It may look like partisan point-scoring, but this stuff is very telling. If American conservatives are so keen to convince us that they are not racists, how could they possibly spin this?
Haiti earthquake coverage on Fox News, January 13, 2010:
0 hours, 6 minutes, 41 seconds
(Three top-rated Fox News shows: Beck: 37 seconds, O'Reilly: 2 minutes 56 seconds, Hannity: 3 minutes 8 seconds)
Haiti earthquake coverage on MSNBC, January 13, 2010:
2 hours, 2 mnutes, 33 seconds
(Three top-rated MSNBC news shows: Hardball: 36 minutes 35 seconds, Countdown: 43 minutes 3 seconds, The Rachel Maddow Show: 42 minutes 55 seconds)
To put it coldly, the Haiti story is so chock full of devastation, human suffering and heart-rending drama it's a news media wet dream. So why so 'meh' Fox?
Did Fox decide the inability of viewers to empathize with black people would impact ratings? Any other plausible suggestions why they chose to concentrate on Sarah f*cking Palin instead?
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