Kamala Harris Holds Her Own in FOX News Interview

Oct 17, 2024 | Kamala Harris' interview with Bret Baier on FOX News was truly a sight to behold. Steve Schmidt looks at the most impactful moments from the interview and explains why it was exactly what we needed to see from the Vice President.

Kamala Harris Arrived for a Fox Interview. She Got a Debate.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The vice president’s sit-down with Bret Baier was her most contentious meeting with a journalist since becoming the Democratic nominee.

Bret Baier, shown at the Democratic National Convention in August, asked Vice President Kamala Harris questions on Wednesday that echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s attacks against her. | Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
Vice President Kamala Harris may not get another debate with former President Donald J. Trump, but on Wednesday, she got one with Bret Baier.

In an interview that turned contentious almost the instant it began, Mr. Baier, Fox News’s chief political anchor, repeatedly pressed the Democratic presidential nominee on illegal immigration, taxpayer support for gender-transition surgery and other areas that closely aligned with Mr. Trump’s regular attacks against her.

At one point, Mr. Baier wondered if the vice president considered Mr. Trump’s supporters “stupid.” (“I would never say that about the American people,” she replied.) At another point, he asked if she would apologize to the mother of a murdered 12-year-old Texas girl whose death is frequently invoked by Mr. Trump because two recent Venezuelan migrants were charged with the crime.

Mr. Baier’s aggressive demeanor was consistent with the kind of tough coverage of Ms. Harris that blankets Fox News’s daily programming. Lots of viewers were surely eager to hear how she would respond when confronted head-on.

Frequently, however, Mr. Baier did not give viewers that chance. Instead, looking frustrated, he cut off several of Ms. Harris’s answers after a few seconds. His first interruption came within the first half-minute of their exchange.

“May I please finish responding?” Ms. Harris asked at one point. “I’m in the middle of responding to the point you’re making, and I’d like to finish.” » | Michael M. Grynbaum | Michael Grynbaum is a media correspondent covering the 2024 campaign. | Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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White House Condemns Fox News over ‘Sickening Attack’ on Arab Americans

GUARDIAN US: Network urged to apologize to ‘every single viewer’ after host Jesse Watters seemed to advocate violence against Arab Americans

Jesse Watters, the host of the popular show The Five. Photograph: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images
Fox News must apologize to its viewers, a White House spokesperson said, after the rightwing channel’s host Jesse Watters seemed to advocate violence against Arab Americans, amid heightened tensions over the Israel and Hamas war in Gaza.

On Wednesday evening, on the highly rated Fox show The Five, Watters said: “If you’re an Arab American in this country, and you rip down posters of Jewish hostages, American hostages, no. No, no, no. Someone is going to get punched in the face.”

In a statement sent to the Guardian, the White House deputy press secretary, Andrew Bates, called Watters’ remarks “unacceptable” and said: “Fox News owes an apology to every single viewer for this sickening attack on the rights and dignity of their fellow Americans.” » | Martin Pengelly in Washington | Thursday, November 2, 2023

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Jewish Viewers Find a Refuge in Fox News

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The network’s unflinching support for Israel in its fight against Hamas has put the conservative network in the good graces of many Jews who see other coverage of Israel as biased.

“Fox and Friends” interviewed people at the Second Avenue Deli in Manhattan who were assembled early in the morning before the restaurant’s usual opening time to discuss the Israel-Hamas war. | Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times
Ross Abramson, a software engineer and recent New York University graduate, had a fairly conventional news diet until recently. He regularly checked his phone for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. And as a Jew with an interest in Israel, he would browse a handful of outlets like The Times of Israel.

Then the brutal Hamas-led attack on Israel happened on Oct. 7, and Mr. Abramson found himself turning to an outlet he said he didn’t rely on much before: Fox News.

“Did I watch it religiously before? No,” he said, adding that he found Fox’s reporting and commentary on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “less antagonistic for sure” than that of other news organizations. “You don’t feel as attacked,” Mr. Abramson said.

Fox News, long a preferred source of news for the right, has lately become an information refuge for American Jews who believe that the mainstream media has been too hostile to Israel.

It’s somewhat of an improbable alliance. Jews overwhelmingly identify as Democrats. And as the Republican Party came to embrace a more populist brand of politics that vilifies “globalist” corporate interests and wealthy liberal businessmen like George Soros — something many see as coded antisemitism — Fox News hosts and guests promoted those views.

