Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies

http://www.alternet.org/media/149496/fox_news%3A_the_no._1_name_in_murder_fantasies

The Fox News culture permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against deemed enemies.
January 11, 2011

� Note: This is a re-post of a November 10, 2010 piece from Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) which is particularly relevant to the conversation about the shooting spree in Arizona on Saturday.

Bill O'Reilly's "joke" in November about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personalities or their worldview.

During the cable channel's 2008 election coverage, in what she later called an attempt at humor, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta linked Osama bin Laden to Barack Obama as people who both should be assassinated:

"And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama. Well, both, if we could."


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