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Boston Coverage: Diane Sawyer Shines, CNN Struggles, Geraldo Rivera Sinks
April 20th, 2013After spending 15 hours Friday locked on coverage of the manhunt in Boston, here are my picks for the highs, lows and deeper media stories of this remarkable day and night.
The best moment belonged to Diane Sawyer and ABC News for a phone interview Friday night with George Pizzuto, a next-door neighbor to the man who discovered a wounded and bloody Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying under a tarp in a boat in his backyard and called police.
The interview started at 8:02 p.m., and was the first clear explanation of how the police found the 19-year-old bombing suspect in Watertown Friday night. It is an incredible story of the boat owner going out in his backyard after seeing a TV press conference that gave residents the green light to leave their homes.
Boston Bombing ‘Suspect’: Why Should Media Interject Race?
April 19th, 2013Now that we know the men who seem to have placed the bombs at the Boston Marathon were Eastern Europeans who weren’t dark-skinned and may have been from Chechnya, what do we do with all the misleading, race-based assumptions that flooded media this week?
CNN analyst and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile had a suggestion, speaking at a forum I also attended Thursday on Race in the Race for the Presidency at George Washington University. She suggested CNN reporter John King should apologize for airing a vague description that the bombing suspect was a “dark skinned male.”
“I cringed,” said Brazile, when asked about the description by GWU professor Frank Sesno, a former correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for CNN himself, noting that the description inviting profiling of a wide range of non-white people. “I think an apology is due.”
Ashburn/Kurtz: Media Turn Cautious After Boston Shootout
April 19th, 2013Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz on television’s reluctance to jump to conclusions about the two terrorists from Chechnya involved in the Boston Marathon bombings.
WATCH: Megyn Kelly Rap Lyrics To Forgot About Dre
April 19th, 2013On Fox News, Megyn Kelly recited a tweet of Boston Marathon suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, that quoted lyrics from the song “Forgot About Dre” by Dr. Dre featuring Eminem.
WATCH: Ruslan Tsarni, Uncle Of Boston Terror Suspects, Speaks Out
April 19th, 2013Ruslan Tsarni, the estranged uncle of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, held a press conference Friday morning where he called his nephews “losers” and demanded that Dzhokhar turn himself him.
