Fox News Stars, and Lachlan Murdoch, Were Potentially Exposed on Debate Night

[sabra]

Source: NYTimes

A son of Rupert Murdoch and some of the biggest stars at Fox News were potentially exposed to the coronavirus after attending Tuesday’s presidential debate in Cleveland, and the network is planning for its anchors, reporters and staff to be tested out of an abundance of caution, according to a person familiar with its plans.

Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman of the Fox Corporation, led a toast to Chris Wallace, the “Fox News Sunday” anchor who moderated the debate, at a Cleveland airport after the event. The gathering included two of the channel’s news anchors, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, along with the chief executive of Fox News Media, Suzanne Scott, and its president, Jay Wallace.

Chris Wallace, who sat about a dozen feet from President Trump during Tuesday’s 96-minute event, then flew on a private plane to the Washington area in a group that included Mr. Baier and other Washington-based members of the Fox News staff.

Sean Hannity, Fox News’s top-rated opinion star, also broadcast from Cleveland on the night of the debate, during which he conducted an in-person interview with the president’s son, Donald J. Trump Jr., who sat only a few inches away from Mr. Hannity. Other Fox News personalities in Cleveland included the political analysts Brit Hume, Dana Perino, and Juan Williams, and the anchor Bill Hemmer. Karl Rove, the Republican strategist and Fox News contributor, was also on hand.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/business/media/foxnews-trump-coronavirus-exposure.html

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[BComplex]

1. Lachlan Murdoch, Hannity, and Karl Rove

....are y'all hoping what I'm hoping?

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Yup

Not allowed to say on here what I am hoping for.

But I wonder if the messaging on Fox News would change if a Murdoch .....................?

[BComplex]

7. This Murdoch, in particular. He's more rightwing than his daddy.

Pox on their house.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Why would anyone want to travel & be that close to that many people? Seems tempting fate,

... just asking for trouble, bad trouble, serious trouble, disabling trouble, deadly trouble.

You would think that people like Hannity, who has to have at least some intelligence to have risen to and held his position, could figure it out.

It should not take a president getting sick to wake up people with basic intelligence. There is some blockage, cult blockage, total rejection of reality psychosis, something.

[jayschool2013]

3. Meh.

[iemitsu]

4. Saint Super-Spreader was in attendance too.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. If it gets Rupert Murdoch, we will truly know we see God's hand at work.

I've been an atheist for fifty years. Maybe that's long enough.

[BComplex]

8. I know what you mean. It might be a Renaissance of renewed faith in the possibility of

good things if a bunch of Murdochs, Hannities, carlsons, trumps, mcconnells, (Steve) Millers and bill barrs bite it with the virus.

God knows the world would be a much better place.

[Yavin4]

9. "Fox New Stars"? "Stars"?

Not "Journalists". Not "Commentators". "Stars".


Wow.