Wrong both ways: the non-Fox media did not report that as fact, as their account of the event, and no investigation has determined anything -cosmic said:. The Mr. Brown shooting was , at first, lied about by every Media TV news station saying that Mr. brown had his hands up and was 30 feet away from the officer when he was shot. Then the investigation showed that wasn't true at all and that Mr. Brown was actually shot at very close range when he was trying to take the officers gun from him.
except that Brown was not killed at "very close range", or while trying to take the officer's gun.
So your impression of a larger media delivering lies and spin at Fox News levels is based on falsehood and bad information. The larger US media world has been doing a poor job of reporting news with integrity lately, but Fox is not even trying - their crap is in a mendacity class of its own, among the major "news" delivery operations.
It is in apparent fact, as Joe observed, merely attending to the forms of honest news reporting, to provide image and cover for a quite different agenda. The apology there is an image move, and not a sea change in their ongoing "news" reportage. The raft of apologies for the past twenty years of their behavior, and the wholesale dismissal of their cast and crew, is not going to happen.
Not that Joe is always correct about media integrity problems:
They did not, actually, report on that matter accurately. They reported it as if the eyewitness testimony was contradicted by the forensics in its fundamentals, and Wilson's testimony was not. The opposite is true.joe said:When the coroner's records were released, the media prompt and accurately reported that witness testimony differed significantly with the findings of the coroner.