![]() ![]() – If you missed the telecast, you can watch the entire thing here. – Lemon expertly moderated Wednesday’s event in Cincinnati, and noted at the outset that the audience was fully vaccinated… Immediately after the town hall, CNN’s Dana Bash noted that on Fox “the exact opposite message was being sent as the president was speaking on CNN.” Arguably Biden gave the network way too much credit… Fox’s highest-rated shows, starting with Carlson’s, are still spreading anti-vax storylines, as I described up above. But some of the news coverage has overstated the change. Peter Hotez, said this shift “was clearly at the direction” of Fox management, after an earlier “systematic effort to delegitimize scientists.” No matter what, “this is a good thing,” Anderson Cooper said on CNN. ![]() I checked the TVEyes database to confirm this: Fox shows have plugged at least 7 times this week, after going 6 weeks without mentioning the site at all. Yes, there’s been a slight change in Fox’s tune, as I wrote in yesterday’s newsletter. Let’s get vaccinated.’ The very people who before this were saying – so that – but that – I shouldn’t make fun of it. All of a sudden they’re out there saying, ‘Let’s get vaccinated. “One of those other networks is not a big fan of mine, uh, one you talk about a lot,” he said, looking at moderator Don Lemon, “but if you notice, as they say in the southern part of my state, they’ve had an altar call, some of those guys. Over on CNN, at the same time as Carlson’s rant, President Biden was speaking at a town hall and giving Fox some backhanded credit for changing its tune about vaccines. I’d like to know how Doocy and Faulkner feel about Carlson’s reckless rhetoric… He did it by bashing CNN: He said that “as a channel, CNN shouldn’t have a position on whether you should take medicine or not, because it’s a news channel, it’s not a health agency.” A little bit later, he added, “Why is a news channel doing this? Any news channel. He even seemed to take a dig at Fox’s decision to promote the vaccines. But Fox’s highest rated host, Tucker Carlson, undermined the PSA barely an hour after it aired for the first time. Websites like The Hill even wrote about it. It’s clear that Fox News management is proud of this PSA and wants everyone to see it. “If you can, get the vaccine,” Harris Faulkner said. “America, we’re in this together,” Steve Doocy said in the ad. You can sign up for free right here.įox News rolled out a new public service announcement on Wednesday to encourage viewers to get a Covid-19 vaccine. A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. ![]()
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