Fox’s Wallace on Journalism: It’s Like the Inmates Are Running the Asylum

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WALLACE: “You know, it feels like the inmates are running the asylum. You know, I’ve been critical sometimes of ‘The Times’ and I think that their liberal tendency tends to bleed out onto their news coverage. Some people have accused Fox of the same thing in terms of our tendencies. But I thought what happened in the last week at ‘The Times’ was just extraordinary. Tom Cotton writes this article about sending the army, sending the military to quell the protests at the height of all of the violence, and it’s in the op-ed page, the op-ed page where you get columns and various views of various political stripes. And there was a tremendous blowback from inside ‘The Times’ and so much so that the publisher, as you say, decided he had to defend it, and then there was so much more blowback that he caved. He then said it was bad. The paper said it was bad. They apologized for it. And the op-ed editor, a pretty distinguished journalist named James Bennett, I’m not quite sure whether he quit or was fired, it was a profile in a lack of courage.”