Fox News Hosts Pushed Election Lies To Improve Ratings, Court Docs Allege
“It’s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things,” a Fox News executive allegedly texted a colleague in December 2020.
“Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,” Fox star Tucker Carlson allegedly texted fellow host Laura Ingraham in November 2020, referring to Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer.
According to the court document, Ingraham replied: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy [Giuliani].”
“It’s unbelievably offensive to me,” Carlson allegedly wrote back. “Our viewers are good people and they believe it.”
Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch told Paul Ryan, the GOP former House speaker-turned-Fox Corp. board member, how Fox News’ Sean Hannity really felt about Donald Trump in the weeks following the 2020 election.
While Hannity publicly supported the former president on his widely watched prime time show, he’d actually “been privately disgusted with Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers,” Murdoch emailed Ryan in January 2021, according to court filings released Monday.
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