Days after the decision, Fox News still whining and tantruming over the DNC’s decision to ban them from hosting a primary debate.
Fox’s Bret Baier said on Sunday that Fox News was tough on Donald Trump during the debates, “There is a bit of Fox derangement syndrome with a section of the left.”
Baier later went back to that old Fox News standard that the “news division” is separate from “opinion division, “I think that there is a disconnect here between how we’re treated on the news side, and how other operations treated given how their opinion in the primetime deals with the president. Now, the president tweeted out that he may not do general election debates with other networks. I don’t that helps us either, but there is a point here when you have to look at fairness.”
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Fox News is complaining about MSNBC
Fox News is being held to the standard of journalism. The problem with the separation between news and opinion that Fox claims exist is that as the New Yorker story pointed out, a Fox journalist had the scoop on Stormy Daniels and the network killed the story because they wanted Trump to win the election. That is political activism, not journalism.
A look at the Fox News daily schedule that “opinion” makes up the vast majority of their coverage doing the day. News shows have dwindled at Fox, as opinion dominates the morning, shows up in the afternoon and is all of primetime.
Fox News has fallen so far that they are now looking up and complaining about MSNBC.
Fox is Trump’s television arm. Democrats would have been foolish to allow them to host a debate, and complaints about MSNBC can’t hide what Fox News has become.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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