Here Is a Fox News Reporter Who Doesn’t Belong in Jail
But, as right-wing commenters have taken to pointing out, it’s also a little bit because Jana Winter works for Fox News. This is because Fox News has literally created a multi-billion dollar behemoth on the notion that reporters—excuse me, “the MSM”—are treasonous scoundrels and liars who don’t deserve the protections of the First Amendment. And because it has cynically and fraudulently used the pretense of journalism as cover for building a GOP messaging operation.
The prospect that she may go to jail for doing her job is an outrage. The fact that she has thus far been hung out to dry by a press corps normally quick to cry foul is a direct consequence of the fact that she, and many of her colleagues, have been systematically exploited by Roger Ailes as human shields in their lengthy war on the practice of newsgathering.
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