Before the verdict in the killing of George Floyd came in, Jake Tapper of CNN suggested that a guilty finding would potentially unite the nation.
After cop Derek Chauvin was indeed found guilty on all three charges he faced, Fox News suggested that there had been no division in the first place.
“This didn’t divide a nation at all!” said Greg Gutfeld, who hosts a late-night show on the network. This argument collapsed in on itself practically as soon as it was made — Gutfeld went on to cite critics who had claimed that Chauvin was “not a bug in the system” but “the system itself,” suggesting that there was indeed division over the Floyd story. Gutfeld’s stated position was that “everybody agreed that this was disgusting and ugly and needed justice.”
This was the general line of Fox’s on-air voices in the wake of a story that...
After cop Derek Chauvin was indeed found guilty on all three charges he faced, Fox News suggested that there had been no division in the first place.
“This didn’t divide a nation at all!” said Greg Gutfeld, who hosts a late-night show on the network. This argument collapsed in on itself practically as soon as it was made — Gutfeld went on to cite critics who had claimed that Chauvin was “not a bug in the system” but “the system itself,” suggesting that there was indeed division over the Floyd story. Gutfeld’s stated position was that “everybody agreed that this was disgusting and ugly and needed justice.”
This was the general line of Fox’s on-air voices in the wake of a story that...
- 4/20/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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