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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Fox & Friends' Fed Interview Script to Trump's EPA Chief, Emails Show
Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt was clearly taken aback last year when occasional Fox & Friends fill-in host Ed Henry grilled him about a number of ethical scandals facing his administration.
And Pruitt had a good reason to be surprised. In past interviews with President Trumps favorite cable news show, the then-EPA chiefs team chose the topics for interviews, and knew the questions in advance.
In one instance, according to emails revealed in a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Sierra Club and reviewed by The Daily Beast, Pruitts team even approved part of the shows script.
Fox & Friends has long been a friendly venue for Trump and his allies, but the emails demonstrate how the show has pushed standard cable news practices to the extreme in order to make interviews a comfortable, non-confrontational experience for favored government officials.
And Pruitt had a good reason to be surprised. In past interviews with President Trumps favorite cable news show, the then-EPA chiefs team chose the topics for interviews, and knew the questions in advance.
In one instance, according to emails revealed in a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Sierra Club and reviewed by The Daily Beast, Pruitts team even approved part of the shows script.
Fox & Friends has long been a friendly venue for Trump and his allies, but the emails demonstrate how the show has pushed standard cable news practices to the extreme in order to make interviews a comfortable, non-confrontational experience for favored government officials.
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'Fox & Friends' Fed Interview Script to Trump's EPA Chief, Emails Show (Original Post)
spanone
Nov 2018
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titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)1. PFFT...and the pResident wants a state run media co?
Hell he already has one.
spanone
(135,831 posts)2. Yes he does. He wants an international state run media co.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)3. No way FOX lets him do this...
It would be 100% direct competition for them. Rupert has molded Fox into what makes him the most money. That is what drives them. Ratings (audience) and revenue. A basically identical network would cut deeply into the Fox News Network.