Fox "News" is a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.  It spews the nonsense it's rightwing owner, Rupert Murdoch, wants it to spew.  The longtime head of Fox "News" was Roger Ailes, a veteran Republican Party propagandist.  There are rightwingers who do actually practice journalism, David Brooks is one of them, but they are becoming fewer and fewer.  I respect Anderson Cooper, but he is just wrong in this case as even good journalists sometimes are.