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</div><div>Carlson’s guests championed his campaign to undermine public health information and dismiss the severity of</div><div>COVID-19 and the ensuing pandemic. His most frequent purveyors of COVID-19 misinformation were Fox News</div><div>medical contributor Dr. Marty Makary and COVID contrarian <b>Alex Berenson, whom he hosted 8 and 6 times in</b></div><div><b>segments discussing the pandemic, respectively, a</b>ccording to Media Matters’ internal database.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Berenson credited Carlson and fellow Fox News host and COVID-19 anti-vaxxer Laura Ingraham</b></div><div><b> for making his coronavirus book “a bestseller.</b>” Berenson later added that “long COVID is a joke …</div><div> medically.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 1/5/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Then-candidate J.D. Vance claimed the government “conspired” with pharmaceutical companies to</div><div> force people to take the “most expensive treatments, instead of doing something that would save the</div><div> most lives and cause the least disruption.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 1/10/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Berenson demanded COVID-19 vaccines be immediately pulled off market, calling them “dangerous</div><div> and ineffective.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 1/25/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk suggested COVID-19 vaccines have caused “a 40 percent increase</div><div> in death amongst the supposed healthiest portion of the American population.” [Fox News, Tucker</div><div> Carlson Tonight, 2/7/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> The Claremont Institute’s James Poulos claimed the COVID-19 vaccines have “technology that can go</div><div> inside of your body and start tinkering with, you know, mRNA, DNA or whatever.” [Fox Nation, Tucker</div><div> Carlson Today, 3/7/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Former Trump administration adviser and serial coronavirus misinformer Dr. Scott Atlas said Fauci’s</div><div> advice “killed and destroyed millions, including sacrificing our children.” Atlas later compared</div><div> following public health measures to mitigate COVID-19 to believing in the flat-earth theory. Carlson</div><div> agreed with the comparison. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 3/17/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> The Great Barrington Declaration co-author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya blamed the increase in deaths</div><div> among young people on COVID-19 social distancing and isolation public health guidelines. [Fox News,</div><div> Tucker Carlson Tonight, 4/13/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> High school student Sophia Mekhael spread the lie that the COVID-19 vaccine is more dangerous than</div><div> the illness, and Carlson agreed. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 4/14/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Talk show host Steve Deace said believing in the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine is “cognitive</div><div> dissonance” and “groupthink.” He added, “Frankly, it is rather cultic.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson</div><div> Tonight, 6/16/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> In an interview with Carlson, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed that “several side effects</div><div> [from the vaccine] are likely to emerge this year or next year.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight,</div><div>
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</div><div>Media Matters for America 11</div><div> 6/30/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b> Berenson</b> claimed the “rise in all-cause mortality is pretty clearly connected to vaccinations” and said</div><div> it’s “really worth watching” whether declining birth rates are also correlated to the COVID-19 vaccine.</div><div> [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 7/6/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Makary claimed that doctors at the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control</div><div> are being “muzzled” and unable to speak against COVID-19 vaccination for infants: “They also know</div><div> that there’s no health emergency right now among kids 6 months of age.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson</div><div> Tonight, 7/14/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Fox News medical correspondent Marc Siegel complained that politicians are too concerned about</div><div> whether a virus is “politically correct” rather than whether it’s dangerous. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson</div><div> Tonight, 7/27/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) claimed that during the pandemic, “we’ve been living under a form of</div><div> martial law.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 9/19/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Makary falsely claimed that children should not receive the COVID-19 vaccine because of the risk of</div><div> myocarditis. Makary also dismissed studies showing that those infected with COVID-19 are more at</div><div> risk for developing myocarditis. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 9/22/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Makary also discouraged pregnant women from getting the COVID-19 vaccine and suggested science</div><div> journal editors are pushing misinformation. (The CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccination to all people</div><div> who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or trying to get pregnant. Evidence continues to show that getting</div><div> the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy is safe and effective.) [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight,</div><div> 9/27/22]</div><div><b> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Berenson claimed that National Institutes of Health officials are going to “make it harder to prove</b></div><div><b> that the lab leak is what really happened.</b>” He warned of the seriousness of the threat: “I think you</div><div> know, and I think my readers know, I’m not a conspiracy theorist.