Demonizing the Protesters
Reported by Ellen - August 31, 2004 -
FOXNews.com has a video report about the RNC protests called Outside the Convention. Reporter Todd Connor notes, almost grudgingly, that the protests were more peaceful than predicted but slips in the following jabs:
He refers to the protesters (again, they were overwhelmingly peaceful) as "those intent on testing the patience of the New York's finest."
He goes on to describe the arrests, injuries, the minor fire in great detail. No mention that the protest drew half a million people. That's important because a) it was twice as large as the organizers had predicted and b) it puts a few arrests in better context.
Still no mention on Fox of the anti-Fox chants heard so clearly on C-Span, who covered the entire protest: "Fox News Sucks!" and "Fox News - Bullshit!"
