{"id":5095,"date":"2021-05-02T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2021-05-02T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T15:37:14","slug":"fox-news-has-become-a-jobs-program-for-some-trump-family-members-and-ex-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5095","title":{"rendered":"Fox News has become a jobs program for some Trump family members and ex-staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Fox News fancies itself, at least outside of its Hannity<\/em>-style programming, as a journalistic outlet. But its recent string of hires tells a different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the Trump administration\u2019s legacy of unrelenting dishonesty and Trump\u2019s recent turn against Fox, the network has hired several former Trump officials of late, basically becoming a jobs program for any former Trump aide who desires gainful employment \u2014 and ensuring that Trump\u2019s brand of politics will have a regular, prominent place on national television.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While there\u2019s ample precedent for former White House officials making the leap into news media when their tenure in government is through \u2014 George Stephanopoulos went from the Clinton White House to ABC News, for example, and Dana Perino went from the George W. Bush White House to Fox News \u2014 the volume of former Trump officials Fox News has hired is notable, particularly because Fox News staffing itself with Trump family members and former staffers will keep Trumpism relevant.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Donald Trump, meanwhile, can self-promote by calling in to friendly hosts who will let him opine about Biden\u2019s purported failures on national TV, even if he can no longer post tweets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It won\u2019t be good journalism, but that\u2019s rarely the point with Fox. What it will do is help Trump maintain control over the Republican Party heading into the 2022 midterms \u2014 and beyond.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/4\/1\/22358923\/fox-news-kayleigh-mcenany-lara-trump-larry-kudlow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Fox News fancies itself, at least outside of its Hannity-style programming, as a journalistic outlet. But its recent string of hires tells a different story.<\/p>\n

Despite the Trump administration\u2019s legacy of unrelenting dishonesty and Trump\u2019s recent turn against Fox, the network has hired several former Trump officials of late, basically becoming a jobs program for any former Trump aide who desires gainful employment \u2014 and ensuring that Trump\u2019s brand of politics will have a regular, prominent place on national television.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“While there\u2019s ample precedent for former White House officials making the leap into news media when their tenure in government is through \u2014 George Stephanopoulos went from the Clinton White House to ABC News, for example, and Dana Perino went from the George W. Bush White House to Fox News \u2014 the volume of former Trump officials Fox News has hired is notable, particularly because Fox News staffing itself with Trump family members and former staffers will keep Trumpism relevant.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Donald Trump, meanwhile, can self-promote by calling in to friendly hosts who will let him opine about Biden\u2019s purported failures on national TV, even if he can no longer post tweets.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be good journalism, but that\u2019s rarely the point with Fox. What it will do is help Trump maintain control over the Republican Party heading into the 2022 midterms \u2014 and beyond.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,322,132,1029,323],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-misleading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}