The last place concerned with President Donald Trump’s attacks against Fox News is, well, Fox News.
While media coverage of Trump’s attacks against his go-to cable news network ramped up last month, the reaction to the President’s outbursts within the Fox News headquarters were largely met with apathy, according to a Monday report in The Atlantic.
“You’d think there’d be some drama, but there’s been no channel-wide initiative or anything to address the attacks,” one staffer anonymously told The Atlantic. “There’s honestly been no acknowledgement of them.”
According to The Atlantic, the collective shrug among Fox News staffers has much to do with executives having the leverage in their relationship with Trump. Even as the President continues to lob attacks at his go-to network, Fox News knows its power in speaking directly to Trump’s base — a core constituency that he must keep intact to win re-election.
The Atlantic noted the decentralized approach — each show acting as an “island” of sorts, as a Fox News staffer put it — of Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, Roger Ailes’ successor, as a reason for the shift in dynamic within the cable news network.
“I don’t get the sense from talking to Suzanne that she’s at all concerned about it. She just seemed to shrug,” one person who had spoken recently with Scott told The Atlantic, referring to Trump’s attacks. “They’re not scared of [rival right-wing news outlet] One America News. They know there’s nowhere else for their audience to go.”
Last month, several Fox News analysts reminded Trump that they don’t work for him after he complained that the right-wing network “isn’t working for us anymore.” Trump had been growing increasingly agitated with the network for its polling, which showed him having low electability against top 2020 Democrats.
Read The Atlantic’s report here.
Fox News can lay no claim to journalism or anything fair and balanced. It is utterly corrupt propaganda without shame or ethics or any shred of integrity.
Fox News is absolutely certain that they will be here long after Rump and the regime are gone. And when this regime is no longer is power, Fox News will still have their audience that they will play to and reminisce about the halcyon days when White, Christian men ruled victoriously over everyone. Rump serves their purpose not the other way around.
Trump needs Fox more than Fox needs Trump.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if this is some sort of coordinated “attack” to try to say, “See, Fox isn’t really a right-wing propaganda outfit. We’re real journalists. Why even Trump attacks us.”
Fox will not be concerned with his attacks until one of two things happens…advertisers leave the Fox network for greener pastures or Trump establishes a network of his own. (Indeed, I’ve read his initial interest in running for the Presidency was to to do exactly the latter. But who knows what goes on with him or any members of his family. They’re all modern day P.T. Barnums in search of someone to fleece.)
FOX is no more than a contrived & scripted reality-tv drama to gather viewers and serve advertisers’ needs and fellate the egoes of two major malignant narcissists*. What a Biz Model!