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Fox New host admits on-air he’s been silenced on Dominion Voting lawsuit against the network [1]

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Date: 2023-02-27  

In what may have been an ad-libbed moment, Kurtz told his Media Buzz audience, “Some of you have been asking why I’m not covering the Dominion voting machines lawsuit against Fox involving the unproven claims of election fraud in 2020, and it’s absolutely a fair question. I believe I should be covering it. It’s a major media story, given my role here at Fox. But the company has decided that as part of the organization being sued, I can’t talk about it or write about it, at least for now.”

But don’t you worry: Kurtz wants you to know that while he has flushed any semblance of professional integrity down the toilet, he still believes he has integrity, saying “I strongly disagree with that decision, but as an employee, I have to abide by it. And if that changes, I’ll let you know.”

He’ll “let you know.” Kurtz isn’t the first Fox News on-air personality to be muzzled by the higher-ups. It was previously reported that Fox News producers tried to shut down “Judge” Jeanine Pirro’s relentless barrage of election fraud fabrications in the hours and days preceding Donald Trump’s clear in the presidential election. In Kurtz’s case, it seems Fox News’ higher-ups just don’t want their fake reporters to report on how fake their reporting is.

The cherry on top of this all is that Fox News’ position in the Dominion defamation lawsuit is something something First Amendment, freedom of speech, shut your face Howard Kurtz.

If Kurtz’s name rings a bell, the last time he made the big news cycle was in 2018, when his producers mistakenly put up an honest graphic about the public’s opinion of Fox News.

Fox News’ defense has long been that Americans know they are full of it. The problem is that while most Americans know that Fox News cannot be trusted as a news source, enough of them do to sway Republican primaries and color public opinion polling with profound ignorance.

Kurtz and everyone with half a brain cell knows the evidence against the hack media outlet is damning. It will be something to see how this affects (or does not affect) the network’s coverage of election security in 2024.

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