48944,"date":"2021-04-02T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48944"},"modified":"2021-04-02T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T20:23:31","slug":"fox-news-is-refusing-to-air-the-chauvin-murder-trial-and-this-video-shows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48944","title":{"rendered":"Fox News is Refusing to Air the Chauvin Murder Trial and This Video Shows Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News continues to demonstrate that it has no aspirations to being a source of credible journalism. That would be consistent with the remarks of their CEO, Lachlan Murdoch, who recently admitted that he views the network’s role as “the opposition”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> to President Biden and the Democrats. And this week they are proving their dishonesty and irrelevancy by almost entirely ignoring the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who allegedly murdered George Floyd.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Instead of airing the live courtroom proceedings, Fox News was running its regularly scheduled roster of propaganda programming. On “Outnumbered,”<\/em> where Fox has four right-wingers gang up on one token lefty (who wasn’t even there on this show), they spent much of the hour on the pre-approved Republican Deflection of the Week, the so-called “Border Crisis.”<\/em> The same was true for the following program “America Reports,”<\/em> which Fox News considers to be part of their “news”<\/em> side programming.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the last thing Fox News wants is to present their carefully deceived audience with a truthful, unfiltered account of the circumstances that led to the loss of yet another Black American’s life at the hands of another white police officer. Consequently, Fox shapes their doctrine of disinformation to fit the narrow tendrils of their racist sofa spuds.<\/p>\n

Which is why Fox News can’t air the live courtroom drama of the Chauvin murder trial. There is just too much risk that Fox’s audience might be exposed to something like this:<\/p>\n

Prosecutor:<\/strong> What is your view of that use of force during that time period?
\nMinneapolis PD Lt. Richard Zimmerman:<\/strong> Totally unnecessary.
\nProsecutor:<\/strong> What do you mean?
\nZimmerman:<\/strong> Well first of all, pulling him down to the ground, face down, and putting your knee on the neck for that amount of time, is just uncalled for. I saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger, if that’s what they felt. And that’s what they would have to feel to be able to use that kind of force.
\nProsecutor:<\/strong> So in your opinion, should that restraint have stopped once he was handcuffed and prone on the ground?
\nZimmerman:<\/strong> Absolutely!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Minneapolis PD Lt. Richard Zimmerman testifies that the force Chauvin used on George Floyd was "totally unnecessary" and "uncalled for." pic.twitter.com\/onmCuxBzqM<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n