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in this case, this supposed, quote unquote, news show was painting that guy who is an anonymous person as an fbi agent and plant who was the real person behind january 6th. that guy was a trump supporter ends up getting death threats and life ruined. that s the opposite of journalism s purpose. the problem with that is that people who don t we re not intimately familiar with how news and opinion journalism work, and i can include myself in this as a person whose opinion journalism at the new yorker for the past ten years, but if you don t know the distinctions between what standards and practice will let you get away with, what fact checking will get you get away, the ways opinion has to be within certain parameters that are governed by facts. if you don t know that, you hear something that is so outlandish as you frequently did on carlson s show, you re believing this is vetted information it s the information of the same
give you an experience, but not necessarily designed to give you the truth, and that s what we re finding out in some of these filings, and so i think when people are consuming you know, political information on television. you have to. you have to consider. what am i getting here? am i getting the truth? am i getting opinion journalism, or am i just getting something that s really akin to, you know the same kind of thing you get on professional wrestling, which is a scripted experience designed to make you feel a certain way, but not necessarily designed to make you any smarter. van fox is a nine any wrongdoing, saying quote these documents once again demonstrate dominions continued reliance on cherry picked quotes without context to generate headlines in order to distract from the facts of this case, so fox wants to make this all about the first amendment. do you buy that argument? well i don t buy the argument. if you re going to call yourself news, they re not fox entertainment. th
revealed emails showing fox news chief executive suzanne scott lashing out in an email after a correspondent fact checked trump s election lies, which is a basic duty of journalists. quote this is what she said. this has to stop. now the audience is furious, and we are just feeding the material bad for business. and another email . scott zing, toast dana perino for having a quote, dismissive tone about trump s baseless claims about the 2020 election. all right, we have our panel here to talk about this. i m going to go first to you, scott. these emails show once again that fox executives placed financial considerations. before truth, your reaction. well my reaction is that when you re watching stuff on television, you re getting one of three things. you re getting the news . you re getting opinion journalism, or you re just getting a narrative something that is scripted to designed to
also fascinating because they show that multiple hosts believed one thing, but we re texting one thing. in fact, in many cases, we re ripping on donald trump and then saying something completely different on television given that, how do you think this case is going to turn out out? i think what s so fascinating about that is that sometimes we call fox an opinion network or we say that the opinion side which is the prime time side is different than the new side. but in this case, we see that fox is not really even opinion journalism either. because true opinion that fox hosts and leaders had about sydney powell, for example, about the case for the election being stolen they don t believe any of that. okay. then will they be able to say at the end of this, okay, fine. you ve got us, we are just entertainment. and that will just be embarrassing? or will there be multibillion dollar consequences? because only they will change things. well, according to a lot of first amendme