alan dershowitz joins us shortly. but first, a sidebar that shouldn t be lost. i m talking about msnbc being banned from the courtroom. as the jurors were leaving after a day of deliberations, police stopped a man who identified himself as an msnbc price. and as judge bruce schrader explained, he said his bosses in new york had given him an assignment. he gave that information and stated that he had been instructed by ms. ryland in new york to follow the jury bus. i have instructed that no one from msnbc will be permitted in this building until duration of this trial. this is a are serious matter. howard: nbc claims this was a freelancer who just happened to be near the bus and had no intention of photographing the jurors. if he was trying to do that, it would be monumentally dumb given the tense situation in the wisconsin town. was msnbc actually thinking of putting out pictures of the jurors and putting them in danger? i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard
Like they have a fidelity to what they might describe as a moral truth, a higher truth. racism run amok in the united states of america, it was founded upon racism, and it doesn t matter how many lies you have to tell or how many lives you have to sacrifice in this case, that would be kyle rittenhouse to serve that higher moral truth, and they re willing to do so. and they did tell lies, you know, that he s a white supremacist, zero evidence. that he crossed state lines with an ar-15. he didn t do that. i had lunch with a friend yesterday who consumes what we would call mainstream media. he said, did you know the guys kyle rittenhouse shot were white? yeah, i do know. and i understand why you would not know that, because you have been lied to for the better participant of the year. and i m being charitable because i think they think they re pursuing a higher moral truth. howard: yeah. and that is a point i tried to make which is trials are not about a higher moral truth,
The tense situation in the wisconsin town. was msnbc actually thinking of putting out pictures of the jurors and putting them in danger? i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: the heated and purely partisan media debate has been growing even louder since kyle rittenhouse was found not guilty. now it s just open season. like, if i m walking around and i m a white nationalist, you know, coward little kid with an ar-15 and i see somebody drive by with a black lives matter bumper sticker and i feel threatened, i could propaganda doesn t always win. the fact that the white principle cysts roam the halls supremacists roam the halls freely and the fact he gets to walk the streets freely, these people have access to
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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