NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 15: Bill O'Reilly, host of FOX's "The O'Reilly Factor" at FOX Studios on December 15, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
© 2024 Blaze Media LLC. All rights reserved.
Matt DeRienzo, group editor of several local newspapers, including The New Haven Register, is apologizing on behalf of the Register for a Monday editorial in which the paper seemed to compared Fox News and other conservatives to the Ku Klux Klan.
"We did not intend to compare Fox News specifically to the KKK," DeRienzo writes, "and we should have done a better job clarifying that when we said that the 'same basic message that the KKK has promoted for 148 years is embraced by the likes of Ted Nugent, Fox News, Ann Coulter, a burgeoning array of fringe 'conservative’ media."
The column continued, "It was a poor choice of words that created an unfortunate comparison between Fox News and the KKK. We're sorry for that. We did not intend to make any such comparison. ... We stand by our criticism and call for Fox News to challenge and condemn the hatred and racism advocated by guests such as Ted Nugent and Ann Coulter instead of continuing to give them a platform."
On his Fox News program Wednesday, Bill O'Reilly criticized the Monday editorial and had called on the paper to apologize by Friday.
Want to leave a tip?
We answer to you. Help keep our content free of advertisers and big tech censorship by leaving a tip today.
Want to join the conversation?
Already a subscriber?
