Media Matters for America

6 days ago | mediamatters.org | Matt Gertz

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is so unhinged that the network took her show off the air following the 2020 election out of (subsequently confirmed) fear that she’d use it to launder deranged conspiracy theories about the results.

6 days ago | mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon

A recent study released by the conservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center claimed that “one in ten” patients using the mifepristone abortion pill experiences a “serious adverse event.” Doctors and women’s health care experts criticized the report, arguing that the study is based on faulty methodology and is “highly questionable.” Despite criticism from the medical and health care field, anti-abortion groups and right-wing media have glommed onto the study’s findings to back up...

1 week ago | mediamatters.org

Corporate broadcast networks devoted nearly 2.5 hours of airtime to Earth Day and Earth Month coverage in 2025 — though much of it failed to meet the moment. Overall, Earth Day coverage has declined over the past three years, reaching its peak in 2022. At a time when the Trump administration is waging a sustained assault on climate and environmental policy, the need to connect climate and environmental challenges to their political causes has never been more urgent.Major networks largely overlooked how this assault by the administration is deepening the climate crisis and threatening public health. Key deregulatory actions by the administration went mostly unmentioned, even as they reshaped the environmental landscape in real time. Earth Month coverage must do more than raise awareness. It must hold power to account, and it must rapidly improve to meet that standard going forward.

1 week ago | mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Payton Armstrong |Jack Winstanley |Pete Tsipis |Ben Van Bloem |Jack Wheatley | +1 more

During the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, popular online shows that self-identify as nonpolitical but have a right-leaning ideological bent have repeatedly discussed key figures, policies, and events of his administration. For example, they talked about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

1 week ago | mediamatters.org | Zachary Pleat

Fox News and Fox Business personalities gushed over the April jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which beat expectations by showing an increase of 177,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.2 percent. However, the jobs estimates for both February and March were revised down by a total of 58,000 jobs, and economists explained that the April report does not yet reflect the economic damage of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.