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3 weeks ago | 
mediamatters.org | Pete Tsipis |Reed McMaster |Harrison Ray |Rob Savillo |Chloe Simon |Casey Wexler
A Media Matters review of White House press briefings held so far in President Donald Trump’s second administration found that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on right-wing media outlets 41% of the time, and 4 of the 5 reporters called on most were from right-wing outlets. The press briefings now include a “new media” seat which the White House has used to amplify more right-wing voices.
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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%.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Rob Savillo |Tyler Monroe |Harrison Ray
Since September 27, when GOP Rep.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Harrison Ray |Rob Savillo |Tyler Monroe
The Washington Post was the only paper out of five of the top newspapers to cover in print Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OH) indication that a second Trump administration would gut the Affordable Care Act, reversing protections for seniors and people with preexisting conditions. There hasn’t been a single news article about Vance’s comments in the A sections of the five papers’ print editions in the time between when the senator’s comments aired on Sunday and 3 p.m. on September 20.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Lis Power |Rob Savillo
The three major broadcast nightly news shows -- ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC’s Nightly News, and CBS’ Evening News -- all ignored former President Donald Trump’s assertion over the weekend that his mass deportation plan to remove millions of undocumented migrants would be a “bloody story.” Trump’s remark that his mass deportation plan would be violent and “bloody” came at a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, on Saturday.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Rob Savillo
The Sunday morning political talk shows — ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, CNN's State of the Union, Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, and NBC's Meet the Press — largely ignored dangerous comments that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump made over the weekend, continuing a trend of media outlets failing to hold the former president accountable for his dangerous and violent rhetoric.
