Upcoming book from Chris Stirewalt... stuff we already knew

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-fox-news-editor-chris-stirewalt-says-network-viewers-would-ve-been-more-prepared-for-a-trump-loss-in-2020-if-they-d-been-given-a-more-accurate-view-of-the-race-book/ar-AA10UqVo?ocid=U483DHP&pc=U483&cvid=fc050a0c51cb4915b0a221bbd76e0c16

Ex-Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt says network viewers would've been more prepared for a Trump loss in 2020 if they'd been given 'a more accurate' view of the race: book

In the book, "Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back," Stirewalt — who was fired from Fox in January 2021 — said that over his 11 years at the network, he increasingly saw coverage that didn't fully capture what viewers needed to hear.

Stirewalt said that such coverage became commonplace during Trump's White House tenure, and pointed to the "rage" that he encountered after the Fox News decision desk called the pivotal state of Arizona for now-President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

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"We had gone to pains — and I'm proud of the pains we went to to make sure that we were informing viewers that this was going to happen because the Trump campaign and the president had made it clear that they were going to try to exploit this anomaly," Stirewalt said during the hearing. "And we knew it was going to be bigger, because the percentage of early votes was higher."

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Ah yes--the dangers of telling people what they WANT to hear, instead of, you know... actually REPORTING.

[dchill]

1. "...coverage that didn't fully capture what viewers needed to hear."

Um, that was their motto, right?