really were concerned that if they told the truth, their audience was going to go find someone who told them what they wanted to hear. brian, this is not the 1990s. they don t have the russia is no longer here, i think this was just the two-year anniversary of his passing, fox doesn t have the stranglehold on conservatives they did at one time. there s a lot of competition in the mark there s place. the key point, in the 1990s, somebody who listened to rush or watched fox in its early years probably was also watching the nightly news or cnn and consuming media like yourself. so they were not living in this hermitically sealed world. flash forward to now and they have dozens of options in conservative media. and so what happens is every host is worried about getting outflanked and every host is worried about hearing that, you know, what happened to you, you sold out, i can t trust you
you this. the fox motive was not ideology, it was not an allegiance to donald trump. it was greed, pure and simple. they created an audience they could no longer control, an audience that believed the garbage they were putting on the air, and they feared that they might lose that base to a competitor like news max. in an email to fox news ceo suzanne scott, murdock wrote that news max needed to be watched and didn t want to antagonize trump further and stressing everything at stake here. what might he have meant by everything? the big three cable news networks earned an estimated $5.7 billion in advertising revenue and license fees, up 3% from the previous year. when fox reporter jackie heinrich fact checked a trump
executives and hosts knew claims that the 2020 election were bogus, even as they aired stories saying otherwise. guess what? fox isn t covering the revelations. would that matter to their viewers? that s the explanation for next week s poll question at smerconish.com. will fox news lose credibility with its viewers if those viewers learn that the network s hosts and executives knew the 2020 conspiracy theories were bs? g real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market s doing, he s ready. and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition. together we support immune function. supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health. ensure with twenty-five vitamins and minerals, and ensure complete with thirty grams of protein.
influence on the type of person who votes in a republican primary, when 10% of people show up. which means that all of the republican politicians are afraid of these guys, afraid of crossing them. as they go further and further to the right, they see democrats as evil and play out the open opera. they know it s a business. they know, as you said, it s pro wrestling, but the politicians have to take them seriously. and that affects whether they re trying to address problems, from the mental health type crisis that you re talking about in your first segment, to anything else under the sun. politicians tonight want to do anything that they think is going to anger these hosts. brian, answer my poll question. what i m essentially wondering is whether this would matter to the fox viewer if the fox viewer even knew it was the case. because in half the country this has been the page one dominant story in the last two days in a very busy news week, but it
sean hannity said rudy giuliani was acting like an insane person, who which laura ingraham concurred, such an idiot. brett bear correctly noted there is no evidence of fraud. lou dobbs was a worst offender, giving air to trump lawyer sidney powell, who even tucker carlson deemed a liar. the motion for summary judgment filed by dominion is full of evidence of everything i have said here and on radio for years, namely that certain meade wra are operating as the equivalent of pro wrestling, only fox hid from their viewers they knew it was fake. when neil cavuto cut away from a white house briefing when kayleigh mcenany made allegations of fraud, cavuto said i can t continue to show