The first shots rang out at 2:22 PM on Valentine’s Day 2018, as a lone gunman began laying siege to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Armed with an AR-15 rifle, the former student spent the next six minutes firing as he roamed the campus, killing 17 people and wounding many more, in one of the most chilling mass murders in U.S. history.
It was only a matter of days before Fox News was leading a right-wing media crusade to vilify the Parkland survivors as they raised their angry teenage voices about gun violence in America.
Immediately signaling that they were part of a larger awakening, and determined to address runaway gun violence in America, as well as the politicians and special interests that allow it to go unchecked, the outspoken students posed a new kind of pressing threat to right-wing propaganda. And that opened the door to conservative attacks, as GOP-friendly media outlets routinely smeared and maligned a new generation of activists who had suffered unspeakable losses.
On the one-year anniversary of the shocking and senseless school shooting in Florida, it's important to remember how key media actors behaved in its aftermath. It's important to recall that, when faced with a national tragedy, players at Fox News and elsewhere instinctively moved to engage in revenge politics and to tear the country further apart.
What's also so important about the dark Parkland chapter of the country’s story is that these students stood up to Fox News bullies—and the students won. Just ask Laura Ingraham.
from Daily Kos http://bit.ly/2DFJVtd
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