In his Monday night newsletter, former conservative media Benedict Arnold and Status founder Oliver Darcy expressed horror that the great people at NewsNation would hire “MAGA Media type personality” Katie Pavlich away from the Fox News Channel (and Townhall) to host a weekday primetime show and argued it “makes little sense”…unless it was to explicitly curry favor with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approval of a local TV merger?
That was the conspiracy theory Darcy spun to explain the machinations behind Pavlich being offered her own show and more money than FNC was offering to re-up as a contributor and fill-in host. In essence, Darcy argued Pavlich didn’t necessarily earn this position on merit but rather use her as a piece in “governmental chess.”
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