Fox News' Howard Kurtz admits The New Yorker's exposé of the network 'makes some fair points'
Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz thinks The New Yorker's recent story on the network is "deeply flawed" — but it's not completely wrong.
Kurtz on Thursday said the recent story from Jane Mayer, which sheds lights on the close relationship between Fox and the Trump administration, "makes some fair points that have been floating around for a long time," per Mediaite. For example, he said that "Fox's prime time hosts, the opinion people, are largely supportive of President Trump," although "not always." He also noted that a number of former Fox employees have gone to work for Trump, although Kurtz also defended this by saying "a couple dozen journalists went to work for the Obama administration."
Overall, though, Kurtz said the story is "deeply flawed" because Fox's news division is "very professional and very solid," and he compared the story to "writing a whole piece saying The New York Times is an anti-Trump newspaper and mostly quoting from the editorial page."
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Not everyone at Fox is as willing to concede to some of the article's points, though. Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade went off on his radio show on Thursday, angrily calling it "abhorrent" and saying it "flat out wasn't true." Fox host Chris Wallace, who was a guest on Kilmeade's show, agreed, taking issue with a number of facts in it and saying the allegation that Trump received questions ahead of Fox News debates, which Fox has denied, was "not true." Wallace also said that the Democratic National Committee was just using this article as an excuse not to host a debate with Fox News, saying those on the left suffer from "Fox derangement syndrome."
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Brendan worked as a culture writer at The Week from 2018 to 2023, covering the entertainment industry, including film reviews, television recaps, awards season, the box office, major movie franchises and Hollywood gossip. He has written about film and television for outlets including Bloody Disgusting, Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Heavy and The Celebrity Cafe.
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