Despite Outbreaks Among Unvaccinated, Fox News Hosts Smear Shots
Despite Outbreaks Among Unvaccinated, Fox News Hosts Smear Shots
Months after Rupert Murdoch got a Covid-19 dose, one of his networks stars, Tucker Carlson, called a Biden vaccination proposal the greatest scandal in my lifetime.
Back in December, before the queen of England and the president-elect of the United States had their turns, the media mogul Rupert Murdoch received a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Afterward, he urged everyone else to get it, too.
Since then, a different message has been a repeated refrain on the prime-time shows hosted by Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham on Mr. Murdochs Fox News Channel a message at odds with the recommendations of health experts, even as the viruss Delta variant and other mutations fuel outbreaks in areas where vaccination rates are below the national average.
Mr. Carlson, Ms. Ingraham and guests on their programs have said on the air that the vaccines could be dangerous; that people are justified in refusing them; and that public authorities have overstepped in their attempts to deliver them.
Mr. Carlson and Ms. Ingraham last week criticized a plan by the Biden administration to increase vaccinations by having health care workers and volunteers go door to door to try to persuade the reluctant to get shots.
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