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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: OT: Ukraine WH-meeting news coverage
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 16:28:34 -0800
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On 3/2/25 12:25 PM, Rhino wrote:

> On 2025-03-01 10:55 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 3/1/2025 8:47 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-01 5:01 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A quick glance at major TV news websites puts the Zelensky WH 
>>>> meeting as the top story at ABC, CBS, and NBC.  Fox, meanwhile, 
>>>> places it fourth, with the headline:
>>>>
>>>>     QUESTIONS SWIRL AROUND POSSIBLE ZELENSKYY RESIGNATION AFTER 
>>>> HEATED TRUMP EXCHANGE
>>>>
>>>> (And Fox's next story gives Brett Favre's opinion on the WH debacle.)
>>>>
>>>> Even now, this sort of schism still takes me by surprise...
>>>
>>> It really distresses you when the major media outlets don't all take 
>>> exactly the same "correct" line on the issues of the day, doesn't it? 
>>> You would have LOVED the Soviet Union back in the day or both 
>>> contemporary Russia and China: all the "news" outlets take the same 
>>> line.
>>>
>>> Just to REALLY undermine your sense of order, you should watch Brett 
>>> Baier's interview with Zelenskyy on Fox. You will be VERY surprised 
>>> at how he DOESN'T pile on to Zelenskyy.
>>>
>>> Then again, you'd need to "invest" some time and I know you hate 
>>> doing that - unless of course you know in advance that a recommended 
>>> video is going to take the "progressive" line. But here it is anyway, 
>>> just in case....
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqLcBwUT_E [23 minutes]
>>
>> I watched the first half ...which, with one big exception, seemed a 
>> relatively normal interview.  That exception was that Baier opened 
>> with -- and *pursued* -- a suggestion that Zelensky owed Trump an 
>> *apology*. I found that a true WTF moment ...similar to how Fox's 
>> website (above) leads with a question about Zelensky's *resignation*, 
>> ffs.
>
> And yet he let Zelenskyy answer all of his questions without 
> interruption and did NOT accuse him of anything or condemn him. I'll bet 
> you weren't expecting THAT from Fox.

Brett Baier has always been a straight shooter.

That said, I wonder how much longer he'll be at Fox - people who aren't 
Trump bootlickers haven't done well at Fox lately, which is a real shame.