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Fox News and Newsmax have reportedly signed onto a letter criticizing the Trump WH for limiting the AP's access for not using "Gulf of America." But their actual coverage of the issue is full of attacks on the AP and defenses of Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Fox News has largely dodged reporting President Donald Trump’s February 15 declaration that he is above the law as long as he “saves his Country,” with much of the network’s sparse coverage focusing on how the president’s nakedly authoritarian statement triggered the libs.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

This was not a reference to Spotlight (2015)

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Fox News’ hiring of Lara Trump is almost comically corrupt. No credible news outlet would employ the president’s relative as a host. But Fox doesn’t function like a normal news outlet. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 16 days ago • 129 comments

New @motherjones.com: Fox News hires a Trump family member to host a Saturday night show As @mattgertz.bsky.social pointed out: “You really can’t think of the network as independent from the White House in any way right now.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

Fox News, which treated Joe Biden's son selling his paintings as a major White House ethics scandal, just put Donald Trump's daughter-in-law on the payroll.

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

‘Over the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, his appointees have wielded federal regulatory authority to punish outlets the president dislikes — and American media moguls are responding with submission.’ Details from @mattgertz.bsky.social @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

The @mattgertz.bsky.social piece in Media Matters For America on how many media moguls, such as Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, are enabling Donald Trump’s war on the free press is a must-read. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Sean Hannity - on dozens of occasions over years of monologues - said that the overwhelming majority of FBI personnel are heroes who “keep us safe” and that only the “upper echelon” should be punished for their purported antagonism towards Trump. Now he's praising Trump's purge.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

Very dangerous for public health

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Disappointing, not shocking. Decline is a choice and you could see it on the face of every Republican on the Finance Committee, which voted to confirm a pro-choice, anti-vaxx, walking settlement liability time bomb. All 14 of them. Shame.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

President Donald Trump is wasting no time in carrying out his goal of throttling the free press. Over the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, his appointees have wielded federal regulatory authority to punish outlets the president dislikes and American media moguls are responding with submission.

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 19 days ago • 282 comments

I miss Harry Reid.

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

"When Cain, his former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host, asked him to describe 'the kind of illegal immigrant that will be sent to Guantanamo,' the defense secretary replied" is the start of a sentence in this piece because we live in the bad place. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

Fox hosts have absolutely no idea how this Gitmo prison is going to work, but they love it www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

submitted 23 days ago • 23 comments

RFK Jr. having had a platform today before the Senate to defend kook autism-vaccine claims is already a public health disaster that makes the best-case scenario him being martyred because he wouldn't stop telling the "truth."

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

You might think that Pete Hegseth would be spending a lot of time getting up to speed about his massive global responsibilities, but actually he was gabbing with his former colleagues twice yesterday.

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

By my count, Trump has now named 19 current or former Fox employees to high-ranking positions since he was elected president. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

A week later, Jim Acosta is reportedly leaving CNN. newrepublic.com/article/1905...

submitted 25 days ago • 62 comments

I put together a timeline of the Trump-Hannity relationship during the president’s first term — including a sequence of ethical morasses that would lead to the termination of a host at any remotely credible news outlet. Even I forgot how bad some of this was.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

Fox News' Sean Hannity — President Donald Trump’s pick to provide his first Oval Office interview, which airs tonight — shattered every imaginable ethical standard during Trump’s first term as he transformed his program into a nonstop White House propagandafest. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/gui...

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

“We just released the leaders of two terrorist organizations,” one counterterrorism expert and senior Trump DHS official told me. “In the name of politics, we have just released violent criminals out onto our streets.”

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

Pardon me?

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

Fox News stars have spent the months since President Donald Trump’s election assuring their audiences that Trump’s long-stated promise to pardon what he termed the “J6 hostages” would be limited only to nonviolent offenders. Whoops.

submitted 32 days ago • 33 comments

We’re going to face an exhausting train of outrages, but it’s impossible to overstate how obscene and dangerous this is. Trump whipped up a violent mob to assault Capitol police, and has now declared that violence on his behalf is immune from legal punishment.

submitted 32 days ago • 19 comments

They’ve gotten their way, rewarding those who tried to tear down American democracy — and making it more likely that such a horror will again be visited upon us some day soon. www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

I dunno it seems destabilizing to create a cadre of heavily armed extremists who are fanatically loyal to the president and have reason to believe they are legally untouchable.

submitted 32 days ago • 40 comments

President Donald Trump’s January 6 pardons mark the culmination of the MAGA media’s yearslong campaign to remove the stain from his supporters’ violent assault on the U.S. Capitol — and for their own culpability in that attempted coup. www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

Anybody have a status update on Trump's much-ballyhooed promise to provide free IVF?

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

President Donald Trump’s January 6 pardons mark the culmination of the MAGA media’s yearslong campaign to remove the stain from his supporters’ violent assault on the U.S. Capitol — and for their own culpability in that attempted coup. www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

1/ Sad news here. Cecile Richards passed away this morning. I’ve known Cecile for many years. So appreciative of all of her work and efforts. I’m also grateful that she agreed to serve as a Media Matters board member these past few years. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

The real Trump inauguration speech is going to be the one he makes to the arena crowd.

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

It's bad to encourage your supporters to commit acts of political violence, it's worse to return to power and then free them from accountability.

submitted 33 days ago • 43 comments

Broad pardons for family members while doing nothing to protect the rest of the country and publicly welcoming Trump back to the White House is not coherent.

submitted 33 days ago • 81 comments

"Revealed: How Fox News Morphed Into the Trump Administration" For Zeteo, @mattgertz.bsky.social introduces us to/profiles the 18 controversial current & former Fox employees who will be running the US government from tomorrow. Trump can't stop hiring from Murdoch!

submitted 34 days ago • 41 comments

I don’t understand what Biden et al are doing with the ERA, do they think people are not going to notice that it isn’t actually in place?

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!

submitted 34 days ago • 545 comments

Me in November: "Trump understands that those broader corporate structures create a host of potential vulnerabilities an authoritarian president with no interest in preserving the rule of law could utilize against the owners of news outlets that displease him." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments