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It was their own network's news division that was pathetic, she wrote.

"THEY AREN'T SMART," Ingraham emphasized, "and they've broken the last four years' agreement.

On Nov. 13, 2020, the conversation was included among thousands of pages of recently released documents related to Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox for its post-election reporting, and much of what was uncovered ultimately may have little bearing on whether Fox will be judged guilty of libel.

Instead, the material offers insight into how Fox's stars and leadership responded at a time of high anxiety and how giving its audience what it wanted to hear took precedence over reporting uncomfortable revelations, which has bolstered critics who say Fox News Channel should be considered a propaganda network rather than a news outlet.

Yet while Fox's news side has seen the prominent defections of Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace in recent years, it still employs many respected journalists, such as Jennifer Griffin, Greg Palkot, John Roberts, Shannon Bream, Bryan Llenas, Jacqui Heinrich, and Chad Pergram.

They're left to wonder whether the raft of recent stories about Fox—from the Dominion documents and from Carlson's use of U.S. Capitol security video to craft his own narrative of Jan. 6, 2021—will make their jobs more difficult and make fewer people want to work with them because of the dominance of Fox's opinion side, which says it has increased its investment in journalism by more than 50% under Suzanne Scott, Fox News Media CEO, and usually leads its rivals in ratings during major breaking news stories.

"We are incredibly proud of our team of journalists who continue to deliver breaking news from around the world and will continue to fight for the preservation of the First Amendment," the network said in offering a stern network election night declaration that Joe Biden had won in Arizona, ahead of any other news organization, infuriating its viewers who were sympathetic to former President Donald Trump's claims of significant voter fraud even if, then as now, there has been no evidence of that.

After she covered a Nov. 19 news conference with Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, then-Fox reporter Kristin Fisher said her boss in Washington, Bryan Boughton, called to say he was unhappy with her report and said she was told she needed to do a better job of "respecting our audience," according to documents released in "I believed that I was respecting our audience by telling them the truth," Fisher, who now works at CNN, testified in a deposition on the Dominion case.

She later claimed that airtime was taken away from her in retaliation and drew the ire of Fox opinion hosts by tweeting a fact-check on some of Trump's claims in a Carlson interview, in which he profanely said she should be fired; Fox said she was later promoted to White House correspondent.

"She has serious nerve doing this," Fox publicity chief Irena Briganti said in an internal memo released among the court papers, "and if this gets picked up, viewers of the Nov. 14 text conversation with Scott and Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp., will talk about how a Trump rally should be covered on the network."

"News guys have to be careful how they cover this rally," Murdoch said so far some of the side comments have been slightly anti, and they shouldn't be the narrative; they should be this huge celebration of the other, whom he called Fox correspondent Leland Vittert "smug and obnoxious and who now works at NewsNation.

A week after the election, a Fox Corp. senior executive, Raj Shah, said in a memo that "bold, clear, and decisive action is needed for us to begin to regain the trust that we're losing with our argues, as part of its lawsuit, that nervousness about what its viewers wanted to lead Fox to air allegations that the voting machine company was complicit in fraud that hurt even though many people at the network didn't believe his own deposition, Fox founder Rupert Murdoch agreed the election had been fair and it "was not stolen."

Fox counters that it was airing newsworthy charges made by the president and his followers over the Arizona backlash spreading to the news division, according to news anchor Bret Baier, who said defending the call made him uncomfortable and suggested instead awarding the state, also sending a memo saying he’d been getting "major heat" over the decision.

In 2012, Fox stood strongly behind its decision desk when network commentator and veteran GOP aide Karl Rove questioned its correct call that Barack Obama had won in Ohio, essentially assuring him of reelection against Republican Mitt a memorable television moment, Megyn Kelly marched down the hall to hear the decision desk's explanation for why the call was made.

