is that a failure? no, i don t think it s a failure. on the criminal justice front, many pundits denounce kyle rittenhouse even after a kenosha jury acquitted him of homicide. the fact that white supremacists roam the halls freely and celebrate this will white supremacist. ignored actor jussie smollett whom they had embraced for fake ago hate crime. media credibility sunk even lower in 2021 fueled by bias, ethical lapses and for many a refusal to admit past mistakes as with the discredited steele dossier. ratings and online traffic also took a major hit as most news outlets struggled to move on from the trump era. mike? mike: howie, thanks a lot. join howie this sunday at 11:00 eastern in the morning on fox news channel for a 2021 year in review and a look ahead at 2022 plus are the media spreading alarm and confusion over the omicron surge? we will cover it all. up next, the panel with the
while describing him as engaging in rioting to a kenosha jury. but this is far more serious. it wasn t just gratuitous. many people took it as a racist point to make against a defendant. it was clearly something that it was not just his mother that gasped. all of us gasped with that with that reference. doesn t play well with jurors nor should it. the other thing about the defense, they had a very difficult time. much like the rittenhouse case, there was a video tape. videotape evidence has shown over and over again that it transcends a lot of the type of legal arguments that you can make. we saw in the derek chauvin, we saw it in rittenhouse. you can t get a jury to unsee these types of images. gillian: yeah, it s important the remember at first the state wasn t going to prosecute this case until that video that emerged. sad by we re out of time,
howard: in the days before a kenosha jury acquitted kyle rittenhouse, judge bruce schrader unloaded on the coverage. when i talked about problems with the media when in this trial started, you re there in part because of grossly irresponsible handling of what can comes out of this trial that s really quite frightening. howard: joining us now from new york, alan dershowitz, author of the book the case for vaccine mandates. you were ripping the coverage saying that cnn and other networks were acting like vigilantes. explain. this is the worst case of coverage of a criminal trial in more than a half century that i have been observing media obsessions with criminal trials including the o.j. simpson case.
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