NYT’s Mara Gay: ‘Extremely Dangerous’ for Fox News to Report Unaired 1/6 Footage

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GAY: “We should expect no less. One of my concerns here is that this footage actually, I believe, belongs to the American people. This is property of the U.S. government. So, I don’t see any justification for only releasing that footage to Tucker Carlson. So, I think, you know, one of my concerns as a journalist is, okay, let’s make sure that we can have legitimate news organizations who actually function as news organizations with all of the responsibilities that journalism entails. Let’s have all the rest of us take a look at this footage. And before we release it, make sure that there are no security concerns. That’s a process that regularly takes place in most journalism organizations. And that’s not to withhold key information from the public, but that’s to make sure that we are, of course, addressing security concerns that Frank is laying out. That’s a regular practice. Fox News doesn’t really engage in regular news practices, and that’s not actually an issue of partisanship of far right or far left. That’s just the reality of them not acting as a news organization does. They are not known for presenting facts. They’re known for playing with them and often dispersing propaganda. And in this case, conspiracy theories. That’s extremely dangerous, but I also just want to stress, that’s not journalism.”