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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News is filling its editor positions with GOP operatives and Trump staffers
I mean is this really a surprise? Or news for that matter? I mean we all have seen this, right?
From Media Matters
WRITTEN BY ERIC HANANOKI
PUBLISHED 02/03/22 10:13 AM EST
Since the start of President Joe Bidens term, Fox News has hired at least nine editors who previously worked for former President Donald Trump's administration, Republican campaign offices, or Republican politicians. Many of those editors now cover politics for FoxNews.com.
Fox's Republican hiring spree has come as the network has further cast aside its so-called news division in favor of right-wing opinion and Republican-friendly reporting. (The division between Fox News opinion and news division has always been a sham.)
Media Matters previously documented that Fox News has also hired numerous Trump administration veterans for on-air and executive roles, including as hosts, contributors, and senior vice presidents. The Trump administration, in turn, hired at least 20 former Fox employees.
Many of the networks Republican editor hires have been for its digital operation. The Daily Beast reported in December 2020 that close observers of Fox News digital properties note that the main site has skewed even further to the right under the leadership of former Hannity producer Porter Berry and that FoxNews.com has leaned more into aggregation of conservative culture-war stories and straight write-ups of commentary delivered on opinion shows like Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity. At the same time, the site has been called out for burying or wildly spinning news that is unflattering or negative for Trump.
Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-filling-its-editor-positions-gop-operatives-and-trump-staffers
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Fox News is filling its editor positions with GOP operatives and Trump staffers (Original Post)
ificandream
Feb 2022
OP
We should all be shocked. Saying one is not shocked?...means one has been numbed.
Alexander Of Assyria
Feb 2022
#4
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)1. Turd mining at its most rancid
dchill
(38,493 posts)2. shocked shocked i say
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)4. We should all be shocked. Saying one is not shocked?...means one has been numbed.
Mission accomplished with some.
struggle4progress
(118,284 posts)3. "Are we a network? Or are we a re-election campaign?"