Stelter On FNC's Coverage Of Illegal Immigrant Rapists: When Do Rapes Become National News?

CNN's Brian Stelter criticized Tucker Carlson and the FOX News Channel for focusing on the Rockville rape but not a hate crime committed by a white man.



Montgomery County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jack Smith accused parents who expressed criticism of racism.



From Sunday's edition of Reliable Sources:





BRIAN STELTER, RELIABLE SOURCES: Rapes and assaults murders are local news stories on a daily basis. But when do they break through to become national news, and when do they not?



This week, the health care bill, the talks in the House dominated cable news coverage all over the place. But FOX News also focused heavily on another story, and sometimes tying it to the president's immigration story. Watch.



TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: Two alleged assailants, Jose Montano and Henry Sanchez Milian, both arrived in this country just a few months ago.



SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS: This terrible crime is just the latest in a long list of Americans who are victims because of illegal immigration.



JEANINE PIRRO, FOX NEWS: This shocking case of a 14-year-old girl allegedly raped by two illegal immigrants in a Maryland school got me thinking. Do you know who's in school with your children? If you think that your school administrator, principal has your back, think again.



STELTER: A sickening story from Rockville, Maryland, about an alleged rape at a school.



Now, on FOX, all roads lead back to media bias. So, Tucker Carlson called out channels like CNN for not covering this story thoroughly, for not covering it extensively. He also pointed out NBC, CBS, ABC's nightly newscasts did not cover this alleged rape.



Now, FOX chose to focus on that, partly trying it to Trump's immigration agenda. That was a story in Maryland.



But there was another story with Maryland ties that got little to no coverage anywhere on FOX or other channels. This was a story that crossed state lines from Maryland to New York. But you may not have heard about it.



This was about an Army veteran, an alleged white supremacist who drove to New York and attacked a 66-year-old black man with a 26-inch knife, killing that man.



Now, there's much still to be learned about this story. You can see surveillance footage from the incident here. But this story received almost no coverage on FOX or CNN or anywhere else for that matter, another example of a crime, but not a crime that fit the political agenda of those pro-Trump hosts on FOX.