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“That’s what happens when people listen to us.” (Mr. He recalled seeing a photo of someone in the Capitol mob holding a flag emblazoned with the OAN logo.

Golingan said in an interview, referring to his colleagues. “The majority of people did not believe the voter fraud claims being run on the air,” Mr. He added that he and others at OAN disagreed with much of the channel’s coverage. And when he was watching coverage of the pro-Trump mob breaking into the Capitol, he said, he worried that his work might have helped inspire the attack. He saw it as a scrappy upstart where he could produce cheeky feature stories, he said.ĭuring the Trump presidency, it moved right, Mr. At the start of his employment, he said, it concentrated more on neutral coverage based on reports from The Associated Press or Reuters. Marty Golingan, who joined the channel as a producer in 2016, said OAN had changed in recent years. “These are two mutually reinforcing narratives of people who want to believe it and continue to get that fire stoked by OAN.” Edgerly, an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. OAN’s stories “appeal to people who want to believe that the election was not legitimate,” said Stephanie L. In a mid-November promotional ad, OAN accused Fox News of joining “the mainstream media in censoring factual reporting.”

Biden as the winner of Arizona, a key swing state. In recent months, it has courted viewers who may have felt abandoned by Fox News, which on election night was the first news outlet to project Mr.

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Trump’s campaign speeches in full before the 2016 election. OAN, which started in 2013, gained attention when it broadcast Mr. Trump’s claim that the election was “stolen.” Six in 10 of Republicans surveyed said they also believed Mr. 6 attack, which left five dead, was largely a nonviolent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll last month, about half of Republicans said they believed that the Jan. While OAN appeals to a relatively small audience, its coverage reflects views commonly held by Republicans.

About 150 employees work for the channel at its headquarters in San Diego. Herring’s father, the tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, who at age 79 runs OAN with Charles and another son, Robert Jr. “Based on our investigations, voter irregularities clearly took place in the November 2020 election,” he said. Sharp said, “History will show it was the Democrats, and not the Republicans, who called for this violence.” Investigations have found no evidence that people who identify with antifa, a loose collective of antifascist activists, were involved in the Capitol riot.Ĭharles Herring, the president of Herring Networks, the company that owns OAN, defended the reports casting doubt on the election. Toward the end of a March 4 news segment that described the attack as the work of “antifa” and “anti-Trump extremists” - and referred to the president as “Beijing Biden” - Mr. OAN has also promoted the debunked theory that the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. Trump as “President Trump” and to President Biden as just “Joe Biden” or “Biden.” That practice is not followed by other news organizations, including the OAN competitor Newsmax, a conservative cable channel and news site. Into April, news articles on the OAN website consistently referred to Donald J. Biden’s swearing-in ceremony and Inaugural Address. The channel did not broadcast live coverage of Mr. To go by much of OAN’s reporting, it is almost as if a transfer of power had never taken place.