‘Carnage,’ ‘radicals,’ ‘overthrow the government’: How Fox and other conservative media cover the protests

Conservative news outlets and pundits covering the protests erupting across the country this week have mostly emphasized images of destruction and chaos, blaming “organized” elements for the mayhem and framing President Trump’s calls for a military response as necessary to gain order.

Echoing Trump, some were quick to attribute the violence, without much evidence, to “antifa,” a loosely knit faction of far-left activists known for physically confronting far-right radicals that Trump tried to designate a domestic terrorist organization on Sunday.

“Unfortunately, far-left radicals unleashed this carnage, this destruction across American cities,” Sean Hannity, Fox News Channel’s most popular prime-time opinion host, said on Monday night. His colleague Laura Ingraham went so far as to call it an attempt to “overthrow” the government. Continue reading.