The DNC decision barring Fox News from hosting debates in 2020 has put journalists in an awkward position. Some are defending their Fox colleagues, like Bret Baier and Shephard Smith, while others say it’s hard to dismiss Jane Mayer’s contention in The New Yorker that Fox is a White House propaganda arm.

On this week’s edition of Beat the Press, Adam Reilly is joined by Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University, Callie Crossley of WGBH News, Lylah Alphonse of U.S. News and World Report and Tom Fiedler of Boston University.