Greta: Media Putting ‘Too Much of a Spotlight’ on Reporter Being Attacked by Trump Campaign Manager

Opining on her Gretawire blog, Fox News host Greta Van Susteran argued that the media should just “get over” the story of Michelle Fields, the Breitbart reporter who filed assault charges against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

“The media might want to ask itself if it is putting too much of a spotlight on this issue,” she writes. “It has crossed my mind that viewers/voters across the nation are thinking that we in the media put more of a spotlight on some non lethal shoving of one our own (a fellow journalist) than on gang shootings, domestic violence or other.” [Emphasis in the original]

“Sometimes tempers flare, and regrettable things happen,” Van Susteran argues, “but we should not make this an international crisis and it is not a First Amendment crisis. It is a flap we should all get over.”

“This is not to say, assuming it happened, that shoving a journalist (or anyone) is good – it is not,” she concludes.

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