Up becomes down as Donald Trump boycotts Fox News
By Dan Selcke
Despite receiving a lot of coverage from the network, Trump has boycott Fox News after it treated him “very unfairly”
Donald Trump raised the ire of some people inside Fox News—not a hard thing to do, admittedly—back in August, when he made off-color comments about pundit Megyn Kelly following her moderation of a Republican presidential debate. (“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes,” Trump said the day after the debate. “Blood coming out of her wherever.”) It looks like that conflict has finally boiled over, as Trump recently tweeted that he was done with the conservative news network, despite a widespread perception that Fox News is basically the press office for the Republican Party.
.@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2015
Fox News kept the circle of irony going when it released a statement about the boycott to Entertainment Weekly. The statement is…maybe you should just read it.
"At 11:45 a.m. [Wednesday], we canceled Donald Trump’s scheduled appearance on The O’Reilly Factor on Thursday, which resulted in Mr. Trump’s subsequent tweet about his ‘boycott’ of Fox News…The press predictably jumped to cover his tweet, creating yet another distraction from any real issues that Mr. Trump might be questioned about. When coverage doesn’t go his way, he engages in personal attacks on our anchors and hosts, which has grown stale and tiresome. He doesn’t seem to grasp that candidates telling journalists what to ask is not how the media works in this country."
It might strike some people as ironic that Fox News is complaining about distracting from the real issues, given that the network has done things like devote a segment to discussing a “terrorist fist jab” shared by Barack and Michelle Obama, accused Spongebob Squarepants of “pushing a global-warming agenda,” and spent time wondering if Mr. Rogers was an “evil, evil man” for making kids feel good, but to be fair, those people probably don’t watch much Fox News.
The bit about Trump engaging in personal attacks when coverage doesn’t go his way also takes this statement pretty deep down the irony hole. When we come out the other side, we find ourselves in a world where Donald Trump rejects one of his biggest platforms, Fox News advocates for journalistic integrity, black is white, up is down, and this article goes on forever.
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