CNN's John King Shades Fox News Without Ever Saying Its Name
CNN’s John King appeared to take a swipe at Fox News on Thursday after the network was slow to report that four leaders of the Proud Boys street gang were found guilty of seditious conspiracy and other charges for their role in the January 6, 2021 riot.
King, who appeared alongside CNN analyst Carrie Cordero, acknowledged that 1,000-plus people have faced charges in connection with the insurrection before turning to “another network” over its coverage.
“There’s another network that, by the time I walked upstairs even though this had been out for 40 minutes, had not shown this to the American people just yet. To their audience. Their audience,” said King of the guilty verdict in the roughly four-month-long Proud Boys trial.
A Fox News spokesperson told TheWrap that the network tuned into Attorney General Merrick Garland’s news conference on the convictions at 4pm EST.
Mediaite, in a post about King’s comments published at 12:40pm, noted that searches for Fox News’ mentions of the verdict came up empty by the time of its post.
Fox News’ coverage of the verdict isn’t on its homepage as of early Friday morning, while coverage appears on the homepages of CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Outside of the charges toward the Proud Boys leaders, a fifth defendant – Dominic Pezzola – was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy. All five defendants faced other serious charges including obstruction charges.
(H/T Mediaite)