Jake Tapper Criticizes the Media for Ignoring Real Stories Just Because Fox News Is Covering Them

CNN’s Jake Tapper criticized the mainstream media for ignoring real stories because they’re being covered by Fox News while promoting his new book, Original Sin, on The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg.

Tapper made the point after suggesting that the White House “successfully convinced some people in the media” that videos of former President Joe Biden “being weird or seeming addled” were “completely false.”

The CNN anchor went on to suggest that the way some videos of Biden were edited “allowed the White House to portray them as misleading,” while also making it clear that he wasn’t “blaming the people that made the edits,” and “the villains are the people who covered this up.”

“Yeah, I mean, look, the Fox News effect is real. If Fox News takes something seriously, there is a thermostatic reaction from a lot of the mainstream media not to,” submitted eponymous host Jonah Goldberg. “And you can do it about the border, you can talk about Benghazi, there are lots of examples like that.”

Tapper responded by arguing that Fox’s track record isn’t “exemplary,” but nevertheless going on to agree with Goldberg’s point:

Somebody asked me, I forget who it was, cause we’ve-, but somebody asked me like, “Was there an effect when Fox News covered something about Biden that you would revulse from it?” and actually it was the exact opposite. I would be like, “What is this? What is this point? What happened? What happened? What happened?” I had the opposite effect, but I think you’re right that that is a phenomenon. “Oh, Fox is covering it, it must be false,” and that’s not the case.

“People will say, ‘Oh, that’s a Fox News story,’ and then, you know, think that therefore it’s an illegitimate story,” concluded Goldberg, a CNN contributor who left Fox News in 2021 over Tucker Carlson’s revisionist January 6 riot documentary, Patriot Purge.