Ousted Fox News editor: Reaction to Trump's loss a result of 'informational malnourishment'

A former political editor for Fox News who was fired last week said the public reaction to former President Trump’s election loss is a result of “informational malnourishment.”

Chris Stirewalt, who had defended Fox News’s relatively early call that President Biden won Arizona, which proved to be accurate but infuriated Trump and his supporters, wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed published Thursday that the outrage over that call and Biden’s overall victory arose out of “a nation of news consumers both overfed and malnourished.”

“Americans gorge themselves daily on...