Tucker’s Troubles & Licht’s Cri de Coeur

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Greetings from the nation’s capital, where Puck is hosting an event tonight with Washington newsmakers at the French Ambassador’s residence honoring the First Amendment. In today’s email, news and notes on the media stories that are driving the conversation in D.C., from Fox News and CNN to The Washington Post and Semafor.

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Tucker’s Troubles & Licht’s Cri de Coeur

Inside Fox News, the network is starting to manifest the same tensions and schisms as the party it covers. Plus, news and notes on Licht’s pivot and Semafor’s controversial partnership.

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“This is horse shit,” a Fox News source told me this week. This person was referring to Tucker Carlson’s new, two-part special on the events of Jan. 6, 2021, which falsely portrayed the violent attack on the Capitol as a largely peaceful gathering of “sightseers.” By this point, of course, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a number of his Republican colleagues had already gone on the record to condemn Carlson’s broadcast and endorse the findings of the Capitol Police Chief, who called the report “offensive and misleading.” Many staffers inside Fox News were similarly critical of the special, which had created what this source described as...

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