Thread by @MattGertz

"Propaganda machine" and other criticisms current and former Fox staffers have levied at the network since Trump's election, from longtime employees who blasted it on the way out to on-air anchors slamming primetime colleagues to anonymous sniping. mediamatters.org/research/2019/…

You'd expect to see quotes about Fox like this coming from @mmfa, not from people who worked at the network.

@mmfa Carl Cameron, former chief political correspondent, 22 years at Fox: "The right-wing hosts drowned out straight journalism with partisan misinformation."

"“The access that some at Fox have in the entertainment side to the president is questionable" and they are “allied.”

@mmfa Ralph Peters, former strategic analyst, 10 years at Fox: Fox "is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers,” it is "a destructive propaganda machine" for Donald Trump.

@mmfa Bill Kristol, former contributor, 10 years at Fox: “75 percent of it seems to be birther-like coverage of different issues," "it’s just propaganda.”

@mmfa Former Fox correspondents Conor Powell (nine years) and Adam Housley (17 years) both reportedly left in part because they were unhappy with the network's direction.

@mmfa Shep Smith, one of the network's initial staffers, said he reupped his deal in part because if he ended his show he was worried "what would go in its place." He's also said his “opinion side” colleagues “don’t really have rules”

@mmfa Chris Wallace has criticized his colleagues on-air for “pushing a political agenda” over “facts.”

@mmfa And the anonymous quotes current Fox staffers give to reporters at other networks... good lord.

@mmfa Fox’s internal critics deserve few accolades. It may have taken Trump’s election for them to see it, but the network’s bigotry, conspiracy theories, and partisan machinations were built into its business model from the very beginning.

@mmfa The effort they make to silo off the network’s “news” division and focus their critique solely on the “opinion” hosts shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the “news” division’s purpose in Fox’s corrupt propaganda machine.

@mmfa But it’s still striking that so many long-serving Fox employees have concluded that the network is an unrestrained organ of the White House. If even they can no longer lie to themselves about where they worked, the situation is quite alarming.