Fox News CEO: Fact-Checking Trump Election Lies "Bad for Business."

[Kid Berwyn]

Fox News CEO said correspondent’s fact-check of Trump’s election lies was ‘bad for business,’ new emails show

By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN
CNN, Wed March 29, 2023

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott sounded the alarm inside the company about the financial fallout that the right-wing network would suffer if it continued fact-checking then-President Donald Trump’s lies after the 2020 election, according to messages that became public Wednesday.

In one instance, Scott emailed Meade Cooper, executive vice president of prime time programming, and laced into correspondent Eric Shawn for fact-checking Trump.

“This has to stop now,” Scott said in a December 2, 2020, message.

“This is bad for business and there is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows,” Scott added. “The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.”

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In another email written by Scott, zinging host Dana Perino for her “dismissive tone” in November 2020 after the presidential contest, the Fox News chief disclosed that the company had “lost 25k subs from FOX NATION,” its streaming service.

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/media/fox-news-dominion-messages/index.html

Fox a News Corpse

[Baitball Blogger]

1. It was never a news media.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. It's the propaganda arm of global fascism.

If not false advertising, masquerading as a news organization should bring it up on charges of fraud.

[Midnight Writer]

3. I'm afraid FOX was not the only news org that decided fact-checking Trump was bad for business.

If Biden or Obama were caught in even 1/100 of the lies Trump told, it would make headlines for weeks.

Instead, it became the new normal. Not worthy of headlines. That is, the new normal for Republicans.

Now the fact that they are lying gets an occasional mention that passes by like a playful breeze.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Absolutely. At the rate they were committing crime...

…you need a million dollar computer to keep up.

Bush and Cheney had set the standard for systemic corruption.

Trump not only reset those low marks, he sets the standard for personal corruption, being a traitor.

[Cha]

4. And, how is the Dominion suit

for Defamation doing for "business" now?

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Maybe they can still make hay with the MyPillow guy.

But I doubt he alone can keep Fox & Cabled Fiends afloat.

They clean up on the broadcast side, Super Bowl and all that rot.

Can’t wait to see Rupert the Cucumber on the stand.