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Matthew Gertz
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I'm sorry, you don't get to say that Fox News was fine when they were paying you but got "crazy" after you left when you were Glenn Beck's coworker. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
I wrote about this when Woke Bill Kristol said roughly the same thing to John Harwood a year ago. mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/2…

Some screengrabs from when Fox was paying him and things had not yet gotten "crazy."
Fox is more dangerous now because it has merged with the White House and the president is an extremely malleable racist with authoritarian leanings. The programming is not noticeably more "crazy" than it was a decade ago.
I think there is a fair argument that the Carlson/Ingraham white nationalism stuff is more noxious than its 2009 equivalents, however.
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I am off today hanging out with the baby and grandparents, but I trust you can all figure out what's going on here without my help.
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Left, Fox & Friends, 6:18 am
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"Fox's 'news' team is an essential cog in a corrupt propaganda machine" -- my thoughts on Jane Mayer's Fox expose and the debate over a DNC-Fox debate. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/03/0…
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Proves Jane Mayer right: Fox is Trump's propaganda outlet, and he's defending it as such.
Trump isn't stanning for Fox because of his deep belief that Chris Wallace is a fair reporter.
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