The legit news channels replayed clips in primetime, showing former White House counsel Pat Cipollone explaining how Trump's "outside" advisors Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn and Rudy Giuliani wanted Trump to authorize the federal government to seize voting machines how Trump refused to concede after the Dec. Thursday, July 21, or sticks with Carlson and Hannity.Īfter Tuesday's afternoon hearing, Fox aired only about 15 minutes of analysis of the committee's disclosures - then quickly pivoted to other topics: Biden meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Biden's upcoming Mideast trip, inflation and the mid-term elections.ĬNN and MSNBC continued their recap and exploration of the committee's revelations most of the night, except for reporting of the disturbing 77-minute Uvalde elementary school video of armed officers loitering in the hallway instead of confronting the gunman. We'll see if Fox carries the committee's final hearing at 8 p.m. It has carried the five afternoon hearings live, despite much lower ratings than its usual daytime programming, after refusing to air the committee's first hearing June 9, an evening session which would have pre-empted the lucrative, highly rated Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity. To be clear: the Fox cable channel (I can't call it "news") did carry the January 6 committee's sixth hearing Tuesday afternoon from 1 p.m. Hosts present opinions and information through a right-wing filter, and give fellow Republicans an open forum to bash President Joe Biden, the "really radical Democratic socialist party" (as Sean Hannity says) and the legitimate news media. I mean no disrespect toward Chad Pergram and the company's other journalists, but Fox fills the screen morning and night with noise, not news. I spent much of Tuesday and Wednesday morning last week watching the Fox cable channel. It's mostly Republican Party propaganda, especially with its popular primetime lineup (Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham) and morning Fox & Friends, none of which last week even MENTIONED the allegations made about Trump during the televised January 6 Congressional hearing Tuesday afternoon. "Dominion has mischaracterized the record, cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context, and spilled considerable ink on facts that are irrelevant under black-letter principles of defamation law.Fox News Channel's refusal to report revelations from the January 6 committee on its primetime and morning shows about Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election - after his advisors told him repeatedly that he lost - proves that "Fox News" isn't news. "Dominion's motion for summary judgment takes an extreme and unsupported view of defamation law and rests on an accounting of the facts that has no basis in the record," a Fox News spokesperson told Insider. The $1.6 billion claim, Fox News said, was "pulled out of thin air" and has a chilling effect on free speech. "And while defamation cases often involve matters of public concern, the false statements here - in the words of Fox host Tucker Carlson - 'would amount to the single greatest crime in American history.'"įox News and its parent company Fox Corporation have defended themselves, arguing it fairly reported on a massive news story: That the sitting president of the United States was making claims of widespread voter fraud. Over a months-long timeframe," lawyers for Dominion wrote. "Normally defamation cases involve a single defamatory statement. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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