http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/28/1380829/-Fox-News-Shepard-Smith-smacks-down-cohosts-covering-Baltimore-riots?detail=email#
Fox News's Shepard Smith earned scores of brownie points for his coverage of the Baltimore riots. It was shocking to say the least. While Smith was covering the Baltimore riots with the hosts of Fox News The Five, he continuously smacked them down for their dog whistle. They attempted to blame prominent civil rights leaders for not being there. They also attempted to indict the parents of the rioters. Smith would have none of it. He told them that they should cover the event and leave recrimination where applicable for another day.
The reality is that while Smith displayed a good journalistic act, his subsequent prose was a display of understanding the reality of the situation that one seldom expects from Fox News. When one of The Five hosts kept on rambling about "where are the civil rights leaders," Smith had had it.
"I also don’t know where we are. We’ve got a major American city that has decades of turmoil within this neighborhood,” Smith said. “Decades! You’ve heard the stories from Doug McKelway a little while ago of people being arrested for nothing, a violent crackdown for years and years, of them feeling powerless and hopeless and nobody listening to what they were saying. One quarter of the youth locked up.
Clearly there is a big problem. Then all of a sudden an African-American man is taken into a vehicle and he comes out of it and dies. And you get nothing from authorities except a suspension. And those who would do harm take an opportunity to do harm. And here we are. But it is what has happened between all of that and today that has led to this. There is no escaping that reality."
Did Smith forget he is on Fox News? Is he auditioning for a job at a real news network? One cannot know. Imagine if most Fox News viewers were privy to real journalism. So much more could get done.
kudo's, rarely do you see a Fox host defend truth inspite of others that are carrying the Fox banner i think one thing that may come from this is a new awareness by their under and misinformed viewership did it erase years of misleading no but it may have opened some to the fact that maybe there is something other than blame them for them.
