Coronavirus: Fox and the Virus

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Yahoo News’ own Alex Nazaryan and New York Times Media Columnist Ben Smith join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." On this episode, Nazaryan brings us up-to-date with the latest on the Coronavirus and what our unexpected future may look like. Then Smith discusses his latest article in which he criticizes Fox News' handling and coverage of the Coronavirus.

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0:00.0	Yet more unsettling is something happening right here in the United States.
0:07.8	And it's not medical, it's political.
0:11.5	Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponize suffering
0:17.5	to improve their chances against Trump.
0:21.3	That was Fox News host Laura Ingram on February 27th, telling our primetime audience that the
0:26.6	coronavirus scare was being overblown.
0:29.4	In large part because it was part of a plot by liberal Democrats and their media allies
0:34.4	to undermine President Trump.
0:37.0	It was for weeks a consistent theme for Ingram, Sean Hannity and several other Fox regulars.
0:41.8	Don't worry about what all these medical experts are saying.
0:45.1	The real danger here is the scare tactics being used by the President's enemies to frighten
0:50.9	the public.
0:52.2	In Ingram said those words, there were only 60 cases of the virus in the United States.
0:56.9	Today, we're at 41,569 and counting, and more than 500 Americans have died.
1:04.2	How and why did Fox News stars get it so wrong?
1:08.2	And how much responsibility does Fox CEO, Lockwood Murdock, have for the fact that they did?
1:14.5	We'll talk to Ben Smith, the New York Times media columnist who has dug into those questions.
1:19.4	And we'll talk to Yahoo News's Alex Nazarian on where we are in the crisis and where we're
1:24.4	headed on this episode of Skull Duggery.
1:34.4	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well I'm
1:37.5	not a crop.
1:38.5	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
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