It must really suck to have Geraldo Rivera labeled as your most sensible reporter...

The One Thing Missing From Fox News’ Coverage of the Charleston Shooting

"For about 10 surprising minutes on Thursday afternoon, Geraldo Rivera was the most sensible man on television.

The Fox News Channel correspondent, last seen getting yelled at by Baltimoreans during the Freddie Gray riots, was reporting from Charleston, South Carolina, less than one day after a white man had shot and killed nine black people there in the historically significant Emanuel AME Church. The most important thing a television correspondent can do is to tell his audience what he’s seeing, and appearing on Fox’s The Five, his hair unkempt, an agitated Rivera did just that: “Those nine people, we can dance around it, but they’re dead because they’re black,” Rivera said. A minute later he returned to that theme: “This is a horrible, horrible crime committed by a racist sociopath.”

It seemed an inescapable conclusion. Alleged shooter Dylann Roof, in his Facebook profile photograph, wore a jacket featuring the flags of apartheid South Africa and racist Rhodesia. He allegedly told his victims that “you rape our women, and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” His license plate was decorated with Confederate flags. “There is no mistaking the message he sought to project,” said Rivera on The Five. “There is no ambiguity about wearing the flag of racist South Africa, the flag of apartheid Rhodesia.”

Rivera’s frankness was notable because, up to that point, Fox News had spent its entire coverage of the shooting clinging to that ambiguity. I spent a full day Thursday watching Fox’s wall-to-wall coverage of the Charleston shootings, and the most striking thing about the network’s morning and afternoon broadcasts was how their hosts, reporters, and guests seemed to strain themselves not stating the obvious: that the shootings were acts of racist violence committed by an evident racist..."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/culturebox/2015/06/charleston_shooting_on_fox_news_why_the_network_could_barely_bring_itself.html