The primetime hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was carried across broadcast and cable networks, but not on Fox News.
Fox News gave the primetime hour to Tucker Carlson, who downplayed the attack and repeated false claims to his millions of viewers.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t just ignore the first primetime House hearing dedicated to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He spent the show rehashing many of the same falsehoods about the attack he has promoted for months.
As other major TV networks carried the June 9 hearing live, Fox News stuck to its regular lineup of pro-Trump opinion hosts while delegating live coverage to the less popular Fox Business Network and streaming platform.
"We’re not playing along," Carlson said at the opening of his show. "This is the only hour on an American news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live. They are lying."
Carlson and fellow host Sean Hannity ran hour-long shows with no commercial breaks and featured guests who have promoted discredited theories around the day. Laura Ingraham, host of the 10 p.m. slot on Fox News, went to commercial a few times.
Carlson, perhaps the most conspicuous promoter of falsehoods downplaying the attack, dismissed the Capitol insurrection as a "footnote" in American history.
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