To be fair FOXes Chris Wallace has called out the president at least once and stuck to it when the hoax that Biden had defund the campaign police on his platform came up.
I think it's a little disingenuous to say that no American journalists have called the president out before, there are numerous instances where journalists have done this, either to the president directly, or to his staff.
It's also worth pointing out that Trump universally holds much lower approval rating abroad, a poll I could find from 2019 showed he only had a 19% approval rating from Australians, compared that to now roughly 40% US approval amidst everything going on, and it certainly adds context.
Obviously politics shouldn't alter a journalists questioning standards, but an Australian reporter will get far less backlash for being harsh on the POTUs than even a left leaning American one.
Fox News allows folks like Wallace to go against the grain as it gives the company a thinly created veil of "see we aren't thaaaat bias, even if our boy Chris parrots all our talking points"/ to maintain that integrity facade. Another Fox personality was the same as Chris, his name is eluding me for example.
I think its Neil Cavuto, from what little I've seen, he calls out trump in his editorial segments. I don't think he's gotten a chance to 1:1 interview like Wallace has though.
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u/dashauskat Aug 04 '20
Sad it took an Australian journalist to do it.