It matters if you minimize, on Page 1, a terrible reality that everyone can read about for themselves in the obituaries. As in his “You’re fired” days, he fell back on his trusty catchphrase, calling Mr. Wallace “fake news” as if the words could dispel the interviewer from the boardroom. At one point, Mr. Wallace brought up the president’s past criticisms of him, asking if he understood that it was a journalist’s duty to interview the president’s rivals, too. A more blunt way of putting it would be: Does the president think it’s Fox’s job to help him win the election? TV networks, he has said, will miss the ratings he brings if he is voted out of the White House.

Source: New York Times July 21, 2020 13:41 UTC