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Fox News apologizes for stock graphic referencing Floyd, MLK deaths
New York Daily NewsNEW YORK DAILY NEWS | Saturday, June 6, 2020 8:02 p.m.
NEW YORK — One day after Fox News aired a graphic correlating stock market gains following notable tragic events involving black Americans, it offered an apology.
The contrite concession came Saturday after outraged viewers howled over the insensitive chart shown during Friday’s broadcast of “Special Report With Bret Baier.”
The bar graph illustrated the change percentage in the S&P 500 one week after the 2014 police shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown, the 1992 acquittal of cops charged with beating Rodney King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination and George Floyd’s recent death in police custody.
“The infograph used on Fox News Channel’s ‘Special Report’” to illustrate market reactions to historic periods of civil unrest should have never aired on television without full context,” said a Fox News spokesman. “We apologize for the insensitivity of the image and take this issue seriously.”
Many offended viewers excoriated Fox News for seemingly cherry-picking random events to bolster the graphic’s veracity.
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https://triblive.com/news/world/fox-news-apologizes-for-stock-graphic-referencing-floyd-mlk-deaths/
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