James Hohmann
Mar 07, 2021 3:30 PM ET
“We were the deplorables, we were smelly Walmart people, then we were chumps for Trump, bitter clingers, now it’s Neanderthal,” said “Fox & Friends” host Pete Hegseth, who went into television after a failed Senate bid in Minnesota and whose elite pedigree includes degrees from Princeton and Harvard. “This is how the left views people who prefer choice and personal responsibility over government mandates.”
The cable empire keeps pumping from this well of resentment because doing so has proven profitable, keeping viewers angry and tuned in. Fox Corp. Chief Executive Lachlan Murdoch suggested as much during an investor conference on Thursday when he acknowledged that Fox News plans to juice its ratings in the post-Trump era by playing the role of “loyal opposition” to Biden.
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On Feb. 10, Fox News was in lockstep with other cable news channels and major broadcast networks in presenting more than four hours of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
But at 5 p.m. Eastern, Fox News pulled away from the most graphic video evidence of violence during the insurrection by pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and switched to its popular daily roundtable show “The Five.”
Most of the panelists dismissed the Democratic impeachment managers’ presentation, defended the former president and moved on to other topics including the viral Zoom cat lawyer video despite the historic nature of the events in Washington. Viewers who wanted Fox News journalists’ take on the proceedings had to wait until anchor Bret Baier showed up at the top of the 6 p.m. hour.
‘The Five’ cohost Greg Gutfeld gets a late night show on Fox News [Los Angeles Times]
Greg Gutfeld, a longtime cohost of the popular Fox News program “The Five,” will get his own nightly late night talk show on the channel starting in the spring.
The announcement Wednesday is the latest move by Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott, who has been reshaping the conservative-leaning network’s program lineup for the post Donald Trump White House era.
On Monday, Fox News announced former U.S. National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow will move into the Fox Business Network lineup next week, effectively replacing Lou Dobbs.
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