Editing Fox News (section)

===Benghazi attack and aftermath===
{{Further|2012 Benghazi attack}}
Fox News provided extensive coverage of the [[2012 Benghazi attack]], which host Sean Hannity described in December 2012 as "the story that the mainstream media ignores" and "obviously, a cover-up. And we will get to the bottom of it."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/11/09/why-has-fox-news-abandoned-benghazi/ |title=Opinion – Why has Fox News abandoned Benghazi? |last=Wemple |first=Erik |date=November 9, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 2, 2018 |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030171049/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/11/09/why-has-fox-news-abandoned-benghazi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Programming analysis by media watchdog [[Media Matters]], which has declared a "War on Fox News", found that during the twenty months following the Benghazi attacks, FNC ran 1,098 segments on the issue, including:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2014/09/16/report-foxs-benghazi-obsession-by-the-numbers/200694 |title=Report: Fox's Benghazi Obsession By The Numbers |first1=Rob |last1=Savillo |first2=Hannah |last2=Groch-Begley |date=September 9, 2014 |website=[[Media Matters]] |access-date=August 2, 2018 |archive-date=July 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726144045/https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2014/09/16/report-foxs-benghazi-obsession-by-the-numbers/200694 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 478 segments involving Susan Rice's September 16, 2012, Sunday news show appearances, during which she was falsely accused of lying
* 382 segments on ''[[Special Report (TV program)|Special Report]]'', the network's flagship news program
* 281 segments alleging a "cover-up" by the Obama administration
* 144 interviews of GOP members of Congress, but five interviews of Democratic members of Congress and Obama administration officials
* 120 comparisons to [[Iran-Contra]], [[Watergate]], and the actions of the Nixon administration
* 100 segments falsely suggesting the administration issued a "stand-down order" to prevent a rescue operation in Benghazi

Over nearly four years after the Benghazi attack, there were [[Investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack|ten official investigations]], including six by Republican-controlled House committees. None of the investigations found any evidence of scandal, cover-up or lying by Obama administration officials.