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demmiblue

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Thu Mar 1, 2018, 04:13 PM Mar 2018

Alisyn Camerota Loves Doing Journalism at CNN, After Doing the Opposite at Fox News

The ‘New Day’ host talks to The Daily Beast about making the transition from Fox News to CNN and why she’s so glad she quit Twitter.

Source: The Daily Beast

So you have a unique place in this media landscape given that you’ve worked for both Fox News and CNN. Now that it’s been about four years since you made that move, how would you compare your experiences at each network?

Well, I do feel very lucky that I’ve been able to work at both. And working at both informs what I do every day. I got a real education at Fox from being around so many conservatives and you know, having my antenna attuned to bias, in either direction. So I think that it has helped. In some way, cable news is the same in that you’re always up against a deadline and you’re always rushing out for breaking news. But, obviously, the big way that it’s different is that Roger Ailes had a very particular mission statement. Roger wasn’t a journalist. Roger believed in good TV and presenting what he thought was the counterbalance to what he called “liberal media.” So that’s not what journalism is. I’m just so struck every day by, now, all the stellar journalists that I work around. And it’s freeing not to have to conform to a mission statement like that.


I’m sure a lot of Fox viewers believe CNN has its own mission statement in the other direction.

Oh, god no. It just isn’t the case. Jeff Zucker is never telling me how I have to do a story or what questions I have to ask or what questions I have to not ask. Never.


And that would happen directly with Ailes?

Yes.


President Obama recently said that Fox News viewers are “living on a different planet” than those who consume other media. Do you think there’s truth to that?

Well, I can only tell you that I have a quad box, which is what we have in TV news where we monitor the other channels from our desk. So in the morning, on the anchor desk, Chris Cuomo and I get a lot of enjoyment out of watching what some of the other networks are doing. [Laughs] Chris and I will just have engaged in some high-calorie burn of an interview with somebody from the NRA or a politician and we’ll be holding their feet to the fire. Then we’ll look to the quad box and over on some other network they’ll be doing a pancake eating contest. That was happening this morning and we always stop and marvel at the different life that we have in morning news compared to some of our competitors that have a much more morning zoo approach to their programs. [Note: Fox & Friends celebrated National Pancake Day during the 6 a.m. hour on Tuesday.]


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Alisyn Camerota Loves Doing Journalism at CNN, After Doing the Opposite at Fox News (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2018 OP
Pure rubbish. I've seen her dishing Fox lies, and Hortensis Mar 2018 #1
She says she was only following orders and that it was not journalism. Marcuse Mar 2018 #2
CONSERVATIVES are the "I was just following orders" people. Hortensis Mar 2018 #3

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. Pure rubbish. I've seen her dishing Fox lies, and
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 04:24 PM
Mar 2018

sometimes every bit as blatantly. Like the time she explained away the Republicans' healthcare bill having NO package of "essential health benefits" (including little things like coverage for ER visits, office visits, hospital stays, ER, labs, prescription medications, maternity and newborn care, and others) by waving that hole in the chart away as the thing that makes older people who don't need it pay for maternity care.

I'd feel obliged to give this Fox shark a bottle of water and call 911 if I found her broken down in the desert, but she wouldn't get a ride from me.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. CONSERVATIVES are the "I was just following orders" people.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 05:19 PM
Mar 2018

As are, notoriously, fascists, who are overwhelmingly conservative, with only possibly a few authoritarians from the far left. (Liberals are the anti-authoritarians, and they don't work for Fox, or stay long, for really basic reasons.)

Unless this body claims next that she's had a brain transplant and that Camarota's was disposed of, I wouldn't believe this. She's tying to sucker everyone as usual, restyling her image as needed for success in her new job. Like her hair.

And I wouldn't believe her boss, Jeff Zucker, that he made Trump a national figure admired by all the idiots who were drawn to the very highly authoritarian figure presented in "The Apprentice" and that he is hiring people away from Fox just to maximize profits. There's a big pattern here.

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