S.E. Cupp: Fox News ‘Increasingly Becoming Untethered’ from ‘What We Expect News to Be’
HLN’s S.E. Cupp––who used to appear on Fox News––had some tough words for the network tonight over the ongoing scrutiny surrounding Sean Hannity.
She reviewed the Fox News host’s “lawyer problem” over the revelation of his connection to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and the lack-of-disclosure issue.
“On this face, it seems obvious,” she said. “It’s a clear conflict of interest for Hannity to defend Cohen and his star client, the President of the United States, on his show regularly without revealing one of the reasons he might be doing so.”
But the bigger issue here, Cupp argued, is about Fox News and its place in the sphere of cable news:
“It is increasingly becoming untethered from the standard preconceptions of what we expect news to be. Now, to call Fox ‘infotainment’ is not new, nor do I think it’s particularly pejorative. Like other cable news channels, the network offers a melange of colorful personalities, ideological outrage, and, yes, good reporting too. Opinion infiltrated cable news long ago, but increasingly, and especially at Fox opinion, is not rooted in fact anymore. Instead alarmingly it is sometimes rooted in flat-out fiction, and more often than not in feelings.”
She brought up Hannity’s “macabre obsession with Seth Rich” and “provably untrue” things he’s said.
While talking with Frank Sesno about the responsibility Hannity has to disclose, Cupp said as an opinion host, “it’s been important to me to support my opinion through reporting and double-sourcing and facts.”
Watch above, via HLN.
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