Author: David Choi / Source: INSIDER
- President Donald Trump fired back at the Democratic National Committee after it decided to exclude the Fox News Channel from broadcasting any of its candidates’ debates during the 2020 US presidential primary.
- The DNC’s decision to blacklist Fox News prompted a response from other journalists, some of whom suggested it was not a good look for the party.
- Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, and Chris Wallace are all anchors whose respective time slots precede the shows from Fox News’ popular opinion hosts like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.
- Several 2020 Democratic candidates have already appeared for exclusive interviews with Fox News anchors in recent weeks, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.
- Fox News anchors have previously been praised by their peers for their work, and some of that praise has come from journalists at competing news networks.
President Donald Trump fired back at the Democratic National Committee after it decided to exclude Fox News Channel from broadcasting any of its candidates’ debates during the 2020 US presidential primary.
“Democrats just blocked [Fox News] from holding a debate,” Trump tweeted Wednesday night. “Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!”
DNC chairman Tom Perez said that he considered several “potential media partners,” for the 2020 primary and decided to exclude Fox News after a New Yorker article published online suggested the network had “become propaganda” for the Trump administration.
The article, which was anonymously sourced from former Trump campaign officials and former Fox News executives, describes how the network allegedly maintains close ties to the Trump administration and intentionally provides favorable coverage.
“Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and FOX News has led me to conclude that the…
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