Millions of people sit and watch the show every day since January 2017. Fox News related to Tucker Carlson and with this loyalty they helped to become chain stars. Rupert Murdoch became one of the most powerful and influential voices on the conservative stage. In those years they were watching praising his figure and politics donald trump and disseminating the messages and theses of the former President of the Republic, conspiracy theories It’s about non-existent fraud in the last presidential election that Trump lost to Joe Biden.
In fact, just this week and thanks to ‘speaker’ Kevin McCarthy’s controversial decision to grant Carlson access to 41,000 hours of video of the day of the attack on the Capitol, they heard him on his show saying he was serious. episode “was more than nothing peaceful chaos”, the heroes “ordinary and docile” peoplepractically “did” tourism“or claims that the police escorted them and calmly guided them through the building, manipulatively using footage questioned by everyone from the Capitol Chief of Police to numerous Republicans, including their Senate leader, Mitch. McConnell.
Carlson audiences believe that Trump’s “a destroyer” and one “demonic power“, or what tenure “was a disaster” There is no success to show for this. But if Carlson had told them what he really thought or really felt about Trump, he would have summed it up in his own words: “I I hate passionately.”
An explanatory case
Carlson’s hypocrisy has been exposed in full view in recent weeks. The messages, which are irrefutable because they come from his own handwriting (or cell phone keyboard), are part of a known legal document in recent weeks. defamation lawsuit who applied Dominion Voting SystemsAn election tech company featured as a frequent contributor on Fox News. no selection trick And judgment starting next month Delaware compensation will be sought. 1.6 billion dollars. And it’s not just Carlson who has been hurt by the revelations.
They also disclosed through internal communications, messages or affidavits. double sided from the network’s other most radical and powerful stars in the best time frame: Sean Hannity Trump’s personal friend and unofficial adviser, and Laura Ingraham. they brought to light bloody open war by these and other opinion leaders such as Carlson. information department network that does its job reporting real results or questioning the Trump campaign and its allies Rudy Giuliani to attack legitimate results. And even when the chain’s administrators are convinced of the legality of the results, they confirm on the air that they allow them to continue to be questioned (the chain’s lawyers, in legal proceedings, only “comments on the charges” and therefore “opinion,” protected by the First Amendment).
The statements also cast a bad light on the owner of Fox News. powerful media mogul Rupert Murdoch. And far from providing “fair and balanced” information for FoxNews (a slogan abandoned without much explanation in 2017 and replaced by the chain’s “most watched, most trusted” slogan), they confirmed that FoxNews has been involved in politics for years. He’s trying to benefit the Republican Party.
For example, Murdoch himself gave confidential information and advice to Jared KushnerTrump’s son-in-law and adviser in the White House to improve their advertising in the 2020 campaign compared to Joe Biden’s. And a few years ago, in one instance of his direct influence, he instructed the chain, and on the particularly influential Hannity and Ingraham programs, a primary candidate who didn’t want Trump or McConnell, who had contacted him for help, was attacked. The candidate was attacked in the air and was defeated.
toxic relationship
Everything points to someone toxic relationship Between Fox News and Trump, one of the chain’s main motivations for revealing what is thought about what is shown is, fear of losing viewers. And the fear of the most staunch Trump supporters to become even more extreme when the news is realistic, despite the price, was expressed by one of the network executives:we lose the silent majority while chasing madmen off a cliff.”
The relationship has improved since Trump’s electoral defeat, and after several legislatures where the bad Republican results were also read as largely his responsibility. Before establishing itself as the dominant force in the Republican Party the following year, as it did in 2015, FoxNews often ignores Trump, despite declaring his candidacy to run for president 2024. He no longer broadcasts almost any of his actions live and in full, and sometimes completely ignores them. The frequent interventions and talks that became commonplace in 2016 and during his presidency have evaporated. And, despite Trump’s anger, the campaign (and other outlets of the Murdoch empire, like the ‘New York Post’ tabloid) broke down and Raised interest and interest in Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
But Trump’s theses remain visible, thanks to figures like Carlson. Fox News, which decided not to broadcast his speech at the Conservative CPAC party meeting, changed its mind at the last moment. If Trump shows his power once again in the primaries, as he did in 2016, No one can guarantee that Fox News will never come back. At least in public.