Fox News does not approve of Hannity's presence with Trump
Fox News does not approve of Hannity's presence with Trump
Fox News said Tuesday that it has addressed the "unfortunate distraction" of Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro speaking at President Trump's campaign rally in Missouri the night before, and that he does not approve of such behavior.
The network did not say what discipline, if any, that the two personalities of the network would face.
Meanwhile, Hannity tweeted Tuesday that he was being "100 percent sincere" the previous Monday when he tweeted that "I will not be on stage campaigning with the president."
"When the POTUS invited me on stage to give some remarks last night, I was surprised, but I was honored by the president's request," Hannity wrote. "This was NOT planned."
Hannity, who told the audience at Trump's rally that "all these people in the back are fake news," also tweeted Tuesday that he was not referring to any of his Fox News colleagues. Fox reporter Kristin Fisher, who tweeted a copy of Fox's statement on Tuesday, was covering the rally.
It is considered standard that employees of news organizations do not participate in political campaign activities, so their departures do not seem unfair; Some journalists go so far as not to vote at all for this reason. Fox News resisted Monday when the Trump campaign had announced to its supporters that Hannity would appear as a "special guest" at the Missouri rally, and said that Hannity was only there to cover the event.
Hannity, the most popular personality of cable news and a vocal defender of Trump, has twice been publicly reprimanded by Fox for his campaign activity. Hannity was made to cancel an appearance in 2010 in Cincinnati when it was revealed that she was participating in a fundraiser for the Tea Party. When he appeared in a video of the Trump 2016 campaign, Fox told him never to do it again.
Since then, Fox's personalities have doubled in their support for Trump. Already number one in the cable news ratings, Fox had a sharp fall with the campaign and hearings for the Supreme Court of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, with Hannity at the helm.
Critics have claimed that Fox News Channel is less a news organization than an arm of the Trump campaign, and Monday's rally gave them new ammunition. In the past, Hannity has said that he is a talk show host, not a journalist. But in an interview with The New York Times a year ago, he said he was a journalist, more specifically a defense or opinion journalist.
Hannity broadcast his show from the rally site on Monday, where he urged viewers to vote for Republicans and echoed the theme of Trump's campaign seen on placards: "Promises made, promises fulfilled." He spoke briefly in the camera with Trump at the end of the show.
When it was done White House Communications director Bill Shine, former Fox News Channel executive, Hannity, according to the White House report.
Trump called Hannity on stage after praising Fox and said: "They are very special, they have done an incredible job for us, they have been with us since the beginning". Hannity embraced Trump and, after throwing his insult to the media, recited economic statistics. Pirro, a former New York state attorney general who has a weekend program on Fox, spoke after him.
His speeches were not televised on Fox News, but were seen on C-SPAN.
The appearance of Hannity meant that Fox lied on Monday about his collaboration with the Trump campaign, or that he has no control over Hannity, said Angelo Carusone, president of the liberal think tank Media Matters for America, which has unsuccessfully called for a publicity boycott of the Hannity show. in the past.
"The lack of control admitted by Fox is only reinforced by the lack of sanctions here," said Carusone. "Anyone doing business with Fox News should worry about the network's inability to enforce even the most basic minimum standards."
It is not clear, however, if Hannity was sanctioned or not. Fox has not addressed the issue publicly.
Some journalists surprised in other news organizations did not hesitate to make their feelings known on social networks. "The White House-Fox News nexus has rarely been as evident as tonight in Cape Girardeau," said Philip Rucker, head of the White House office at The Washington Post, on Twitter.
White House reporter Maggie Haberman of the New York Times tweeted: "I still can not forget Hannity denying he's on stage all day, that Trump raised him and then point to real news reporters and call them false. "
Alisyn Camerota, a former Fox News anchor who now presents a morning show on CNN, said Fox executives "vaguely know" that one of their hosts is not supposed to back a candidate or party, but that Hannity can not help him. same.
"They're having a schizophrenic moment there trying to figure out what their role will be in Trump's presidency," Camerota told CNN.
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White House correspondent Jonathan Lemire contributed to this report.
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