Tag: Fox News

Fox Gave Benghazi More Than 10 Times As Much Coverage As Trump’s Botched Yemen Raid

The following article by Matt Gertz was posted on the Media Matters website March 3, 2017:

After One Month Of Coverage, The Raid Is The Benghazi That Wasn’t

In the month after Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens was killed in a botched raid on a terrorist camp in Yemen, none of Fox News’ prime-time hosts even mentioned the incident.

In the month after Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens was killed in a botched raid on a terrorist camp in Yemen, none of Fox News’ prime-time hosts even mentioned the incident.

During that January 29 raid — the first counterterrorism operation of President Donald Trump’s administration — “almost everything that could go wrong did,” according to The New York Times. Several news outlets have produced reports suggesting the raid was ordered without sufficient intelligence and preparation and that the administration has been untruthful about the operation. Continue reading “Fox Gave Benghazi More Than 10 Times As Much Coverage As Trump’s Botched Yemen Raid”

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media

The following article by Amy B. Wang was posted on the Washington Post website February 19, 2017:

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace cautioned his colleagues and the network’s viewers Sunday that President Trump’s latest attack on the media had gone too far.

“Look, we’re big boys. We criticize presidents. They want to criticize us back, that’s fine,” Wallace said Sunday morning on “Fox & Friends.” “But when he said that the fake news media is not my enemy, it’s the enemy of the American people, I believe that crosses an important line.”

The “Fox & Friends” anchors had shown a clip of Trump recounting that past presidents, including Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, had fought with the press. They then asked Wallace whether Trump’s fraught relationship with the media was a big deal. Continue reading “Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media”