Eric Boehlert: Fox News "purge" confirms network shouldn't have White House credentials

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20. I thought the same thing

I did find this story from September concerning a slander suit brought against Tucker Carlson by Karen McDougal:

U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil's opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox's lawyers: The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "

She wrote: "Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statement he makes."

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye

The problem with this Trump appointed judges' opinion is that the average Fox viewer is not a "reasonable viewer with an appropriate amount of skepticism'. That's deliberate on Fox' part. They have groomed their viewers to believe all kinds of ridiculous claims over a period of many years.