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Rupert Murdoch’s media machine offers full-throated defense of Trump after grand jury indictment
That was the short but powerful headline on The New York Times’ scoop Thursday afternoon that surprised the former president, sent newsrooms into a flurry, and set into motion a historic and uncharted course for the country.
Fox News is a hazard to our democracy. It’s time to take the fight to the Murdochs. Here’s how.
The company has forfeited its responsibilities to society. It’s time to push back, speaking the only language the owners understand.
Fox News panel defends Kenosha shooter: “We have a little boy out there trying to protect his community”
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'Fox Lied, 200,000 Died': Video Mash-up Chronicles Cable Network Downplaying Covid-19 Dangers as Pandemic Soared
As the United States passes the grim milestone of 200,000 Covid-19 deaths, Fox News continues to mostly ignore the ever-mounting death toll in favor of complaining about health measures meant to mitigate the pandemic's worst-case scenario.
Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations
Fox News published digitally altered and misleading images on its website's homepage Friday that made a demonstration in Seattle, in which a group of largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters have occupied six city blocks, appear violent and dangerous.
Sean Hannity Says He Needs to Hire Lawyers to Sue Media Over ‘Slander’ of Fox News’ COVID-19 Coverage
Fox News host Sean Hannity floating hiring attorneys for the purpose of suing several news outlets for “slander, besmirchment, [and] character assassination,” accusing them of lying about his coverage of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus on his daily talk radio and cable news show.
‘China has blood on its hands’: Fox News hosts join Trump in blame-shifting
Several of Fox News’s most popular personalities sent a clear message to their audiences Wednesday night: There is only one country to blame for the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic.
Fox News, Still a Danger to Public Health
The coronavirus has struck virtually every age group throughout the world, but it has proven more lethal to older people.
Fox News gave a warm welcome to an Infowars personality who heads an organization that has denied the Holocaust
Bennett said that as a result of her experience with students at Ohio University, “all they did was prove to me that next time I’m there I will be coming back with an army of gun owners to show that that campus needs campus carry.
We are UT journalism professors. The Washington Post and CNN are not fake news | Opinion
Erin Whiteside, Joy Jenkins, Melanie Faizer, Amber Roessner and Nick Geidner are faculty in the School of Journalism & Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Master of false news gives right-wing Americans headlines they believe
Christopher Blair produces false stories he insists are easily identifiable as satire rather than news. His pages can rack up millions of views, and at least part of that audience believes the material is true.
John Kelly says media 'is not the enemy of the people'
“The media, in my view, and I feel very strongly about this, is not the enemy of the people,” Kelly, who previously served as the secretary of Homeland Security, said while delivering remarks at Drew University, according to the Daily Record.
Fox is 'fake news' and 'state-run television,' says Katie Couric: 'It’s just an alternate universe'
Katie Couric says Fox News is an “alternate universe” and calls the network out for “fake news” during a political discussion at the 2020 Makers Conference.
Understanding the Fox News Propaganda Machine
Thigh-High Politics is an op-ed column by Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca that breaks down the news, provides resources for the resistance, and just generally refuses to accept toxic nonsense.
Fox News Is Creating a Fictional Version of President Trump That Never Existed
Here are some things we know for certain about Donald Trump. He spends a good portion of his day watching cable news. He spends almost every weekend golfing. He makes a fool of himself and devolves into word salad whenever he tries to talk about issues. These aren't opinions.
Miami art professor turns American flags into KKK hoods
The flags shaped like KKK hoods had the eyes burnt out with nothing but darkness behind them and sat on poles with bases shaped like Nazi swastikas. The artwork is part of the University of Miami’s annual faculty art show, gallery director Milly Cardoso told the Miami New Times.
'I want to quit': Fox News employees say their network's Russia coverage was 'an embarrassment'
Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network's coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals placed throughout the network.
Trump’s former campaign head was indicted and Fox News talked about cheeseburger emojis
This really happened. Seriously. News like the indictment of the former campaign head of the president of the United States is typically treated by outlets as an all-hands-on-deck effort, demanding the attention of the full newsroom to get the story to readers and viewers.
A stunning new study shows that Fox News is more powerful than we ever imagined
It could even be flipping elections. Fox News is, by far, America’s dominant TV news channel; in the second quarter of 2017, Fox posted 2.35 million total viewers in primetime versus 1.64 million for MSNBC and 1.06 million for CNN.
Your Worst Fears About Fox News Are Confirmed By New Study
Fox News Channel has been recognized since its inception in 1996, when it was established by Republican operative Roger Ailes, as a right-leaning news source.
Fox guest and former Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson: The Civil War and slavery were part of America's "good history"
EARHARDT: All right, Wendy, according to a recent poll, most Americans agree with Katrina. The NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll, they said 62 percent said that they want to keep the monuments the way they are, 27 percent said to remove them. What are your thoughts?
This is Sinclair, 'the most dangerous US company you've never heard of'
Most Americans don’t know it exists. Primetime US news refers to it as an “under-the-radar company”. Unlike Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, virtually no one outside of business circles could name its CEO. And yet, Sinclair Media Group is the owner of the largest number of TV stations in America.
