Selective Shielding
Selective Shielding Media Bias in American Coverage On Tuesday, Greg Gutfeld, on Fox News’ The Five, sharply criticized legacy media for their coverage of anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, accusing them of “selective shielding” by refusing to interview rioters who burned cars and attacked law enforcement. He argued this omission was a deliberate tactic to obscure the involvement of organized, radical groups-specifically Antifa and Marxist organizations-and their funding, thereby protecting a sympathetic narrative that downplayed the riots’ chaos. This charge of media bias through omission-sidestepping voices or facts that challenge preferred frames-resonated across a series of American stories, from pro-Palestinian campus…