Former Fox News politics editor says network stoked ‘paranoia and hatred’
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from US news | The Guardian on (#62S4B)
Chris Stirewalter, who was forced out after Donald Trump's electoral defeat, says Fox failed its viewers with 2020 election coverage
A former Fox News politics editor who was forced out of the conservative television network shortly after its opinions hosts' preferred candidate Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential race has said that the channel failed its viewers with its election coverage.
In his upcoming memoir, Chris Stirewalt says Fox News resigned its duty to prepare Trump followers for the possibility that he would lose, instead stoking the black-helicopter-level paranoia and hatred" which fuels white supremacist groups but translates into big ratings.
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