Why can't Fox apologize? It won't back down even amid Pirro, Carlson controversies

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Why can’t Fox apologize? It won’t back down even amid Pirro, Carlson controversies

By Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison
March 11 at 5:30 PM

Fox News has no regrets and no remorse. It isn’t sorry.

Faced with yet another uproar — actually, two of them within 24 hours — the cable network has blandly, mildly offered . . . well, very little in response. No apologies, no promises of reform, no retreat, no surrender.

The nonresponse appears almost to be a strategy, a resistance in the face of controversy that has helped Fox define itself as a different, defiantly polarizing brand. Its double-down approach seems parallel to that of President Trump, whose political career has been boosted for years by Fox.

The latest Fox uproar involves prime-time host Tucker Carlson, whose vulgar comments about women, girls and a polygamous cult leader on a syndicated radio program more than a decade ago spurred outrage when they were released Sunday by Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group and longtime Fox nemesis.

In response, Carlson issued a brief statement dismissing any controversy; he allowed that his comments were “naughty” and invited critics to come on his program to debate him — an attempt to turn lemons into Nielsen ratings.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. It's like a defect amongst Republicans

There are totally incapable of apology or remorse (unless they're feeling sorry for themselves)

[Power 2 the People]

2. Laura Ingraham told a black man to "shut up and dribble" and she's still there.

It isn't about journalism or profit at Fox. It is about spreading misinformation at all costs.

[ScratchCat]

3. Its simple once you understand the mindset of the right

Everything is "two sides" to them, and they decided long ago that "conservatives" are the "good guys". So If they face a situation where their side is to be seen as "wrong" or the "bad guy", then that would automatically have to mean that "the left" is "right" or "the good guy". It really is that simple to them. They can't ever admit someone on their side is "wrong" or "the bad guy" because it destroys the entire construct of "Conservatives good, Liberals evil". Again, it is that simple.

[mitch96]

4. I think for them an apology is a sign of weakness.. nt

[GeorgeGist]

5. Murdoch is a sociopath.

[sharedvalues]

6. Because it's a propaganda network. It doesn't care about truth or ethics