Thread: Fox News Murdoch Ordered Harsh Treatment For Trump

Not surprising - was quite obvious, an embarrassment to watch and totally WRONG to do. murdoch is another rich guy that wants to control everything like soros BUT both are criminals - soros for supplying the cash for open borders and murdoch for tainting free press rights; has no scruples nor understands what free press, honest, unbiased news media is. chris wallace should be disqualified as moderator for the 3rd & final debate.

New Revelations Link Internal Fox Politics To Harsh Treatment Given To Donald Trump

... launched a war between Trump and Fox.

by Jack Davis September 3, 2016 at 1:28pm

Rupert Murdoch’s dislike for Donald Trump was the leading factor in a chain reaction that helped shape the narrative of the Republican presidential campaign, according to a New York Magazine article by Gabriel Sherman, an avowed antagonist of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.

The article, titled “The Revenge of Roger’s Angels,” mostly explores Ailes’ fall from grace and the alleged misconduct that led to his resignation from Fox under pressure from Murdoch, who owns the parent corporation of Fox News.

During his recounting of power politics inside Fox, Sherman offers a new take on how Trump’s entry in the presidential race became caught up in the feuding taking place at Fox.

Sherman wrote he was told by Fox sources that Murdoch, who disliked Trump and even more so Trump’s immigration plan, was angered at Ailes over Trump’s seemingly meteoric rise to the top of the GOP polls. Sherman said Ailes was a continual source of political advice for Trump.

Murdoch, however, had had enough, Sherman wrote. In July of last year — prior to the first Republican presidential debate — Murdoch called Ailes and told him that he wanted Trump stopped

Murdoch ordered Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace — the three moderators of the Fox debate — to simply hammer away at Trump on the issues, Sherman alleges in his piece.

Sherman wrote that Ailes may have offered some pushback, but in the end, complied.

And so it was that on Aug. 6, 2015, the Fox debate took a niche in political/media history as the Fox moderators hit Trump hard as ordered.

Chief among them was Kelly, whose question to Trump about his treatment of women appeared to bother the candidate personally.

Thus an approach ordered by Murdoch launched a war between Trump and Fox, as well as a high-profile feud between Trump and Kelly, according to Sherman’s narrative of events.

Sherman said that the controversy then caused more internal dissension at Fox, because Ailes made private comments to other Fox employees the infamous question was not appropriate.
As Trump continued to lambast Kelly, who was officially but not enthusiastically supported by Ailes, Kelly in turn felt ill-used by the network.

She, in turn, became one of the critical Fox female employees who — after former Fox host Gretchen Carlson sued claiming sexual harassment — reportedly told internal Fox investigators that there was a culture of sexual harassment at Fox and Ailes was at its center.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/new...-donald-trump/

The First Ever Fox News Anchor To Moderate A Presidential Debate Explains The ‘Six Buckets’ Who gets to decide what's in them?

Norvell Rose September 2, 2016 at 3:46pm

The first forum in which the two major-party candidates for president will participate is set for Sept. 7, though it’s not considered an official presidential debate because Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will take the stage separately to field questions from an audience. NBC’s Matt Lauer will host that “Commander-in-Chief Forum” in New York City.

The real top-of-the-ticket fireworks are set to start going off Sept. 26 with the first of three debates where Trump and Clinton will be face to face. That kick-off contest will see another NBC personality, Lester Holt, in the moderator’s chair. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz will try to keep a lid on things for the town-hall style faceoff on Oct. 9. Fox News’ Chris Wallace will moderate the third and final matchup between the Republican and Democrat nominees on Oct. 19, just weeks before Americans go to the polls.

Wallace — the host of “Fox News Sunday” who was a co-questioner during primary season when many candidates were vying for the GOP top slot — will become the first ever Fox News anchor to handle one of these high-profile presidential debates.

“It’s a little bit like being the referee in the ring during a heavyweight championship fight,” Wallace said of the chance to sit down in an intimate setting with the two major contenders for the White House. “If you do a really great job, people see a great fight and they forget the fact that you were ever even in the ring, you’re almost invisible. And if that’s the case, if people say they don’t remember you being there, I will have done my job.”

That description of the moderator’s job is a far cry from the way CNN’s Candy Crowley jumped right into the middle of the ring in 2012 during the debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Crowley became not a referee but a participant in the fight, when she aggressively challenged Romney’s statement about President Obama’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya.

“What you want to do is be able to throw something out there which engages both of them, allows them both to speak,” Wallace said.

By clicking on the video below, you can watch the reaction from Chris Wallace to his being named the moderator of the critical third debate, when you have to take into account what the candidates have said in the first two as well as what’s new on the campaign trail and in the world at large:

Wallace explained that the debate format calls for the two contenders to be presented with questions drawn from what are referred to as “six buckets” of general topics.
“This will give you a sense of how daunting this assignment is — I said to one of the debate commission officials, well, now who decides what the six buckets are, to tell the candidates a week in advance? They said, ‘You do.'”

The debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 19 will be the last opportunity for the American voters to see Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on stage together before the election on Nov 8.
video clip with wallace at link

http://www.westernjournalism.com/the...09/02/wallace/

Why would they want to give Trump a hard time or harsh treatment? That's so unfair in any election let alone primaries and the general election to select candidates for President and then a President of the United States.

Just be fair, equal and balanced with all the candidates. Your job as debate moderators is to ask questions that the average person would like to know about. These debates aren't for games, tricks, humiliation or embarrassing candidates, they aren't even for the self-anointed elite or academics, it's for the people of the United States. So ask questions about things that you know we care about and that are important to US.