Fox News prime-time avoided covering Australian bushfires until a Murdoch paper minimized the role of climate change | Media Matters for America

Australia fires Fox News prime time

According to a Media Matters review Fox News prime-time hosts completely ignored the devastating bushfires raging across Australia during the first three months of the crisis It was only after a Rupert Murdoch-owned Australian newspaper started pushing a misleading talking point about arson that Fox’s Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham picked up the story to distract from the role of climate change in accelerating the crisis.

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