"Call it the truest and most literal definition of morbid curiosity. Last evening, hours after a masked ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good, I did what I often do when unequivocally bad things happen in America: I checked to see how it was playing on Fox News. It was the top of the hour, and the shooting was the top story on Jesse Watters Primetime. A chyron screamed WOMAN RAMS ICE AGENT, GETS SHOT beneath video from the scene showing Good's SUV ramming nobody."
"That quote from 1984 rang in my head, the one about the party telling you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, about how it was their final, most essential command. But this is Fox News in the second Trump administration, so forcing you to believe the opposite of what is clear and obvious was actually their second-to-last, almost-most-essential command. Their final, most essential command was to get you to sneer at a murder victim."
Hours after a masked ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good, Fox News ran the shooting as its top story on Jesse Watters Primetime with a chyron reading 'WOMAN RAMS ICE AGENT, GETS SHOT.' Broadcast footage showed Good's SUV ramming nobody. The segment emphasized her identity as a self-proclaimed poet from Colorado with pronouns in her bio, noted she was a 37-year-old white woman who leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child, and questioned her legal credentials. The program framed the incident to invite viewers to sneer at the murdered woman, minimizing the reality of her death.
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