Mainstream Media OUTRAGED that ‘Eye Socket Fracture’ Report Changed Narrative in #Ferguson

CNN media critic Brian Stelter bashed FOX News and The Gateway Pundit this week for reporting that Darren Wilson had suffered a fractured eye socket during his confrontation with Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

CNN is outraged that FOX News ran the story using anonymous sources.
CNN later ran a report refuting the eye socket injury using their own anonymous sources.

FOX News, the Washington Post, ABC and The Gateway Pundit all reported that Officer Darren Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket.

What is clear is that the mainstream media is OUTRAGED that the eye socket report changed the narrative in Ferguson, Missouri.

Crooks and Liars reported:

CNN media critic Brian Stelter on Sunday took on Fox News for repeating an unconfirmed report from a conservative blog that claimed that Darren Wilson, the officer who shot unarmed teen Michael Brown, had a fractured eye socket.

Last week, Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft claimed that unnamed sources had told him that the officer who shot Brown had an “orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket.”

Just one day later, Fox News referenced Hoft’s blog, reporting that “there is information out that [the officer] was hit hard enough to break the bones around his eye.”

“Frankly, I’m surprised that Fox ripped the information off this blog and repeated it on air,” Stelter said on Sunday. “And later in the day, Fox did find its own anonymous source, and publish its own story. And every one of Fox’s primetime hosts picked up on it.”

“After all, this seemed like it changed the whole story, casting the officer as the victim of a dangerous aggressor, a dangerous black aggressor.”

Stelter pointed out that the most public officials had ever confirmed was that the officer had a swollen face. And in fact, a CNN source refuted the broken eye socket claim.

“I have yet to see any firm evidence of an eye socket injury,” Stelter said. “But that does not seem to matter because these claims have spread all over the place, sowing doubt in people’s minds about what happened that terrible day in Ferguson.”

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Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016. In 2023, The Gateway Pundit received the Most Trusted Print Media Award at the American Liberty Awards.

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