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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jul 5, 2021, 01:12 PM Jul 2021

A former Fox exec blasted the network for peddling Trump's election-fraud claims

and airing anti-mask comments, saying he knows Rupert Murdoch doesn't buy into its coverage

A former Fox executive has blasted Fox News, saying that not even the network's longtime proprietor Rupert Murdoch believes its coverage.

In an op-ed published Sunday by The Daily Beast, Preston Padden, who served as president of network distribution at the Fox Broadcasting Company for seven years, wrote that Fox News is a TV channel "that no reasonable person would believe."

Padden wrote that Fox News had perpetuated former President Donald Trump's "wild and false claims" that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that Fox's decision to question masks had contributed to "the unnecessary deaths of many Americans" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For example, the star anchor Tucker Carlson wrote in October that "someone's been lying to us" about the efficacy of masks in preventing the spread of COVID-19.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/a-former-fox-exec-blasted-the-network-for-peddling-trumps-election-fraud-claims-and-airing-anti-mask-comments-saying-he-knows-rupert-murdoch-doesnt-buy-into-its-coverage/ar-AALMMrX
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A former Fox exec blasted the network for peddling Trump's election-fraud claims (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 OP
I can't tell if this guy is condemning FOX News or defending it. Midnight Writer Jul 2021 #1

Midnight Writer

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1. I can't tell if this guy is condemning FOX News or defending it.
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 01:47 PM
Jul 2021

FOX's entire business model is airing content "that no reasonable person would believe".

They have themselves proclaimed that in a court of law in a defense of their conduct.

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