The news media helped stoke the flames of discontent in riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri, by pumping up its coverage of the Michael Brown shooting, says Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture at the Media Research Center.
"The people who have suffered for it are the people of Ferguson," Gainor on Wednesday told Rick Ungar, guest host of "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"What [the media have] done, they've built up the protests to the point where they've overhyped them.
"Then they surround them with massive numbers of journalists, massive numbers of cameras and said, do you want to riot? Do you want to riot? Eventually some people say yes."
Gainor also charged MSNBC with an overly liberal bias in covering the Ferguson case, in which a white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot Brown, a young black man, sparking racial unrest.
"MSNBC — they would claim that the snowstorm that I'm getting right now is racist because it's white," he said.
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