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    Fox News in the news

    Why cover the network and its people?
    Apr 21, 2023 5 minutes
    Source: Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor

    When NPR does a story on Fox News or its on-air personalities, we often hear complaints from audience members. Some people want NPR to be explicitly critical. Others don't want to hear about Fox News at all.

    We fielded a few of these critiques in the run-up to the Dominion Voting Systems vs. Fox News defamation lawsuit, which was settled Tuesday with Fox agreeing to pay Dominion $787.5 million.

    For weeks, NPR and other news outlets reported on the discovery documents and depositions filed in this case. One narrative that emerged: Fox News avoided airing important stories because it believed that its audience didn't want to hear the truth.

    There's an irony here. When we talked to media correspondent David Folkenflik, he explained why he believed the NPR audience should

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