Just over a week after broadcasters called the 2020 presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., Fox News top executives and anchors held an after-action meeting to figure out how they stood. were deceived. New York Times reports.
“Not because they made the wrong key call, but because they understood. And they had succeeded before anyone else.
“As a rule, it is a source of pride for a news network to be the first to project the winners of elections. But Fox is not your typical news network, and in the days following the 2020 vote, it was besieged by angry protests not only from President Donald J. Trump’s camp but from its own viewers because which he had called the battleground state of Arizona for Mr. Biden. . Never mind that the call was correct; Fox executives feared losing viewers to far-right competitors like Newsmax.
