Why did it take so long? Propaganda organs should not pose for what they are not. They should change the name to "FOX Prop." FLAIR AND BIAS should be the FOX motto.
CBS reporting of the Perez/DNC decision noted:
"I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters," Perez said in a statement first reported by The Washington Post. "That is why I have made it a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including Fox News. Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates."
The article by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker revealed that Mr. Trump may have been tipped off to some questions in the 2016 Republican primary debates by Fox sources, including by former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. The article also said that Mr. Trump receives advice from Fox News personalities Sean Hannity, Pete Hegseth and Lou Dobbs.
With advisers like that some of the bizarre tweeting might be understood.
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From the Wapo item, links are from the original --
Some observers have suggested that the network has become a kind of de facto “state TV,” shaping and promoting Trump’s policy agency.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer added new details about the relationship in her 11,000-word article published this week.
Among other things, she reported that Roger Ailes, the network’s late chief executive, may have informed the Trump campaign about a question involving Trump’s treatment of women that former Fox News host Megyn Kelly intended to ask at the first Republican debate in 2015. Mayer also reported that Trump was tipped by Fox sources to a second debate question about whether the candidates would support the Republican nominee for president, regardless of who won.
In addition, Mayer wrote that a Fox reporter, Diana Falzone, had detailed information about Trump’s relationship with porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election, but network officials declined to publish the story, apparently on orders from Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Fox has denied this account; it said it was unable to confirm Daniels’s story and didn’t publish anything as a result.
Well, super careful there with the Stormy story, gee, is that normal for FOX?
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Rolling Stone.