Follow live updates House Committee Hearing on January 6 Attack At the Parliament building.
A group of lawmakers investigating the January 6 parliamentary riot wants as many Americans as possible to learn the unpleasant and unknown details of the attack. So they decided to hold a hearing on Thursday, the golden time, when many are sitting in front of the TV.
Fox News, the nation’s top cable news channel, has other plans.
When the hearing begins at 8 pm in the east, the NBC will enter special reporting mode. CBS will broadcast a special called “Capitol Assault Hearing” and ABC will carry out “Attack on Capitol: Investigation — ABC News Special”. MSNBC and CNN cover the entire wall all night.
However, Fox News does not hold a hearing. Instead, the network simply “broke” assaults such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.footnoteIn an attempt to undermine the credibility of Congressional investigations as a ploy to “push” former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters out of the Republican Party.
The network said on Monday that the Golden Time host would cover the event “as the news guarantees.” Live news coverage is left to Fox Business, a sister network with far fewer viewers. Last month, Fox News recorded an average of 1.5 million viewers at any time of the day. The average for Fox Business was 136,000.Carlson regularly attracts more than 3 million viewers for his show at 8 pm
Washington Republicans and right-wing media conservative commentators attacked the Commission’s hearing — Thursday’s hearing is one of at least six planned hearings — Democrats have a chance in the midterm elections As a partisan political theater created to enhance.
It’s the view among many in Fox News, including its prestigious talent. They abandon the simpler tone the network took shortly after the 2020 elections and devote themselves to the dissatisfied and misleading claims spread by Republicans who want to rewrite the history of Mr. Trump’s defeat and its aftermath. Over time, I’ve seen their reputation soar.
Media observers said the message would be sent to loyal Fox viewers if the hearing was not broadcast. The network does not help justify the process that many conservatives consider to be a kangaroo court.
Carl Cameron, a former chief political correspondent at Fox News, said: , He resigned in 2017 and has been critical of the network ever since.
Like the Republicans, Fox News has changed in the last few years. It is less tolerant of dissenting opinions and is willing to air unsupported claims. It either let go of the on-air personality that was critical of Mr. Trump, or set it aside. The January 6 riots include two conservative writers who said they were stunned by a documentary starring Carlson who promoted an unfounded idea that it was a so-called false flag operation intended to persecute conservatives. Others resigned in protest.
Columbia University historian Nicole Hemmer, author of “The Messenger of Rights: Conservative Media and American Political Transformation,” said the January 6 committee hearing would be on a smaller platform. The Fox News decision argued that the riot, which said it would fit into a larger conservative, was “not a big deal.”
“They are strengthening that argument to broadcast it on their little sister network: this is not important,” she said.
Fox News challenged the claim on Tuesday, saying that the audience would be available to the audience in several ways. Fox Business’s coverage will be led by Martha MacCallum and Fox News’ most prominent host, Bret Baier. The programming is also performed on the Fox News website and Fox Nation, Fox’s streaming service. Baier and MacCallum will be appearing on Fox News in a post-hearing special at 11:00 pm Golden Time.
The network also fully pointed out past coverage of other sessions from Capitol Hill, including a Supreme Court confirmation hearing. They were daytime events.
By not having a live hearing during golden time, Fox News potentially escapes the annoying moments on the screen. During the Commission’s investigation on January 6, private communications between several Fox anchors and the Trump administration were unearthed. Multiple messages indicate that the host was deeply concerned about Mr. Trump’s refusal to blame them on the day of the riots and attacks.
In a text message, Hannity, Ingraham, and Brian Kilmead, the host of the morning show Fox & Friends, are increasingly wary of Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as the attack takes place. Expressed. “He is destroying his legacy,” Ingraham wrote in one message obtained by the Commission.
Other major television networks plan to cover interviews with their most famous journalists. The broadcast network calls on evening newscasters (David Muir, Lester Holt, Nora O’Donnell) to lead the two-hour coverage. CNN turns to Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper, along with a small army of reporters and correspondents. Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid fix MSNBC coverage.
Apart from this, in decisions that could affect more viewers, Fox Broadcasting Network does not instruct its affiliates to reach millions of homes than Fox News to display hearings. ..They are the “provided” coverage of the hearing, Fox News Media SaidHowever, as is often the case with major events such as the President’s speech, it is not obligatory to take it.
Given that Americans have a very polarized view of the work of the Election Commission, it’s unclear if the average Fox News viewers will pay attention at all. They punished the network in the past, but it was a report that did not cross the line. After Fox News became the first network to call Arizona to President Biden in 2020, effectively declaring him the winner of the election, its reputation plummeted and then advertised the most intense allegations of fraudulent voting. I refused to do that. Newsmax, a conservative cable news channel that was willing to broadcast suspicious stories about fraud in polls, saw its reputation rise temporarily.
The network’s reputation only recovered after Mr. Biden took office and Fox News anchors like Mr. Carlson began casting events like January 6 as a party smoke screen abused by the Democratic Party.
Colombia’s Hemmer said, “The base is in the spotlight because we agree that the January 6 hearing is just a political stage show and that January 6 is disproportionately blown away. Not at all. “
During President Trump and his two campaigns, Fox News was often caught between its own notion of an independent conservative voice in its audience and media.
Inspired by Mr. Trump, conservatives raided when they thought that a fox host like Megyn Kelly was unfairly critical of him.To this day he Complain Fox treats him poorly because he doesn’t broadcast his political rally live and completely. He was fascinated by the 2020 post-election network rating plunge, telling Fox’s audience, “They don’t want to hear the negatives about me.”
With the decision to limit coverage of the January 6th hearing this week, Fox News has given a clear signal that it is on the side of this audience.
Carlson called the committee “grotesque” in his program Monday night. At the 9 pm show, Hanity called a group of five Democrats and two Republicans “fake.”
“You won’t hear the true story of January 6th anywhere else, I don’t think it’s anywhere else,” Hanity said on Monday night.
