Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election

lA little greater than per week after tv networks referred to as the 2020 presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., high executives and anchors at Fox News held an after-action assembly to determine how they’d tousled,” the New York Times reviews.
“Not as a result of they’d gotten the key name mistaken — however as a result of they’d gotten it proper. And so they had gotten it proper earlier than anybody else.”
“Usually, it’s a level of pleasure for a information community to be the first to challenge election winners. However Fox isn’t any typical information community, and in the days following the 2020 vote, it was besieged with offended protests not solely from President Donald J. Trump’s camp however from its personal viewers as a result of it had referred to as the battleground state of Arizona for Mr. Biden. By no means thoughts that the name was appropriate; Fox executives fearful that they’d lose viewers to hard-right rivals like Newsmax.”
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