Following the widely criticized graphic airing on"Special Report with Bret Baier" on Friday, the hashtag #FoxNewsIsRacist began trending on social media.
The conservative cable television news channel issued the apology on Saturday after receiving criticism over the use of the on-screen chart during a Friday broadcast of "Special Report with Bret Baier." The graphic displayed a bar graph to show the percentage of change in the S&P 500 one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.; after the acquittal of police officers who beat Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991; after the police shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014; and after recent death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Following the segment's airing, the graphic was widely criticized on social media and resulted in the hashtag #FoxNewsIsRacist. Bobby Rush, the Democratic representative from Illinois,Other news outlets have also recently pointed out market reactions following episodes of civil unrest, including
It wasn’t an accident.
It’s like they showed the answer and got in trouble for not showing their work
Apologies don't mean shit anymore when you do the same over and over🖕
They have a long list of shit they need to apologize for.
It was one of the most insensitive & actually criminal thing I have seen. It directly linked criminal acts to profit. How can they not be punished for this ?
They showed facts and have to apologize?
Why apologize if you're a bunch of nazi lovers that who you are........fox is nothing but pure racism
Brazil registered record number of coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours...
whats to apologize for ? Stock market has nothing to do with that.
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