What’s particularly useful about the new FBI data is that the shifts are presented by the population each responding agency serves. Since crime began to surge during the pandemic, cable-news coverage of crime increased. That month, Fox News was three times as likely to mention crime in any 15-second block of airtime as was CNN. AdvertisementEven with crime dropping, Fox is still talking about crime as though it’s on the rise. “Dilanian’s report caps off another year in which ordinary Americans have expressed growing alarm about crime in big cities,” the Fox News report notes — by itself a revealing admission.

Source: Fox News December 19, 2023 11:42 UTC