Top Fox hosts lobbied Trump to act on Jan. 6, texts show
3 years ago

Top Fox hosts lobbied Trump to act on Jan. 6, texts show

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The revelation that Fox News Channel personalities sent text messages to the White House during the Jan. 6 insurrection is another example of how the network’s stars sought to influence then-President Donald Trump instead of simply reporting or commenting on him. Fox has always tried to distinguish between “news” and “opinion” programming, even though those lines are often nonexistent and many viewers don’t make the same distinctions. “They have a predetermined outcome.” Not everyone thinks what the Fox hosts did was wrong, including a consultant who ran Fox’s news operation for eight years during the 2000s. “But, ideally, journalists shouldn’t be texting political advice to the White House.” Graham said he didn’t think the news will be a bombshell to Fox viewers. “So you are telling me all these Fox News hosts knew the coup was terrible, begged Trump to stop it, and when he didn’t they kept on promoting him?” tweeted Amanda Carpenter, a columnist for The Bulwark, a political website dominated by conservatives who oppose Trump.

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