There are those who claim that there’s a fundamental difference between the news division and the opinion side at Fox. Of course, that’s about as true as, well, just about anything The Man Who Lost An Election And Tried To Steal It has said since he began befouling our politics.
The “news” division may not be as open about its right-wing bias as the prime-time blowhards who take over Fox in the evening. But bias is nonetheless there, as we saw in the reporting about a New York judge’s finding that Trump committed fraud—a huge story that could signal the end of his control over his real estate company.
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Take a look at what people who googled “Trump fraud” saw:
If anyone here thinks it’s a coincidence that Fox made sure to include the image of that poll, one that even the folks who conducted it over at the Washington Post and ABC News acknowledged was an “outlier,” well, you’re as wrong as Trump continues to be about the 2020 election. But wait, there’s more.
Here’s what readers got when they actually clicked on the Fox News link:
Fox News can’t simply present the unadorned facts when they make Fuck a l’Orange look like the criminal he is. Even when Fox actually reports bad news about their special boy, they have to include this totally unrelated, pro-Trump data point as essentially part of the article.
This is, apparently, how they go about “respecting the audience.”