it turns out trump was actually talking about this. there was an absolute surge in both gun violence and rape in sweden. watching this friday night story from one of fox s opinion shows, trump s head scratcher suddenly makes sense. they took in large numbers. they re having problems like they never thought possible. this conservative u-tube video barely had any views until fox called. now it has the attention of the president. and the police officers who appeared in the film are two of a growing number of swedes saying the film s depiction of sweden is inaccurate. it is all fake news. all fake news. russia is fake news. this is fake news put out by the media. the news is fake because so much of the news is fake. president trump may think some news outlets are enemies but clearly fox news is a friend. zpox friends in the morning,
news and their relationship to trump. first on the idea of the cable news feedback lp. he watches a lot of cnn as well. he reads the new york times and then tweets about it. what are we to make of a president consuming so much news media coverage all the time? it s unprecedented. he takes all of his cues from fox news. he s pronouncing on twitter minutes after fox news reports things. but the bigger issue here is the sort of proximity between fox and trump. and specifically rupert murdoch, who runs and owns fox. do you view fox as a pro-trump network? they ll call me and shout at that if i say that, but the party line there, we are news and opinion. that s something that rupert said and james lockland, murdoch and his sons have also said. you look at the opinion shows, the three-hour primetime block of fox news is completely pro trump, since megyn kelly left, rupert personally selected tucker carlson.
they would rather watch the andy griffith show. opie by the way is still 8. that s like 50 years ago. still 8. you are making an important point which is i don t know that american, bill, no long kerr make the distinction between traditional objective news, the journalism that trish is referring to or opinion shows. i don t have a problem with joy on the view, bill. she is paid to give her opinion on the view. so that s okay. the woman how would not name on the view. look. the reason i don t mind the opinion. it s masquerading. am i going to watch the david duke show on some kind of cable access? no i am not. is he hater. some people would watch that bill. absolutely would watch that. i wouldn t and most people wouldn t because is he a hater. what s the difference? if you want to reinforcement of your point of view, bill, people will watch you, absolutely. it s the hatred i object to. not the point of view.
candidate. when the press wants to get in there and take sides because it s too important to lead to the voters to make up the decision themselves, they re basically flplaying to trump s hand and saying it is a rigged game, and they re demonstrating that being much more adversarial against trump than hillary clinton. jennifer, you work at the post. how do you feel? i disagree. i think this is one of the problems with conservative media and conservative watchdogs, they don t, for example, distinguish between the actual reporters and the columnist. i don t think anyone can accuse david fahrenthold who has done really pulitzer prize-winning work, investigative reporting, as being biassed. he s doing his job, digging. part of this is due to the fact that donald trump refused to reveal a lot of information that most candidates have done. there s more to find out on that side. i will say something else. fox for a long time has played this game of saying, well, we have our opinion shows
propaganda in a way that i never, ever had seen before. it went from sometimes horribleness to strange to bizarre to dangerous. okay. well, let s get to those details. you talk about propaganda, you talk about sugar-coating. what was the environment like in the newsroom? was there ethics training, traditional news culture or was that totally blown out of the water? no, no. what the station does is they tend to hire younger people, inexperienced. they don t have much experience in the newsroom. and they try to mold they try to mold reporters and their producers into journalists. journalists that they want them to be. so that didn t work for me. i guess. i was very, very stringent about sticking to the facts. and this is something that the network doesn t they stray from the facts, especially from the opinion shows. and this is very dangerous, i think. because this was something that i was not privy to in the past.