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight,</div><div> 10/3/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Carlson hosted a mother who blamed her son’s myocarditis on the COVID-19 vaccine and said she was</div><div> consequently “ostracized” on social media for the claim. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 10/3/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Conservative European Parliament member Rob Roos claimed that vaccine requirements were “real</div><div> institutional discrimination.” [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 10/11/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Frequent Fox guest Dr. Janette Nesheiwat criticized the CDC’s decision to add the COVID-19 vaccine</div><div> to the recommended children’s vaccination schedule as “irresponsible and illogical” and motivated by</div><div> “profit” for drug companies. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 10/20/22]</div><div> •<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Carlson teased his Fox Nation Tucker Carlson Today interview with discredited cardiologist Dr. Aseem</div><div> Malhotra, who claimed that COVID-19 vaccines could lead to heart disease and other negative health</div><div> effects. [Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 11/29/22]....</div></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mma 122 </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/alex-berensons-antivax-commentary-killing-fox-viewers-because-thats-what-network">https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/alex-berensons-antivax-commentary-killing-fox-viewers-because-thats-what-networ</a>k</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Pandemic conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson’s latest turn on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show, in which he called for the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/fox-guest-demands-covid-vaccines-be-immediately-pulled-market-calls-them-dangerous" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">withdrawal of the mRNA vaccines</a> for COVID-19 and said that “no one should get them” or “get boosted,” based on the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/26/tucker-carlson-airs-his-most-dishonest-dangerous-pandemic-segment-yet/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">false premises</a> that the vaccines do not work and are “dangerous,” has rightly <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/outrage-alex-berenson-baselessly-tells-163910649.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spurred a wave of revulsion</a>.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">As everyone from <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/chris-hayes/watch-chris-hayes-call-out-incredibly-dangerous-poisonous-lies-about-covid-vaccine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">progressive MSNBC hosts</a> to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/alex-berensons-dangerous-covid-vaccine-claims-on-tucker-carlson-tonight/?taid=61f2359de941150001c82978&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conservative National Review writers</a> has noted, programming like this is killing Fox’s viewers by discouraging them from taking shots that are incredibly effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths from the virus.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And that’s apparently how the Fox brass likes it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Berenson’s pattern of spreading coronavirus misinformation is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/whats-behind-rise-covid-contrarian-alex-berenson-right-wing-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">well-documented</a> – he’s been described as <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“the pandemic’s wrongest man”</a> and <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/569908-twitter-bans-conservative-author-Alex-Berenson" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">banned from Twitter</a></b> </span>over his constant falsehoods. But his “contrarian” willingness to denounce any and all measures to contain the pandemic, from <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/masks-work-fox-keeps-hosting-alex-berenson-claim-they-dont" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">masks</a> to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-latest-vaccine-lie-covid-vaccine-makes-you-more-likely-contract-covid-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">vaccines</a>, has made him a fixture on Fox: Tuesday marked his 105th appearance since January 2020, 47 of which have come on Carlson’s show.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>While Carlson himself is a constant font of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-fox-news-show-undermined-vaccines-99-days-it-covered-them-biden" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">anti-vaccine talking points</a> and doubtlessly wants to host people who agree with his lies, the responsibility for Berenson’s ongoing presence on the network’s most-watched programs ultimately rests with Fox’s executives, like Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and Suzanne Scot</b>t. Even if they aren’t willing to part with Carlson for the sake of their viewers, they could dispense with Berenson in a second if they wanted to. Over the years, they have repeatedly – and effectively – banned particular guests from the airwaves based on their off-air behavior or on-air commentary. Carlson has obeyed those diktats when they have come down, just like his fellow prime-time stars.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox hosted Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-and-his-fox-news-colleagues-leave-matt-gaetz-dead" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hundreds of times</a> from August 2017 to March 2021, including at least three dozen hits with Carlson, according to the Media Matters guest database. But on March 30 of the latter year, The New York Times reported that he was under federal investigation for alleged sex trafficking. After one last bizarre appearance on Carlson’s show to respond to the story that night, the network apparently left him for dead.