Posted on 01/06/2022 2:24:50 AM PST by EBH
NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Sean Hannity has skirted ethical boundaries with his role on a television network with “news” in its name. Yet it’s never been as stark as now, with the committee investigating last year’s Capitol insurrection seeking his testimony.
The Jan. 6 select committee has revealed a series of texts where Hannity privately advised former President Donald Trump before, during and after the assault, and is seeking his insight about what happened in those days.
The popular Fox News Channel prime-time host hasn’t said what he will do, but he’s slammed the congressional probe as a partisan witch hunt. His lawyer has raised First Amendment concerns about the request.
It’s not unheard of for journalists to offer advice to politicians — history records Ben Bradlee’s friendship with former President John F. Kennedy — but such actions raise questions about their independence and allegiance to the public interest, said Jane Kirtley, director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota.
...Fox refers to him as an opinion host. In 2016, Hannity told The New York Times that “I never claimed to be a journalist.” A year later, he told the same newspaper that “I’m a journalist. But I’m an advocacy journalist, or an opinion journalist.”
He conducts interviews on his program, sometimes with people he’s been privately advising.
“He seems to consider himself a journalist when it suits his purposes and an entertainer when it doesn’t,” Kirtley said. “And he can’t have it both ways.”
Fox News executives have not immediately commented on the revelations of what Hannity has been texting Meadows or criticism about his or the network’s ethics.
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Why not?
Either way, I’ve never considered Hannity an “entertainer”. Right place, right look, right time. Limited talent
Gaslighters gonna gaslight.
Why not? Interesting question and one that my answer would only be guessing that the first amendment protects journalists and reporters but perhaps not opinion writers, editors.
Fallout would be that there are a lot of opinion editors or opinion that’s out there calling themselves journalists when in actuality they are not.
Gee, I wonder if AP would ask the same questions of MSNBC, CNN, NYT, etc, etc, etc?
Number 1 rule of “journalism” is Fox News baaaaad
and everyone else gooood.
It would be funny if hadn’t
become so boring.
Freedom Of The Press
The American Revolution was a revolution of literature as well as politics. The colonists published a profusion of newspaper articles, books, essays, and pamphlets in opposition to various forms of British tyranny. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) and Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (1776) are two well-known and influential examples of revolutionary literature published in the colonies. A free press, the Founding Fathers believed, was an essential check against despotism, and integral to advancing human understanding of the sciences, arts, and humanities.
Read more: First Amendment - Freedom Of The Press - Court, Government, Public, and Publication - JRank Articles https://law.jrank.org/pages/6906/First-Amendment-Freedom-Press.html#ixzz7HBd2pQVg
Why can’t Hannity be both journalist and opinion? Why can’t Hannity be both journalist and entertainment?
I see this as more of them painting him into a box, a box that doesn’t or shouldn’t exist in America. And by painting him into a box, silences his voice and Right to Speech.
“Why can’t Hannity be both journalist and opinion? Why can’t Hannity be both journalist and entertainment?”
...And why can’t Hannity shut up and let his guests talk for a change; the question that every Hannity listener eventually asks as they hurl something at the radio
Thank you Mark Meadows for rolling over and giving this ammo to violent Marxists.
The First Amendment protects everyone. This idea that “journalists” should have some kind of special protection that doesn’t apply to ordinary citizens has no place in a free country.
No big loss if Fox circles the drain - as this would guarantee CBS/CNN/NBC etc go down with it. Fox News is the only thing holding up the cable TV business, 99% of which supports the enemies of America.
I wonder if Hannity is a trained journalist? No. He is listed/known as a commentator.
Broadcast media certainly seems to have muddied the journalistic talent pool.
A Hybridization of talking head and letsjustcallitjournalismshallwe, even though there are few degrees amongst that crowd in front of the camera.
Tip: If you want a slice of real news talk to techs and engineers behind it all. The stories they can tell. A trained journalist would know that, and a trained journalist knows how to thoroughly research a subject, noun, and a verb.
The consumers have forgotten what authentic journalism is, or was. By becoming consumers and foregoing peopledom, it should only be expected. Bumper sticker political disconnect. Even the politician has stripped the soundbite and 1 minute briefing down to a hip yet droning artform.
AP writer, David Bauder, is a long-time manmade gloBULL warming gate-keeper:
24 Sept 2021: AP: For one night, TV comics focus their shows on climate change
By DAVID BAUDER
Eight late-night hosts devoted a portion of their programs Wednesday and early Thursday to the issue, part of a Climate Week initiative timed to the United Nations’ General Assembly meeting in New York.
“Don’t even think about switching to another show,” said ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel. “We’re all focused on this topic tonight. You can’t escape. It’s basically an intervention. Our future is in jeopardy.”...
Not everyone played along. Greg Gutfeld and his panelists on Fox News Channel mocked the effort and touted the benefits of fossil fuels.
“Comedy is dead and so is risk in this land of late-night teachers’ pets,” Gutfeld said. “They went from George Carlin to George Soros.”
A half-hour later on CBS, Colbert noted the difficulty in getting many people to focus on the seriousness of the problem.
“Americans treat climate science like soccer,” he said. “We know it’s out there and it really matters to the rest of the world, but no one can make us care.”
For one night, he and his competitors tried.
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-climate-change-entertainment-television-united-nations-69f4fc66d9b80d19294a0c9d9744ac93
22 Oct 2019: AP: Television’s Weather Channel wades into climate debate
By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) — The Weather Channel is moving beyond cold fronts and heat waves to wade into the politics of climate change, with a special planned for early next month that includes interviews with nine presidential candidates on the topic.
The campaign’s most prominent climate change skeptic — President Donald Trump — declined an invitation to participate...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, for example, speaks at the site of a devastating California wildfire and Sen. Kamala Harris along a flood-prone area of the Mississippi River...
Former Vice President Joe Biden was not interviewed; his campaign said it was a scheduling issue...
The Weather Channel’s show is separate from the Covering Climate Now initiative, which encouraged news organizations to do more stories on climate change. There’s been some criticism that the issue hasn’t received enough attention during the presidential debates.
“We’ve been lonely here on these issues,” (Nora Zimmett, the network’s senior vice president for content and programming) said, “and all we can do is hope that our friends at other media outlets join us.”
https://apnews.com/article/tv-donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-climate-change-fbeb234bc405432a8d9480abbf0cac43
Bauder is just another partisan hack.
Who were the journalists in 1774 and what training did they have?
Those that write essays here on FR, are they journalists?
What is meant by Freedom of the Press?
I consider Ben Franklin to have been both a journalist and an entertainer in his time.
Freedom of the Press was meant so voice could be heard, not to protect the party/government line. Press and Speech go hand-in-hand.
Exactly right. If CNNABCNBCCBSMSNBCPBSNPRCNBC can do it, why not Fox?
No one can seriously consider Fox News as "news" or "journalism" after the 2020 elections anyway.
Indeed entertainment can be pointed. Entertainment is not always just a leisure event, it teaches too.
It's no longer news, and "officially" stopped being such when news and entertainment divisions in all the major networks were combined. In the decades that have followed that event, what passes for "news" anymore isn't even entertainment, it's flat-out propaganda. Democrat Party Propaganda.
News ... Entertainment. Merged together.
Newtertainment. Wait. Neutertainment.
By Joe, that's it!
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