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Margaret Sullivan: Fox News must take tough action on Sean Hannity’s ethical failure, but don’t hold your breath

Does Fox News deserve the second part of its name? Does it deserve to call itself a news organization?

If so — a big if — the cable channel’s brass must discipline its biggest ratings star and apologize to viewers for Sean Hannity’s appalling and undisclosed conflict of interest revealed Monday.

Based on everything we know about Fox, and how it handles issues involving ethics, the chances that the network will do the right thing are small.

To recap: Hannity has, for months, campaigned on his nightly show against special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Donald Trump.