Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire just sent an email to its list urging them to "cut the cord" and instead subscribe to them, in part because Fox News called Arizona for Biden and "downplayed any questions about voting irregularities reported from the most important swing states."
The Daily Wire's Candace Owens was on Lou Dobbs' show yesterday and Sean Hannity's and Tucker Carlson's earlier in the week.
Many of the Wire "stars" have benefitted from exposure on Fox; now the outlet is going after Fox's revenue, explicitly because it is only *sometimes* denying reality to prop up Trump.
I am pretty skeptical about the possibility of Fox losing its dominant position on the right, but it is also increasingly obvious that other pro=Trump outlets aren't scared of it and are willing to attack it for being insufficiently nuts.
As I noted earlier this week, Fox staved off a similar challenge at the start of the Trump era by giving Carlson and Ingraham prime-time shows, effectively becoming Breitbart TV. We may be headed for a race to the bottom of the fever swamp. mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-…
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1. President Trump, Fox News, and other pro-Trump propaganda outlets created an impermeable information bubble for the Republican base.
2. Within that bubble, it is canon that the 2020 election was ripe with voter fraud and that Trump actually won if you only count the "legal votes."
3. The Trump legal strategy is an absolute joke, because courts largely exist in the real world where evidence needs to be produced, and there's no evidence for the mass voter fraud because it didn't happen.
Tucker Carlson is becoming Fox’s “news side” assignment editor
The network’s “news” shows highlighted commentary from Carlson’s show at least 14 times in two days mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucke…
Carlson announced Monday that he was discussing with Fox executives what he described as plans to “expand the amount of reporting and analysis we do in this hour across other parts of the company.”
We're starting to see what that looks like.
Over the following two days, Fox “news” anchors and correspondents incorporated clips from Carlson or his guests into packaged reports; used them as the jumping off point for panel discussions; and featured them in news briefs.
These screengrabs are from separate segments on this morning's America's Newsroom, a Fox "straight news" program. Tucker Carlson is apparently now the network's news director. mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-…
Here's a screengrab from last night's edition of Special Report, the network's flagship "news" show. That's three different "news" segments in a day based off of three different Tucker Carlson interviews.
Yesterday's America's Newsroom featured a clip from a Carlson monologue, with the anchor asking her guest to respond to it.
Fox has a two-track business model: It attracts viewers with right-wing, pro-Trump propaganda from "opinion" hosts, but monetizes them by telling advertisers wary of hurting their brands that they also have a normal "news" side like any other news outlet.
This is largely nonsense -- right-wing narratives and lies common to Fox’s prime-time programming also infect its news hours -- but Fox has been using this PR strategy for years.
The Fox News evening lineup is determined to make the conversations you have with your parents about safety and the holidays as difficult as possible.
Meanwhile, Steve Doocy explains that he's having a Zoom Thanksgiving, adds, "I think a lot of people are going to do that." And Fox's medical expert says that's the best thing to do.