That is not standing on principle. That is shooting at a target.
Nor was Fox a bystander. When the White House pulled CNN from the rotation, the slot passed to the next network in line: Fox, with the crew, the truck and the bureau three blocks away. Mr. Boughton slammed the door: “There will be no replacement pool put in place.”
Then, in solidarity with the fake news, Fox News Media signed a joint statement with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN declaring that “no administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.”
Mr. Boughton did not make that stab-in-the-back call. It came from the top: CEO Suzanne Scott or higher.
News flash: A network that sells itself to conservatives has blacked out a Republican president and put out a press release about it, arm in arm with CNN. Fox is the more dangerous of the two, because it pretends to wear our colors.
Its CEO Suzanne Scott keeps removing the people most willing to honestly cover the MAGA agenda. Lou Dobbs was canceled in February 2021. Tucker Carlson was out in April 2023.
Maria Bartiromo was gone this month, after she passed her producers’ July 15 text from Fox Business programming up the chain: “We don’t want to promote it or push to the speech at all. We don’t want to do 2020 election segments at all Thurs or Friday.”
The speech was the president’s prime-time address on election security. Fox ordered its own fake newsroom not to discuss it.
Another unforced error.
” A network that sells itself to conservatives has blacked out a Republican “
Any true conservative was not buying what the Fox network was selling after the 2016 election. The debate ambush by Megyn Kelly and Bret Baer was enlightening to anyone paying attention.
Then when Fox “called” the election for Biden (thanks, Bill Hemmer, Bret Baer, Arnon Mishkin!), that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Don’t forget Bill Sammon in 2021.
I pulled the plug on Fox News. When they fired Maria, I fired them. I won’t even watch Gutfield any longer.
I’d love to see Trump invite all the Indie Media like Benny Johnson and Devory and Officer Tatum... Fill up the room with them. Have it a party....
No need for Navarro to exaggerate the dispute with Fox or to attempt to widen it. Fox is still WAY better than the others. If you don’t believe this, just look at the Trump-favorable Fox newscasts being posted to unbiased news sites. Fox’s absence from the White House grounds is unfortunate but inconsequential. They’ll sneak back in. Meanwhile, alternate sources of White House coverage eill grow.
A RINO station.
Ruin it. Kill all subscriptions.