Tragedy struck Fox News this week as two of its brave employees were killed in Ukraine.
Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian producer Sasha Kuvshynova died when their vehicle came under fire. Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall was badly injured in the incident. The deaths and injury are yet more examples of the senseless violence that Russia has initiated by invading a sovereign country.
However, New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser offered a callous response to the cameraman’s death. She used it as an excuse to attack Tucker Carlson.
What a tragedy. A cameraman died covering the war for a TV network that airs a pro-Putin propagandist as its top-rated primetime host. https://t.co/zKHXRciMYu
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) March 15, 2022
This is a disgusting way to frame someone’s death.
Glasser doesn’t have to like Carlson or agree with everything, or anything, he says. However, the fact that Zakrzewski worked for Fox News shouldn’t change how someone views his death. It would have been tragic if he worked for a liberal news outlet like CNN, MSNBC, or any of the three major broadcast television networks. The same would be true if he worked for a different right-wing television station like Newsmax or One America News Network.
It’s disgusting that someone would cheapen someone else’s life because of where said person worked. People should strive to build a culture of life and recognize that someone’s life matters even if you disagree with them politically.
Regardless of how one feels about a network’s reporting, we are lucky to live in a country where they have the freedom to report the way they see fit. Problems with press freedom exist in this country, but they pale in comparison to the problems faced in Russia.
I’m grateful to live in a country where I’m not going to prison for reporting something. Glasser should be ashamed.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.
