Trump doubles down with Sean Hannity tweet amid new scrutiny of his ties to Fox News
March 5 at 5:35 AM
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“As the President has been beset by scandals, congressional hearings, and even talk canada goose down uk of impeachment, Fox has been both his shield and his sword,” Mayer wrote. “The White House and Fox interact so seamlessly that it can be hard to determine, during a particular news cycle, which one is following the other’s lead.”
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According to Mayer’s reporting, Murdoch recognized Trump was a natural fit for the working class outrage his network was sparking. The New Yorker piece reports Fox executives were invested in Trump winning the 2016 election, going so far as to reportedly taking questionable steps to handicap the Republican campaign.
Citing buy canada goose jacket a “pair of Fox insiders,” Mayer reports how Roger Ailes, then the chairman of the network, tipped cheap canada goose Trump off about a question coming his way from then Fox host Megyn Kelly about the candidate’s comments about women during a 2015 Republican candidate debate in Cleveland. A Fox spokesperson denied Trump was tipped off to Mayer. The campaign also denied Trump had prior knowledge of the question.
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Canada Goose online The executive who is no longer with the network denied he made the comment to the reporter, and later told Mediaite he had killed the story without speaking to network executives or to protect the candidate. Canada Goose online
Mayer’s article also notes that it was Ailes’s departure from the network in July 2016 over allegations of sexual canada goose outlet washington dc misconduct that changed the tenor of Fox News. Ailes enforced a split between news and opinion, insiders told Mayer. After he left, the two sides began to blend.
canada goose uk shop “The celebrity opinion show hosts who drive the ratings became unbridled and unopposed,” Mayer writes. “Hannity, as the network’s highest rated and highest paid star, was especially empowered and, with him, so was Trump.” canada goose uk shop
The crumbling of that barrier represented by Alies, according to the article, turned Hannity and other network talking heads into surrogates for Trump. Mayer specifically points to a midterm campaign event last November in Cape Girardeau, Mo., when Hannity joined Trump onstage. The event earned Hannity a tepid censure from the network.
“‘Hannity’ is an opinion show, but when he went onstage with Trump he became part of the campaign,” former Fox host Greta Van Susteren told the reporter. “That was an egregious mistake. It was way over the line.”
Canada Goose Online But the most meaningful ties between the network and the president appears to be in their mirrored messaging. Citing data complied by the left leaning watchdog group Media Matters, Mayer reports that Trump has broadcast Fox News items more than 200 times on Twitter since August 2018. Canada Goose Online
The president has also often directly lifted his talking points from concurrent Fox coverage. Last month, as Hannity assailed former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe on his show, Trump hopped on Twitter and quoted from the canada goose birmingham uk host.