The Making of the Fox News White House | The New Yorker
Jane Mayer
America's first State-run Media
Politico later reported that it was Hannity’s seventh interview with the President, and Fox’s forty-second. Since then, Trump has given Fox two more. He has granted only ten to the three other main television networks combined, and none to CNN, which he denounces as “fake news.” Hannity was treated in Texas as a member of the Administration because he virtually is one. The same can be said of Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch. Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years many people who watch the network closely, including some Fox alumni, say that it has evolved into something that hasn’t existed before in the United States. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of Presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”
For both Trump and Fox, “fear is a business strategy—it keeps people watching.” As the President has been beset by scandals, congressional hearings, and even talk of impeachment, Fox has been both his shield and his sword. his press secretary, Sarah Sanders, has largely stopped holding press conferences, but she has made some thirty appearances on such shows as “Fox & Friends” and “Hannity.” Trump, Hemmer says, has “almost become a programmer.”
Bill Kristol, who was a paid contributor to Fox News until 2012 and is a prominent Never Trumper, said of the network, “It’s changed a lot. Before, it was conservative, but it wasn’t crazy. Now it’s just propaganda.” Joe Peyronnin, a professor of journalism at N.Y.U., was an early president of Fox News, in the mid-nineties. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” he says of Fox. “It’s as if the President had his own press organization. It’s not healthy.”
Shine, the Fox and White House payrolls actually do overlap. The Hollywood Reporter obtained financial-disclosure forms revealing that Fox has been paying Shine millions of dollars since he joined the Administration. Last year, he collected the first half of a seven-million-dollar bonus that he was owed after resigning from Fox; this year, he will receive the remainder. That sum is in addition to an $8.4-million
Howard and Abbott's abhorrent defence of Pell
George Pell sued over claim of swimming pool sex abuse
The cost of compensation vs The cost of the Pell defence? Who is being taken care of?
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Andrew, your defence of Pell makes mockery of survivors
Clare Linane, the wife of a survivor of child sexual abuse, has written an open letter to columnist Andrew Bolt.
- by Claire Linane
via We Should Afford George Pell The Assumption Of Innocence Until Proven Guilty By Andrew Bolt – The Shovel
How the collectivist Left isolates and silences conservatives whose opinions they do not want heard." Bolt
" now reports this persecution of one of the people who questioned the "guilty beyond reasonable doubt" jury finding that he sexually abused two 13-year-olds straight after Mass in a room, normally busy, with an open door:"
Bolt memorises sentences like this as if they were a chorus line to an anthem because he believes it's best and only rebuttal he can offer. He degrades the 12 man jury, and judge and our entire legal system in the one breathe. Never mind he wasn't present for even a single hour of the 4-week trial. However, it only goes to show he doesn't also have the experience or the knowledge of the of what a Catholic service, in fact, is and the absolute power Priests have in their domain. Pell was top dog, and history tells us just how much gall the deviants below and protected by him had who acted in much the same manner with no regard to how many people were present. Bolt's inability to grasp that concept of power goes to show how little attention he's paid to all the other cases around the world where the clergy who would be kings committed their crimes. They had references too from the elite in Boston Adelaide, and only God knows whom to say they were innocent as well.
As for Craven how is it his word in our society is meant to be higher than those of his staff well when it comes to an opinion? It's not, but it's volume and how it's delivered unlike the staff's is. Staff are joining as individuals and are not providing theirs on behalf of faculties or as the voice of the Institution, The Catholic University. They aren't conflating Craven as their institutional voice or pretending the university is an Australian citizen like all others. Which is what Bolt's attempting to convey but we aren't constitutionally American.
In Bolt's world Unionists are illegal, corrupt can't be believed, activists. These are the descriptives always given to citizens who speak up called left, labour and unions as if that all it takes name-calling. However, all the recent Royal Commissions have found the opposite of unions to what Bolt is suggesting but found that his favoured Corporations and tax-free Religious organisations to be the worst offenders and defenders of unwonted deviants in the country.
All of this too suggest Pells defenders are collective martyrs victims of Australian citizens. We had seen it all before ISIS maintained they also were on the side of right and denied the separation of powers and due process and were martyrs
"I hope that commentators helping to whip up these mobs will at least one day feel shame, and regardless of whether Pell's appeal succeeds or fails."
Bolt does what Bolt does in all cases where he hasn't a leg to stand on he flips the narrative. He's the indigenous Australian victim of black racism, He's the justice seeker the victim of an unjust legal system, he the male being gender bashed by LGBTQIs and Feminazis. All style for team yes but vacant of history and context a one trick pony really.
"The finding against Pell should be up for reasoned debate, but what we see now is something dangerously different." Bolt Bolt's the voice of a Corporation a collective blowing smoke in the face of reality and not debate.
ABC RECKONS SOME JURIES CAN BE QUESTIONED, AFTER ALL
Remember when the ABC didn't think it wrong to question a jury verdict?: "The ABC's Keli Lane documentary is still making waves several weeks after it first went to air, with a group of academics and lawyers now asking the NSW Attorney General for an urgent review of Lane's murder conviction." No screams of: "You defend murderers!" What's changed?
HOW BISHOP, PYNE WRECKED ANOTHER DAY FOR LIBERALS
The Morrison Government has a good story to tell yesterday. But once again the leaders of the Liberal left destroyed the chance. Blame Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
HANSON SAYS MORRISON GOVT DODGING A VISA FOR MILO
Pauline Hanson knows well how violent mobs now try to stop debates. So the One Nation leader has been fighting to get a visa for Milo Yiannopoulos - blocked by the Immigration Department because violent Leftists rioted last time. She accuses Immigration Minister David Coleman of stalling. How weak. Watch our interview.
ARMFIELD: SAYS TOLD GEOFFREY RUSH TO PUT CLOTHES ON
RUSH DENIES Director Neil Armfield in court defended Geoffrey Rush over claims he groped an actress. (Rush denies it.) Now outside court Armfield damages Rush by confirming a claim by another actress. I won't speculate on what's happening here. A verdict is imminent.
JULIAN BURNSIDE STANDS FOR GREENS. SAYS IT ALL ABOUT BOTH
Celebrity "human rights" lawyer Julian Burnside says he will stand against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in Kooyong. And for the Greens, a party battered by allegations of bullying, abuse, conspiracy theorising and economic irrationality. Will Burnside fit in? Let me review his record.
'Wrestle the pig': Treasurer faces challenge from prominent barrister
Julian Burnside will run as a Greens candidate and has high-profile Melbourne Liberal Josh Frydenberg in his sights.
Black economy crackdown: ATO to knock on small business doors
The tax office says it will be making visits to more than 4000 companies between now and July to chase black economy activities.
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