Late Tuesday morning, Fox News announced that cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski had been killed in Ukraine while covering the Russian invasion with coworker Benjamin Hall. He was killed after an incoming fire hit their vehicle outside of Kyiv.
America’s Newsroom host Bill Hemmer said:
“Pierre Zakrzewski was an absolute legend at this network and his loss is devastating. He has been with us for years covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.”
“Our CEO Suzanne Scott noted a few moments ago that Pierre jumped in to help out with all sorts of roles in the field: photographer and engineer and editor and producer, and he did it all under immense pressure and with tremendous skill,”
Hemmer continued:
“The president of Fox J. Wallace says that everyone always felt an extra sense of reassurance when they arrived on the scene and they saw that Pierre was there. He was a professional. He was a journalist, and he was a friend,”
“We here at the Fox News Channel want to offer our deepest condolences to Pierre his wife, Michelle, and his entire family. Pierre Zakrzewski was only 55 years old and we miss him already.”
However, following the news that one of Fox News’ cameramen had been killed while filming the crisis in Ukraine, Susan Glasser, a CNN Global Affairs Analyst, received backlash after mocking the death of Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski in Ukraine.
Leftist journalist Susan Glasser took to Twitter to slam the cable news network.
Glasser wrote, “What a tragedy. A cameraman died covering the war for a TV network that airs a pro-Putin propagandist as its top-rated primetime host.”
Over her tweet, The New Yorker is dealing with demands for their writer Susan Glasser to be fired.
The backlash against Glasser was immediate and led to her composing a follow-up tweet hours later:
“So grateful for the heroic work that Pierre and all the journalists, Ukrainian and foreign, have been doing risking their lives to show us the horror of this war. Makes the years of lies and propaganda so much harder to take—there are truly deadly consequences,” she wrote.
Here are some comments from folks online:
“Did you tweet that from your nice digs in D.C. or Martha’s Vineyard?
You’re terrible.”
“Susan Glasser is tone deaf. She is so far bent left that even the merciless killing of a journalist is a war zone becomes a partisan issue. How can she ever be taken seriously moving forward?”
“Compassion and understanding is part of the storytelling premise that is journalism. Instead, she is dancing on the grave of innocent war dead. The New Yorker ought to take a hardline stance and fire her,”
“There are two kinds of people who use Twitter when someone dies; those who mourn a tragic death and those who use that death as an opportunity to bash the victim and their other political opponents.
We need much more of the former and far fewer of the latter.”
“Man dies.
Susan: “How can I use this tragedy to dunk on my enemies?”
Sources: 100percentfedup, Theparadise, Kfbk.iheart
