Fox News appeared to lament on Wednesday for showing a message on screen that called President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” whose political rival had been arrested.
Per day was called Indicted on federal charges for allegedly storing classified documents, former President Donald Trump has made clear his continued role as a lightning rod for the media. PBS guessed one of its own messages about Trump, and his primetime speech showed a change in policy at CNN after its former leader’s ouster.
Fox News has surfaced under divided video boxes showing Trump addressing supporters live in New Jersey, and Biden speaking at the White House earlier in the day.
“The wannabe dictator is speaking at the White House after his political rival has been arrested,” the letter said.
“Al-Sayer was immediately removed and remedied,” Fox said in a statement on Wednesday. Mediaite reported that the message remained on the screen for 27 seconds. It was also not removed on the late night replay.
Fox did not explain how the message got to the screen and how the matter was handled.
The White House said Biden did no contact With Attorney General Merrick Garland about the indictment by special counsel Jack Smith, who accuses Trump of illegally accumulating classified documents. Biden has not commented on the case.
Two months ago, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the news organization of lying about the 2020 presidential election.
“There are probably about 787 million things I could say about this,” White House press secretary Karen Jean-Pierre said when asked Wednesday about the chiron. “That was wrong – about what we saw last night – but I don’t think I’m going to get into it.”
It’s not hard to find Republican politicians or commentators on Fox to suggest the indictment was Political motives Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina made the same accusations on The Sean Hannity Show within a half hour after Trump’s speech.
However, some on Fox have spoken out about the seriousness of the case against Trump, most notably the former Attorney General, William Barr, while appearing Over the weekend, legal analyst Jonathan Turley.
Fox has seen its prime-time ratings plunge sharply since Tucker fired Carlson shortly after the Dominion case was settled. Carlson posted another video commentary on Twitter Tuesday night, despite a request from Fox’s lawyers that he stop doing so because it violated the terms of the contract, which runs through early 2025.
Meanwhile, PBS used the lower third of its screen to post fact-checks when it aired Trump’s New Jersey speech on its YouTube channel on Tuesday night.
The latter was striking: “Inflammatory rhetoric emanating from elected officials or people in power can prompt individual actors to commit acts of violence,” experts warn.
While the statement is true, PBS officials question whether or not this is the correct forum, said Sarah Just, senior executive producer on “NewsHour.” Other messages PBS used on screen mentioned how federal officials testified about the security of the 2020 presidential election, and how prosecutors say some of the documents discovered at Trump’s home relate to US nuclear programs and defense capabilities.
He just said, “We’re debating whether or not we can word it better.”
While Fox News broadcast Trump’s speech live, MSNBC did not. CNN did not. This is unlike when Trump was They were charged separately In New York in April, when CNN aired most of a similar speech by Trump the night of his subpoena. That was before CNN’s former CEO, Chris Licht, was making efforts to appeal to GOP viewers, he was overthrown.
“We’re not quoting his remarks directly because, frankly, he says a lot of things that aren’t true and, frankly, are potentially dangerous,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said.
After the speech ended, CNN aired a roughly two-minute clip of Trump following Tapper up with several fact-checks.
He said, “As far as trying to destroy American democracy, we all know who tried to undo the election.” “It’s not Joe Biden. It’s Mr. Trump.”
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made a similar statement before that network chose not to air Trump’s speech live. Clips of the remarks were shown later.
“There is a cost to us as a news organization if we knowingly broadcast things that are not true,” Maddow said.
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Associated Press writer Aamir Madani in Washington contributed to this report.
