Guerrero: The lies of Fox News hurt far more than just Dominion Voting Systems (via latimesopinion )
Private communications show Fox hosts knew their sources were. “Sidney Powell is lying by the way,” Tucker Carlson wrote to Laura Ingraham a few days after the election. “Sidney is a complete nut,” Ingraham replied. “No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.”
Nevertheless, Fox continued to give those two sources a platform to spew nonsense about Dominion. Other Fox executives knew their teams were spreading falsehoods. For example,an executive producer flagging to other executives that host Jeanine Pirro’s planned monologue on Dominion was “rife w[ith] conspiracy theories and bs.” Fact checkers who identified falsehoods in her script were ignored.
Attempts to tell the truth were considered outrageous and bad for profit. After Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich tweeted that there was no evidence of voter fraud by Dominion, Carlson texted Ingraham and Sean Hannity: “Please get her fired. It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.
That these records expose Fox News as a cynical, political operation shouldn’t be surprising. Its founder, Roger Ailes, wrote a plan in 1970 envisioning a media company serving the GOP, resting on the idea that the public isWhile Fox isn’t the only right-wing media company fueling extremism, it has played a central and leading role because of its size and resources. “When you think about right-wing media, it’s an echo chamber, and Fox News is like a conductor of that echo,” Carusone observed.
Whose interest does this propaganda serve? Certainly not Fox’s viewers or the fellow Americans they’re led to despise. As someone who
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