Fox News Gives Clinton Cash $107 Million Of Free Publicity

[okaawhatever]

Over just five days last week, Fox News devoted more than 10 hours of total coverage to promoting Peter Schweizer's new anti-Clinton book, Clinton Cash. The coverage is worth more than $107 million in publicity value, according to a Media Matters study of the network's coverage between April 20 and April 24.

Schweizer, a conservative activist with a long history of shoddy reporting and research, is set to release Clinton Cash on May 5. The book is being published by HarperCollins, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Fox News is part of 21st Century Fox, which is also owned by Murdoch. Politico reported last week that Fox News, along with the New York Times and The Washington Post, had struck "exclusive agreements with a conservative author for early access to his opposition research on Hillary Clinton."

Fox News has devoted copious time and energy to promoting the book, which it claims could lead "people" to "worry that another Clinton administration could mean influence-peddling on a scale never before imagined."

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Schweizer's book is a piece of filth.

I got no idea of there is a There there or not, but Schweizer has apparently provided no convincing evidence beyond what is already in the public domain--not that this matters, because he and his book are tools of the Fox Empire, the Enchanted Realm of Truthiness.

[misterhighwasted]

2. Also credit Washington Journal for this morning's free publicity.

Schweizer was on selling his fiction book, which of course is due out next week.
Good timing WJ!
The last caller did tell the host that WJ should be ashamed of itself for Schweizer's appearance.
The host just sat there looking at the camera with a dumb look on his face.
Lowered the bar for WJ's reputation today.

Schweizer is grabbing a heap of that Clinton Cash for himself no doubt, as another poster pointed out.

Turned the channel when Schweizer invoked the name Peggy Noonan as a cowriter.
barfbag please
Thanks

[m-lekktor]

3. the book already came out last tuesday, May 5th

according to the media matters article posted in OP, not next week!

[misterhighwasted]

4. Haven't paid attention. Just noted a statement from WJ this morning.

Not sure but I'll take your word for it.

[Iliyah]

5. Saw it at Costco and had to shake my head.

[misterhighwasted]

6. Should be filed under fiction

Yuk