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Fox’s executives were responsible for Gaetz’s disappearance from the network,</b> with The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-scandal-plagued-matt-gaetz-became-excommunicado-at-fox-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reporting</a> a few weeks later that Fox’s executives had put the congressman “on an informal blacklist” for trying “to rope the Fox News star into the congressman’s scandal.” Gaetz regularly appears on other right-wing networks like <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=gaetz+site%3Anewsmax.com&sxsrf=AOaemvIjlcS9F_gExGwV9vwaTXh4iIkKJQ%3A1643296523595&ei=C7fyYYPSI8ipptQPzvWZ4AY&ved=0ahUKEwjDg7LMnNL1AhXIlIkEHc56BmwQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=gaetz+site%3Anewsmax.com&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BggAEA0QHjoHCCMQsAIQJ0oECEEYAUoECEYYAFCxA1jPCGC_EWgBcAB4AIABWogB9wKSAQE1mAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Newsmax</a>, but he has not returned to Fox. Carlson, who was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/31/media/tucker-carlson-matt-gaetz-reaction/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly initially “livid”</a> with Gaetz but subsequently suggested on-air that the congressman had been treated unfairly, has not defied that corporate mandate.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Something similar appears to have happened to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/victoria-toensing/joseph-digenova-and-victoria-toensing-are-still-missing-fox-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Republican lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing</a>, </b>both longtime fixtures at Fox who were apparently banished from its airwaves in fall 2019. Both of them stopped appearing on Fox News amid reporting that they were deeply involved in the genesis of the Ukrainian dirt about Joe Biden that they were often called upon to opine about. The pair continued to appear on Fox Business, vanishing from that outlet as well after diGenova was widely criticized for an <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/trump-impeachment-inquiry/its-own-precedent-fox-should-ban-joe-digenova" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">odious antisemitic rant</a> about progressive philanthropist George Soros.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox refused to respond to reporters’ queries about whether the pair had been formally banned in the months after they disappeared, but they have not returned in the years since – including to Carlson’s show, which had hosted diGenova at least 27 times, according to the Media Matters guest database.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Similarly, in October 2018 a top Fox executive <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/28/media/lou-dobbs-fox-news-guest/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">publicly condemned</a> the rhetoric of Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell</b>, and a spokesperson said he would not be allowed to return to Fox News or Fox Business,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> following an uproar caused by the conservative political operative using an appearance on the latter network to falsely accuse Soros of masterminding a caravan of migrants headed toward the U.S. border from Central America.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox does not have <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/lou-dobbs-tonight-and-foxs-standards-anti-semitic-and-bigoted-commentary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">anything resembling a consistent standard</a> for this type of despicable commentary – indeed, Carlson just <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlsons-hungary-vs-soros-ham-handed-propaganda-straight-out-authoritarian-playbook" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">did an odious anti-Soros special</a> for Fox Nation –</b> but what matters for this discussion is that the ban stuck and Farrell has not been allowed back in subsequent years. Likewise, no Fox program has violated the network’s public bans of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-bans-frequent-guest-harlan-hill-after-he-called-kamala-harris-an-insufferable-lying-bitch" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Harlan Hill</a> (who tweeted in 2020 that Kamala Harris “comes off as an insufferable lying bitch,” or <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-bans-military-guest-who-claimed-torture-worked-on-john-mccain" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney</a> (who said on-air in 2018 that torture “worked” on then-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox’s executives have proved themselves to be capable of keeping unsavory guests off the air when they chose to do so. But with Berenson, they haven’t bothered trying. The network has made the calculation that keeping its viewers from needlessly dying isn’t worth it. As one Fox insider explained, the network is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-antivax-programming-moral-abomination-least-its-great-ratings" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">running anti-vaccine commentary</a> because it is “great for ratings.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The more than 3 million people who tuned into Carlson’s show on Tuesday heard a kook denounce lifesaving vaccines and urge them not to take them. If they listen to him, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/i-went-parental-leave-three-months-later-fox-still-killing-its-viewers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">they could die</a>. And Fox’s leadership is entirely uninterested in preventing that dire outcome.</font></p></div></div><div>=
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Fox keeps hosting Alex Berenson to claim they don’t.</span></a></h2><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3rem 0px 0px; align-items: center; color: rgb(120, 133, 146); display: flex; font-size: 0.6rem; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="dateline-compacttype" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 1.5em; margin-right: 1em; width: 1.5em;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--article" aria-labelledby="icon-label--article"><use xlink:href="#article" xmlns:xlink="xlink" /></svg></span><time datetime="2020-09-11T08:09:59-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box;">09/11/20 8:09 AM EDT</time></p></div></div><div>==</div></div></div>