Wednesdayās Iowa town hall rankled staffers who see the networkālike most of the GOPāfalling in line behind the 2024 front-runner. As one correspondent acknowledged afterward, āTrump is the monster we created.ā
With less than a week until the first votes are cast in the 2024 Republican primary, front-runner Donald Trump blew up Fox Newsā prime time schedule on Wednesday. The former president and de facto programming executive booted his longtime ally Sean Hannity out of his 9 p.m. time slot and held a town hall with Iowa voters to compete with CNNās debate between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
Baier had been wooing Tump for quite a while, and Trump suddenly agreed to participate after the CNN debate details were locked. āThey would only do it if it was at that time,ā he said. āWe offered a number of different times. That was their stipulation.ā
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The history between Trump and Fox is so fraught, and the relationship is so convoluted, that writers typically spend several paragraphs explaining the complexities. But it is also, at a gut level, quite simple. The Fox brand and the Trump brand are both about defeating Democrats and exploiting the levers of power.
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ā¦Rupert Murdoch really did try to make him a ānon person,ā as Murdochās own emails (also obtained by Dominion) revealed. āFox News very busy pivotingā away from Trump, Murdoch remarked to a former Fox executive in the immediate aftermath of the January 6 insurrection. At the time, Murdoch and almost everyone else thought that Trumpās political life was over. But Foxāand then host Tucker Carlson in particularāalso helped revive Trump by recasting January 6 as a government plot to entrap poor Trump voters. As the base warmed back up to Trump, so did Fox. And Lachlan Murdoch didnāt stand in the way.
The entire media donāt know how to quit him.
ābut he generates clicks, drives engagement, and keeps people tuning in whether they hate him or not, why would we quit that?ā
āBut what about the shareholdersā½ā
Blame the right wing outlets. WaPo, The Atlantic, NYT, and others are covering him a lotā¦ by exposing how he will try to end democracy as we know it. Thatās not the coverage he wants and itās the coverage that we need to get out there to the uninformed
Can blame right wing outlets for their role, but in 2016 it was compilations of liberal news anchors reacting to Trump that were always going viral on Trump social media, they covered him as a frontrunner from the very start. Only the left has done a good job to cover Trump as a symptom rather than amplifying his persona and contributing to his brand in some way.
Yeah, Iāll give you that. Maybe they can blow up Nikki Haley in the next couple months lmao
Thatās some nice phrasing there
This even includes lemmy. Trump generates upvotes. In that sense, I did my part.
Trump is a product of media.