It was a telling revelation from now-former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler when he shared a conversation he once had with publisher Will Lewis, in which Lewis asked, “What should the Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?”
“[I felt he] was crossing a bit of a business-newsroom line where he was asking my advice on how to make the newspaper appeal to a different audience,” Kessler shared. “As I write in the piece, frankly, the audience of the Washington Post is mostly liberal. I mean, this is based on my anecdotal evidence, based on if I wrote fact checks that gave Pinocchios to Democrats, I got lots of angry emails. If I gave fact checks that gave Pinocchios to Republicans, I didn’t get that many emails. And so it was an indication of where his thinking was.”
