CNN’s Jim Acosta claims Fox News is becoming state TV

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Oxford University has just published a one-hour video of a Jan. 31 appearance by CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta at the university’s debating union. In the video, Acosta declares that CNN’s main rival, Fox News, is becoming a state television network.

As Acosta put it, “We’ve seen, you know, sort of the infancy of a potential state TV in the United States of America in Fox. That network primarily serves as a house organ for the [Trump] administration. And it’s one of those painful, uncomfortable truths that we in the press don’t want to get into too much. Because I have friends over there.”

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