The network’s streaming service laid out $250,000 to sponsor CPAC and some of its personalities gave speeches in an unusual arrangement.
Fox News host Pete Hegseth gave a rousing speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, telling the crowd of ardent Trump supporters that liberals are out of touch.
His colleague Dan Bongino, a Fox contributor, urged people to “get back in the fight” to elect Republicans in an appearance at the same conference.
The sentiments expressed weren’t especially unusual for CPAC, a kind of Burning Man festival for the conservative faithful. What was unusual — and disturbing to some experts in journalistic ethics — was the Republican conference’s conspicuous affiliation with Fox, an ostensibly nonpartisan news network. Continue reading.