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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this why Fox News hasn't tweeted in months and months?!?!
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NEW: Emails we uncovered show Trump administration officials revising Fox News tweets and Fox News rewriting stories to suit the administrations whims. That isnt journalism, its propaganda.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/youre-man-fox-news-emails-trump-treasury-team-reveal-coziness-1231461
A trove of Treasury Department emails released to the non-profit organization Democracy Forward and provided exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter this week paint a picture of a close, friendly bond between the Trump administration agency and two news organizations, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
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On April. 25, 2017, Fox Business Network host David Asman appeared to advise then-Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh (a former Fox News contributor) on how the administration should pursue a key policy goal: achieving a major tax cut. After sharing a quote from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Asman wrote in the email, "Take the BIG TAX CUTS NOW ... a long-term deal with small cuts is useless. NOTHING IS PERMANENT IN WASHINGTON. Big tax cuts now give the economy the push it needs."
After Sayegh thanked Asman for "these thoughts," the Fox Business host congratulated him on his recent Trump administration appointment. "How exciting!" he wrote. "This is a great chapter of your life, Tony. Congrats!" ("Thanks David!" Sayegh responded. "Miss all of you up there."
Four days later, Asman wrote to Sayegh to tell him that a significant block of a Fox Business show would focus on the administration's tax policies. "You'll like it," Asman told him. "Awesome David," Sayegh wrote back. "You're the man."
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On April. 25, 2017, Fox Business Network host David Asman appeared to advise then-Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh (a former Fox News contributor) on how the administration should pursue a key policy goal: achieving a major tax cut. After sharing a quote from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Asman wrote in the email, "Take the BIG TAX CUTS NOW ... a long-term deal with small cuts is useless. NOTHING IS PERMANENT IN WASHINGTON. Big tax cuts now give the economy the push it needs."
After Sayegh thanked Asman for "these thoughts," the Fox Business host congratulated him on his recent Trump administration appointment. "How exciting!" he wrote. "This is a great chapter of your life, Tony. Congrats!" ("Thanks David!" Sayegh responded. "Miss all of you up there."
Four days later, Asman wrote to Sayegh to tell him that a significant block of a Fox Business show would focus on the administration's tax policies. "You'll like it," Asman told him. "Awesome David," Sayegh wrote back. "You're the man."
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Is this why Fox News hasn't tweeted in months and months?!?! (Original Post)
Roland99
Aug 2019
OP
K&R, this is the reason why we had the fairness doctrine !!! So a media outlet WILL NOT BE a whole
uponit7771
Aug 2019
#3
What election laws is fox news breaking, using money, resources for tRumps campaign. nt
yaesu
Aug 2019
#6
a kennedy
(29,706 posts)1. OFGS..........really??
Im sure thats why theyre off the air so to speak.
Farmer-Rick
(10,207 posts)2. So, now can we stop calling Fox a news organization? N/T
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)3. K&R, this is the reason why we had the fairness doctrine !!! So a media outlet WILL NOT BE a whole
... owned by a political party.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)14. The fairness doctrine would not apply to Fox.
They are not broadcast over the public airwaves.
Limbaugh is an entirely different matter.
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)4. Fox doesn't really pretend anymore.
Sure, they have some hard news during the day, but one only has to listen to Hannity or Ingraham for 15 minutes to realize they answer directly to the White House.
They aren't "pro-Trump" voices, they are the voice of Trump.
Woodycall
(259 posts)10. Or, vice versa...
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)5. I thought Kramer was "Assman"
AdamGG
(1,294 posts)8. He may not be the Assman, but Fusilli Donald is definitely deeply implanted
yaesu
(8,020 posts)6. What election laws is fox news breaking, using money, resources for tRumps campaign. nt
OMGWTF
(3,975 posts)7. FUX News is rich people paying rich people to tell middle-class people to blame poor people
Mme. Defarge
(8,042 posts)12. Ding, ding, ding!!!
klook
(12,165 posts)17. Good one. Their real slogan.
calimary
(81,466 posts)21. Excellent!
dchill
(38,532 posts)22. That's REAL GOOD!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)9. Why bother? tRump and other Rethugs do their Tweeting for them.
Rethugs will Tweet on behalf of any corporation willing to pony up with contributions....
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)11. They should not be allowed
to use the word News in their name.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)13. why would this stop them?
not sure I understand why this means they've stopped tweeting.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)15. Always slimy ...
never solid.
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)18. Fox News viewer.
"This is how we know we are getting the real news. It comes straight from the source!!!"
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)19. Kick
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)20. FAUX NEWS IS A CLOWN FACTORY