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Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier is perhaps the best personification of Fox Corp chief Lachlan Murdoch's description of Fox News as a network that targets the "center-right." While his selection of stories and analysts often appeal to conservative sensibilities, Baier presents the news from a journalistic standpoint, covers major developments of the day, and corrects misstatements of facts.
Last November, Baier became the latest Fox star to sit for questioning, under oath, by lawyers for an election tech company suing the network for defamation. An attorney for Dominion Voting Systems asked him, by Zoom, how he approached his job.
"I look at my job as being sort of like an ice hockey goalie trying to stop bad pucks from getting through," said Baier, the solo anchor of "Special Report" on Fox News weekdays at 6 p.m. since 2009. "[T]here are a lot of the bad pucks out there when it comes to allegations. So we tried to follow through and see what was real and what was not and then report that on the air to the best of our ability."
Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier is perhaps the best personification of Fox Corp chief Lachlan Murdoch's description of Fox News as a network that targets the "center-right." While his selection of stories and analysts often appeal to conservative sensibilities, Baier presents the news from a journalistic standpoint, covers major developments of the day, and corrects misstatements of facts.
Last November, Baier became the latest Fox star to sit for questioning, under oath, by lawyers for an election tech company suing the network for defamation. An attorney for Dominion Voting Systems asked him, by Zoom, how he approached his job.
"I look at my job as being sort of like an ice hockey goalie trying to stop bad pucks from getting through," said Baier, the solo anchor of "Special Report" on Fox News weekdays at 6 p.m. since 2009. "[T]here are a lot of the bad pucks out there when it comes to allegations. So we tried to follow through and see what was real and what was not and then report that on the air to the best of our ability."
The loneliness of Fox News' Bret Baier
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Fox News Channel
Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Election 2020
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Rupert Murdoch advised Lachlan, "We have to lead our viewers which is [] not as easy as might seem."
Fox opinion hosts had encouraged Trump's rally on the Washington Mall on January 6th that led to the riot and the attack on Congress. In the haunting aftermath, Fox moved on. The network decided to let the moment pass. Baier's pitch to put the conspiracy theories around the election to rest withered on the vine."
..."Rupert Murdoch advised Lachlan, "We have to lead our viewers which is [] not as easy as might seem."
Fox opinion hosts had encouraged Trump's rally on the Washington Mall on January 6th that led to the riot and the attack on Congress. In the haunting aftermath, Fox moved on. The network decided to let the moment pass. Baier's pitch to put the conspiracy theories around the election to rest withered on the vine."
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And he is one of the few who displays a high level of integration.
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