
Matt Gertz
Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America
Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman, didn't pay for the blue check.
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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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1 week ago |
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz
Two things are true about President Donald Trump’s relationship with the press: He takes a lot of questions from reporters, and he’s directing a wide-ranging and unnervingly effective effort to chill critical coverage by punishing news outlets and threatening journalists. The Politico’s flagship Playbook newsletter opened on Wednesday with a beat-sweetening item lavishing Trump with praise for the former while soft-peddling the latter.
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3 weeks ago |
publicnotice.co | Aaron Rupar |David Nir |Matt Gertz
On the latest episode of Nir & Rupar, our live weekly video show, David Nir of The Downballot and Aaron Rupar of Public Notice talk with Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, the indispensable media watchdog organization. Matt sheds light on today’s right-wing media ecosystem, including:How two dozen people with Fox News on their résumés now occupy senior posts in the Trump administration.
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3 weeks ago |
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz
The Justice Department’s “Weaponization Working Group” is the fruit of a yearslong right-wing effort to portray federal law enforcement against Donald Trump and his allies as criminal in nature.
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3 weeks ago |
mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz
Fox & Friends’ explanation for why it is acceptable for President Donald Trump to accept a $400 million plane from the Qatari government (which will reportedly convey to an entity he controls after he leaves office) is that this isn’t the first time a government has given away a plane. Really.
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