Opinion: Fox News’s Chris Wallace embraces false equivalence, erikwemple writes
Fox News Channel anchor Chris Wallace interviews Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Feb. 25. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 8 at 11:45 AM If Fox News’s Chris Wallace made arguments such as these on his own program, he would destroy himself.
The whole New Yorker angle, Wallace suggested, had the ring of pretext: “Do I think Tom Perez read the New Yorker article and suddenly said, ‘Oh, my gosh, there’s gambling going on in the back room?’ No,” he told the New York Times. “There is a visceral antipathy to Fox News among the left wing of the Democratic Party, and I think they saw this as a good opportunity to make a decision that I’m sure the D.N.C. was under a lot of pressure to make.
“The question is, can you distinguish between the serious straight news reporters and the opinion people?” he added, noting that Rachel Maddow, the liberal opinion host, co-moderated an NBC News debate with Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders in 2016.We know there’s a lot of CNN and MSNBC commentary that gives Trump “heartburn.” We have the tweets to prove as much. But Perez and the DNC weren’t addressing tough commentary.
We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate. They’re the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters.That’s really a shame.
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