Bad news this week for Trump – but Fox viewers might have missed it The network continues to cater to its presidential ‘audience of one’, downplaying his supreme court loss and more The Guardian - US · Sep 17
Pete Hegseth is a disaster of a defense secretary. It’s no surprise The former Fox host has misled the public, prayed for violence and clashed with the press. This is not a serious military leader The Guardian - US · Apr 10
How Maga cheerleaders have infiltrated the White House press corps Trump administration has transformed tone and tenor of media interactions by centering rightwing voices and reporter sycophancy The Guardian - US · Oct 4, 2025
Balancing Act For Pro-Trump Influencers As Epstein Furor Spirals Far-right MAGA influencers are treading a tightrope as outrage escalates over the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: they are caught between a fired-up base demanding more information and President Donald Trump, who is eager to turn the page. International Business Times · Jul 25, 2025
Trump complains the US media aren’t bending to his will. Aren’t they? Despite owners and networks forsaking journalistic independence, Trump continues to threaten journalists The Guardian - US · May 11, 2025
‘A new golden age’: how rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed Trump’s tariffs were sometimes played down, sometimes cheered but rarely seriously questioned by the right The Guardian - US · Apr 12, 2025
The Kamala Harris campaign has Fox News grasping at straws – literally Rattled rightwing pundits keep trying out new lines of attack on Harris and Walz. Yet few of them are sticking The Guardian - US · Sep 6, 2024
Tucker Carlson lost his platform but crucially he still has Donald Trump’s ear Jettisoned by Fox News, the rightwing gadfly has a reduced audience but was still influential in the rise of JD Vance The Guardian - US · Sep 4, 2024
Rightwing media decried Trump’s trial. What about Hunter Biden’s? Trump’s was a ‘made-up charge’, while Hunter was ‘convicted of a real crime’, conservative commentators say The Guardian - US · Jun 13, 2024
Republicans leap on Hunter Biden trial after week of revealing testimony The federal trial of the president’s son undermines Trump’s claim of a weaponized DoJ, but the right aims to make hay regardless The Guardian - US · Jun 9, 2024
‘Heads, we win; tails, you lose’: how rightwing hush-money trial coverage boosts Trump The New York court’s camera ban provides room for Trump to shape the narrative, with conservative media eager to help The Guardian - US · May 27, 2024
Poor reviews, missing product: firms’ anti-woke offerings soak consumers A thriving retail niche caters to the performative masculinity of the right wing, oftentimes bilking its chauvinistic client base The Guardian - US · May 11, 2024
How the Trump trial is playing in Maga world: sublime indifference, collective shrug The hush-money criminal trial receives less prominence in conservative media, and when Trump-friendly networks do turn to the trial, they give viewers an alternative narrative The Guardian - US · Apr 27, 2024
"Good guy with a gun" myth debunked This is "the most personal and insidious myth constructed by the gun lobby," advocates say Salon · Feb 16, 2024
The Guardian - US · Nov 28, 2023 Media gave much less play to Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment than Clinton remark Main networks gave 18 times more coverage to 2016 ‘deplorables’ remark; while top papers give it 29 times more, Media Matters finds
The Guardian - US · Sep 11, 2023 From prime time to lurid tales in a shed: the rapid descent of Tucker Carlson Carlson, once seen as a Republican powerbroker and even a presidential candidate, has grown more extreme and less relevant
The Guardian - US · Apr 30, 2023 It’s out $787.5m and top host Tucker Carlson. What’s next for Fox News? As 2024 election season gets under way the network must figure out how to keep its audience – and its advertisers – happy
Salon · Mar 8, 2023 Watchdogs: Probe McCarthy's Jan. 6 gift "He's not an impartial finder of fact—he's a propagandist," expert says
Salon · Feb 28, 2023 Expert: Fox damages may exceed $1.6B "You're looking potentially at billions of dollars of damages," predicted Norm Eisen
The Guardian - US · Nov 25, 2022 Crime coverage on Fox News halved once US midterms were over Just a week after elections, number of weekly segments focused on crime slashed in half on Rupert Murdoch’s flagship network
Salon · Nov 23, 2022 Fox complains Biden "too pro-Christmas" After claiming the left is waging a "war on Christmas," Fox News slams Biden for putting up his tree too early
The Denver Post · Oct 3, 2022 Why Colorado’s Western Slope likely remains Lauren Boebert country, despite a string of controversies CRAIG, Colo. — Steam rises from the coal-fired Craig Station power plant, pickup trucks filter in and out of the Trapper Mine southwest of town and Bob Seger drifts over the radio waves.
WEKU · Jul 20, 2022 With the midterms in their sights, defending Trump isn't a Republican priority "The RNC and Republicans on Capitol Hill know they are poised for a great election year and what's the biggest thing that could be a hurdle to that? Donald Trump," says one longtime GOP consultant.
Salon · Jun 10, 2022 Fox News trashes hearing it didn't air Tucker Carlson cut away from video of the violence inside the Capitol while bragging about telling "the truth"
The Guardian - US · May 17, 2022 Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman’s reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows