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MACRO
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EDITORIAL
As Fox News Becomes The News Cycle
The biggest news story this week is Tucker Carlson. Speaker McCarthy recently gave the Fox News host over 40,000 hours of video related to the fiasco known as the January 6 Insurrection. Carlson has released less than 40 minutes of video, and he is already dominating the news cycle.
Zamisdat has a policy of not linking to Fox News. We have linked to “Mother Jones”, “Slate”, “Salon”, “Los Angeles Times”, “Tass”, “Al Jazeera” and to a pdf posted by “Washington Post” as well as a pdf posted by “New York Times”. We have never linked to Fox News or Fox Business News.
It is Zamisdat’s position that Fox News engages in enhanced deception by promoting a faux “alternative news” perspective as well as a fake “just the facts” practice. They were MIA on all things COVID until they could no longer ignore the flimflam and they fired the one correspondent who addressed election fraud in 2020. Fox News is the poster child for sanctioned dissidence.
But if Fox News is the story–and for now Tucker Carlson is bigger than the J6 narrative–then the Zamisdat editors are duty bound to watch Tucker Carlson. He is pretty easy to find these days. So, we watched.
In fairness to Carlson, he delivered a journalistic grand slam. In just one segment Carlson destroyed the January 6 Committee’s credibility. A two-year soap opera is reduced to a discussion of things like perjury, oath of office and exculpatory evidence. The only video more satisfying than the revelations are the media’s whining and complaining and protesting against transparency.
As good as Carlson’s reports are, we will not be waving the Fox News pennant. Fool us once, shame on them. Fool us ten thousand times…Fox News has taken a “Report No Evil” stance on election fraud and their Anti-Trump bias shows no sign of abating.
Let’s come back to a pertinent question. Why did McCarthy give the video evidence only to Carlson? If not the entire world, why not hand the evidence to a half dozen trusted souls? Does McCarthy want something in particular to be occluded? Can Carlson be trusted to keep silent? We know the answer to the second query.
Let us reap our rewards where we find them. Some people are leery of Elon Musk but let’s not forget to savor “The Twitter Files.” Carlson might be a turncoat and a coward, but his J6 coverage has been about as good as journalism gets. As long as Carlson stays on J6, Zamisdat will be watching.
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