Review: Chris Stirewalt’s Book Chides Fox News For ‘Black-Helicopter Level Paranoia’ — But He’s Also Taking Plenty Of Other News Outlets To Task
As many media reporters and commentators noted, Stirewalt had defended the network’s correct call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, the first sign that Donald Trump would lose the race. What resulted was a backlash from Trump and his supporters, not just “insane rage” directed at the network, but against Stirewalt himself. One Republican senator, Kevin Cramer, accused him of a “cover-up,” as if Stirewalt himself had been counting votes.
“The story they were telling was good for ratings or the frequency of their appearances,” Stirewalt writes. “They wanted it to be true because they wanted Republicans to win, but keeping viewers keyed up about the epochal victory close at hand was an appealing incentive to exaggerate the GOP chances. them to raise expectations, but it wasn’t good for the party they were rooting for.”
Stirewalt counters the idea that Fox News is a tool of the Republican party. Instead, he argues, it’s the other way around. Case in point, when Ted Cruz came on Tucker Carlson’s show earlier this year to apologize for referring to the siege on the Capitol as a “violent terrorist attack on the Capitol.”
His point: Even on the day when the fall of Kabul was a major international story, the “big mover” was a story headlined, “A conservative cardinal who criticized the vaccine caught covid. Days later, he was put on a ventilator.” What he does warn about is “apocalypticism,” or overdoing it when it comes to writing about issues like education, democracy or climate change, as well as the whole idea that reporters, with Trump-triggered notions that democracy itself is under threat, should abandon an attempt at objectivity.
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