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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Sun Oct 25, 2015, 09:22 PM Oct 2015

CNN’s Stelter: Fox Wouldn’t Have Cut Away from Benghazi Hearing If Hillary Was ‘Struggling’ (HRC)

CNN’s Brian Steler thinks Fox News had a perfectly fair reason for cutting away from the Benghazi hearing, but at the same time doubts they would have cut away if Hillary Clinton was “struggling.”

Mediaite reported last week that as CNN and MSNBC continued to run the hearing live, Fox News cut away at 5 pm EST for analysis and other news, cutting back with the occasional new soundbite throughout the night.

This raised plenty of eyebrows, seeing as how Fox News not only emphasized Benghazi as an important issue for years but called out the rest of the media for ignoring it.

Stelter noted all this on today’s Reliable Sources and said that while Fox generally sticks with its regularly scheduled programming starting at 5, “if Clinton had been on the ropes, if she had been struggling, Fox probably would have continued to show the hearing.”...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-stelter-fox-wouldnt-have-cut-away-from-benghazi-hearing-if-hillary-was-struggling/ via Mediaite

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CNN’s Stelter: Fox Wouldn’t Have Cut Away from Benghazi Hearing If Hillary Was ‘Struggling’ (HRC) (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Oct 2015 OP
Well, of course. leftofcool Oct 2015 #1
Take their ball and go home n/t GP6971 Oct 2015 #2
If they did not cut away they would have to admit the truth, otherwise it played Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #3
fox "news" be saying .. ".. cut away from this annihilation"! Cha Oct 2015 #4
lol!!! DeepModem Mom Oct 2015 #7
I heard Fox thought it was so bad NewJeffCT Oct 2015 #5
Giggety. louis-t Oct 2015 #8
Fox would have played the clips over and over again. patsimp Oct 2015 #6
I couldn't help to notice the inside MSM old boys club rules of never being too hard on your peers LiberalLovinLug Oct 2015 #9
In Other News,... MarianJack Oct 2015 #10

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. If they did not cut away they would have to admit the truth, otherwise it played
Sun Oct 25, 2015, 09:29 PM
Oct 2015

Out as truth. That would also say Trey Gowdy and gang failed miserably in getting Hillary to crack, truth hurts on FOX.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
5. I heard Fox thought it was so bad
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:41 PM
Oct 2015

that they were considering putting a (D) after Trey Gowdy's name on the screen.

patsimp

(915 posts)
6. Fox would have played the clips over and over again.
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 01:26 PM
Oct 2015

Well Hillary tried to use Fox in the last election - let's see how she deals with them.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
9. I couldn't help to notice the inside MSM old boys club rules of never being too hard on your peers
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 02:24 PM
Oct 2015

With the precursor "Fox News had a perfectly fair reason for cutting away from the Benghazi hearing"

After all they all work for the same corps in the end.

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