Fox doesn’t want evidence

As a citizen and a retiree, I believe it is my obligation to find the best available version of the truth. To this end, I rely on many sources of information, including the daily Spokesman-Review, the weekly Christian Science Monitor, the Sunday New, York Times, and monitoring TV news, including cable.

Saturday’s front page of the Spokesman-Review showing the TV tuned to Fox News is revealing. If you go to Fox News to watch the Senate impeachment trial, you will find that it appears mainly as an insert video with no sound as the Trump prime time propagandists spew the Trumpian fake news. They also make sure that they get their advertisement revenue. This is a trial, and the senators are jurors, who took an oath to consider all the evidence. Fox does not want us to listen to the evidence - only to their biased interpretation and their commercials.

This is in stark contrast to the way Fox News handles a political rally headed by our bloviator in chief, Donald Trump. They carry it from beginning to end - usually about 2 hours long, with no commercial interruption. On the West Coast they usually run it twice. (Fox charges $16,000 a minute to advertise, so this four-hour info commercial for the Trump campaign is a million-dollar in-kind donation to Donald Trump.)

The only saving grace of all this is that this preempts his three comrades - Ingraham, Carlson and Hannity .

Bob Johnston

Spokane