America’s top television networks on Thursday turned prime time over to a gripping account of former President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — with one prominent exception.
The top-rated news network, Fox News Channel, stuck with its own lineup of commentators. Sean Hannity denounced the “show trial” elsewhere on TV just as he was featured in it, with the House’s Jan. 6 committee examining his tweets to Trump administration figures.Hannity aired a soundless snippet of committee members entering the hearing room as part of a lengthy monologue condemning the proceedings.“It’s really just a cheap, selectively edited political ad,” Hannity told his viewers.
Yet the seven daytime hearings have proven something of an oddity. Buoyed by strong word-of-mouth, the hearings grew in audience as they went along. CNN, for example, reached 1.5 million people for the second daytime hearing on June 16, and 2.6 million for the last one on June 12, Nielsen said. That would be a much more serious problem in prime time, where Fox’s audience is more than double what it is during the day. Fox News Channel’s decision not to air the prime-time hearings is almost certainly a function of the demands of their audience and prime-time hosts, said Nicole Hemmer, an expert on conservative media and author of the upcoming book “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
He brought on guests like GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, who said that if the hearings have done anything, “they’ve exonerated President Trump and the people supporting him.”
Argentina Últimas Noticias, Argentina Titulares
Similar News:También puedes leer noticias similares a ésta que hemos recopilado de otras fuentes de noticias.
GOP lawmaker who gave Jan. 5 tour wants to investigate Jan. 6 panelRep. Barry Loudermilk, who led a Capitol tour on the eve of the riot, may soon chair the House Administration Committee in a future GOP majority, using it to dig into the Jan. 6 panel and Capitol security
Leer más »
The Jan. 6 committee holds its 8th hearing Thursday night. Here's what to expectIn today's hearing, the committee is expected to piece together what Trump was doing while he was out of the public eye on Jan. 6 and will zero in on the argument that “he was the sole person that could have called off the mob but chose not to.'
Leer más »
Secret Service Agents With Pence Said Goodbye to Family Members on Jan. 6An unidentified witness recounted that then-Vice President Mike Pence’s Secret Service detail was scared for their lives as a mob descended upon the U.S. Capitol.
Leer más »
Trump refused to say election was 'over' in Jan. 7 speech'I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay?'
Leer más »