Let’s pause here to acknowledge that Fox News has some excellent reporters, and let me just say that I’m jealous of Chris Wallace’s interviewing skill. It’s unfair that the real Fox reporters are tainted by blowhards like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, who engage less in journalism than in presidential public relations. We saw that in the Iraq War, when Fox News anticipated that troops would be welcomed with flowers and that the war would pay for itself. Glenn Beck, then of Fox News, warned that he would do “the exact opposite” of what the administration recommended. Some 18,000 people died in that flu epidemic, so it seems logical that some died because they believed Fox News.

Source: International New York Times November 16, 2019 19:07 UTC