NEW YORK –Fox NewsNational Security correspondent Jennifer GriffinShe couldn’t contain herself when she followed a retired U.S. Army officer on air recently. He claimed that she had not had enough time to correct his mistakes. “distortions.”
However, she did try. It wasn’t the first or last time she tried.
Griffin has been a Fox News Channel reporter since 1996. She has contradicted and corrected several Fox analysts on air over the past week about the Ukraine crisis. Tucker Carlson suggested that some reporters were acting as flacks at the Pentagon this week, but some saw that as a criticism.
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Bill O’Reilly, an ex-host of Fox, highlighted Griffin as a brave reporter who is not afraid to take on others.
Griffin said that her efforts are consistent in what she has tried to do for the past 25 years on Fox News, both behind the scenes and on air.
“I think you want your experts, in today’s media environment, to be passionate about what they know and what they feel about the facts,”Steve Krakauer is the author of The Fourth Watch, which is a conservative-leaning media newsletter. “I want them to be in the story.”
Griffin is as knowledgeable as anyone in journalism about Griffin’s beat, and Griffin believes that her real-time fact checks are a valuable public service. As long as she doesn’t get caught in the mucks partisan debating, Griffin stated on Thursday.
Griffin has reacted to remarks made by Sean Hannity (Steve Doocy), Harris Faulkner, Greg Gutfeld, and Greg Gutfeld on their own shows. Griffin pointed out that all presidents since the fall the Soviet Union have made mistakes in Ukraine after Hannity criticised President Joe Biden. Doocy countered. “Fox & Friends”Griffin stated that Russia sanctions have not worked; Griffin claimed that it was too early to state that.
Griffin stated that sending troops into the region would have given Putin an excuse for invading, when Faulkner also questioned whether sanctions were sufficient. She claimed it was “not some wag-the-dog situation”Gutfeld suggested it “The Five”That the Ukraine crisis was manufactured.
After he stated that it was impossible to find a U.S. Army brigadier General, Don Bolduc, on Sunday she accepted his resignation. “boggles my mind”It was not yet that the United States had gone. “all in”Ukraine. Griffin stated that Bolduc was not a historian but a politician.
“To suggest that the U.S. would put indirect fire or special operations or CIA on the ground to give Putin any sort of excuse to broaden this conflict is extremely dangerous talk at a time like this,”Griffin said.
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Trey Gowdy conducted an interview with her earlier in the day. He was following a visit by former U.S. Army colonel Doug Macgregor who called for the United States not to send weapons to Ukraine. He stated that Russia should be allowed to annexe the Ukraine portion they are most interested.
Griffin followed Macgregor and Griffin told her that she needed to correct some things. “and I’m not sure 10 minutes is enough time because there are so many distortions.” She said Macgregor sounded like an apologist for Putin. “That kind of projection of withdrawal and weakness is what made Putin think he could move into a sovereign country,”She spoke.
Macgregor then criticized Griffin in a radio interview. “standard neo-con narrative”It was a comparison to Adolf Hitler’s 1930s appeasement. He called it “a “tired trope”That had nothing to do today’s people and events.
Tucker Carlson invited Macgregor to be the prime-time host two days after he appeared on Gowdy’s program. The most watched Fox program is Carlson’s.
“Unlike so many of the so-called reporters you see on television, he is not acting secretly as a flack for (Defense Secretary) Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon,”Carlson stated this in his introduction. “No, Doug Macgregor is an honest man.”
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Is that a shot at Griffin’s character? Carlson didn’t specify which reporters he meant, and Fox News didn’t offer any clarification. He isn’t afraid to challenge colleagues; Carlson and Shepard Smith shared a memorable fight before Smith left Fox News in 2019.
Griffin is currently based at the Pentagon, but has previously worked in Moscow and Jerusalem for Fox. He has a reputation as a straight-shooter and knowledgeable, according to David Lapan, a former Pentagon spokesperson who worked with Griffin professionally in many national security capacities.
Lapan stated that much of her reporting for her employer takes place behind closed doors. He believes her recent corrective on-air comments show how much she cares about the issues.
“I hope there are no reprisals because she’s doing the right thing,”Lapan spoke. “The stakes are too high.”
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Fox News Media stated in a statement that “we are incredibly proud of Jennifer Griffin and her stellar reporting as well as all of our journalists and talent covering this story across our platforms.”
O’Reilly praised Griffin on his web-show and said that “propagandists”The Wrap reports that television news anchors aren’t challenged enough.
Fox did not allow Griffin to interview for the program. Fox denied Griffin an interview. “Media Buzz”She spoke out on Sunday to Howard Kurtz, where she said that she still believes her role as Fox News’ anchor.
“I’m here to fact-check facts, because,”She spoke. “My job is to try and figure out the truth as best as I know it. I share that information internally, so our network can be more accurate. That’s what I’ve always done.”
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