Fox executive unsure that Maria Bartiromo's "news" program is reliable

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Re: Fox executive unsure that Maria Bartiromo's "news" program is reliable

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Moksha wrote:
Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:24 am
Alphus and Omegus wrote:
Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:26 am


I think it's the reverse. They lie because they cannot prove their beliefs.
Could be, but what if their beliefs were based on a steady stream of misinformation they have been fed for the last 30 years? Beliefs based on misinformation cannot be proven in the real world.
Some of them surely are based on media manipulation. But the reason why they watch these media outlets is that they want ones that will not question the ludicrous beliefs that they learned in church, such as the myth that the United States was founded upon Christianity.
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Re: Fox executive unsure that Maria Bartiromo's "news" program is reliable

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More bombshells from another lawsuit against Fox, this time by a producer who claims the network is trying to scapegoat Bartiromo. This producer also claims all sorts of things about Tucker Carlson's show staff. Not only do these people not actually care about facts or fairness, they also continue to engage in sexual harassment, long after their founder-rapist Roger Ailes left the company.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/busi ... sberg.html
Last year, she began working as a senior booking producer at “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” On her first full day, according to the lawsuit, Ms. Grossberg discovered that the show’s Manhattan work space was decorated with large pictures of Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, then the House speaker, wearing a plunging swimsuit.

The next day, Justin Wells, Mr. Carlson’s top producer, called Ms. Grossberg into his office, she said, to ask whether Ms. Bartiromo was having a sexual relationship with the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy.

Mr. Carlson’s staff joked about Jews and freely deployed a vulgar term for women, according to the complaint.

Later that fall, it said, before an appearance on the show by Tudor Dixon, the Republican candidate for Michigan governor, Mr. Carlson’s staff held a mock debate about whether they would prefer to have sex with Ms. Dixon or her Democratic opponent, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
During her deposition, Ms. Grossberg was asked if she cared whether claims made on Ms. Bartiromo’s show were true or false. According to the transcript, Ms. Grossberg answered: “No. Because we didn’t know if they were true or false at that time.” When asked if she felt it was important to correct a false claim made on the air, Ms. Grossberg answered: “No.”

In her lawsuits, Ms. Grossberg said she would have answered those questions differently but had been “coached by and intimidated by” Fox’s lawyers.

Ms. Grossberg claimed that Fox lawyers pressured her to downplay a text exchange between her and David Clark, then the senior vice president of weekend news, regarding a segment with Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for Mr. Trump. Mr. Clark texted: “There will be no ‘fact checking’ today.”
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