'I want to quit': Fox News employees say their network's Russia coverage was 'an embarrassment'
Source: CNN
by Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy
October 31, 2017: 1:21 PM ET
Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network's coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals placed throughout the network.
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On Monday, it was revealed that President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another associate Rick Gates had been indicted by a grand jury on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States. Unsealed court records also revealed that another Trump associate, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI weeks ago.
The revelations jolted through the news media, and Fox News did cover it as its top story. But in contrast with CNN and MSNBC, which aired non-stop rolling coverage throughout the day, Fox News found plenty of time to cover other topics, like the NFL protests, North Korea, and tax reform.
Additionally, Fox News aired segments that questioned Mueller's credibility and many were framed around how Trump and his allies were responding to the news. On Fox News' homepage, the lead story at one point was focused on Trump slamming the indictment. Another lead story cited Manafort's lawyer, and asked, "Mueller's 'ridiculous' claims?"
"This kind of coverage does the viewer a huge disservice and further divides the country," one Fox News personality told CNN.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/media/fox-news-employees-russia-mueller-coverage/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom
Coventina
(27,120 posts)Like rampant sexual abuse?
Lack of journalistic standards?
Overt racism?
No? Nothing?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)(Some people!)
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)White Santa?
Tide goes in, tide goes out?
No terrorist attacks on our soil?
Seriously??
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Well put.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)I know hannity has been assured by trump that the future where PUtin and Trump are running things that he has a job, but when Putin finds out how dumb hannity is, maybe not.
Too bad patriotism is passe with these folks.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Hannity has the quals. I understand it can be difficult to find help there during the winter months!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I was sure he never dirtied his hands in his life.
I'm amazed he didn't clobber himself with a hammer or shoot a nail gun through his foot.
Metro135
(359 posts)That would explain a lot.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)That was probably the defining moment when Sean Hannity, who had long considered a change to a softer career in broadcasting after a harder blue-collar career, decided he was then going to be a brainless mouthpiece for anyone who put copy in front of him.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)They should quit so they can live with themselves.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)"This kind of coverage does the viewer a huge disservice and further divides the country" is a complete hypocrite.
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)fox lies and you personalities signed contracts & were paid millions to READ THOSE LIES.
Find another job, bank your millions-find a Doctor to help you quit for health reasons. You're good "actors" for fox lies- fake a seizure, stroke or blindness. embarrassed and humiliated!
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Coming from a network that gave Ollie North a show. Hell, half the people under investigation will probably be offered jobs by the network.
Peace
That's conservative (pun intended).
bluestarone
(16,959 posts)decide maybe move away from the bee hive?
underpants
(182,823 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Sh*t or get off the pot.
onetexan
(13,041 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)It is nothing but propoganda for the most part. Obama uses a TelePrompTer and Hannity calls him stupid. Orange Jerk uses one Hannity applauds his attention to detail.
Hypocrisy News Network pure and simple.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Why it didn't happen at some point earlier in the decades of solid lies is beyond me. And still not disgusted enough to actually walk away.
joshcryer
(62,274 posts)It's as bad as RT.
red dog 1
(27,807 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Isn't it just expected that they divide the country and do a huge disservice?
F*ck Fox Entertainment!
tavernier
(12,389 posts)He is their token sane person.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)rainin
(3,011 posts)Thanks to Fox.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Oh, no one...
Anybody who works for Fox is choosing to undermine this country. Period. I don't care about getting experience, being paid well or media aspirations, if you work for Fox, you have no integrity.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)tanyev
(42,559 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)I got a hot news tip for you, it still is, and likely will be.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)Rupert Murdoch's bully pulpit.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)Anyone with a brain knew it all along
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The whole Republican system of media lying and spinning is totally toxic to American democracy.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)I wish a few actually would quit and do a "tell all" for those idiots.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Damn, high tolerance for BULLSHITTING the American people. Eff you, foreigner Rupert and your Saudi prince co-owner and the rest of Fux Spews, you've been purposely conning us since you started. Destroyed public discourse and the threads of societal connection from the beginning.
Are you happy now???
Go jump in a septic tank.
extvbroadcaster
(343 posts)I used to work for CNN. Back in the day, we were doing straight up news. I left years ago, and before 1996 and the start of Fox News. I actually know a couple of people that work at Fox. Some people are able to check their political beliefs at the door on the tech side. They say, hey, I'm just the director, I'm not editorial side. But those producers and anchors on Fox have a lot to answer for. They are the ones spouting this right wing crap. I always wondered how they lived with it. I figured they either did it for the money or actually believed what they were saying. Either way, it's wrong.
Orangeutan
(204 posts)They'll enable. They'll compromise their principles to keep drawing a paycheck. They'll go along to get along.
Towlie
(5,324 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)That's quite something in and of itself.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)I'll be combing YouTube for how Sean Hannitary Napkin blames it all on us Dems.
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)RainCaster
(10,879 posts)💩🔥