Despite his lawyer’s protestations, it’s not clear that Hannity was acting as a journalist in his messages to Trump’s inner circle. The host himself has described himself various ways over the years. “I never claimed to be a journalist,” he told the New York Times in 2016 when asked about his friendship with Trump. A year later, however, he described himself to the Times as “an advocacy journalist, or an opinion journalist.”

Source: Fox News January 07, 2022 18:34 UTC