Fox News has reportedly embraced a version of “vaccine passports' in the office—all while the network’s biggest stars are still beating the anti-vax drum.
claimed that vaccinated people are getting “sick or dying, as has happened in Israel.” Earlier this month,on Carlson’s show that vaccine mandates are an “apartheid” policy designed to discriminate against unvaccinated Americans.
At the same time, a number of other Fox News personalities—primarily its daytime news anchors and morning hosts––have vouched for the vaccine on air; the hosts ofthey were vaccinated during their first day back in the studio together. Behind the scenes too, the network has taken the virus seriously, vacating its corporate offices during the height of the pandemic and asking employees to take precautions.
It’s possible that Fox’s mixed messaging, and in particular its role in fomenting vaccine hesitancy, has been prevalent enough foron Tuesday noted that the White House and Fox News have held “regular, high-level conversations” about the network’s pandemic coverage.
The question of Fox’s culpability in the pandemic has been raised early and often; the network was sued by a watchdog group for telling viewers, in essence, that COVID was nothing to worry about. The suit was ultimately , but as the delta variant causes a spike in infections, at least one of the network’s heavy hitters may be reevaluating. On Monday night,his audience to “Please take COVID seriously, I can’t say it enough. Enough people have died. We don’t need any more deaths…. Research like crazy, talk to your doctor, your doctors, medical professionals...it absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated. I believe in science. I believe in the science of vaccination.
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