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Wed Mar 29, 2023, 10:26 PM Mar 2023

Fox News CEO said correspondent's fact-check of Trump's election lies was 'bad for business,' new em [View all]

Source: CNN

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott sounded the alarm inside the company about the financial fallout that the right-wing network would suffer if it continued aggressively fact-checking then-President Donald Trump’s lies after the 2020 election, according to messages that became public Wednesday.

In one instance, Scott emailed Meade Cooper, executive vice president of prime time programming, and expressed frustration after correspondent Eric Shawn appeared on Martha MacCallum’s show and fact-checked Trump and a Sean Hannity guest.

“This has to stop now,” Scott said in a December 2, 2020, message.

“This is bad for business and there is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows,” Scott added. “The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.”


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/media/fox-news-dominion-messages/index.html

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