CBS News, Philadelphia Police Shooting Coverage Bias
CBS News is criticized for its coverage of a Philadelphia standoff involving Maurice Hill, who shot six police officers during a narcotics warrant execution. Reports suggest the network initially aired footage of a white hostage surrendering to imply the shooter was white, despite Hill being black. The discrepancy in live coverage between Fox News and left-leaning outlets like CNN and MSNBC is noted as evidence of racial narrative filtering in mass shooting reports.
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00:00 Wait, wasn't there a pillow on his head? Adam Curry. John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday August 15th 2019 this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 1164! This is no agenda. Adjusting the algos tweaking the twiddlers and broadcasting live from the frontier of Austin Texas capital of drone star state in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and for northern Silicon Valley I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill Yes you are, John C. Dvorak. Big shooting in Philadelphia? Another crazy shooting in Phil- oh wait a minute just a bunch of cops that were shot so never mind You know the problem with that shooting in Philadelphia don't you There's more than one problem what what's the problem that you saw Well I didn't see it but I'm pretty sure the shooter wasn't white and that's a problem
00:55 for news reporting. Okay, this brings us to the clip. The bonus clip? The bonus clip! Yes when CBS played this on the morning show they said and then the I guess the shooter was then surrendered and then they showed a white guy coming out of the building People should go look at this clip really on CBS This morning it's on the CBS news site right now, but what was that? The guy shooter was that the guy was that the guy no it was one of the hostages God oh my goodness. Okay. Yes They said I watched it a couple times. It's an old disguise a freak He was like some white guy with a long one those long goat Ease and bald head kind of a creepy looking guy coming out And I said Oh god What a creep
01:47 And so he's coming out and then later in this thing when they showed the guy, when they showed him at the hospital or something that's the shooter. Or they showed a bunch of people to the hospital that had one guy in cuffs it was a black guy says wait a minute wasn't this shooter white guy? So I looked up the shooter By name on with images search and there he was it was a black guy. Yeah, that's CBS I'm telling you if you didn't know Wow You were tricked by CBS to make you think it was a white another white nut This clip we play it now Yes, your play. Long standoff that paralyzed a Philadelphia neighborhood is over after the man accused of wounding six police officers and shooting repeatedly at others surrendered overnight His name Maurice Hill 36 years old he walked out of his home where he barricaded himself holding his hands in the air Police say he'll open fire when officers came to the house with a warrant
02:41 Two officers and three hostages were trapped inside for about five hours until a SWAT team rescued them. CTM national correspondent Jerrica Duncan is at the scene in Philadelphia, Jerrica what do we know about the accused gunman? Yeah. We know that the accused gunman has a criminal history, an extensive criminal history that includes several gun possession charges now as for those six officers that were wounded they were released from the hospital and are said to be in good spirits this morning you know you take a look at the scene behind me right now police still gathering evidence it is quiet it is calm but hours ago neighbors here described it as a war zone
03:22 Scoundrels of gunfire terrorized this neighborhood in Philadelphia for hours. I got a one-shot, I got a one shot! Give me SWAT ASAP! Long guns ASAP! Officers serving the narcotics warrant at home around 430 p.m yesterday were ambushed by a gunman barricading himself inside. A shooter fired multiple rounds, officers returned fire many of whom who had to escape through windows and doors to get from a garage of bullets You know I this broke yesterday and i was scanning across the channels
04:00 And I noticed right off the bat Fox News was going live regularly, CNN and MSNBC went live in the beginning and then didn't come back really. And they were running a special of Anderson Cooper interviewing Don Lemon... just interviewing each other whoever the hell it was and then just they completely ignored it and I knew right then in there. I turned to my lovely wife, I said uh-oh he's not white this is a problem can't report on him and they don't! And there's no mass shooting, the gun that gets rid of... none of this Well CBS tried to do this, Gail who says the guy came with his hands in the air I think was a prelude to showing the clip of a guy coming out with his hands in the air was a white guy. Right And then there's this second little gem in there where the announcer woman says he has a criminal history
04:58 And then instead of giving us any criminal history, she says many gun possession charges. Hold on I didn't finish the clip so let's listen to the rest of it Six officers were shot including one who was grazed by a bullet in the head One of the cops that was running past he had blood all over his head Heavily armed police officers dozens of squad cars and SWAT teams swarmed the area Damn! It's all SWAT Police, along with the shooter's lawyer were trying to communicate with the suspect for hours urging him to surrender and free hostages. SWAT was able to successfully extract
05:35 the two police officers that were trapped upstairs as well as three prisoners. But his darkness began to fall, the siege didn't let up. I'm still ringing off! More than seven hours later, the gunman surrendered with the help of his lawyer Shaka Johnson. I've never known him to possess traits that would have a person shooting at police officers or having a whole community under siege. Yeah okay right Well anyway, it's very obvious which way the bias goes. And it's the same we had a guy try to blow up an ice facility with a propane tank and he was armed with... now do you have a handgun or a military style assault weapon? I don't remember but it was the same similar situation. Yeah! No reporting. It's so wrong
