Rob Savillo

Oct 29, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Pete Tsipis |Alyssa Tirrell |Harrison Ray |Rob Savillo

Fox News appears to be matching the focus of the GOP's “closing argument” in the weeks before the 2024 election, increasing the network's coverage of trans athletes at the same time that Republican politicians are spending millions on ad campaigns attacking the rights of trans Americans. Fox News’ segments mentioning trans athletes rose from six in September to at least 47 so far in October, an increase of over 683%.

Oct 10, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz |Rob Savillo |Harrison Ray

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016, according to a new Media Matters study.

Oct 4, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Harrison Ray |Rob Savillo |Tyler Monroe |Ben Van Bloem |Lis Power

On September 6, Johnson unveiled a continuing resolution to fund the federal government that included the text of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, “legislation backed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump requiring proof of citizenship to vote.” As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump put it, the SAVE Act is “a Republican effort to combine election denialism and border alarmism” that “would make Americans’ lives more difficult in service of addressing a problem that is not...

Oct 3, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Craig Harrington |Zachary Pleat |Rob Savillo

PBS’ NewsHour remains the gold standard for broadcast evening news on the economy. NewsHour once again proved in the second quarter of the year to be better at covering economic news than its corporate broadcast competitors, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS’ Evening News (and Weekend News), and NBC’s Nightly News.

Oct 1, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Reed McMaster |Rob Savillo |Harrison Ray |Casey Wexler |Tyler Monroe

In a press conference on September 13, 2024, Trump pledged to conduct mass deportations of Haitian migrants living in Springfield, Ohio, regardless of their legal status, clarifying in a post the next day that he was calling for “remigration.” At the press conference, Trump stated that he would deport migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado, to stop the “invasion” of migrants whom he claimed came from “jails” and “nests of bad people” in Venezuela.