But more than any of the other major cable news channels — and perhaps more than any other major American media outlet — Fox News has wrapped itself in the Israeli flag in the weeks since the Hamas attack. Its coverage tends to emphasize the radical and antisemitic elements of the pro-Palestinian opposition, particularly on college campuses, while playing down the civilian casualties from Israeli strikes. » | Jeremy W. Peters | Friday, November 3, 2023

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How Lachlan Murdoch Became the New Head of Fox and News Corp

THE GUARDIAN: Rupert Murdoch’s passing the crown to Lachlan comes as Fox News faces a difficult balancing act in the run-up to the 2024 election

Lachlan Murdoch, 52, spent a decade away from the Fox and News Corp empire, before returning in 2014. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
Rupert Murdoch’s decision to hand the keys of his global media empire, including the role of chairman of both Fox Corp and News Corp, to his eldestson Lachlan brings to an end to years of speculation over his desired plan for succession.

Lachlan Murdoch, 52, now gains sole control of a media group that has reshaped the media landscape across continents and radically altered politics in the US. The move is the fulfillment of a promise first indicated in 2019, when the elder Murdoch named Lachlan as heir to his business.

“This is Lachlan’s best chance to prove to investors and his family that he is the best option for the future,” said David Folkenflik, NPR’s media correspondent and author of Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires. But he warned that it remained uncertain whether the successor could hold the empire together. » | Ed Pilkington and Dominic Rushe | Thursday, September 21, 2023

Rupert Murdoch Steps Down as Fox and News Corp. Chairman, Son Lachlan Now Chairman of Both

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VARIETY: Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as Fox and New Corp chairman, the companies announced today. His son, Lachlan, will take over the role at each company as Rupert moves into a chairman emeritus role. Rupert’s career at Fox began nearly 70 years ago in 1954. The new board moves will be effective as of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of each company in mid-November.

“On behalf of the FOX and News Corp boards of directors, leadership teams, and all the shareholders who have benefited from his hard work, I congratulate my father on his remarkable 70-year career,” said Lachlan Murdoch in a statement. “We thank him for his vision, his pioneering spirit, his steadfast determination, and the enduring legacy he leaves to the companies he founded and countless people he has impacted. We are grateful that he will serve as Chairman Emeritus and know he will continue to provide valued counsel to both companies.” » | Zack Sharf | Thursday, September 21, 2023

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Trump Demands Fox News Stop Using 'Big Orange' Photo of Him

THE TELEGRAPH: Former president also asks why network refuses to show poll 'where I am beating Biden, by a lot'

Mr Trump accused Fox of 'purposely showing the absolutely worst pictures of me' | CREDIT: CNN
Donald Trump has hit out at his once beloved Fox News for using unflattering photos of him, including one of him looking “orange” and with his “chin pulled back”.

The former US president and 2024 candidate also accused the Right-wing cable network of failing to show polling data “where I am beating [Joe] Biden, by a lot”.

Mr Trump, 77, is known to be a regular viewer of the network’s flagship morning show, “Fox and Friends”.

Fox was one of Mr Trump’s biggest supporters in the US media during his presidency.

But his views on the network have soured since it took the lead in calling the crucial state of Arizona for Mr Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

On his Truth Social platform on Thursday he said: “Why doesn’t Fox and Friends show all of the polls where I am beating Biden, by a lot. They just won’t do it!

“Also, they purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big “orange” one with my chin pulled way back. » | Rozina Sabur, Deputy US Editor | Thursday, August 17, 2023

Donnie, FYI, they call it a double chin, not a “chin pulled back”. By the way, I hope you’re stocking up on your orange spray tan. I doubt that they’ll have that colour in the commissary. – Mark

Tucker Carlson Home Studio Reportedly Dismantled by Fox News Workers

THE GUARDIAN: Daily Mail report says construction workers ‘took the set, all the equipment, everything’ from Maine studio network built for him

As Tucker Carlson prepares to take his show to Twitter, workers from Fox News, the network which fired the primetime opinion host last month, have reportedly dismantled the home studio it built him in Maine.

“Fox came in last week and got all their shit out of there,” DailyMail.com quoted Patrick Feeney, who it said was managing work to rebuild the studio, as saying.

“They took the set and everything, all the equipment, the chairs, the desk, the fake walls, everything.”

Fox News has not commented on Carlson’s firing beyond its initial statement on the day it happened, 24 April. » | Martin Pengelly in New York | Wednesday, May 24, 2023

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