In January, Fox News Posted a Video of Cars Mowing Down Protesters That Urged Viewers to “Study the Technique”
Conservatives are rightfully aghast at the terror attack on Saturday that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Fox & Friends cites “one of the online blogs” to claim James Comey might be behind "deep-state leaks”
Following former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy cited "one of the online blogs" to claim that, "Out of the 39 deep state leaks, I think I think it was about ten of them related to Jim Comey, so you've got
Fox guest: "People use food stamps to buy marijuana," "cocaine," and "whatever the hell else people use to get high"
NEIL CAVUTO (HOST): They are calling it heartless cuts and an attack, a cleaver on the middle class. You say what? KEN LANGONE: I say let's take a program that's grown dramatically in the last eight years, food stamps. With food -- I don't think people die if they don't smoke.
How Bill O’Reilly Defined The On-Air Jerk Culture At Fox News
“He seems to be kind of a pathological guy.” -- Bill O’Reilly biographer Marvin Kitman. Fox News should have fired Bill O’Reilly a long time ago.
Alabama Senate votes to allow church to form police dept.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Senate has voted to allow a church to form its own police force. Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department.
The Sexual Harassment At Fox As Reported By The Press Throughout The Years
A timeline depicting the reports of sexual harassment many women with professional careers at Fox News have made about powerful network figures over the years shows a pattern of corporate retaliation, victim-blaming, and million-dollar payouts for silence.
The Susan Rice Unmasking Story Is A Perfect Case Study Of The New Pro-Trump Propaganda Ecosystem
For most of the last decade, the flow of misinformation was often easy to track in media, with right-wing media often forcing mainstream outlets to follow the stories and tone they favored.
Fox Host Tells Rep. Maxine Waters, "Step Away From The Crack Pipe"
Soon after Fox host Bill O’Reilly said he wouldn’t listen to California lawmaker Maxine Waters because of her hair, another insanely racist and derogatory Fox clip emerges showing Eric Bolling telling the Congresswoman, on air, to “step away from the crack pipe.” It gets worse.
Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up
For nearly two decades, Bill O’Reilly has been Fox News’s top asset, building the No. 1 program in cable news for a network that has pulled in billions of dollars in revenues for its parent company, 21st Century Fox. Behind the scenes, the company has repeatedly stood by Mr.
The Trouble at Fox News Keeps Getting Worse
In the months after former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes resigned last summer, it appeared that the sexual-harassment scandal that brought down the powerful Fox chief would be short-lived.
Fox News said Trump spent the weekend ‘working at the White House.’ He was at his golf club.
The network's Sunday evening “news alert” was roundly mocked online for its timing — and for the fact that it wasn't true.
One Nation, Under Fox: 18 Hours With a Network That Shapes America
So said Brian Kilmeade, co-host of “Fox and Friends,” on Thursday morning’s show. It was no mere boast, since President Trump has publicly stated his affection for the show and for Fox News, the channel on which it airs. If Mr. Trump was indeed tuning in, he was far from alone.
Jake Tapper: When I Looked Up, Fox Wasn't Covering The Russia Hearing, Just Like Russian State Media
JAKE TAPPER (HOST): Clarissa, let me ask you, as someone who has spent months and months in Russia.
Fox News pulls Napolitano after his Trump wiretap claims
Napolitano, a Fox News commentator, is not scheduled to appear on the network in the near future.
Fox News: ‘No evidence of any kind’ that Obama wiretapped Trump
Fox News anchor Shep Smith said Friday that the network does not have any evidence that President Donald Trump was ever placed under surveillance, despite his repeated insistence that former President Barack Obama’s intelligence agencies wiretapped his phones.
Report Confirms Fox News’ Napolitano Repeated Russian Media For His British Intelligence Conspiracy Theory
Mr. [Andrew] Napolitano’s unlikely leap into global politics can be explained by his friendship with Mr. Trump, whom he met with this year to discuss potential Supreme Court nominees. Mr. Napolitano also has a taste for conspiracy theories, which led him to Larry C.
Trump: Don’t Blame Me When I Quote Fox News
Donald Trump does not like taking responsibility for White House screwups. He’ll blame anyone else he can think of—even his friends at Fox News.
Sean Spicer Caused An International Incident By Citing Fox News To Defend Trump
The U.S. government has issued a formal apology to the United Kingdom after White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited a Fox News report to accuse a British intelligence service of spying on Trump Tower on behalf of then-President Barack Obama. The British newspaper The Telegraph reports that U.
Trump’s split screen: A two-hour virtual conversation between the president and ‘Fox & Friends’
For more than two hours, the president tweeted responses to the Fox News morning show.
From “Corrupt Clinton?” to “Nothing to See Here”: a tale of two Fox News email chyrons
Yes, Fox News seriously says there’s "Nothing To See Here" about Mike Pence’s emails. The first image depicts one of the many scenes from Fox’s all-out coverage of the Hillary Clinton email scandal last year. Here it is:
Why Fox News just can’t quit Donald Trump
Their relationship is less of a romance and more of a hostage situation. At first glance, the relationship between President Donald Trump and Fox News looks like a classic love story.
