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1 week ago | 
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz |Alicia Sadowski
The mainstream press’s purported Democratic partisanship and untrustworthiness is one of the pillars of Fox’s programming. On Tuesday and Wednesday, it was Pelley’s turn as the networks’ media hate object of choice.
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2 months ago | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Noah Dowe |Pete Tsipis |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski | +1 more
Right-wing media are predicting a “golden age” as President Donald Trump's so-called “Liberation Day” hits some of the United States’ closest trading partners with sweeping tariffs.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Isabella Corrao |Courtney Hagle |Helena Hind |Jane Lee |Alicia Sadowski |Chloe Simon
On February 18, President Donald Trump pushed multiple false claims about the war in Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky’s involvement in it, falsely suggesting that Ukraine started the war and that Zelensky is a “dictator without elections.” Both claims echo Russian propaganda about the war. Many right-wing media figures praised Trump's comments, with some commentators even following in his footsteps to target Zelensky.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Alicia Sadowski
10 hours agoA federal worker tried to take Trump's 'Fork' resignation offer. Here's what happenedUpdated February 14, 2025 at 08:14 AM ET The "Fork in the Road" email arrived in Liz Goggin's inbox around 11 p.m. on Jan. 28.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Helena Hind |Chloe Simon |Sage Hodil
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Imagine if that's just what we started to do. What do you think the Democrats would do? Well, let's — let's — let's expand it out to social issues. Oh, well, we have a lot of people who believe that their First Amendment rights have been violated in protesting near abortion clinics, prayerful protests. You know something? I know the Supreme Court has said this, that, or the other thing.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Helena Hind |Alicia Sadowski
A federal judge said on Monday that the White House had defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants, marking the first time a judge has expressly declared that the Trump administration is disobeying a judicial mandate. The ruling by Judge John J. McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island federal court ordered administration officials to comply with what the judge called “the plain text” of a ruling he issued on Jan. 29.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Helena Hind |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Alex Kaplan | +1 more
On Tuesday, during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said the United States “will take over” and take “ownership” of Gaza, displacing its population and redeveloping it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Right-wing media immediately justified — and in some cases, outright endorsed — Trump’s statements, with some figures arguing Palestinians and others in the region “should be grateful” and declaring that “the strategic goal in...
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Helena Hind
President Donald Trump has issued pardons or commuted the sentences of all January 6 offenders, violent and nonviolent, flouting the advice of Fox hosts who previously urged him to grant a narrower pardon.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee
Fox News personalities have been calling for pardons for January 6 rioters as early as February of 2022, and continue to do so as President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches. Trump first suggested pardons at his rally in January of 2022, officially cementing the idea in March of 2024.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee |Helena Hind
Since the start of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, Fox News personalities have complained that the vice president will not define her stances on policy issues. After Harris released detailed policy proposals, however, Fox figures changed their method of attack to instead take her proposals wildly out of context, distorting the intentions and hiding the potential benefits of her policies from their audience.
