Analysis by Philip Bump: The ‘trust’ Fox News seeks from its viewers isn’t about truth
within that right-wing universe — who framed the problem that way, according to Dominion’s filings in its suit.A few days before, Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott discussed the network’s eroding support with Fox chief executive Rupert Murdoch. She talked about the need to “keep the audience who loves and trusts us,” according to the filing, and “to make sure they know we aren[’]t abandoning them and [are] still champions for them.”“Viewers going through the 5 stages of grief,” she wrote.
A new legal filing from Dominion Voting Systems shows Fox News anchors pushed falsehoods about the 2020 election, even as they privately doubted their validity. Fox News host Tucker Carlson worried that executives like Scott didn’t get the problem. In a message to his producer obtained by Dominion, he worried that executives might not “understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience.”Again, the thing that eroded that trust was that the network — briefly, at least — failed to embrace the right-wing consensus about the suspiciousness of the election results.
It’s right there in Scott’s text: The network needed to let viewers know they were heard and respected — meaning that their false beliefs were respected, not contravened. We saw something similar a few months later when Fox News declined to air the live prime-time hearings held by the House select committee investigating the
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