Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott blocked top stars like Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo from booking Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell, or any of his legal team in the days after the election and their infamously early call for Arizona — a pivotal moment in the left’s narrative of 2020.
The revelation of this betrayal and characterization of Trump’s team — and maybe their own on air talent — as “crazies” was made in court by an attorney for Dominion Voting Systems, which has been suing media like crazy for daring to question their technology in any way. That’s why they were in court, a hearing in the billion dollar defamation suit against Fox News, which goes to trial in the spring.
Scott was “flumoxed,” the report says, by the anger of viewers at their calling Arizona for Biden before anyone else.
“We can’t give the crazies an inch,” she said, according to Dominion. And importantly, no one at Fox is disputing that she did.
Here’s more from NPR:
According to Nelson’s remarks at the hearing, senior Fox News executives interceded to try to block Fox Business stars Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo from having Trump’s campaign attorneys, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, on their shows to repeat such lies. In late 2020, Dobbs and Bartiromo hosted Trump’s advocates to make those accusations.
Fox’s attorney, Justin Keller, did not dispute the remarks attributed by Nelson to Fox News CEO Scott. Nor did he deny that executives sought to intervene in the two programs’ efforts to book Powell and Giuliani even though their claims had been discredited. Instead, he made a broader argument against allowing scrutiny of the executives’ contracts, saying that was unnecessary given how many documents the network has already turned over to Dominion.
The talent won, and the Trump team got a lot of airtime on Fox News Channel and Fox Business network after the election.
But here’s the thing, Suzanne Scott? She’s still the CEO.
The talent at the Fox networks fought to have some journalistic integrity, which requires journalistic AUTONOMY.
But sites like NPR and Mediaite are spinning this like Scott was the good guy for telling the reporters and hosts who they could and could not interview, what they could and could not report.
That’s what happened, and the rest of the so-called press think that is a good thing. Which tells you what you need to know about how they run their own networks and papers.
Which we all knew already of course.