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Fox vets keep leaving the network and saying it is propaganda
Chris Wallace, the longtime host of Fox News Sunday, is the latest example of a curious phenomenon: Fox News veterans leaving the network and then telling the public that their former employer is a right-wing propaganda outlet.
Im fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion, Wallace told The New York Times in an interview published Sunday. But when people start to question the truth Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? I found that unsustainable.
Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point, he added. I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.
Indeed, Wallace learned more slowly than several of his former colleagues, who left Fox in recent years as its right-wing stars became more volatile, its news side atrophied, and the network as a whole remade itself as President Donald Trumps propaganda channel. They all say more or less the same thing about their previous employer.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-vets-keep-leaving-network-and-saying-it-propaganda
Im fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion, Wallace told The New York Times in an interview published Sunday. But when people start to question the truth Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? I found that unsustainable.
Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point, he added. I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.
Indeed, Wallace learned more slowly than several of his former colleagues, who left Fox in recent years as its right-wing stars became more volatile, its news side atrophied, and the network as a whole remade itself as President Donald Trumps propaganda channel. They all say more or less the same thing about their previous employer.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-vets-keep-leaving-network-and-saying-it-propaganda
Wallace says that Tucker Carlson's "Patriot Purge" broadcast was the straw that broke the camel's back. That leaves me to assume that the rest of the garbage seen on Fox News was acceptable to him.
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Fox vets keep leaving the network and saying it is propaganda (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Mar 2022
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)1. Why did it take them so long to figure this out?
I've known for probably a couple of decades now that those who watch Fox are significantly more ill-informed than those who don't.
Clash City Rocker
(3,379 posts)2. Possibly for this reason
rurallib
(62,346 posts)3. Murdoch's big checks didn't bounce
That soothed the conscience for quite a while.