4 Mar 2019 12:03 pm
In a far-reaching New Yorker exposé titled "The Making of the Fox News White House" published Monday, Jane Mayer dissects the often-incestuous relationship between the Trump White House and Fox News.
In it are numerous highly disturbing claims including the ones that FOX News TRUMP TV sat on the story about Trump’s payoff to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election, and that Trump was given Megyn Kelly's debate questions in advance.
This is what former 'FOX and Friends' co-host Alisyn Camerota had to say.
In it are numerous highly disturbing claims including the ones that FOX News TRUMP TV sat on the story about Trump’s payoff to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election, and that Trump was given Megyn Kelly's debate questions in advance.
This is what former 'FOX and Friends' co-host Alisyn Camerota had to say.
The article says that former Fox co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle often prepared for “The Five” by relying on information provided to her by an avid fan: a viewer from Georgia named David Townsend, who had no affiliation either with Fox News or with journalism.Alisyn Camerota was a co-host on “Fox & Friends” for years before joining CNN, in 2014.
She says that Fox has solid news reporters, but she became so troubled by the lack of standards on “Fox & Friends” that she wrote a thinly veiled novel, “Amanda Wakes Up,” about the blurring of journalistic lines at a cable morning show.
“ ‘Fox & Friends’ was a fun show, but it was not a news show,” she says.
“It regularly broke the rules of journalism. It was basically Roger’s id on TV.
He’d wake up in the morning with some bee in his bonnet, spout it off to Bill Shine, and Shine would tell us to put it on TV.”
She says that the show’s producers would “cull far-right, crackpot Web sites” for content, and adds, “Never did I hear anyone worry about getting a second source.
The single phrase I heard over and over was ‘This is going to outrage the audience!’ You inflame the viewers so that no one will turn away. Those were the standards.”
She’d share the day’s planned topics with Townsend, and then he’d e-mail her suggested content.
A former colleague of Guilfoyle’s says, “It was a joke among the production assistants—they were, like, ‘Wait till you hear this!’ She actually got research from him! It was the subject of hilarity.”
Townsend is a frequent contributor to the fringe social-media site Gab, which Wired has called a “haven for the far right.”
(He has promoted the idea that “physically weak men” are “more likely to be socialists,” and has argued that it is not anti-Semitic to observe that “the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists.”)
The server company that hosts Gab removed it from the Internet temporarily after it was revealed to have posted hate-filled rants by Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed eleven people at a Pittsburgh synagogue, last October.