Boston Globe's Jackie Kucinich: Dominion filing showed Fox News' internal workings are “the antithesis of what journalism should be”
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Citation From the February 17, 2023, edition of CNN's Inside Politics with John King
ABBY PHILLIP (HOST): I want to bring up one other part of the messages from this lawsuit, this is a message from Tucker Carlson about one of Fox's White House correspondents, Jacqui Heinrich, who had basically factually, accurately fact-checked President Trump. Here's what Tucker says, “Please get her fired. Seriously what the F. I am actually shocked. It needs to stop immediately like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke."
JACKIE KUCINICH (WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, THE BOSTON GLOBE): The stock price.
PHILLIP: The stock price is down. It seems to be that these indicate it was all about profit.
KUCINICH: Yes, it was about the show. It wasn't about the truth. And the fact that this reporter was put in the crosshairs because of this is just, it just shows how the commitment, it was never about the facts. They were worried that their viewers weren't being told what they wanted to hear anymore. And they were going away. That is just -- it is such the antithesis of what journalism should be. It is, it's not surprising but it's shocking, I guess.
MANU RAJU (CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT): Yeah, it's certainly not the way it is supposed to work. But it's not just a programming decision or a monetary decision. These have real consequences in how people, how voters, view what is happening in society. There is a significant segment in the population that falsely believes that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. Why? Because they were consuming news that we now know from these texts very clearly that the people who are purveying that knew it was false. Knew it was bogus, but believed they were pushing and wanted to push that because they wanted to feed into this audience. So you are supposed to tell the audience the truth of what's going on by presenting not mistruths, that affects voters' perception and has an impact on democracy.