You know Boo, I particularly liked that Huffington Post video. It showed that Fox News was reporting on the story accurately based on the information available at the time.
Well what do you know... It seems that even MSNBC reported the story accurately like Fox did:
Scarborough to Buchanan: "You're not going to be talking" during NBPP/Sherrod segment | Media Matters for America
It would seem that CNN also reported on the story accurately too:
JOHNS: Well, Anderson, late word tonight that Shirley Sherrod, the USDA's Georgia director of rural development, has resigned after a YouTube video surfaced showing her describing to an NAACP audience how she withheld help to a white farmer.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SHIRLEY SHERROD, FORMER GEORGIA DIRECTOR OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT, USDA: But he had come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all of that time trying to show me he was superior to me, was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him. I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farm land. And here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn't give him the full force of what I could do.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
JOHNS: In a statement tonight, Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack said, "There is zero tolerance for discrimination in USDA, and I strongly condemn any acts of discrimination against any person."
If you bothered to look at MM very own timeline, you would realize that all those clips from Fox News, took place before Sharrod's side of the story went public. Every one of them (with the exception of the clip of a guest being interviewed) was based on the only information available at the time, which was the edited video, the statement from the USDA and the statement from the NAACP. There was no full video, and there wasn't Sherrod's side of the story.
Even MSNBC reported the story just like Fox did, because based on the information available, there was no other way to report it.
