Former Fox News host and now working at the little-watched NewsNation, Leland Vittert called out rival MSNBC and CNN on Tuesday for focusing more on Monday’s mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park that the weekend violence in Chicago.

Vittert played clips of CNN anchor John Berman and MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing on the ground from the crime scene on Tuesday. Vittert pointed out that Highland Park is “a wealthy suburb” – a sign of each network’s priorities when it comes to covering violence.

“Of course, they didn’t anchor from Chicago’s southside were gang shootouts and street crime killed eight over the weekend and injured 71. Going out as an anchor and doing your show from a location is expensive and it’s involved for the network’s.

It’s a significant decision by the executives and the anchor together is done for a lot of reasons. One of which is to tell the audience this is the most important story. The anchor cares enough to get out of the studio to bring you the story from the location. It’s a pretty simple reason for going to Highland Park, CNN and MSNBC audience cares about mass shootings, they care a lot. Of course, white upper middle class and upper-class professionals are those networks primary viewers. Those are the people who live in Highland Park and gun violence happened to them rather than in a poor neighborhood,” Vittert said.

He went on to say that “mass shootings politically fit CNN and MSNBC its narrative.”

Okay, first off, maybe instead of focusing on what the other networks are doing, Vittert should be more worried about how his network completely dropped the ball in covering the mass shooting that happened in their own backyard.

Also, if you’re going to focus on CNN, maybe you should learn a thing or two from CNN’s media coverage from Brian Stelter. Stelter has spent years attacking the competition and his ratings have dropped like a rock, along with the rest of CNN.

Don’t focus on the competition, focus on making your network better and believe me, it needs a hell of a lot of work.

Also, the mass shooting is by far and away the biggest story so far this week. I would be really concerned if CNN or MSNBC did not have crews on the scene.

Lastly, I thought News Nation was supposed to be unbiased? You sound an awful lot like someone trying to get his job back at Fox News.

Just saying…..

H/T Mediaite