Eight years later, signs of timidity at Fox appeared in the days after its Arizona call. When other news organizations ultimately declared Biden the president-elect on Saturday morning after the election, Fox waited about 15 days until Nov. 20, 2020, before Rupert Murdoch discussed with Scott in a private memo whether two Washington executives key to the Arizona race call should be fired, saying it would send a "big message" to Trump allies executives Bill Sammon and Chris Stirewalt, who lost their jobs two months later.

A Fox spokeswoman characterized the discussions about the Arizona call as part of a typical postmortem that happens after big news events, and Fox stood by its call even though Sammon and Stirewalt were consultants for Arnon Mishkin, who has run its decision desk for the 2024 election and is answerable to corporate bosses and noted in her deposition that she considered herself a television producer.

"I don't consider myself a journalist," said the head of consider myself a TV executive; hire journalists; hire news Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes wasn't a journalist either; his background was some longtime Fox watchers; though, Ailes recognized that Fox's opinion side drew strength from a solid news side, and he kept stronger barriers between the two.

Some of the information revealed in recent weeks illustrates how, in many ways, Fox has become less of an agenda-setter than an outlet that follows its audience, said Nicole Hemmer, a Vanderbilt University professor and author of an article in which Fox management has talked about the Dominion case to its journalists, leaving some wondering whether anyone is standing up for them, said one Fox journalist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution.

In a brief filed Friday, Fox said that many of the exhibits that Dominion has introduced were internal communications, "often inflammatory and headline-grabbing, but irrelevant to any issue in dispute is some fine journalism still being done at Fox News today," said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, citing the transition of "Fox News Sunday" from Wallace to Bream.

"The fallout from the Dominion case, however, leaves open the question of whether Fox journalists will be allowed to do their jobs unconstrained, so it would be useful for Fox News, at this point, to make a clear statement that the news division has complete and total autonomy and that a clear line is drawn between it and the rest of Fox," Jamieson said.

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Ce journaliste de Fox News se souviendra longtemps de la finale de la Coupe du Monde féminine

Tandis que l’équipe des États-Unis a remporté le précieux trophée ce dimanche, les clients d’un bar à Lyon ont scandé « f*ck Trump » en plein direct

Dépêché sur place afin de couvrir la finale de la Coupe du Monde de football féminin, qui opposait la prestigieuse équipe des États-Unis à celle des Pays-Bas dimanche 8 juillet 2019, le journaliste Greg Palkot, soutien affiché au Président américain Donald Trump, se souviendra longtemps de l’événement – et pas forcément pour les raisons les plus évidentes…

En organisant son duplex depuis un bar de Lyon, le journaliste américain ne pensait pas devoir faire avec des réactions pour le moins « hostiles » envers son président : tandis que l’équipe nationale américaine venait d’être sacrée pour la quatrième fois de son histoire, Greg Palkot, sur place pour témoigner de la ferveur des supporters français et étrangers (la France étant le pays organisateur de la compétition), a eu du mal à cacher les « f*ck Trump » scandés par une clientèle manifestement très excitée.

lmao @FoxNews just went live from a bar in France after the #USWNT win and people started shouting "Fuck Trump" on air😂😂 pic.twitter.com/EFstJx43BV

— Sara Pearl (@skenigsberg) July 7, 2019

Deux heures après le coup de sifflet final, Donald Trump félicitait les joueuses sur Twitter ; une réaction qui risque de ne pas suffire à apaiser les relations entre le chef d’État américain et son équipe féminine. Comme le relève franceinfo, l’attaquante Megan Rapinoe, ouvertement opposée à la politique de Trump, a d’ores et déjà annoncé qu’elle ne se rendrait pas à la Maison Blanche en cas d’invitation. « Il ne se bat pour les mêmes choses que nous » a-t-elle déclaré.

Congratulations to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on winning the World Cup! Great and exciting play. America is proud of you all!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019

Félicitations à l’équipe américaine de football féminin pour avoir remporté la Coupe du Monde ! Un super match très excitant. L’Amérique est fière de vous !

#coupe du monde #donald trump #etats-unis #féminin #femmes #finale #football #Fox News #Greg Palkot #usa

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