Fox News' Geraldo Rivera claims liberal media is to blame for social distancing protests

Rivera: “The unrest that you see now, the populist unrest is a direct result of that dissembling, that lying, that partisan reportage”

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Citation From the April 20, 2020, edition of Fox News' Hannity 

GERALDO RIVERA: By addressing half of the American people and crafting everything they do, or say, opinion or news, for that half of the American people, they do a grave disservice. The unrest that you see now, the populist unrest is a direct result of that dissembling, that lying, that partisan reportage. They are not doing the job of communicating to the American people, they're trying to twist opinions and it will all--

SEAH HANNITY (HOST): Geraldo, you're a dinosaur, I mean that respectfully, you have standards. I mean that in a nice way. You know how much I applaud your 50-year career, it speaks for itself. Journalism is dead, guys. It's dead and buried.