Senior Fox News Employee Died of Covid-19 After A Year of Downplaying Pandemic

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'After a year of downplaying the pandemic, longtime Fox News employee died of COVID-19,' Daily Kos, March 24, 2021.

Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News gig has been a long march into the bottom of an ocean awash in fearmongering, bigotry, and misinformation. Like most Fox News programming this past year, Bartiromo’s programs have been showcases for easily debunked conspiracy theories, all racist and anti-China by nature.

On Monday, CNN reported Eric Spinato, a senior Fox News employee who’d been with the network for 20 years, died from COVID-19 complications. Spinato was the “head booker and senior story editor for the Fox Business Network” where he handled bookings for top shows like Bartiromo’s misinformation-fest. Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott, Fox News president Jay Wallace, and Fox Business president Lauren Petterson said in a joint statement praising Spinato’s career with the company, saying "His excitement, positivity and energetic team spirit were one of a kind and will be greatly missed. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Eric's entire family, including his two sons and his girlfriend."

Bartiromo has been a favorite stopping point for the twice impeached guy while also promoting a steady stream of misinformation. She has done so effectively enough that she has slowly moved up the ladder as the longtime hosts are pushed into retirement. Bartiromo has also made sure to push every unscientific, terrible public health idea, like going out into public and pretending that nothing is happening—an idea promoted by Rep. Devin Nunes on Bartiromo’s show in the middle of March 2020.

Less than two months ago, Bartiromo was allowing fellow Fox News host Steve Hilton to promote a theory that Dr. Anthony Fauci needed to be investigated for being responsible for creating the COVID-19 virus. You read that correctly. Fauci, a person who has served as an adviser to seven presidents, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President George W. Bush in 2008, and who has been serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since he was appointed to the role in 1984 by former President Ronald Reagan—that highly regarded doctor—is at fault for the existence of COVID-19. I’m not going to bore you with the Eyes Wide Shut details of this conspiracy theory, but an important thing to understand here is this isn’t simply Bartiromo letting a fellow conspiracy huckster spew his lies and racism while she pretended to be an objective participant hosting an interview...

More, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/24/2022620/-After-a-year-of-downplaying-the-pandemic-longtime-Fox-News-employee-died-of-COVID-19

[Moostache]

1. Lay down with dogs, you get fleas.

Sorry for his family, but only as much as the amount they tried to get him to quit poisoning the public discourse on the virus over this past year. If he was in fact an essential booker and perpetrator of the "big lie" and all that went with it - including COVID mis- and dis-information - then fuck him and good riddance, justice is served.

Too bad it wasn't Hannity instead.

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2. Shut down the entire scourge operation

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Better someone like him than someone who understood

that this is a serious pandemic and tried very hard to avoid infection.

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4. Karma's a b!tch, aint it? Betcha Bartiromo has secretly taken the covid vaccine

[lagomorph777]

5. Glad to hear it. He earned it.