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Fox Host: Gay Journalists Are Too Biased
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June 21, 2016
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7:04Now PlayingFox News’ Howard Kurtz implied that Anderson Cooper reporting on the Orlando shooting, may be inappropriate. Kurtz insinuated that, because Cooper is gay, he is too biased to report on the attack at the Pulse nightclub. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz suggested on Sunday that CNN’s Anderson Cooper had provided biased coverage of the recent Orlando nightclub massacre because he is a gay man like many of the victims.
“Do gay journalists feel a special anguish over the senseless slaughter of 49 mostly-gay Americans?” Kurtz asked on his Media Buzz program, noting that Cooper had “choked up” while reading the names of the victims and had “grilled” Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi over her record of opposing rights for LGBT people.
“I respect Anderson Cooper and I think he’s generally fair,” Kurtz told Fox News contributor Guy Benson. “Do you think he was acting as more than just an aggressive journalist?”
“He seemed like an activist,” Benson agreed. “Of course, I only watch Fox all the time. But I’ve heard that he’s very good at his job, he’s a versatile journalist [but] in this circumstance, I thought the line of questioning for the attorney general of Florida, under the circumstance and given the context of what had just happened in that state, it was a bizarre non sequitur.”
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