Fox News’ Coverage Of Gun Violence “A Disgrace,” Says CA Gov. Gavin Newsom
deadline.com“It’s a disgrace what they do,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said of Fox News’ primetime programming and coverage of gun violence, according to ABC10, at a briefing related to the mass shooting in Monterey Park that killed 11 people on Saturday. “There’s xenophobia, they’re racial priming.
What they have done to perpetuate crime and violence in this country, by scapegoating, and by doing not a damn thing about gun safety, not a damn thing for decades…” Newsom’s remarks were made prior to a Monday shooting in Half Moon Bay that led to seven deaths and another last night in Oakland that injured seven and killed one teen. “We have work to do,” said Newsom. “I mean, there are full networks that do nothing else but sell fear.
That’s all they do. They sell fear about immigration. They sell fear about crime. And yet they sell calm about climate change.
Let’s look at ourselves and let’s look at these outlets and the culpability.” Referencing the “disgrace” remarks he’s just made, Newsom continued, “I know exactly what that means.
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