{"id":53171,"date":"2022-06-07T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53171"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:21:04","slug":"fox-news-commits-to-keeping-their-viewers-ignorant-by-refusing-to-air-the-january-6th-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53171","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Commits to Keeping Their Viewers Ignorant By Refusing to Air the January 6th Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the bipartisan House Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection incited by Donald Trump will hold public hearings. They are expected to reveal evidence that documents the seditious attempt by Trump and his comrades to undermine democracy by preventing Congress from certifying the election of President Biden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Commits to Keeping Their Viewers Ignorant By Refusing to Air the January 6th Hearings%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53171\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-insurrection.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Insurrection\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The riots on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, were the result of Trump&#8217;s relentless lying that the 2020 presidential election was <em>&#8220;rigged&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;stolen&#8221;<\/em> from him. Five law enforcements officers died, and more than 140 were injured in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48969\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what Trump and most Republicans say was a <em>&#8220;peaceful&#8221;<\/em> protest<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The House Committee spent ten months probing the insurrection and its causes, reviewing millions of documents and conducting more than a thousand interviews. Now they are prepared to make the case to the American people that Trump and his cronies were actively staging a coup to illegally seize power and install Trump as America&#8217;s first dictator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53094\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Now Trump is Calling the January 6th Insurrection \u2018a Hoax\u2026Just Like Russia Russia Russia\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hearings are going to be aired live on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Notably missing from that list is Fox News. Because they are afraid of the truth and devoted to keeping their viewers ignorant, Fox News has decided not air one of the most historically significant congressional hearings of modern times. Instead, Fox will stick with their regular primetime Trump-fluffing consisting of Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox&#39;s top news anchors will be moved over to the Fox Business Network, and they will cover the hearing there. At 8pm ET on an ordinary night, Fox News has more than 3 million viewers, while Fox Business has under 100,000. That pretty much says it all about Fox&#39;s priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1533961315030650886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is more confirmation that Fox is not &#8211; and never has been &#8211; a news network. They were created to advance an ultra-conservative agenda and to promote Republican politics. And while the actual news organizations are informing the public, Fox News will be serving their master, Donald Trump, with counterprogramming that is nothing more than right-wing propaganda. It&#8217;s what Trump ordered his minions to do, and they are obediently complying.<\/p>\n<p>Fox&#8217;s decision to blackout the hearings is not merely due to their blatant biases. It is also self-protection. That&#8217;s because their primetime hosts are more than just mouthpieces for Trump. They are also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51523\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accomplices in his criminal activities<\/a><\/strong>. Consequently, they could be featured in the hearings when testimony is given about what took place as the insurrection was in progress. For instance, they were texting Trump during assault:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hannity wrote:<\/strong> Can he make a statement, ask people to leave the Capitol?<br \/>\n<strong>Kilmeade wrote:<\/strong> Please, get him on TV. Destroying everything you have accomplished.<br \/>\n<strong>Ingraham wrote:<\/strong> Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.<br \/>\n<strong>Even Donald Trump Jr wrote:<\/strong> He\u2019s got to condemn this shit ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never mind that within hours of these texts, the Foxies had retreated to their standard positions fawning over and covering for Trump. As for Carlson, no one has lied more about the insurrection than he has. He even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51077\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">produced the <em>&#8220;Patriot Purge&#8221;<\/em> crocumentary<\/a><\/strong> wherein he charged that the whole sordid affair was a <em>\u201cfalse flag\u201d<\/em> operation orchestrated by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: WTF? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52012\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Brags that 67% of Americans Say He\u2019s Responsible for the Violent January 6th Insurrection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So Fox News has several dishonest and self-serving reasons for suppressing the news rather than reporting it. First, they don&#8217;t want to air anything that so clearly contradicts what they&#8217;ve been lying about for a year and a half. Secondly, they are devoted to keeping their glassy-eyed audience as ignorant and artificially outraged as possible. And finally, they aren&#8217;t about to give airtime to hearings that will reveal their own participation in Trump&#8217;s lawless scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The result will be an expansion of the gap between the viewers of Fox News and the rest of the reality-based American people. And that could exacerbate rising tensions and lead to more violence on the part of the StormTrumpers. Which is exactly what Trump wants. And Fox News is, once again, aiding and abetting his treasonous aspirations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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They are expected to reveal evidence that documents the seditious attempt by Trump and his comrades to undermine democracy by preventing Congress from certifying the election of President Biden. 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