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Fox Business is airing evangelical broadcaster Daystar’s panel program that warns viewers of the End Times
Fox Business is seemingly profiting from Daystar’s paid programming that has declared that non-Christians should “buy a casket because you won't survive” the coming “tribulation”
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Fox Business has been seemingly profiting from evangelical broadcaster Daystar’s content by airing the network’s panel show Joni Table Talk as paid programming. During this programming, guests have asserted that “we're at the end of the End Times,” warned that there will be “very few survivors of the tribulation,” and claimed that “one of the signs” of Jesus supposedly “coming again” is that “many Jewish people are coming to the Lord now.”
Daystar’s Joni Table Talk has aired at least 40 times on Fox Business since August 2023, according to a Media Matters review. The panel program airs weekly during the network’s paid programming, with a brief generic disclaimer — which appears to be standard for the network — that notes: “The following is a paid advertisement and does not express the views and opinions of the FOX Business Network.”
This is just the latest example of how Fox Business has seemingly profited from broadcasting far-right Christian content. Last year, Media Matters reported that Fox Business had been airing weekly commentary from Christian nationalist pastor Jack Hibbs as paid programming. Hibbs used that platform to push the “great reset” conspiracy theory and tell viewers that they are “living in the last days.” The network aired Real Life with Jack Hibbs at least 27 times between November 12, 2022, and May 20, 2023, and the programming has continued airing on Fox Business.