Fox New Has Banned Former President Donald Trump from its Network

Has Fox News banned former President Donald Trump?

According to a New York Times report published on July 29, 2022, Fox News has not featured Donald Trump on its network in over 100 days.

This strange development has led to speculation that this is Fox News’ strategy to make sure that Trump is no longer a key player in Republican politics. 

According to Newsmax, “Trump’s last appearance on Fox News came April 13 on “Hannity.”

For a media outlet that has called itself “fair and balanced”, Fox News’ decision to ban Trump shows that this organization is only committed to promoting pro-regime candidates. 

Apparently, the decision to ban Trump was made at “the highest levels” of Fox News’ parent company Fox Corporation. This move has the support of is billionaire founder, Rupert Murdoch, and his son, Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch.

While both are Republicans, the Murdoch family are fixtures of the GOP’s oligarchy that has promoted unpopular policies such as mass migration and foreign policy. They have every reason to hate Donald Trump and his America First, populist message.

That’s why they’re making sure to deplatform him and promote more establishment Republican alternatives in the 2024 presidential election cycle. 

For an outlet that’s supposedly “fair and balanced”, Fox is clearly not living up to its reputation.  An organization can talk all it wants about being pro-free speech but it’s ultimately actions that count. And Fox News has demonstrated that it does not care for open discourse by de facto banning Trump from its platform. 

In this day and age, free speech is eroding very quickly. But it’s not just the Left that’s destroying it. The acceptable Right is playing a critical role by undermining insurgent, anti-establishment candidates to its right as well. 

Thankfully, we have alternative media as a bastion of free speech that allows suppressed voices to get their message out. Trump will have no problem having his vast audience following him to platforms like Rumble. 

Nevertheless, as this Fox case shows, legacy media cannot be trusted to serve as a neutral platform for genuinely dissident ideas. For the time being, we will need to continue building alternative media as a robust counterbalance to the pro-regime corporate media. This is the only way to protect free speech in this post-civil liberties climate we live in.