The humiliation of Bret Baier and the Fox "news side"

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/humiliation-bret-baier-and-fox-news-side

Thursday was a night of humiliation for Bret Baier and his “news side” colleagues. It was also a perfect encapsulation of the total lack of respect the Fox brass has for its “news” division, whose staff have endured waves of layoffs, reduced hours of programming, and constant signals from network leaders that they are imminently replaceable cogs with no influence compared to Fox’s right-wing propagandists. Fox is Tucker Carlson’s network, and now everyone at the network knows it.

Baier, per the bio on Fox News’ website, is his network’s “chief political anchor.” But at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday night, Baier wasn’t on Fox preempting its regular programming to introduce coverage of the first hearing of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, unlike his theoretical peers with similarly lofty titles. Instead, he and fellow anchor Martha MacCallum had been relegated to Fox Business, its lightly watched sister channel.

Meanwhile, Carlson was airing his Fox show in its usual prime-time timeslot. “This is the only hour on an American news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live,” he said in an opening monologue. “They are lying and we are not going to help them do it. What we will do instead is try to tell you the truth.”

Carlson was using the royal “we,” laying down the network’s editorial line that its own right-wing agitprop was of greater value than honest coverage of the congressional investigation into the sacking of the U.S. Capitol by violent Trumpists bent on suborning the 2020 presidential election. Then he spent an hour regurgitating debunked lies about that coup attempt.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. "What we will do instead is try to tell you the truth." so says Tuckems ?.....

Since when did telling the truth become a thing on that channel?

Chris Wallace left because he wanted to tell the truth.

I rest my case.

[Skittles]

2. reputable people need to STOP APPEARING ON FOX NEWS

they're NOT legitimate news, they are PROPAGANDA - END OF STORY

[brush]

3. Wallace and Shepard Smith have left the news division...

so there's not much left. A comforting thought for those who remain is that FOX was once Bill O'Reilly's network until his Humpty Dumpty incident happened.

Carlson will have a great fall too.

[czarjak]

4. Tucker Trumps Bret?