Fox & Friends: "Everybody Agrees" Sessions Didn't Perjure Himself Because He Was Asked "A Crazy Question"
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): I believe if there is anybody that should do well in these congressional hearings, it's a lawyer. Because if you put [Rep.
Fox News Caught Lying: Sweden Reinstated Draft Because Of Russia, Not Refugees
Fox News’ Fox & Friends falsely claimed that Sweden’s reintroduction of the draft was due to violence in the country precipitated by refugees, when in fact the draft is being reintroduced to counter Russian aggression in the region.
When Jeff Sessions Feverishly Urged The Recusal Of An Attorney General On Fox News
In November, then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) called on the sitting attorney general to recuse herself and appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations related to Hillary Clinton's use of private email.
Trump’s Russia Ties Conspicuously Absent From Fox News Sunday
The ongoing saga surrounding reported entanglements between President Donald Trump, his current and former aides, and the Russian government was a leading topic of discussion for hosts and guests during the February 26 editions of the Sunday morning news shows -- except for Fox News Sunday, where t
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Okla. AG's office confirms Pruitt used private email for state business
OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) - The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office confirms former Attorney General Scott Pruitt used a private email for state business. The information comes aweek after FOX 25 first revealed the emails that appeared to be sent from Pruitt’s
Swedish 'national security advisor' interviewed by Fox News not known to Swedish officials: report
Fox News's “The O'Reilly Factor” this week featured a guest with inaccurate credentials, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
Trump rejects DHS intelligence report on travel ban
Officials in President Trump’s administration Friday downplayed an intelligence report by the Homeland Security Department that contradicts the White House’s main arguement for implementing a travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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Fox’s The Five Blames Obama For Release Of Guantanamo Detainee During Bush Presidency
Loading the player reg... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (CO-HOST): The Obama administration took great pride in its efforts to try to close Guantanamo Bay but there have been deadly consequences. Many detainees transferred out of the lockup have returned to the battlefield. Another one just this week.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media
"Lord knows Barack Obama criticized Fox News. … But it’s different from saying that we are an enemy of the American people,” Wallace said Sunday on “Fox & Friends.”
On Fox Business, Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group Leader Lies About Crimes In Target Bathrooms
STUART VARNEY (HOST): I want to talk to you about the CEOs from retailers who are meeting now with President Trump in the White House.
Fox News Tries to Prove Steve Bannon Isn’t as Bad as ISIS
Over the weekend, USA Today published an editorial that suggested senior White House adviser Steve Bannon and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi shared “similar world views” that included “apocalyptic visions of a clash” between Islam and the United States.
Donald Trump cannot dismantle our First Amendment. But Fox News can—and it's already starting
We're immediately seeing how our nation's First Amendment will "change" under Trump. Anti-Trump protesters were “hired,” Trumpites say; public opposition to his administration is not just illegitimate, but itself a conspiracy by elites against his movement.
25 Fox News Employees Come Forward: Forced Dates, Demands for Oral Sex
Gretchen Carlson has opened a floodgate. More than two dozen women currently or formerly employed by Fox News have come forward to tell sordid tales of the depraved atmosphere Roger Ailes cultivated at the network.
Breaking Down the 5 Main Types of Typical Fox News Viewers
One of the unfortunate downsides to my job is that I have to subject myself to Fox News far more than I would like.
The Brainwashing Of My Dad By Fox, Rush Limbaugh & Hate Media - Update
Many of us understand the damage that has been done by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, FOX News, and Hate Media. You can hear the promotion of blatant racism, homophobia, misogyny and bigotry just by turning on the tv, radio or computer.
2 political scientists have found a key reason Republicans and Democrats see politics so differently
Here's a telling fact about modern American politics: Republicans only trust Fox News. Democrats trust every network but Fox News.
Bomb Shelter
Narrator: What you are about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen, it's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is the Twilight Zone.
The Brainwashing Of My Dad By Fox, Rush Limbaugh & Hate Media - Update
Many of us understand the damage that has been done by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, FOX News, and Hate Media. You can hear the promotion of blatant racism, homophobia, misogyny and bigotry just by turning on the tv, radio or computer.
This is how Fox News create ignorant viewers
We often get upset at Fox News’ viewers for the alternate state of reality they generally live in. We shouldn’t. It is our civic duty to first understand how it is possible for them to see the world so differently than those who accept information from various sources.
The Daily Show Blasts Fox News Double Standard In Ferguson And Benghazi Coverage
From the March 19 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show: Previously: Fox Won't Let Benghazi Go: Host Suggests Petraeus Leak Inquiry Aims To Suppress "True" Benghazi Story Fox Hosts Refuse To Accept Findings Of GOP Report Debunking Right-Wing Media's Benghazi Hoax Fox Clings To Benghazi "S
LinkedIn Intro-duces Insecurity
Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’re [the] customer, you’re not – you’re the product. LinkedIn released a new product today called Intro. They call it “doing the impossible”, but some might call it “hijacking email”. Why do we say this? Consider the following: