Media Matters
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Media Matters for America is the nation's premier progressive media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News' "Brain Room"
Washington, DC
Joined February 2008
There is a worsening climate for free press, driven by a right-wing campaign of anti-media threats. The public cannot become informed about the problems facing our country and the efforts to improve or worsen them without robust protections for journalism.
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Fox News: Jimmy Kimmel isn't qualified to talk politics . Also Fox News:
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Fox's Shep Smith: It's being framed as players attacking the anthem, troops, & the flag. that's not what they're doing and we're complicit
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Fox's Shep Smith takes apart the Uranium One conspiracy his Fox News colleagues have been relentlessly hyping
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CNN: "When President Obama tried to make [new, more effective brakes] mandatory after a bunch of derailments in 2014 . the lobbies fought it hard. They gutted it. In 2018, the Trump administration, Elaine Chao was the transportation secretary, rolled it back entirely."
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In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments
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African-American woman in Congress speaks up against the president, Bill O'Reilly says he won't listen because of her hair.
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NBC Nightly News interviewed a CPAC attendee. There was no mention that she is a convicted January 6 rioter who threatened to murder Nancy Pelosi.
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Notice any difference in outrage from Fox & Friends when they're discussing athletes kneeling during the anthem versus neo-Nazis marching?
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Facebook let the Trump campaign run 88 ads with inverted red triangle — an infamous Nazi symbol
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David Hogg, a student who survived the Florida massacre, is going network to network pleading for our elected leaders to stop talking about "thoughts and prayers" and actually take action
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Laura Ingraham’s radio show has ended. The world will be a better place without it.
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Fox News spent 2 hours and 4 minutes touting Trump's McDonald's stunt. Fox News spent just 15 seconds on a new report showing Trump's policies would make the Social Security Trust Fund insolvent years earlier than expected. The average Fox News viewer is nearly 70 years old.
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Perhaps the single most consequential story of the midterms season broke this week, and there’s been virtually no coverage from major TV news shows, newspapers, and other mainstream outlets
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Sean Hannity: A president under FBI investigation would present "a major Constitutional crisis"
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
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Fox News contributor has a complete meltdown after Robert Mueller's statement: "I will bet you my right arm and I will throw in my left as a bonus, that Bob Mueller just lied"
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Unearthed video of Donald Trump Jr. praising Mark Robinson: I like Mark. We need that right now. Good guy, funny guy, not afraid to say what he is thinking, which I think we need more of.
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Tucker Carlson attacks BTS for speaking out about hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans.
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Here is Gwen Ifill calling out hate speech, again to a table full of men who all try to speak over her.
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Sean Hannity says that he never heard of the Proud Boys. Hannity has hosted Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes 24 times on his show, and in one instance, even agreed with McInnes' call to violence.
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Sean Hannity ran with Trump's conspiracy theories -- the exact same conspiracy theories that Fox News anchor Shep Smith debunked hours earlier.
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Nearly a dozen Fox News guests presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools also have day jobs as Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media personalities
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Someone called "Tucker Carlson" has trouble with certain names
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Rush Limbaugh was given the Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union last night. Here's a bit on who he is. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Q: In your interview with Putin, you didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia, you did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations. Tucker Carlson: Leadership requires killing people.
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Unearthed audio shows Tucker Carlson using white nationalist rhetoric and making racist remarks
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During a recent interview with a QAnon conspiracy theorist, the Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice indicated that he is a proponent of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” which calls on Christians to impose fundamentalist values on all aspects of American life
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Trump set to appoint Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to Office of Management and Budget. Vought is a leading proponent of “Schedule F,” a plan to potentially fire thousands of federal civil servants and replace them with MAGA acolytes.
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Micheal Blake stuns Fox News anchor: "Why the hell does Tucker Carlson still have a job here?"
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CBS airs video it obtained in which the head of a North Carolina chapter of the larger Election Integrity Network suggests voters with “Hispanic-sounding last names” are “suspicious.”
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Alex Jones harasses people for years. Gets a two week ban. Alex Jones harasses Jack Dorsey for one day. Banned permanently.
BREAKING: Twitter is permanently banning conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behavior.
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This remark received less than three minutes of total coverage across all three major cable news networks.
Trump: “Viktor Orban…He’s the leader of Turkey.”. Orban is Hungary’s authoritarian leader.
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After claiming Hurricane Irma was a liberal hoax, Rush Limbaugh evacuates South Florida
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Broadcast news mostly ignored Kamala Harris’ proposal expanding Medicare to cover in-home health care for 15 million seniors, with just 35 seconds of coverage over two weeks
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Disaffected Republicans and former Trump officials spoke at the DNC. Fox News didn't air a second of any of their speeches.
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Steve Bannon is deeply tied to the Mercer empire. 60 Minutes didn't ask him a single question about it.
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Sean Hannity lies about the Russia investigation at night on Fox News, Shep Smith debunks his false claims during the day
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Nothing new from Fox News, here is another Fox host telling Maxine Waters to "step away from the crack pipe"
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Ben Shapiro on Medicare and Social Security: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."
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Tucker Carlson last night suggested that Dr. Jill Biden should not be called a doctor "because she's not actually a physician.”. There are a few things that Carlson left out.
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The video Trump aired during the coronavirus task force briefing is directly from the March 26 episode of Hannity
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846 people in Michigan voted absentee and died before the election. Accordingly, Michigan's Secretary of State did not accept their ballots. A Fox "straight news" anchor grossly misinterpreted this to suggest that dead people were voting. They are not.
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On Meet the Press, Chuck Todd falsely claimed that both parties engage in antidemocratic power grabs like the GOP has been doing in Wisconsin. There’s no evidence of that.
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Brooke Baldwin had to literally stop and take a drink as she listed off Trump's wild last 4 weeks:
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New CNN pro-Trump contributor confirms he is contractually forbidden from criticizing Trump because he signed an NDA
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New: X (formerly known as Twitter) has been placing ads for brands like NYT Co.'s The Athletic, MLB, the Atlanta Falcons, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Amazon, and Office Depot on a verified pro-Adolf Hitler account that encourages antisemitic harassment
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We found 144 articles focused on either or both Biden’s and Trump’s ages or mental acuities in the period studied, with 67% focused just on Biden’s age or mental acuity and only 7% on just Trump’s.
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How Fox News dismisses tens of thousands of Americans dying: "Every death is tragic, but . "
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Charlie Kirk: "I'm going through my refrigerator and I'm starting to ask the question: Was this ketchup bottle woke? Is this mustard? I mean, literally."
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Daily Wire host goes on strange sexist rant: “The central purpose of every society is to figure out the distribution of women . Women cannot take care of themselves”
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Jason Chaffetz tells Sean Hannity that congressional Republicans may not be able to read the eight page impeachment resolution in just two days
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Flashback: When Justice Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama, the conservative media complained that she was too hot-tempered
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Fox's Jason Chaffetz on Trump releasing his tax returns: 2016 vs 2019
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The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh falsely accused Boston Children's hospital of putting "every toddler who has ever been born. on a path to sterilization and butchery before they can even talk." Two days later, the hospital's staff was deluged by violent threats.
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Fox News host applauds high school teacher charged with engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse with 16-year-old student
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Sean Hannity: "You think I'm bad for America?". Ted Koppel: "Yeah." .
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@TrumpWarRoom No. It is not. There is a widely used symbol though and it is nothing like the very specific symbol you went with. h/t @BrandyZadrozny)
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Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh: Americans should “adapt” to coronavirus, like pioneers who “had to turn to cannibalism”
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On Fox News, Dr. Scott Atlas encourages large holiday gatherings: “For many people this is their last Thanksgiving”
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Trump ally Alex Jones says high-level sources confirmed to him that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are demons:
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Elon Musk is unilaterally reinstating banned Twitter accounts, despite assuring civil rights groups and advertisers that he wouldn’t
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"This $83 million -- this is just the beginning. All of us will be paraded down this gangplank. We won't have our resources, we won't have our homes, we won't have our livelihood."
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CNN's new political editor is a former Trump official who has never worked in journalism (but who did pledge loyalty to Trump in the Oval Office)
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News broke yesterday that *forty-three* new women came forward to describe assault and harassment by Trump. According to a Nexis search, not a single newspaper in the U.S. published a story about it.
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Tucker Carlson's questions were actually really easy to answer if he would have tried.
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On Periscope, which is owned by Twitter, Alex Jones tells supporters to get their “battle rifles” ready against antifa, the mainstream media, and “Chicom operatives”
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If you're wondering where Trump got that whole 'New York doesn't need 30,000 ventilators' thing, this aired on Fox News shorty before Trump called into Hannity's show.
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Tucker Carlson: "If Democrats take both the Senate and the White House, and they could, you will not recognize America a year from now"
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"And in case you want to argue this has nothing to do with the president, the most recent note I got ended with MAGA.". Katy Tur details the violent threats reporters are receiving as a result of Trump's reckless rhetoric:
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New: YouTube terminated Steve Bannon's account. He had blood on his hands after months of calling for revolution and violence. via @peltzmadeline.
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Trump shared post from N-word-spewing account that claims “Hitler was right” and the Holocaust “never happened”
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Jake Tapper to the president: "Attacking journalists who ask questions does not make those questions go away. It only reveals that you might not have the answers. Again, sir, respectfully, what is the plan for a way out of this? Do you have one?"
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A typical household pays Fox News almost $2 per month—about $20 per year— via their cable or satellite provider, even if they never actually watch the channel. Take action today: #CancelFox.
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Nick Fuentes dined with Trump days after Trump announced his 2024 run for office. On Iowa caucus night, Nick Fuentes gave a Nazi salute and discussed his willingness to commit violence for Trump.
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In the last 35 days or so, a number of right-wing figures have suddenly discovered that, regardless of their prior statements, they fervently oppose impeachment trials for former presidents.
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CNN covered the TikTok story more in a day and a half than it covered Trump’s extremist comments in two weeks.
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Tucker Carlson spent months spreading a racist lie about George Floyd's murder. The doctor who wrote the autopsy report testified otherwise; since then, Carlson ignored it.
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Hannity's show last night: I don't know anything about Marie Yovanovitch being recalled.Hannity's show previously: We need to recall Marie Yovanovitch for betraying Trump
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