Is Fox News drawing the line on support of Trump?

[left-of-center2012]

Fox News has been a bedrock of support for US President Donald Trump, but that might be changing as the impeachment inquiry in Washington, DC gathers steam. With Trump tweeting about a coup and talk of a looming civil war, there are signs of an in-house civil war at the influential broadcaster.

There were some signs, before the Ukraine story, of dissent at the network on where Fox should draw the line in its support of Trump. But this story has laid bare divisions like never before. On the air, hosts argue with each other reflecting a deeper split among Fox executives and within the network's owners, the Murdoch family. And as Fox's best-known viewer, it is not like Trump has not noticed. Some of those angry tweets he used to reserve for CNN and the New York Times are now heading Fox's way.

Alayna Treene, White House reporter for Axios, a US news and information website, says Trump has recently been calling into question some of the more conservative Fox media hosts as well as the network itself for not always coming to his defence. "The president expects Fox to be in his corner," Treene says. "He expects people on those shows to come to his defence and when they don't necessarily, at least in his eyes, there is some tension there."

But Treene points out that Trump's relationship with Fox News is unlikely to change. "He may criticise certain people within Fox but his relationship with the network as a whole is still very strong. He needs Fox in a way that they really get to his base. They get to the people who vote for him and will, he hopes, vote for him again."

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https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2019/10/fox-news-drawing-line-support-trump-191006111954991.html

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Lachlan Murdoch has to out his foot down or......

cease being the FAIR and BALANCED news outlet.

The reason I do not watch FOX News is the same reason I do not get my source of drinking water from the toilet. For this is what FOX has become, a toilet, a cesspool of right-wing propaganda.

[gordianot]

2. Trump depends on syncopates and enablers.

They are his mob inspired drug without them he becomes what he really represents an ignorant insecure vain loser.

[bitterross]

3. No chance they will stop being the Trump/GOP Propaganda Network

Not going to happen. They have these squabbles intentionally and publicly so they can claim to be fair and present both sides. It's why Shep Smith still has a job.

It's all a part of their larger strategy.

[empedocles]

5. fox 11:55a Sunday. Chris Wallace show. Chyron - 'SCHIFF LIED TO MSNBC'

Typical 'pretty', youngish, adamant commentator slamming Schiff.

Wallace closes his show with straight up defense of Schiff. 'Chairman Schiff was right when he said . . . '

[That seems to be where fox is this Sunday].

[Midnight Writer]

6. Fox viewers are watching intently for any deviation from hate-talk orthodoxy.

Fox has painted themselves into a corner. Their snowflake audience is hyper alert to content they deem offensive. If Fox doesn't serve up enough red meat, their viewers will flee to the friendlier atmosphere of the internet and talk radio.