The comparison is not subtle but it has the merit of being clear.
"Fox tiptoes away from Trump as we walk away from the guy who just farted in the evening."
It is signed Gabriel Sherman, journalist at
Vanity Fair
and author of a bestseller on the conservative channel
The Loudest Voice in the Room
(2014), since adapted as a television series.
Fox News has become the unexpected target of Trumpian anger for announcing, as early as 11:20 p.m. Washington time Tuesday, that key Arizona state and its 11 voters were falling into the hands of Joe Biden.
The Associated Press, which uses the same election data as Fox, followed three hours later, when other media preferred to wait until almost all of the ballots were counted.
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The Trump camp saw this announcement as a betrayal on the part of a media that was for a long time an official relay.
The channel's White House correspondent said the unfavorable projection
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