We are issuing a warning about a worsening climate for free press in this country, 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.
Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.
Chris Hayes interviews U.S. veteran and citizen who was detained for three days after ICE raid on farm www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/msnbcs...
It's 12:20 PM EST on September 22nd and Fox News has yet to address on-air the recent reports that their former contributor and current White House border czar Tom Homan accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents as part of a corruption investigation.
New: Major newspapers are giving Trump’s federal criminal indictment a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016 www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
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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" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
Fox News analyst (👀) Jack Keane on new Pentagon press policy: “They want to spoon feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That's not journalism.”
Fox Business contributor: Inflation isn't too bad “when you exclude food and energy”
Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” and just 3 minutes of coverage to developments in the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
Fox News senior medical analyst: “There's absolutely no proof whatsoever” that Tylenol causes autism
NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.
As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
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. www.mediamatters.org/nbc-nightly-...
While right-wing media yell about “able-bodied men,” in truth Medicaid work requirements would hit caregivers the most — who are disproportionately women.
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
"What secretary of defense doesn't have a bottle of bourbon whiskey in their office?”
Fox News host: “The vast majority of people who are going to be helped by the tax cuts are the wealthiest”
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Right-wing media helped dupe their audiences into believing that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were miracle cures for COVID-19. Now, they're are apparently cashing in on that credulity thanks to the paid sponsorship of a mail-order pharmacy that provides easy access to the drugs.
Under CEO Linda Yaccarino, X (formerly known as Twitter) has been placing ads for brands like The New York Times 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
A Moms for Liberty chair who previously fought a library for having an adaption of Anne Frank’s diary recently promoted her organization on an antisemitic network that warns viewers about “seditious Jews,” “Jewish tyrants,” and how Jewish people “have forsaken God.”