• Fox News feared losing viewers by airing truth about election, document

    From VegasJerry@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 17 17:10:37 2023
    Fox News feared losing viewers by airing truth about election, documents show (WP)

    ‘Everything at stake here,’ billionaire founder Rupert Murdoch
    wrote to a top executive in November 2020, part of a cache of
    internal communications revealed in a $1.6 billion defamation suit.

    In the weeks after the 2020 election, Fox News faced an existential crisis. The top-rated cable news network had alienated its Donald Trump-loving viewers with an accurate election night prediction for Joe Biden and was facing a terrifying ratings slide,
    not to mention the ire of a once-loyal president.

    Full story with pics.


    https://wapo.st/3IAQjVr

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