Fox News published “Liberals panic as new Politico owner aims to turn outlet ‘nonpartisan’” after The Washington Post’s Sarah Ellison profile of Mathias Döpfner. Fox quotes his on-record interview line: “We want to prove that being nonpartisan is actually the more successful positioning,” which he called his “biggest and most contrarian bet.” That sentence is a published interview remark. It is not a court finding about Politico’s coverage.
The same Fox piece, following the Post, reported that a 2020 executive email about the U.S. election was shown to Döpfner; that he first said the email did not exist; and that, when shown a printout, he said it could have been him and described it as an ironic or provocative statement in a circle that hated Donald Trump. He also told the Post, as Fox recaps, that he had never been a Trump supporter and called himself a “non-Jewish Zionist” with “small-L liberal” tendencies. Those are reported interview answers. This file does not reprint the private email body.
Fox recorded named reactions (Larry Sabato, Keith Olbermann, Rep. Ted Lieu, and others) calling him a Trump supporter or a liar. Those are other people’s comments. They are not findings. Poynter summarized the same Post profile. TheWrap covered his later public remarks on journalism not sitting “in one camp.”