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Fox News CEO: Fact-Checking Trump Election Lies "Bad for Business." [View all]
Fox News CEO said correspondent’s fact-check of Trump’s election lies was ‘bad for business,’ new emails show
By Oliver Darcy and Marshall Cohen, CNN
CNN, Wed March 29, 2023
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott sounded the alarm inside the company about the financial fallout that the right-wing network would suffer if it continued fact-checking then-President Donald Trump’s lies after the 2020 election, according to messages that became public Wednesday.
In one instance, Scott emailed Meade Cooper, executive vice president of prime time programming, and laced into correspondent Eric Shawn for fact-checking Trump.
“This has to stop now,” Scott said in a December 2, 2020, message.
“This is bad for business and there is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows,” Scott added. “The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.”
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In another email written by Scott, zinging host Dana Perino for her “dismissive tone” in November 2020 after the presidential contest, the Fox News chief disclosed that the company had “lost 25k subs from FOX NATION,” its streaming service.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/media/fox-news-dominion-messages/index.html
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