On Boston Public Radio, Media Matters’ Matt Gertz explains how Fox is attempting to cover up its role in Trump's coup attempt
Gertz: Fox News is “directly implicated in what happened on January 6 and so they needed to create something else, some other narrative that they could tell their viewers about what happened”
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Matt Gertz on Boston Public Radio Discussing Fox's January 6 coverage
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From July 14, 2022, edition of Boston Public Radio
MARGERY EAGAN (HOST): Let's get back to the current event, which is: How has Fox News been covering these hearings?
MATTHEW GERTZ (SENIOR FELLOW): I would say they're covering it briefly when they can, and when they feel like they have to cover it, it is a funhouse mirror alternative reality the likes of which you have never seen. So, starting from the beginning here. Donald Trump lost his reelection campaign. And then he said he didn't and he said that it had been stolen from him and spent weeks and weeks creating a situation, a powder keg, as the committee has laid out, that led to the January 6 insurrection.
Fox News was like a very key part of that entire story. Fox was helping him create these false narratives about voter fraud. And Fox hosts were his personal direct advisors, who were talking to him, talking to members of his administration, about what was going on. They're directly implicated in what happened on January 6, and so they needed to create something else, some other narrative that they could tell their viewers about what happened. And to some extent it's been pretending nothing happened. And to some extent it's been wild, fabrications of conspiracy theories.