I love town halls. I’ve done more than 70 since January, and I’m glad to have a television audience be a part of them. Fox News has invited me to do a town hall, but I’m turning them down—here’s why...
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Hate-for-profit works only if there’s profit, so Fox News balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet. It’s all about dragging in ad money—big ad money.
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But Fox News is struggling as more and more advertisers pull out of their hate-filled space. A Democratic town hall gives the Fox News sales team a way to tell potential sponsors it's safe to buy ads on Fox—no harm to their brand or reputation (spoiler: It’s not).
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Here’s one place we can fight back: I won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our candidates—especially when Fox will make even more money adding our valuable audience to their ratings numbers.
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I’m running a campaign to reach all Americans. I take questions from the press and voters everywhere I go. I’ve already held town halls in 17 states and Puerto Rico—including WV, OH, GA, UT, TN, TX, CO, MS & AL.
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I’ve done 57 media avails and 131 interviews, taking over 1,100 questions from press just since January. Fox News is welcome to come to my events just like any other outlet. But a Fox News town hall adds money to the hate-for-profit machine. To which I say: hard pass.
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Elizabeth Warren is the best prepared, most thoughtful and bravest candidate for President I've ever seen. I so wish I could be convinced she could win, because that's my #1 priority. Anyway, this:https://www.thenation.com/article/eric-alterman-elizabeth-warren-media-failure/ …
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The comments on this column are...distressing.
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Did you just label half the population of this country racist and then accuse them of being divisive? Am I missing something? Come on Elizabeth! You don’t have to do that.
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Fox News in a nutshell—makes me like
@ewarren even more.https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1128314854622859265 … - Show replies
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