FOX NEWS IS STATE RUN MEDIA
Hope Hicks Gets FOX Job – And Mercilessly Mocked
White House Quick to Praise Move
Hope Hicks has landed a new job. The former Trump White House Communications Director had announced her retirement in February, one day after testifying before Congress she had lied for the president.
Hicks will go to work for FOX, as its Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, according to The Hill. FOX is the new company forged from assets remaining after the 21st Century Fox and Disney merger, and will include Fox Entertainment, Fox Sports, and of course, Fox News.
Hicks joining FOX is just more proof of the inexorable bond between the White House, Rupert Murdoch, and Fox News – and how much Fox News will have 24/7 access to the Trump administration. The president months ago hired former Fox News co-president Bill Shine as his Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications.
The White House was quick to praise the move:
FOX won’t find anyone smarter or more talented than Hope Hicks. So happy for my friend. They are beyond lucky to have you and the East Coast misses you already. https://t.co/mUQUlip5oc
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 8, 2018
And many were quick to mock Hicks:
Hope Hicks joining New Fox as EVP and Chief Communications Officer is yet another illustration that Fox News is not a news network, but rather a partisan propaganda operation aimed at serving Trump’s interests. Also underscores that Fox News is already gearing up for 2020.
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) October 8, 2018
Hope Hicks proves that FOX News & the Trump WH are just one big game of Red Rover.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 8, 2018
Seems like a step down that she moved from the White House to one of the Trump administration’s agencies. https://t.co/sQtaJCGYJ1
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 8, 2018
Hope Hicks and Bill Shine swapping hats is a straightforward example of conservation of sexual-assault coverup artists—the fourth law of thermodynamics. https://t.co/yaOpJU1q3M
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 8, 2018
Fox is the Fourth Branch of Government, exhibit 4062https://t.co/cGTQQIQsUJ
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 8, 2018
Bill Shine got forced out at Fox for running interference for a sexual predator and bounced over to Trump’s WH
Hope Hicks ran interference for the sexual predator in the WH and bounced over to Fox
just balancing the ledger, really
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) October 8, 2018
State run TV. #HopeHicks #FoxNews
— Curt Clark (@CurtClark22) October 8, 2018
So, Hope Hicks is going back to work for the Trump Administration. https://t.co/bpuYHzOeS8
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) October 8, 2018
5) Bottom line is this: Hope Hicks' presence will further align Trump comms apparatus with the Fox News propaganda machine. Lachlan has decided not just to tolerate, but facilitate this. It'll get worse, unless we start organizing to make this trajectory a business problem.
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) October 8, 2018
State media names new spokesperson, same as the old spokesperson. https://t.co/YQg9l9p69u
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) October 8, 2018
It’s official: Hope Hicks named as Minister of Propaganda.🇷🇺https://t.co/bUi518hhhc
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) October 8, 2018
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