Fox News, Hannity and the meaning of 'collusion'
Nice article from the Beeb.
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Is this collusion, as pundits everywhere are suggesting? As so often, the etymology is instructive.
"Collusion" comes from the Latin for "col", meaning "together" and "ludere", meaning "to play".
Republicans and Fox News play and work together all the time.
If you want an example of collusion as in playing together, rather than alight on Spicer being kept informed about various Fox conspiracies, look at the comically sycophantic chat Hannity conducted with Donald Trump Junior about his meeting with a Russian lawyer.
Granted the chance to interrogate the president's son about contacts with foreign individuals seeking to influence the election of the most powerful person in the world, Hannity forfeited the chance to do a proper interrogation, playing the role of the supportive activist instead.
Fox News may boast of the "high degree of editorial scrutiny" they apply, but this conversation - let's not call it an interview - was wholly devoid of journalistic rigour, and designed to get the president's son out of a hole.
That's closer to my understanding of "collusion".
Hannity starts the interview with: "I will ask him every single question I can think of."
On the basis of what followed, and his insult to the memory of Seth Rich, Hannity isn't much of a thinker.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40856436
