Chris Stirewalt, the former political director of Fox News, says some of the network’s own hosts are at least partly to blame for the “panic” and outrage over the decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 election
The former political director of Fox News says some of the network’s own hosts are at least partly to blame for the “panic” and outrage over the decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The projection, which was made by Fox before all other networks, sparked the ire of Trumpworld at the time and led to some of the network’s own biggest stars claiming it was a.
We’re not making anything happen,” he said of the analysts behind the call, whom he described as “just some nerds in a room.” The fallout, he said, “showed to me how much television—the perceptions of events, of television as entertainment, news as entertainment and treating it like a sport—had really damaged the capacity of Americans to be good citizens in a republic because they confused the TV show with the real thing.
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