{"id":530467,"date":"2021-05-20T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=530467"},"modified":"2021-05-20T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:20:10","slug":"fox-news-panel-flames-lori-lightfoot-she-ought-to-declare-war-on-crime-rather-than-white-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-panel-flames-lori-lightfoot-she-ought-to-declare-war-on-crime-rather-than-white-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Panel Flames Lori Lightfoot: \u2018She Ought To Declare War On Crime Rather Than White Journalists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Ffox-news-panel-flames-lori-lightfoot-she-ought-to-declare-war-on-crime-rather-than-white-journalists%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=530467&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\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-20-at-2.59.26-PM-e1621543049786.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News contributors Deroy Murdock and Leslie Marshall ripped into Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s plan to only grant one-on-one interviews to \u201cblack and brown\u201d reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Murdock and Marshall joined host Martha MacCallum on \u201cThe Story\u201d to discuss Lightfoot\u2019s announcement and the backlash that quickly followed.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/20\/gregory-pratt-cancels-interview-lori-lightfight-discrimination\/\">(RELATED: Latino Reporter Refuses To Interview Lori Lightfoot After She Decided To Only Give Interviews To Black, Brown Journalists)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MacCallum began with a clip of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/04\/lori-lightfoot-demands-deal-from-chicago-teachers-unions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lightfoot<\/a> doubling down on her plan, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/19\/evening-patriots-dispatch-lightfoot-chicago-pornhub-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporters<\/a> that in an era where many Americans were starting to deal with systemic racism in many institutions, \u201cThe press and the media cannot be exempt from that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it okay for her to decide to speak with journalists of one color?\u201d MacCallum asked, turning the question to Marshall first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think it is,\u201d Marshall replied, noting that the press corps in Chicago was primarily white and male but that Lightfoot\u2019s response was not really sending the message she wanted to send.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiversity includes white people, not just people of color. That\u2019s what diverse means,\u201d Marshall continued. \u201cThe rainbow has many colors, white included. The First Amendment, freedom of the press is clear. It\u2019s all press regardless of their skin color, religion, sexual orientation. I don\u2019t think this is the right way for her to go about the message that she\u2019s trying to send.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk about identity politics. This is identity journalism, I guess. You\u2019re only allowed in the room if you have a certain color skin,\u201d MacCallum replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdentity journalism,\u201d Murdock repeated. \u201cThis is appalling. You have to go back to the 1960s to the Jim Crow South, I think, to find an example so blatant of outright racism by a public official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murdock went on to say that it would be fine for Lightfoot to encourage newsrooms to hire more minority journalists or to start scholarship programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to say I won\u2019t talk to any journalists that are white is just pure straight out racial prejudice and bigotry and it\u2019s got to be a violation I\u2019m sure of the Chicago, the Illinois and certainly the federal civil rights statutes, which specifically say government cannot discriminate against people on the basis of skin color,\u201d Murdock continued. \u201cThat is exactly what\u2019s going on here right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacCallum went on to ask whether society was effectively moving backward as graduations and housing were being segregated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would anyone want to be chosen to do an interview because of the color of their skin rather than the content of their character or the ability that they have as a reporter?\u201d MacCallum asked. \u201cThat\u2019s why you want that person in the room. Not the color of their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat she\u2019s doing is not progressive. It\u2019s discriminatory in my opinion. The wrong way to get the message out there,\u201d Marshall agreed, pointing out the fact that even some of the Chicago reporters who stood to benefit from Lightfoot\u2019s policy were arguing that it was a bad idea. Latino journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/20\/gregory-pratt-cancels-interview-lori-lightfight-discrimination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gregory Pratt<\/a>, of The Chicago Tribune, was granted an interview under Lightfoot\u2019s policy \u2014 he declined the interview and said he would not reschedule until she agreed to see reporters regardless of race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we becoming more segregated?\u201d MacCallum pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have people like Lori Lightfoot that are focused on race, race, race all the time,\u201d Murdock replied. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s a bit like somebody complaining about the white house paint on the house while it\u2019s burning to the ground. We\u2019ve got shooting incidents up 33%, murders up 22% in Chicago, I think sexual assaults up 12% I think, if I\u2019m not mistaken. She ought to declare a war on crime rather than white journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News contributors Deroy Murdock and Leslie Marshall ripped into Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s plan to only grant one-on-one interviews to \u201cblack and brown\u201d reporters.Murdock and Marshall joined host &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312515,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-20-at-2.59.26-PM-e1621543049786.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Fox News Panel Flames Lori Lightfoot: \u2018She Ought To Declare War On Crime Rather Than White Journalists\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-20-at-2.59.26-PM-e1621543049786.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Fox News Panel Flames Lori Lightfoot: \u2018She Ought To Declare War On Crime Rather Than White Journalists\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530467","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}