By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Updated 2120 GMT (0520 HKT) March 12, 2020 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds. New York (CNN Business)As the coronavirus pandemic gripped the country over the last several weeks, television viewers — especially those supportive of President Donald Trump —- had one place they could go to for some sense of solace: Fox News. “If you are over the mass hysteria, if your’e over politicizing and weaponizing of the coronavirus, you are not alone,” Sean Hannity, highest-rated host on Fox News, assured the network’s prime time audience this week. Indeed, over the past several weeks, top hosts and personalities on the conservative cable news network downplayed concerns about the virus, baselessly accusing credible news organizations of overhyping the crisis to hurt Trump politically. At other times, Fox News hosts and personalities pointed to the death toll of the seasonal flu, misleading the network’s audience into thinking that the coronavirus was receiving more attention because it is novel, while the flu in fact kills more Americans and was, thus, more dangerous and cause for alarm. That’s not to say that some of the coverage on Fox… Read full this story
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