Fox News won't air the January 6 hearings because they prefer their sedition made fresh on-site.

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Hillary Clinton: Fox News won't air the January 6 hearings because they prefer their sedition made fresh on-site.
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I don't quite understand "prefer their sedition made fresh on-site". It seems that the grammar implicitly uses a "prefer A to B" sturcture. Now A is "their sedition made fresh on-site", B "airing the January 6 hearings" and Fox News prefers A to B.
But what is the exact meaning of A? If Fox were allowed to enter the hall of the hearings, they can have the chance to make sedition there (on-site); now they are now allowed and they lose the chance and so refusing to air the hearings.
That is how I presently understand what Clinton said. I am not sure whether it is on the right track.
What does it actually mean?
 

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She means Fox News prefer to make up their own seditious lies in-house (ie at the TV channel itself). They are not going to broadcast the hearings because they don't believe they're necessary and believe that the hearings are tantamount to sedition.

That's about as political as we want this thread to get.

All other users planning to reply - please make sure you keep any/all personal political opinions out of it and stick to the language used.
 

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Is "fresh" here an adjective modifying "sedition", or is it an adverb meaning "recently"?
 

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I think it is neither. It is an adverb, a less preferred variant of "freshly". Also "made fresh daily" is so common in AmE commercial usage it's almost a fixed expression. By the way, Mrs Clinton was making a rather bitter joke about Fox.
 
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