{"id":56499,"date":"2023-03-11T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56499"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:05:06","slug":"does-the-white-house-consider-fox-news-a-news-organization-lets-ask-the-wh-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56499","title":{"rendered":"Does the White House Consider Fox News a News Organization? Let’s Ask the WH Press Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question as to the legitimacy of Fox News is not one that has been difficult to answer. It was designed from the start to be a right-wing propaganda dispenser by its founders, Rupert Murdoch (an ultra-conservative newspaper baron), and Roger Ailes (a Republican media consultant). That’s not exactly a roster of reputable journalists.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-seven years later, Fox News has exceeded the aspirations of its politically prejudiced founders. In recent weeks the network has been exposed as being brazenly dishonest. Internal communications made public by Dominion Voting Systems in their defamation lawsuit against Fox<\/a><\/strong> reveal that its executives and hosts were telling their viewers one thing, while saying the opposite to one another in private.<\/p>\n

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Those depositions affirm that Fox News knew very well that there was no truth to their \u201creporting\u201d<\/em> of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. While they were lying to their viewers on the air, they were discussing privately among themselves about the \u201ccrazy\u201d<\/em> and \u201cidiotic\u201d assertions that Donald Trump had actually won. They even openly disparaged Trump as dangerous confessed their personal hatred for him.<\/p>\n

The subject of the Dominion vs Fox News lawsuit came up Friday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight.”<\/em> Wagner prefaced a question addressing the matter during an interview with White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, by noting that “The White House has been fairly outspoken about what\u2019s happening in certain Republican circles \u2013 specifically, what\u2019s going on over at Fox News.”<\/em> Which led to the following exchange…<\/p>\n

Wagner:<\/strong> Does the White House consider Fox News a news organization?<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre:<\/strong> I’ll say this. When you look at the depositions that have been out there recently, it even states from FOX leadership that they do not see Tucker Carlson’s show as news or even truthful. That is coming from the FOX News leadership. That is not coming from me. That is coming from them.<\/p>\n

I also would quote – I’ll paraphrase here – what the Chief of Capitol Police said. He said essentially when you watch Tucker Carlson as it relates to January 6th, it is misleading, and it is misinformation as with the conclusion of what happened on January 6th, the attacks that happened. As you saw from the President’s statement, nearly 140 officers were injured on that day. It was an attack on our democracy. It was an attack on our constitution. And you cannot whitewash that. Tucker Carlson cannot whitewash that.<\/p>\n

Wagner:<\/strong> So, I\u2019m gonna say that sort of sounds like the White House doesn\u2019t think Fox is a news organization, but we gotta leave it there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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— Alex Wagner Tonight (@WagnerTonight) March 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n