FOX NEWS decides that a MLK relative no one has heard of is relevant just because she criticized Harry Reid

This is classic FOX NEWS. Before you read the FOX NEWS article can you tell me the name of Dr. Martin Luther King's niece? Also, before you read the article can you tell me what she does and why her comments on Senator Harry Reid are relevant other than the fact that she is Dr. King's niece?

I ask these questions because FOX NEWS found a Black person, who is related to a really famous historic and heroic Black person, Dr. Martin Luther King, who is calling Sen. Reid out and it has decided that her opinion of him was newsworthy.

Only the first three paragraphs, of a 16 paragraph piece, mention Dr. King's niece and we don't even learn her name until the third paragraph. You would think if her opinion was relevant, her name would be just as important as mentioning her famous uncle's name. Other than telling readers/viewers that she is Dr. King's niece, FOX NEWS does not inform us why her opinion is newsworthy and deserving to mentioned in the headline.

Did FOX NEWS reach out to Dr. King's surviving children, Dexter, Bernice and Martin Luther III? (Yolanda King passed away in 2007)

Well after reading this article I learned her name, Alveda King, however I still didn't learn anything about her and why her opinion was so relevant, so I had to go to Wikipedia to find more about her. After reading the entry on her I learned that she is a senior fellow at a conservative think tank and a former Georgia state legislator. She is also anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage.

Does she have a distinguished career? Not really, especially not compared to Bernice King or Martin Luther King III, but FOX NEWS didn't bother to ask them.

She is free to her opinions and to promote herself as Dr. King's niece, however when FOX NEWS pretends like she is a well known African American leader just because her uncle is MLK, while ignoring the opinions of many better known, self-made, more accomplished African American activists, it reinforces the notion that its not a legitimate news source.

From FOX NEWS:

MLK JR.'S Niece Doesn't See Compliment in Reid's "Negro Dialect" Comment

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP all jumped to the defense of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after his controversial remarks about President Obama, but the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. is calling Reid's comments "sadly outrageous."

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP all jumped to the defense of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after his controversial remarks about President Obama, but the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. is calling Reid's comments "sadly outrageous."

"If Michael Steele or any other conservative had said anything like it, the remarks would be labeled racist and plastered over every available news outlet," Alveda King said in a statement released Tuesday.

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