Fox Anchor Proposed Special To Debunk Election Lies

NPR reports:

Fox News anchor Bret Baier repeatedly sought to devote an hour-long Sunday evening special following the 2020 elections to set out and debunk the leading myths bolstering Trump’s baseless claims of fraud. On “Special Report,” Baier had addressed many of those individual claims, which had been promoted by Trump and embraced by his supporters.

Baier told colleagues he thought the hour-long treatment would be an important way to show Fox’s audience that it was taking their concerns seriously while presenting them with the facts about the election. Baier’s proposed hour never aired. Network executives never even gave Baier – their chief political anchor – a direct verdict on his pitch.

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Starting in late November 2020, Bret Baier repeatedly proposed devoting an hour-long special to debunking election fraud myths. He never got an answer from network executives.

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