On Monday's The Kelly File, Fox News’ Trace Gallagher highlighted an analysis from the Media Research Center which examined the number of times the "big three" (ABC, CBS, and NBC) networks promoted the "hands up, don't shoot" myth in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
Gallagher detailed how “[t]he conservative Media Research Center finds that NBC, ABC, and CBS mentioned hands up don't shoot combined 140 times, only CBS declares that the DOJ report says the narrative was untrue.”
Host Megyn Kelly introduced the report by explaining how “the mainstream media and some very public personalities helped push a lie about racially charged events in Ferguson, Missouri. Now, some in the media after being publicly shamed are starting to come around.”
Gallagher went on to explain that much of the media falsely jumped onto the false “hands up, don’t shoot” line surrounding the Michael Brown case was the result of “a basic failure to tell both sides of the story.” He went on to note that when Fox would bring on guests to present both sides of the Darren Wilson story, the network was accused of having a pro-cop bias:
A cold-blooded murder said CNN's top legal analyst, an execution says MSNBC. Where was the information about Dorian Johnson having a lengthy criminal record including a conviction for lying to police? And where were the eyewitness accounts that fully backed up Officer Darren Wilson? They were here on The Kelly File, which was still accused of bias.
Click here to read the full MRC study on the liberal media’s continued promotion of the “hands up don’t shoot” myth.
See relevant transcript below.
Fox News’ The Kelly File
March 23, 2015
MEGYN KELLY: New reaction now to a disastrous public relations move by Starbucks intended to encourage conversations about race. That idea that created about a week of controversy before hitting the trash can with the latest batch of French roast grounds. Ironically almost none of those people is reporting on Starbucks -- none of those people is focusing on another conversation, like how the mainstream media and some very public personalities helped push a lie about racially charged events in Ferguson, Missouri. Now, some in the media after being publicly shamed are starting to come around. Trace Gallagher details the story tonight from Los Angeles. Trace.
TRACE GALLAGHER: Megyn, the very same reason that much of the media got the Duke Lacrosse and Trayvon Martin cases wrong is also why they got the Michael Brown case wrong. A basic failure to tell both sides of the story. In fact, the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" mantra was born from the eyewitness account of Dorian Johnson, the man who was with Michael Brown when they were confronted by Officer Darren Wilson. Watch
--GALLAGHER: A cold-blooded murder said CNN's top legal analyst, an execution says MSNBC. Where was the information about Dorian Johnson having a lengthy criminal record including a conviction for lying to police? And where were the eyewitness accounts that fully backed up Officer Darren Wilson? They were here on The Kelly File, which was still accused of bias.
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GALLAGHER: And while the accusations rang from coast-to-coast to Capitol Hill, the apology bandwagon is moving slow and silent. The conservative Media Research Center finds that NBC, ABC, and CBS mentioned hands up don't shoot combined 140 times, only CBS declares that the DOJ report says the narrative was untrue. So the media was called on the carpet. Watch.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We saw members of congress on the steps of the US Capitol, hands in the air saying hands up, don't shoot. And if one of them has so far apologized for misleading America, we haven't heard it. Enough is enough.
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GALLAGHER: And only after did The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart admit it was a lie. CNN is also re-evaluating based on unreliable eyewitness accounts, the very same eyewitness accounts they had earlier relied on, Megyn.
