The on-air talent and guests at Fox News have drawn special scrutiny for downplaying the coronavirus threat in recent weeks.
Social distancing hit the set of President Donald Trump’s favorite morning cable news show Tuesday, with the three hosts of “Fox & Friends” scattered across their New York studio in an effort to demonstrate best practices amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“To be responsible, to show social distancing, all three of us are apart — same studio, plenty of distance,” co-host Brian Kilmeade told viewers at the top of the broadcast.
The right-leaning talk show, which airs weekdays 6-9 a.m. Eastern and has achieved outsize influence under Trump’s administration, is the latest TV news program to employ the preventative measure as the outbreak tears across the United States. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend Americans maintain a distance of 6 feet to help thwart the coronavirus’ rapid spread, co-host Steve Doocy said he and his colleagues usually sit only about 18 inches apart on the show’s signature “curvy couch.”
Tuesday morning, however, Doocy was alone on the mezzanine-level sofa, while Kimeade anchored “the big plastic desk” one floor below and co-host Ainsley Earhardt was stationed behind a lectern in the studio’s “fish bowl area.”
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The on-air talent and guests at Fox News have drawn special scrutiny for downplaying the coronavirus threat in recent weeks. Now the president's favorite morning show starts social distancing. https://t.co/pc5mmhF7Xz pic.twitter.com/7Zbs5WGROG
— POLITICO (@politico) March 17, 2020The local tv stations here are doing the same with their newscasts.
What a damning indictment of Fox News from the Post video team here. pic.twitter.com/r8Fz8vo5KV
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) March 18, 2020
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