Nicely done! But, if you’ve watched any Fox News shows, and especially Fox News Sunday, in recent months, I think you could also portray either Reince Priebus or Roger Ailes calling Chris Wallace about putting on a puff-piece interview with Little Marco or a “gotcha” hit-piece interview of Ted Cruz a la the late Mike Wallace.
The Chris Wallace interview with Cruz last weekend has to be one of the journalistic lows for this campaign. As he did with Trump in the debate, Wallace had a video graphic in the Cruz interview listing all the supposed Cruz campaign dirty tricks and he challenged Cruz to take responsibility for all these events. Then, when Cruz tried to respond, Wallace interrupted him at nearly every sentence. This was not an interview about a difference in positions on trade, immigration, or taxes...it was a purely hostile political hit.
Fox did the same thing during the debate...tried to frame questions (some using videos) to make the candidates look bad and to make the candidates fight in the mud, pointedly toward Trump...Fox clearly is doing the bidding of the GOPe.
Excellent post! You are right there. From now on we will all view FNC as we would any other DBM network.
Saw Cruz with Wallace last week and what struck was at the end when the host thanks the guest for being on the expected response of “and it was great being on, thank you Chris” Cruz just scowled at the screen in dead silence for 3 seconds.