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Judi Lynn

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Fri Apr 19, 2019, 09:04 PM Apr 2019

Ex-Fox News host says its reputation for racism is 'for very good reason'


Eboni Williams, who co-hosted the show Fox News Specialists, says Roger Ailes founded network on fear of ‘devaluation of whiteness’

Erin Durkin in New York
Fri 19 Apr 2019 12.24 EDT

A former Fox News host said the network was founded for the sole purpose of “demonizing ‘the other’”.

Eboni Williams tore into her former network in an appearance on Thursday on The Breakfast Club, a nationally syndicated radio show out of New York.

“Fox has a reputation for being bigoted and racist – all for a very good reason,” she said.

Williams said the key to understanding Fox’s approach was to understand its founder, Roger Ailes, who laid out his strategy clearly in his book.

“This man very plainly, in plain sight, says that he is forming a network to speak to one thing and one thing only: the demonizing of the other,” Williams said.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/19/fox-news-racism-whites-host-eboni-williams
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