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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

Former Fox News politics editor says network stoked ‘paranoia and hatred’

Author:     Ramon Antonio Vargas
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Mon 22 Aug 2022 | 11.43 EDT
 Link: Former Fox News politics editor says network stoked ‘paranoia and hatred’
Stephan:   Here is an insider from the Fox propaganda channel telling the truth. The Murdoch family are making hundreds of millions of dollars every year purveying hate, fear, and resentment. It is, I think, accurate to say that MAGAt world was created as a result of the Fox operation. One uber-rich family is responsible for tearing the United States apart, and they are doing it with impunity. Something is very wrong with this.
Chris Stirewalt, the former Fox News political editor, is sworn in during a House January 6 committee hearing in June. Credit: Rex/Shutterstock

A former Fox News politics editor who was forced out of the conservative television network shortly after its opinions hosts’ preferred candidate Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential race has said that the channel failed its viewers with its election coverage.

In his upcoming memoir, Chris Stirewalt says Fox News resigned its duty to prepare Trump followers for the possibility that he would lose, instead stoking the “black-helicopter-level paranoia and hatred” which fuels white supremacist groups but translates into big ratings.

Stirewalt’s Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machines Divides America and How to Fight Back also reiterates the belief held by many that Fox fired him because he always defended – even on-air – his team’s decision to declare Joe Biden the winner of Arizona’s 2020 electoral college votes on the same night that polls closed.

The call enraged Trump, prompting the incumbent president and his allies to mount a pressure campaign aimed at getting Fox to retract the […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    As usual, Stephan, I totally agree with you about the Murdoch family and have read a lot about their donations to get what they want from the Republicans.