“Snooze-Fest”: Fox News Hosts Blow Off Jan. 6 Hearing

On Thursday night, as the country’s top broadcast and cable news networks carried live coverage of the House select committee’s first public hearing on the January 6 attack, there was one notable outlier: Fox News, where viewers were fed hours of counterprogramming that downplayed the Donald Trump–incited insurrection and dismissed the nearly yearlong probe into it. “The whole thing is insulting…. It’s deranged, and we’re not playing along,” said Tucker Carlson in an opening segment that labeled the hearing a “show trial.” “This is the only hour on an American news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live,”… Read Full Article