Tuesday afternoon, Fox News’ Shepard Smith gave a wrenching, verbal account of a video purporting to show Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive by militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Smith did so, he said, to spare his viewers from witnessing the gruesome footage themselves.
The next day, Smith and his crew flew from New York City to Jordan in order to continue covering the events firsthand.
