Mainstream Media Scream: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell injects race in Ferguson crisis

Published August 18, 2014 9:53pm ET



This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features NBC’s Andrea Mitchell injecting race into her coverage of the turmoil in Ferguson, Mo. over the police shooting of unarmed African American Michael Brown.

On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Mitchell declared that Rev. Al Sharpton was in Ferguson “on a peace mission” days after she tweeted “Detained for reporting while black?” about police in Ferguson arresting Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery.

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