Gen. Honore Jabs the Media: ‘People Like You’ Driving Chaos in Ferguson

‘That is the concern I have, that the governor continues to leave it to the media – people like you – to describe to people, the citizens, what’s happening’

Gen. Honore Jabs the Media: 'People Like You' Driving Chaos in Ferguson (NewsBusters)

On Monday's AC360 on CNN, retired Lt. General Russel Honoré rebuked the media's coverage of the ongoing controversy surrounding the police shooting of Michael Brown. Anderson Cooper raised how a liberal legal analyst contended that Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's activation of the National Guard, in anticipation of a grand jury decision on the case, was an "escalation of this military-style approach that didn't work in the first place." He then asked, "Do you agree with that – that it could, in some ways, do more harm than – than good?"

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