Fox News Executive Tries To Rein In Stars As They Cheer On Anti-Lockdown Rallies

[Celerity]

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840751725/fox-news-executive-tries-to-rein-in-stars-as-they-cheer-on-anti-lockdown-rallies



Fox News personalities have been cheerleading protesters across the U.S. gathering in defiance of state lockdown orders. This week, the situation became so extreme that a top executive at the network tried to rein in his stars. Fox News President Jay Wallace sent a directive Monday urging Fox anchors to take time on the air to remind protesters to practice social distancing, according to a senior executive at Fox. The executive said Wallace issued it at the behest of Fox CEO Suzanne Scott. Wallace and Scott declined to be interviewed for this story.

Public health officials say the coronavirus can spread easily when people are packed in tight quarters — including at these protests. Fox hosts have hailed the protesters for standing up for liberty and fundamental American rights, yet have rarely noted the risks involved in those very demonstrations. The hosts have, for the most part, been anchoring their shows from the safety of their own home studios.

Shortly after Wallace's guidance went out Monday, Fox host Harris Faulkner interrupted a guest who said the protesters were not opposing safety measures. Faulkner noted that the footage on the air at that very moment reflected demonstrators clustered closely together, sharing phones and cameras and failing to wear masks.

Few major media outlets have been so resolutely devoted to President Trump's fortunes as Fox News Channel. The crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has proved a test of that loyalty. And with few exceptions, Fox has passed with flying colors — in the sense that its most prominent figures have bolstered the president, even when he has taken a lurching, and at times seemingly self-defeating, approach to the crisis.

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[malaise]

1. Lawsuits are coming

Said Execs could have stopped all of this madness when it started but no. I hope they are sued out of existence for this misinformation

[Celerity]

2. if/when the states reopening have a massive new wave of cases & deaths, then hopefully Fux is fucked

[Botany]

3. That picture makes me proud to be from Ohio

Putting the dumb back into free-dumb.

[Alliepoo]

16. It's a true melting pot of Ohio stupid, isn't it?

SMH.

[Botany]

18. Even though he didn't go to college 60 years ago Gov. Jim Rhodes made it so that a college or tech..

... school was with in 50 miles of everybody in OH and now we lead the nation in dumb fucks ...
except for Oklahoma and Arkansas.

BTW from the looks of those people they no doubt help the local KFC's bottom line.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Fox executives must know they're on the wrong side here.

Now would be a good time for some independent group to show how Fox has mislead the public. If at least some viewers see the light, it would decrease Fox’s influence.

[gab13by13]

5. I call them the death cult on a local right wing web site,

I tell them that I'm not about to die for greedy bastards on Wall Street.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Cull the Cult

Unfortunately or not, I have a feeling this pandemic will to some extent separate the cautious, careful, prudent population from the rigid, anti-science, ideological, don't-fence-me-in crowd. It's a mistake to call them freedom lovers. We all love freedom, but there is freedom as it pertains to organized government and civil rights, and there is freedom as it relates to anarchy, libertarianism, autocracy. Lot of overlaps going on depending on how you look at it. But the let-it-roll crowd runs risks with a calamitous illness.

[augyboston]

7. Everyone of these Faux News "celebrities"...

Everyone of these Faux News "celebrities" should come out of the shelter of their homes and stand shoulder to shoulder with these insane lock down protesters without masks and inhale deeply!

[Scarsdale]

11. Wallace?

Is he related to Chris Wallace, I wonder? Faux needs to be fined out of existance. It is Pravda, parading as US "news". Only tRump and his low information fans watch this garbage.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

8. "it's their God given right to protest"

Ainsley Airhead fox and friends this morning.

That went right out the window

[Celerity]

9. Ainsley Earhardt is a Rump fav blonde bimboid (I do not think Melania likes her though, lol)

[Scarsdale]

12. Maleria might not like her,

but I'll bet Jared does! He goes for bottle blondes with black roots and lots of plastic surgery. Brains? Nah.

[Mr. Sparkle]

10. Remember Martha Stewart went to jail for stock trading? Fox News employees should

receive due punishment that matches their crimes.

[DURHAM D]

19. She went to jail for lying to the FBI. nt

[tanyev]

13. Who's the hypocrite wearing a mask to an anti-lockdown rally?

[CottonBear]

24. That's the first thing that I noticed. Hypocrite. N/T

[3Hotdogs]

14. Yeah, I could see Trump dumping Malaria for her.

[marble falls]

15. Getting the Deplorables back into the Basket is going to be a task, they think they speak ...

for everybody.

[Grokenstein]

17. Naw, FOX, go right ahead and let it "wash over them."

And then you can let the lawsuits "wash over you."

[PA Democrat]

20. FOX should lose every single advertiser they have.

If a company wants to fund deadly misinformation by advertising on FOX, I will boycott them. Time to call out the corporate malfeasance that has contributed to the death toll of this pandemic.

[riversedge]

21. Any lawsuit should hit Hannity et al. personally in their wallets. Not just the Corporation!

[Celerity]

22. +100000

[crickets]

23. Absolutely. nt