As America watched Capitol attack testimony, Fox News gave an alternate reality

Tucker Carlson leads January 6 counter-programming, petulantly refusing to show the hearing: We're not playing along'

The millions of people who tuned into America's main television channels on Thursday heard how the January 6 insurrection was the culmination of an attempted coup", a siege" where violent Trump supporters mercilessly attacked police, causing politicians and staffers to run for their lives.

On the Fox News channel, however, there was a different take on the historic congressional hearings exploring the attack on the Capitol in Washington DC.