Democrats bar Fox News from moderating debates after reported Trump ties

[webfact]

Democrats bar Fox News from moderating debates after reported Trump ties

 

FILE PHOTO: A Fox News channel sign is seen at the News Corporation building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday said it will not allow Fox News to host any of its candidates' political debates through 2020, citing a report this week about the conservative channel's ties to U.S. President Donald Trump.

 

"Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates," DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement provided to Reuters.

 

"Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates," Perez said in a statement.

 

Representatives for Fox said they hoped the DNC would reconsider and let some of its journalists moderate a Democratic presidential debate.

 

Trump responded to the announcement by saying he may refuse to participate in certain debates.

 

"I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!" he said in a Twitter post.

 

Trump has criticized CNN and MSNBC, among other media, as "Fake News" for their coverage of his administration.

 

The DNC's decision is a rerun of the 2016 primary election, when it turned down Fox's multiple offers to host a debate, citing the network's longstanding conservative bent and prominent criticism of Democratic policies. At that time a Democrat, Barack Obama, occupied the Oval Office.

 

Trump, a Republican seeking re-election in 2020, has stoked polarization between the two U.S. political parties by appealing to his base on Twitter and television and policy speeches while simultaneously publicly attacking and feuding with prominent Democrats.

 

The New Yorker earlier this week reported on "seamlessly" close ties between Trump and the television network founded by Rupert Murdoch, citing an expert on presidential studies who said Fox is the "closest we've come to having state t.v."

 

The article went on to describe the access and interviews that members of the White House have granted exclusively to the network.

 

As the field of competition to become Democrats' next presidential nominee grows ever more crowded, the party has decided to split its first primary debate over two weeknights this summer. Twelve people have already jumped into the race and the DNC has capped each debate night at 20 candidates.

 

The party's primary debates this year will mark a sharp reversal from its last round of contests, when less than half a dozen politicians appeared at a handful of debates that were televised on Saturday nights and other times with notoriously low television viewership.

 

(Reporting by Jim Oliphant, Sheila Dang, and Lisa Lambert; writing by Susan Heavey and Lisa Lambert; editing by Bill Berkrot, James Dalgleish and Sonya Hepinstall)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-07

[mtls2005]

Prior to the first GOP primary debate in 2015, Roger Ailes may have tipped off Trump about Megyn Kelly’s question regarding his history of disparaging women.

A pair of Fox insiders and a source close to Trump believe that Ailes informed the Trump campaign about Kelly’s question. Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness. In addition, a former Trump campaign aide says that a Fox contact gave him advance notice of a different debate question, which asked the candidates whether they would support the Republican nominee, regardless of who won.

 

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/8-wild-revelations-in-the-new-yorkers-fox-news-trump-expos.html

[mtls2005]

Worth a read...

 

The Making of the Fox News White House

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house

[Tug]

Oh oh Donald’s gonna have another melt down sorry donald

[mtls2005]

Hannity must be mad, he only got a 10/10 while Doocy got a 12/10.

 

Trump has told confidants that he rates Fox News personalities on a scale of 1 to 10, The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer wrote in her eye-opening essay titled “The Making Of The Fox News White House.”

 

Trump gave Fox News host Sean Hannity, arguably the president’s loudest cheerleader in the media, a perfect 10, according to Mayer. Reportedly outshining Hannity’s allegiance with a score of 12 is Steve Doocy, a co-host of “Fox & Friends,” the morning talk show Trump seemingly loves to live-tweet as he watches.

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fox-news-new-yorker_n_5c7d2c94e4b0614614dccdad

 

 

 

[BobBKK]

And CNN is snowy white unbiased?  MSBC?  really?  all this does is further polarize. Pathetic and I expect the GOP now to ban in return and who can blame them? (no doubt some will try)

[BobBKK]

30 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Prior to the first GOP primary debate in 2015, Roger Ailes may have tipped off Trump about Megyn Kelly’s question regarding his history of disparaging women.

A pair of Fox insiders and a source close to Trump believe that Ailes informed the Trump campaign about Kelly’s question. Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness. In addition, a former Trump campaign aide says that a Fox contact gave him advance notice of a different debate question, which asked the candidates whether they would support the Republican nominee, regardless of who won.

 

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/8-wild-revelations-in-the-new-yorkers-fox-news-trump-expos.html

I think it was a DEM who got kicked out for doing just that.

[metisdead]

Some troll posts have been removed. 

[attrayant]

14 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

And CNN is snowy white unbiased?  MSBC?  really?

 

The OP does not use the word 'bias' at all.  This is about the intimate, incestuous relationship between Trump and Fox "News".  If there were any such relationship between Trump and the other media outlets you mentioned, I would be in favor of barring them as well.

[Puchaiyank]

It is a new Democratic strategy to paint FOX news as the boogie man thereby deflection attention away from their own egregious handling of the Trump administration.

 

They should use unbiased journalists of impecible integrity like Lawrence O'donnell or the bastion of fair and balanced reporting Rachael Maddow...????

[mtls2005]

Fox News killed Stormy Daniels hush money report before election: New Yorker

 

Falzone had also reportedly obtained emails between Daniels’s attorney and Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen that showed that Cohen had proposed to pay cash to Daniels in exchange for a nondisclosure agreement.

 

But the report was never published, according to The New Yorker, which added that former Fox News executive Ken LaCorte ultimately told Falzone to "let it go."

 

“Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go," LaCorte reportedly said. 

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/432430-fox-killed-stormy-daniels-hush-money-report-before-election-new-yorker

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, BobBKK said:

And CNN is snowy white unbiased?  MSBC?  really?  all this does is further polarize. Pathetic and I expect the GOP now to ban in return and who can blame them? (no doubt some will try)

Yes, the GOP should feel free to ban CNN from their primary debates. Just as the DNC is free to ban Fox from their primary debates.

