FOX NEWS TO BE SUED FOR "RADICALIZING" THE KANSAS CITY SHOOTER

The burnt-out zombie expression of the Fox News "fear n' hate porn" addict

Fox News could be in trouble again. Just after paying out $787 million to voting machine firm Dominion over its coverage of the 2020 US election, the media giant is being blamed for its part in the shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl.

Yarl was shot just before 10pm last Thursday night by 84-year-old homeowner Andrew Lester after "mistakenely" ringing Lester's doorbell..

Now, according to Lester's grandson, Klint Ludwig, the shooter was "radicalised" by the 'hate and fear porn' poured out by Fox News, causing him to shoot and ask questions later.

Shooter's "wigger" grandson Klint Ludwig

As reported by the Kansas City Star:

A grandson of the man charged with shooting a Black teen in Kansas City’s Northland last week said he was “appalled” and “disgusted” at his grandfather’s actions and is thankful Ralph Yarl is recovering. “I was horrified. I thought it was terrible,” Klint Ludwig said of his immediate reaction to hearing about the shooting of the 16-year-old. [...]

Ludwig said he and his grandfather...used to be very close. “But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.” Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.” 

It's early days, but it's easy to see how this narrative could lead to another damages claim against Fox News for several hundred million dollars. If so, maybe the media conglomerate will finally learn that stirring up "unease" among its elderly audience (median age 68) in order to boost viewing figures is not such a profitable business model after all. 

Life as seen by an 84-year-old Fox News viewer: