Media feud continues: Fox lashes out at CNN reporter

The cable news networks seem to have forgotten that they’re covering a war—not waging one.

On Monday, CNN reporter Nic Robertson blasted Fox News for reporting that CNN and Reuters journalists were used as human shields in Libya.

“This is outrageous and absolutely hypocritical,” he said. “When you come to somewhere like Libya, you expect lies and deceit from a dictator, you don’t expect it from another journalist.”

As you probably imagined, Fox didn’t take the accusations lightly.

In an interview published on Tuesday night on The Huffington Post, Fox reporter Steve Harrigan ripped Robertson.

“Steve Harrigan, who is in Libya for Fox News, called Nic Robertson—who tore into the network and Harrigan himself on Monday—’dull,’ said that Robertson would have talked to him in person ‘if he was a man,’ and said that his idea of news reporting was ‘bullshit.’

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