Sunny Hostin: Joe and Mika Went to Mar-A-Lago to Kiss Trump’s Ring, Fox News Is a State-Sponsored Media

HOSTIN: “Look, the bottom line is that America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power right now more than ever. (Cheering and Applause) And I think that we have to be very clear-eyed when we think about the president-elect and cover the president-elect, and I don’t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story. So maybe they’re not journalists in the true sense, maybe they’re saying that they’re opinion journalists, but we have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news. He is the guy who ushered in alternative facts. He is the guy who attacked three black female journalists. He’s the guy that revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials for asking him a question. And so I think that this president-elect — I hate to say it — would like nothing more than to have only Fox News cover him, would like nothing more than a state-sponsored media, and I don’t think he can be trusted in the way that other presidents can be trusted. This is an aberration.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “But the reality is he doesn’t just have Fox News. He didn’t do a lot of mainstream media this election, but he went on Joe Rogan and reached 15 million people.”