Fox News hosts play down Russia's attack on Ukraine.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/business/fox-news-russia-ukraine.html

Fox News hosts play down Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Comments made by the stars of the network's prime-time opinion programs came in contrast to coverage by its correspondents reporting from Ukraine.
By Katie Robertson and Michael M. Grynbaum
Feb. 24, 2022 Updated 12:05 p.m. ET

As Russia began an invasion into Ukraine, the Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night welcomed a call in to her show from the former President Donald J. Trump, who blamed the military strike on the “weakness and the incompetence” of the Biden administration.

Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s top-rated host, questioned why Americans hated President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in a segment on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, he labeled Ukraine “a pure client state of the United States State Department.”

As Mr. Putin mounts an offensive against Ukraine, despite diplomatic efforts by the United Nations and sanctions by the United States and other nations, the rhetoric from some of Fox News’s biggest stars stood in contrast to the reporting from the network’s own journalists.

Fox News has four correspondents reporting from Ukraine, with Steve Harrigan and Trey Yingst on the ground in Kyiv and Mike Tobin and Lucas Tomlinson reporting from Lviv.

Jennifer Griffin, Fox News’s national security correspondent, said in a report on Wednesday night that Russia’s attack was “a full-scale invasion.”

[at140]

1. $100/bbl oil is a gift to madman Putin

Russia is making much more money now because of high price of oil.
Russia currently has 3rd biggest oil production in the world, and Europe needs oil.

[lindysalsagal]

5. I wish I had confidence that the horrors of war would wake

People up, but I don't. We're a thoroughly horrible species.

[vlyons]

2. F all of them

and the ill will winds that brought them in

[Blue Owl]

3. If only FOX, tRump, Putin, and their ilk would all burst into flames and vaporize into oblivion

What a wonderful world it could be...

[in2herbs]

4. One of our "sanctions" should be to shut Fux news out of the White House press briefings. nt

[dalton99a]

6. +1