On ABC, Susan Glasser details how Fox executives lied about their panic over ratings amidst debunked voter fraud claims
Susan Glasser: “Fox officials for our book incorrectly said to us, oh, no. We weren't in a panic over the ratings, you know, don't you dare report that”
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From the February 19, 2023, edition of ABC's This Week
SUSAN GLASSER (NEW YORKER STAFF WRITER): It's shocking, Martha, but once again maybe not surprising, the story of the Trump presidency, but really significant. I think that these were almost smoking gun-type emails, this in some ways the most serious media scandal in recent memory, because these emails document essentially, fraud and its senior executives and hosts perpetrating a fraud on their own viewers that they knew not to be true. I mean it is really breath-taking to see it in their own words. Our reporting in the book very clearly showed Fox made the right news call, the news side did, and they got rid of the people who correctly called Arizona for Trump and then went into a crisis. They went into an absolute crisis, and by the way, Fox officials for our book incorrectly said to us, 'oh, no, we weren't in a panic over the ratings, you know, don't you dare report that,' but of course, these emails show that that's exactly what happened.