Multiple Fox Corporation executives have maxed out support to a Big Lie candidate in Nevada

[ificandream]

Source: Media Matters

A review of Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings by Media Matters shows four Fox Corporation executives have made maximum contributions to a U.S. Senate candidate who not only tried to help then-President Donald Trump overturn election results in 2020, but has continued to spread lies about supposed "voter fraud" affecting the result.

The four separate maximum individual donations of $2,900 were made in August and September of 2021 to Republican candidate Adam Laxalt, a former state attorney general in Nevada, who now hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. Laxalt is the GOP's leading fundraiser and presumed frontrunner in the swing state race, which could decide whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate next year. He previously served as a Nevada co-chair for Trump's 2020 campaign, and was one of the top public faces of the campaign's attempts to overturn the election result through failed and baseless allegations of voter fraud. Perhaps most infamously, Laxalt held a press conference with Nevada resident Donald Hartle, who claimed that someone had voted illegally under the name of his deceased wife -- Hartle later pleaded guilty to having been the person who voted illegally.

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Perhaps it is no surprise that Fox's corporate executives are funneling big money campaign contributions to a candidate who helped Trump spread the Big Lie in 2020 that the presidential election was rigged against him. After all, Fox News has invested countless hours of airtime spreading this unfounded conspiracy theory. And just this week it was reported that Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson has personally donated to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist who has also pushed false claims about the 2020 election. The donations also fit into a wider pattern at Fox News, which has hired Republican operatives and former Trump administration staffers into editorial positions at the network, and has also frequently hosted members of Congress who joined the insurrectionists on January 6 and voted against the certification of the 2020 election. (The network also helped to elevate yet another Big Lie personality, former pro football player Herschel Walker, who is now running for the U.S. Senate from Georgia.)

Fox News is not a news network at all, but rather a Republican political operation with a pervasive corporate culture of opposing American democracy. And that opposition continues to be relevant this year, as Trump seeks to elect candidates touting the Big Lie -- putting them in place to potentially steal the 2024 election -- while Fox programming has worked to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021, and the attempt to overturn the presidential election result.

Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-corp-executives-have-maxed-out-support-big-lie-candidate-nevadas-us-senate-race

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As the story says, Fox is not a news network. Period, end of discussion. And they have no ethics. A section of the tenets of [link:https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.aspthe Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Code of Ethics ] (which is foreign to Fox since it is not an organization with professional journalists):

The highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public.

Journalists should:

- Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived. Disclose unavoidable conflicts.

- Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and avoid political and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality, or may damage credibility.

- Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; do not pay for access to news. Identify content provided by outside sources, whether paid or not.

- Deny favored treatment to advertisers, donors or any other special interests, and resist internal and external pressure to influence coverage.

- Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two. Prominently label sponsored content.

Added: I strongly endorse Brian Stelter's book "Hoax" about Fox being in bed with Donald Trump on the election and since updated to include details of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. So the public supports Fox by buying from their advertisers and with cable TV fees

and then Fox pays their people so much they can support their preferred candidates. We are unwitting dupes in this process. It's like concentrating the toxicity.

[turbinetree]

2. Just great that sponsors prop an organization up that purports to be the news....

when they put people on tv make them into hero's for not getting a vaccination and when they die......they move on, and get some other shmuck to do there bidding.....while the sponsors and the death squad on Fox send money to someone that wants to kill other people just so they can get elected....

[Midnight Writer]

3. Has FOX ever broke a major news story?

They call all other media "fake news", but their whole day is nothing but cribbing stories from real news outlets and commenting on them.

Same as all RW media. They grab onto the tails of real reporters and then denounce them as "Enemies Of The People".

[CrispyQ]

5. A few years back they broke that caravan at the southern border story.

They are a disgrace & I don't know how or why they are allowed to call themselves a news organization.

[ificandream]

8. They're the ones calling themselves a news organization. No one else is.

Why do you think they call themselves "Fox NEWS"? And their programming is filled with labeling where they alone assert themselves as news. "America's News Channel." "America Reports." It's to delude their viewers into thinking that Carlson and Hannity are journalists. (Not even close!)

[ificandream]

6. They think they do ...

If you go over to their site, they twist stuff around of which, like you say, a lot is stolen from other reputable media and bent for their lemmings. I think the important thing is that, to my knowledge, they've never won a reputable news award. (Right-wing awards aren't that.) They harp on CNN (surprise, it's one of their biggest competitors), but CNN has won tons more awards than Fox. I sometimes wonder, having worked in the news business, how their employees managed to survive mentally all the attacks of not only Trump but Fox, too. All the incessant attacks tell more about them than about CNN. CNN's Brian Stelter, in his column the other day, said Fox and the right-wing media had a field day with the Zucker resignation. Funny that Zucker resigned, but Ailes was fired.

[CrispyQ]

4. What, exactly, does one have to do to be called a "news" organization in the US?

I'm searching on the internet but not finding much more than articles on standards of journalism & how to obtain press credentials. Does the US have a standard to be met before an organization can call itself "news?"

[ificandream]

7. I'm not sure I can answer your question.

I'm sure there's a way to apply to, for example, the SPJ. And I'd guess they don't let everyone in (like Newsmax or OAN, for example). But I would think a lot has to do with how you cover the news. Those SPJ Code of Ethics I posted the link to are a good place to start, though.

Individual press credentials are more out of their control, I think, and depend on who the credentials are for, say the White House press corps. I'll check with someone I know that is more involved.

[Karadeniz]

9. Didn't Keith Olbermann have to leave MSNBC over a campaign donation?

[ificandream]

10. He was not fired.

He was suspended, this story says. And he wasn't a network exec. So your point is wrong on two counts.

[Karadeniz]

11. I was asking a question... didn't claim to be an authority. Thanks for the additional info, but I

didn't appreciate the bullyish ending to your reply. Hurtful. I try not to attack posters in my replies.

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. i would like to reword a line in that post

" should read "Fox News is not a news network at all, but rather a Republican political operation with a perverse corporate culture"

[ck4829]

13. Kick

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