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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 22 december 2017
Unlike others at Fox, Cavuto uninterested in Trump interview

By DAVID BAUDER he’s been since its launch
AP Media Writer more than two decades
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox ago. He’s not considered a
News is President Donald part of the network’s stable
Trump’s favorite venue for of virtually all Trump-friendly
interviews. But one of its opinion journalists, yet he
most prominent anchors, isn’t afraid to give his opin-
Neil Cavuto, says to count ion. He said he’s neither
him out as a presidential in- an apologist for Trump nor
terrogator. an opponent; he believes
He doesn’t think it’s worth Trump has an economic
the time. agenda that could be
“We’re always going to re- promising but that he hurts
port on the president,” said himself with antics.
Cavuto, Fox’s senior vice Cavuto, 59, keeps a cane
president and managing in his office because his
editor of business news. multiple sclerosis sometimes
“You can’t NOT report on makes walking difficult, and
the president. But my goal he’s less than two years
is not to curry favor so I can removed from a heart by-
get an interview with the pass. Still, he just signed up
president.” for a six-day workweek with
There’s no indication that a two-hour live program on
Trump is anxious to sit down This undated image released by Fox Business Network shows Neil Cavuto, host of “Cavuto Coast Fox News Channel on Sat-
with him. Yet Cavuto’s to Coast,” in New York. urday mornings.
stance sets him apart at the economy. “I’m a num- Jane Hall, a communica- Fox show on the media. He said recent visits to pres-
Fox, the venue for 20 Trump bers nerd,” Cavuto said in tions professor at American “But I can understand Neil idential libraries for John F.
interviews since he’s been an interview. “He came University in Washington, Cavuto making that call.” Kennedy and Ronald Rea-
president, by far the most into a meltdown and a said it’s a sad commentary “They always make news, gan reminded him that all
of any news organization. mess, and the numbers when a journalist of Cavu- no matter what the ex- presidents, even popular
Within Fox, Trump has spo- when he got out were a to’s stature takes this stand. change with the presi- ones, chafe at media cov-
ken primarily to opinion lot better. You can credit “Personally, I think it’s still dent,” he said. “Whether erage. Trump is right to say
anchors like Sean Hannity, him, or you can say he got worth trying to interview soft or hard, you get news. he gets a disproportionate
Laura Ingraham, Jesse lucky. But did it happen un- Donald Trump because I just feel there’s no added amount of negative press,
Watters and Jeanine Pirro. der his watch? Yeah. These he so rarely gives an inter- value in me doing it.” Cavuto said, although he’s
Fox Sunday host Chris Wal- are the numbers we use as view,” said Hall, once a Cavuto occupies an un- no fan of his attacks on the
lace and Washington an- business journalists to judge commentator on a weekly usual space at Fox, where media.q
chor Bret Baier haven’t the success or failure of a
interviewed Trump as presidency.”
president, and have cam- Presidential interviews are
paigned for the time. In Au- often unproductive be-
gust, Baier used his show to cause they have a limited
tell Trump he had “nothing amount of time and are
to fear” from his questions. skilled at filibustering when
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