Veteran journalist Chris Stirewalt (bio here) “was working Fox News’ decision desk on Election Night 2020,” and called Arizona for Biden, before any other network.
That incensed Trump and his allies, and Fox fired him for it.
“Stirewalt’s reporting was totally accurate,” Raw Story says here. “Stirewalt, a veteran of television news, did exactly what reporters are encouraged to do: He scooped the competition with his reporting on Arizona.”
The post-election results, recounts, and even the GOP legislature’s sham audit confirmed that Biden won Arizona.
On June 13, 2022, Stirewalt — who now works for NewsNation (formerly known as WGN) — explained to the House committee investigating the Capitol riot a “concept known as the ‘red mirage’ — which is when the vote count, at a certain point, is deceptively favorable to a Republican candidate because it is coming from a GOP-leaning area and the votes from the more Democratic places haven’t been counted yet.”
This is a common phenomenon, because GOP-leaning rural and small town areas tend to report first, while Democratic-leaning urban areas with many more votes to tally come in later.
A real news organization might legitimately fire a reporter for inaccuracy, if he did a sloppy job of gathering information, but never fires a reporter who’s right because the facts he reports anger a candidate or political group.
Fox, of course, isn’t a legitimate news organization; it’s a propaganda arm of the conservative faction in American politics. That was established long ago.
Further proof: Its most visible host, Tucker Carlson, is lying again when he says the Capitol rioters had no guns (see that story here). And Fox refused to broadcast the first day of House hearings; real news organizations don’t do that, either.
Fox is best viewed as an entertainment channel that makes money for its owners, the Murdoch family, by pandering to rightwingers.