Fox’s ‘America’s Newsroom’ goes to great length to avoid the big story of the day: George Floyd trial

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Here’s just about every story Fox’s right wing cable channel ran starting at 9 a.m. eastern — when CNN and MSNBC were in almost nonstop coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial.

Chauvin, a fired cop, is being tried on multiple murder charges for allegedly killing an unnamed Black man named George Floyd in May 2020. The tragedy was a pivotable point in the “#BlackLivesMatter” movement, but has been heavily criticized by right leaning media, including Fox.

Fox did “dip” into a pre-court press event with George Floyd’s family attorneys and community leaders and carried soundbites from it from time to time, but spent most of the block covering non-trial stories, including stories highly critical of Joe Biden and even covering COIVD-19 vaccines.

Both CNN and MSNBC also carried the Floyd event live in almost its entirety.

All three networks switched to live feeds from inside the courtroom once the trial got formerly under way.

1/11 '#FoxAndFriends' hawks its hats right before '#AmericasNewsroom' starts — sans #GeorgeFloyd and #DerekChauvinTrial on MSNBC and CNN starting at that same time pic.twitter.com/Y7cjEzlY3s

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

2/11 Lead on '#AmericasNewsroom' was Ted Cruz being barred from taking video inside immigrant facility pic.twitter.com/xWLyEdDIEC

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

3/11 Suddenly migrant kids are an issue — as long as it's labeled 'Biden's Border Crisis' and instead of #DerekChauvinTrial pic.twitter.com/KIIA4Br128

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

5/11 Now overcrowding is a story again … but not #DerekChauvinTrial pic.twitter.com/TrgomyRKGP

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6/11 Moving on, Fox is now concerned with lack of transparency at the White House — after an administration full of lie, half truths and 'alternative facts' pic.twitter.com/WqHtsOsgiO

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

7/11 Now time to attack Biden's spending plans instead of #DerekChauvinTrial pic.twitter.com/JJSvs1bG9h

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

8/11 More on the spending plan pic.twitter.com/9sJlAP667e

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

9/11 Now it's time for possible affects for tax cuts on WV pic.twitter.com/IU92kzDQDY

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

10/11 Sort of back on track … but this time focusing on removing protects for cops and scary crime data pic.twitter.com/vgXS50fjXU

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021

11/11 Now on to the #COVID19 vaccine, which is now somehow relevant to Fox viewers pic.twitter.com/gimAAIDIpN

— TVNewsMix (@TVNewsMix) March 29, 2021