Analysis: Report on Fox News’s editorial decisions about Trump administration may give insight into GOP’s approval of president
Fox News host Sean Hannity, who has been called President Trump's"shadow" chief of staff. By Eugene Scott Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 4 at 4:23 PM If a new report on how Fox News covered one of President Trump’s biggest alleged scandals is correct, then it sheds more light on why so many conservatives continue to give Trump some of the highest approval ratings in the past 40 years.
One alarming assertion in the piece is that Fox employees may have alerted Trump before the network’s debate that Megyn Kelly was going to ask the president some tough questions, including one about the history of his alleged mistreatment of women and details about his conversion to Republicanism.
"Diana Falzone, who often covered the entertainment industry, had obtained proof that Trump had engaged in a sexual relationship in 2006 with a pornographic film actress calling herself Stormy Daniels. Falzone had worked on the story since March, and by October she had confirmed it with Daniels through her manager at the time, Gina Rodriguez, and with Daniels’s former husband, Mike Moz, who described multiple calls from Trump.
It was no secret that coverage of the Trump administration on Fox opinion shows skewed heavily pro-Trump. But there had been no reporting before now suggesting that the network had killed stories because the most powerful man at the network — chief Rupert Murdoch — wanted Trump to become the most powerful man in the world.
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