Following the release of a thorough and at-times disturbing New Yorker exposé on Fox News’ cozy relationship with President Donald Trump, Washington Post media reporter Margaret Sullivan called the cable news network an “American plague” and a “shameless propaganda outfit” in a scathing column published Thursday. “It was not censorship as some bizarrely claimed, merely a decision not to enter into a business relationship,” she wrote. Trump’s intimate relationship with Fox News has been unlike any other between a U.S. president and news outlet, The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported. Among other revelations, Mayer reported that Trump rates Fox News hosts on a scale of 1 to 10 based on their loyalty to him. The last point is likely of particular outrage to Sullivan, who served as the New York Times’ public editor for 3 1/2 years before joining the Post as a media columnist.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2019 22:30 UTC