Chris Hayes Blames Fox News for 2013’s Most ‘Over-Covered’ Story

What was the most “over-covered” story of the year according to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes? Thanks to Fox News’ “obsession,” the MSNBC host gave that honor to the “knockout game” trend that was apparently sweeping the nation.

Though at times it seemed that CNN was giving as much airtime to the “knockout game,” in which young hooligans were caught on camera approaching innocent strangers and punching them in the face, Fox News definitely let the charge. “This has been on Fox all the time,” Hayes said, before playing clips of Bill O’Reilly, Gretchen Carlson, Greta Van Susteren and Sean Hannity hyping it up.

“You get a sense of the racial politics and subtext — well, not even subtext — text,” Hayes said. Perhaps the best commentary of the “knockout game” coverage came from The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, who suggested we could get more Americans to care about gun control if we called people shooting each other the “shooty game.”

As for Hayes’ most under-covered story of the year? Climate change, which got “zero coverage” in 2013.

Watch video below, via MSNBC:

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