Fox News Channel on Saturday apologized after the display of an on-screen chart showing stock-market gains in the wake of infamous killings of Black men generated sharp criticism, acknowledging that the graphic should not have aired without more context.
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The illustration was used Friday on a broadcast of “Special Report with Bret Baier,” the cable-news outlet’s regular 6 p.m. program. During a segment examining recent stock-market performance, Fox News used a chart that showed how the S&P 500, a widely-used barometer of financial health, had made gains after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.; after the police shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014; after the acquittal of police officers who beat Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991; and after recent death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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