Zoom Video Shows Fox Hosts Baier, MacCallum Are GOP Shills
Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum were upset that Fox News might lose some viewers when execs called Arizona earlier than any other network in the 2020 election, especially when dealing in a Trump environment.
The NY Times obtained video of a Zoom meeting with Fox executives and hosts who were feverishly working on one goal. How to keep from angering the network’s conservative audience again by calling an election for a Democrat before the competition.
Chief executive Suzanne Scott opined that Fox News viewership would have been massive if they let the mystery of Arizona's election results twist in the wind.
“Listen, it’s one of the sad realities: If we hadn’t called Arizona those three or four days following Election Day, our ratings would have been bigger,” Ms. Scott said. “The mystery would have been still hanging out there.”
Fox News has spent a lot of blood and treasure trying to promote the idea that Special Report host Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum are straight-shooting journalists since they helm all of Fox News' election coverage.
That bubble has burst.