Fox News is receiving new outrage for deciding not to air the Jan. 6 Committee hearings in their entirety.
In a press release Monday, the network announced it will “present live coverage of the Select Committee hearing to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol on Thursday, June 9th across FOX News Media platforms.”
“Special coverage kicks off at 8 PM/ET with chief political anchor and Special Report’s Bret Baier along with executive editor of The Story Martha MacCallum co-anchoring live from Washington, DC on FOX Business Network. The coverage will be offered to FOX Broadcast affiliates across any of their platforms as well as live streamed on FOX News Digital for free, without authentication and live streamed on FOX Nation,” it added.
However, Fox News’ “primetime programs will cover the hearings as news warrants,” and at 11 p.m., there will be a two-hour special about the hearings.
But that is not enough, according to some, Fox apparently must air every, single second of these hearings — otherwise, they are worse than Russian propaganda outlets.
Check out some of the reactions below:
Fox News is Betraying Its Own Viewers — and Selling Out the Country — With Disgraceful Decision Not to Air Jan. 6 Hearing (Column by @ColbyHall) https://t.co/3e0DLIN0qD
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 7, 2022
CBS ABC NBC CNN are all covering the Jan 6 hearings LIVE. @FoxNews is the only major channel that isn't.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 7, 2022
Why won't @SeanHannity @TuckerCarlson @IngrahamAngle join the rest? No opinion, no editing, just real time coverage. Because they’re scared of what their viewers will see.
Getting your Jan. 6 news from Fox News is like getting your Ukraine news from Russian state TV. https://t.co/PXEWVqmDYo
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 7, 2022
Fox News not airing Jan. 6 hearing is "suppression of truth": Ex-FBI head https://t.co/edqB0jTH0Q
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 7, 2022
If you work for @FoxNews and want to maintain your credibility as a journalist, now is a good time to speak out, or quit. Enough is enough. https://t.co/zASss6kWUA
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) June 7, 2022
Fox “News” will NOT be showing the televised Jan. 6 committee hearings — the latest proof that Fox is NOT a news organization.
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) June 7, 2022
Who agrees that Fox propagandists who pose as “reporters” should be BARRED from White House press briefings? ✋
To be clear, the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was embarrassing for the nation and it was embarrassing for conservatives.
It was sad and infuriating that a sitting president used his voice to whip that many people up into believing that the election was stolen and that in order to protect the country, they had to rush to the Capitol, disrupt a Constitutionally mandated proceeding, and try to void the voice of the millions of their fellow citizens so that the loser of the election could stay in power.
But how many times do we have to rehash the events that took place during those hours?
Democrats showed footage from inside and outside the Capitol during the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
Over the summer, the committee held a hearing in which law enforcement officials recounted their stories of fighting back the mob that day.
We do deserve to know what Trump knew and exactly how he responded throughout the day. And we should know why and how law enforcement was so unprepared for the violence. Based on Fox’s press release, it seems like they will be ready to break into their primetime programming if there is new information in the hearings.
But, we don’t need to hear the same blow by blow of the day over and over and over again with the same old sanctimonious language.
That really does not serve a purpose except to scratch an itch for those who believe that Trump and Republicans pose an existential threat to American democracy and that the only way to avert a repeat is to keep Jan. 6 in Americans’ faces.
What America deserves is a dispassionate look at the day, what went wrong, and suggestions to prevent a repeat incident — not a chance for primetime grandstanding by politicians in an election year.