 

But the topic at hand has nothing to do with bias, but with questionable connections.

[Chomper Higgot]

I wouldn’t take such a blanket approach to FOX.

 

Their coverage of Obama’s election victories were unmissable and I’ll be tuned into FOX as Trump is removed from office and occasion of each of his children being convicted.

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed. 

[Basil B]

Fox News founded by Rupert Murdoch...

 

Say no more, The Aussie Geriatric self proclaimed king maker has used his British media interests to influence British elections for decades.

[Thomas J]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates," DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement provided to Reuters.

And the other media has become just a propaganda arm for the Democrats.  Consider Trump is meeting with North Korea in Vietnam.  CNN and MSNBC gave the historic summit 12 minutes of total coverage but 428 minutes of coverage at the same time on the Michael Cohen testimony in congress focusing on dissected clips they found disparaged Trump. 

[Becker]

8 minutes ago, Thomas J said:

And the other media has become just a propaganda arm for the Democrats.  Consider Trump is meeting with North Korea in Vietnam.  CNN and MSNBC gave the historic summit 12 minutes of total coverage but 428 minutes of coverage at the same time on the Michael Cohen testimony in congress focusing on dissected clips they found disparaged Trump. 

"And the other media has become just a propaganda arm for the Democrats.  Consider Trump is meeting with North Korea in Vietnam.  CNN and MSNBC gave the historic summit 12 minutes of total coverage but 428 minutes of coverage....."

 

What was "historic" about that meeting was it's total failure, so by applying your "logic" the meeting should have been covered extensively by the evil liberal media.

 

"....at the same time on the Michael Cohen testimony in congress focusing on dissected clips they found disparaged Trump."

 

Well, they didn't have to look very hard, did they.

[Longcut]

Ban the #1 cable news channel in America. Not very smart. That many more people (voters) that will not be watching the debates.

[Gramps]

Predictable - use of the words "Fox News" and "moderate" in the same sentence always invites ridicule.

[bristolboy]

1 hour ago, Thomas J said:

And the other media has become just a propaganda arm for the Democrats.  Consider Trump is meeting with North Korea in Vietnam.  CNN and MSNBC gave the historic summit 12 minutes of total coverage but 428 minutes of coverage at the same time on the Michael Cohen testimony in congress focusing on dissected clips they found disparaged Trump. 

In the case of Fox, the issue is absolute suppression of a big story uncovered by a Fox news reporter. Not a question of how much time was devoted to a story.

[from the home of CC]

bottom line for me is that this shows that there are a lot of sheep in viewer land, and yet people knock education standards in Thailand lol...

[Thakkar]

Fox News debate questions to Democratic Primary candidates:

 

Which of you is the *most* like that murderous socialist, Joseph Stalin?

 

How many full term babies ripped from their mothers’ wombs would you find acceptable?

 

How can you believe in man made climate change and still ride in a car? Isn’t that totally hypocritical?

 

Would *you* invite an MS-13 gang member into your home? If not, why do you demand that the good people of our border towns to do the same?

 

Do you have walls in you house? Why deny the same to the good people of El Paso?

 

Would you be willing to give 70/80/90 percent of your income to welfare queens to buy drugs?

 

Please feel free to add your own Fox questions.

 

oh, nearly forgot:

Remember: be Fair and Balanced!

[727Sky]

I guess they could not find someone at Fox who was a sure deal to leak the questions to the democratic presidential hopefuls before the debate ?

[roobaa01]

1this is the disgusting socialism face of the undemocratic party which is trying to create an unform leftwing media and abolish freedom of speech. dude media cnn, nbc and mentally unfit dems like aocortez, tlaib, omar go well together. but who reported about aocortez may face jail charges for violating campaign financing, who reported about the two muslim dems tlaib, omar with their antisemitism, fox news did so .

 

wbr

roobaa01

[Thakkar]

SausageBoy (@Sirfoodalot)

3/7/19, 5:03 AM

⁦‪@AndrewKirell‬⁩ When you have shown years of disingenuous interest in being fair or making compromises there comes a point when we should no longer trust you with the football. I'm talking to you Lucy.

[ToS2014]

Fox is a terrible news channel; so are ALL the rest.  Remove the blinders and seek information that forms your own opinion. It is rather silly to base one's opinion on FOX/CBS/ABC/and XYZ 'news' outlets.

[bristolboy]

6 hours ago, Thomas J said:

And the other media has become just a propaganda arm for the Democrats.  Consider Trump is meeting with North Korea in Vietnam.  CNN and MSNBC gave the historic summit 12 minutes of total coverage but 428 minutes of coverage at the same time on the Michael Cohen testimony in congress focusing on dissected clips they found disparaged Trump. 

Well, unlike Trump, they probably heeded his advisors who evaluated that Trump's summit would have little chance of success.

[canuckamuck]

The mainstream media should be banned entirely from moderating the debates.

They have all shown strong bias and favouritism.  Most of the MSM are essentially the PR machine for the Democrats, while Fox is clearly on side with GOP.

Moderating a debate should be left to a pool of qualified people who are drawn lottery style.

 

[Ulic]

Not anything everyone doesn't already know. FOX "News" heavily favors the Republicans while CNN, MSNBC lean heavily to the Democrats. FOX claims to be fair and balanced just like the "Democratic" Republic of North Korea" and the "Democratic" Republic of the Congo both claim (in the name) to be democracies. None of these channels is fair and balanced in its reporting when it comes to politics any more than the BBC and RT. They all have an editorial agenda. 

[rgraham]

Shocking news!