Over the weekend, Fox News’ Chris Wallace stepped into the circle and, wait for it, practiced journalism.
Dear Lord, say what?
That’s right, Wallace grilled President Donald Trump on issues ranging from the coronavirus to the challenges facing his re-election effort. It was interesting, and at times intense. That makes for good TV, and it makes for informative news when you have the most powerful man on the planet grappling with a once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic.
It also makes for controversy at a time when cable news outlets are more interested in preaching to their converts than in presenting the news.
Those allegiances made the pro-Fox watchers angry that Wallace – in their eyes – betrayed and even ambushed the president. It made the pro-CNN choir sing that Wallace was too good for Fox as they pretend their liberal bias is a ghost story. Heck, the Washington Post offered the view that this was a “fig leaf” for Fox’s usual M.O.