Of course Fox News isn’t airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings

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Washington Pest

Analysis by Philip Bump National correspondent

June 7, 2022

The Republican Party made a decision early last year that it would rather use the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as a cudgel against Democrats than engage in the sort of self-reflection that an honest assessment of the causes of that riot might demand. It was easier — easy, even — simply to cast any probe of the attack as partisan and let slide Donald Trump’s insistences that the real problem was the 2020 election than to take on the former president and his enthusiastic base of support.

In part, that was easier because of Fox News. From the first hours after the riot, Fox News’s opinion hosts were spinning the riot as something other than it was — although they’d just sent text messages to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, asking him to get Trump to take a firmer hand against the violence. Over the past 17 months, Fox News’s hosts (particularly Tucker Carlson) have been at the forefront of casting doubt on the riot and depicting efforts to investigate what happened as partisan. There is a news side at Fox, but it sits under the shadow of the late-night hosts. The effect is that Fox News has unique power to influence Republican politics and the Republican electorate.

So of course the network is not going to carry hearings run by the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack.

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And The Clown News Network

June 7 2022

CNN's Jim Sciutto asks Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) to weigh in on Fox's decision not to air the January 6 hearings, which committee members have teased could be focused on former President Donald Trump's role in undermining the 2020 presidential election results.

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The New Yorker

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Fox News Unable to Air January 6th Hearings Owing to Reruns of Benghazi Hearings

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Fox News will not air the January 6th hearings in prime time, owing to the network’s decision to air reruns of the 2015 Benghazi hearings instead.

Speaking for Fox News, Tucker Carlson announced that, although other news outlets will air hearings about the insurrection at the United States Capitol, Fox will run Hillary Clinton’s eleven-hour testimony about Benghazi in its entirety.

When her testimony concludes, Carlson said, the network will show it again, on a continuous loop.

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And of course HuffPo.

Fox News Gives Up On News; Won't Air 'Grotesque' Jan. 6 Hearings Live

The right-wing network will stick with its usual prime time lineup, including conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson.

Ed Mazza

June 7 2022