From WNYC in New York, I'm Bob Garfield with a special edition of On the Media.

Our regular show, an hour on Hispanic media, will run as scheduled Friday, but Ferguson has intervened.

And so this.

We are standing in front of the O'Reilly's auto parts.

You can see that it is burning fully engulfed here.

On Monday, within an hour of the decision by a Missouri grant jury not to indict

Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager, cable news showed us

a mob running amok and a town in flames.

And now the Ferguson meat market and liquor is being hit.

I saw the window just shatter, Steve.

Looks like, that's right.

That was a baseball bat, but it looks like.

And a tragic story so filled with uncertainty.

It was as if this were finally something we could be sure of,

a controversial application of Missouri justice triggering mass chaos. In fact, on Monday night,

the only commodity more abundant than images of burning buildings was certainty.

This is just using what has happened here in Ferguson as an excuse to just

go out there and rob and loot and obviously has zero or nothing to do with justice whatsoever.

That was Fox's Sean Hannity, mind-reading protesters. Here was CNN pundit Van Jones miraculously

assessing the entirety of the rioting from the vantage point of a single

Ferguson Street corner. I do want to say that you have down there, you have some stuff that's going on.

The vast majority of people back through here have been very peaceful, but it's that same thing again.

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