{"id":1098575,"date":"2021-12-08T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098575"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:43:42","slug":"new-york-times-fox-news-christmas-tree-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-fox-news-christmas-tree-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Fox News Christmas Tree &#039;Catches Fire&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-fox-news-christmas-tree-catches-fire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-547524708-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The New York Times continued a trend of passive language in the establishment media when it reported Wednesday that a Christmas tree at Fox News in Manhattan \u201ccatches fire,\u201d as if the giant Christmas decoration had spontaneously combusted.<\/p>\n<p>The tree was lit on Sunday in Fox Square, outside the network\u2019s headquarters. Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fox-nation-celebrates-third-annual-all-american-christmas-tree-lighting-fox-square\">reported<\/a>: \u201cThe red, white and blue themed tree measures 50-feet high filled with 10,000 glass ornaments, 100,000 lights and took over 21 hours to assemble.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>But early Wednesday morning, the tree was seen engulfed in flames, and video immediately appeared across social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.6338028169014\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Christmas tree outside of Fox News has caught on fire. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/No7SVK0JeF\">pic.twitter.com\/No7SVK0JeF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamParkhomenko\/status\/1468467017162399745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fox-news-media-rebuild-all-american-christmas-tree-malicious-arson-attack-suzanne-scott-says\">informed<\/a> staff that the tree was set on fire in a \u201cmalicious arson attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As Breitbart News and numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/man-in-custody-after-allegedly-lighting-christmas-tree-outside-fox-news-building-on-fire\/3439230\/\">local news<\/a> sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/12\/08\/fox-news-christmas-tree-catches-fire-suspected-arsonist-arrested\/\">reported<\/a>, police immediately apprehended a man suspected of setting the blaze. A&nbsp;49-year-old suspect, Craig Tamanaha, was named as the man arrested; arson was reported to be suspected.<\/p>\n<p>However, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> reported, even after the arrest: \u201cFox News Christmas Tree Catches Fire in Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> noted in a sub-headline: \u201cThe police said that a man was in custody in relation to the blaze.\u201d However, the headline marked the latest example of the use of passive language when a news story might be embarrassing to the left.<\/p>\n<p>In last month\u2019s mass murder at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin \u2014 an event the media largely dropped once the suspect was identified as a black man with racist views, on bail after an arrest for another violent crime \u2014 CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/blog\/media-bias-alert-waukesha-christmas-parade-attack\">reported<\/a> that \u201ca car drove\u201d through the crowd, and the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em> reported that the tragedy had been \u201ccaused by an SUV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, actor and left-wing political activist Alec Baldwin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/02\/alec-baldwin-claims-a-single-action-revolver-went-off-without-a-trigger-pull-heres-why-its-hard-to-believe-him\/\">claimed<\/a> that a gun on the set of his movie,&nbsp;<em>Rust<\/em>, somehow fired by itself when he was holding it, after he had cocked it. The bullet killed the film\u2019s cinematographer and injured the director.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times continued a trend of passive language in the establishment media when it reported Wednesday that a Christmas tree at Fox News in Manhattan \u201ccatches fire,\u201d as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}