The top-rated news network, Fox News Channel, stuck with its own lineup of commentators. Sean Hannity denounced the “show trial” elsewhere on TV just as he was featured in it, with the House’s Jan. 6 committee examining his tweets to Trump administration figures.Hannity aired a soundless snippet of committee members entering the hearing room as part of a lengthy monologue condemning the proceedings.“It’s really just a cheap, selectively edited political ad,” Hannity told his viewers.
Yet the seven daytime hearings have proven something of an oddity. Buoyed by strong word-of-mouth, the hearings grew in audience as they went along. CNN, for example, reached 1.5 million people for the second daytime hearing on June 16, and 2.6 million for the last one on June 12, Nielsen said. That would be a much more serious problem in prime time, where Fox’s audience is more than double what it is during the day. Fox News Channel’s decision not to air the prime-time hearings is almost certainly a function of the demands of their audience and prime-time hosts, said Nicole Hemmer, an expert on conservative media and author of the upcoming book “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
He brought on guests like GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, who said that if the hearings have done anything, “they’ve exonerated President Trump and the people supporting him.”
Fox News did not.
The Tribune needs to correct today’s cover story in which it erroneously states that 5 people died during Jan 6 riot. Only 1 person died; a protester. Please issue correction.
Desperation!
'gripping', 'riot' & trying to shame a stand out...just like the framing done by the committee, the media try to manipulate through wording. At least fox sees this for the political theater the committee is
“Gripping”
Very russia china like.Trial had low audience so the ruling party FORCED it upon taxpayers primetime.Most probably streamed other content anyway. Dems refused national guard so it's in them too.Down with D.C.on both sides.👎