A few weeks ago, I wrote an article headlined “Crime is surging (in Fox News coverage).” It was a follow-up to an article I’d written a few weeks prior, exploring the fact that real-time crime data is anecdotal, cherry-picked or both.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
What’s the non-obvious reason Fox News is talking about crime more?
Analysis by Philip Bump
October 26, 2022 at 3:42 p.m. EDT