On her website, Bartiromo also notes her membership in the exclusive Council on Foreign Relations, a foreign policy think tank.
They’ve got to decide whether they stand on the side of democracy or on the side of Rupert Murdoch.” It includes all the board members of News Corp and Fox. That includes NYU it includes (former House Speaker) Paul Ryan being a member of the board of Fox.
Then, the other institutions, I think, should be equally cautious in associating with people who are trying to destroy democracy. “Journalism should be shunning Fox News and those associated with it and its owners,” Jarvis said. But he said journalism institutions have a special responsibility to do so. New York University did not respond to a request for comment.Īll organizations should be rethinking their association with Fox News and its personalities, said Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark School of Journalism. But the Board of Trustees works in its own way, without reference to faculty. Faculty have already indicated that they wish her gone. “She has contributed to the creation and promotion of a damaging and conspiratorial lie” Karl said, adding, “If NYU wishes to remain on the correct side of respectable, the Board of Trustees should force her to resign. “My position is that she has no place in any respectable organization,” Rebecca Karl, a professor of history and president of the NYU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said of Bartiromo. Until this moves through the courts.”īartiromo, a 1989 graduate of New York University, currently serves on the institution’s Board of Trustees. “Will be able to turn this around? I told my team we are not allowed to say pres elect at all. “I want to see massive fraud exposed,” Bartiromo wrote to Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, on Nov. Fox Business News host Maria Bartiromo instructed staff not to refer to Joe Biden as the president-elect. Internal communications released in the case show Fox News hosts promoted the narrative even after they knew their guests were spreading falsehoods. The network’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, acknowledged under oath during his deposition in a $1.6 billion lawsuit against the network by Dominion Voting Systems that “some of our commentators were endorsing” the false claims and that he could have done more to stop it. Questions about the role Fox News figures play at prominent institutions and organizations have gained new life following revelations that its hosts and executives pushed falsehoods, at times knowingly, that the 2020 election was stolen from former president Donald Trump.
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