Insiders reveal how Fox News became a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump
3 years, 4 months ago

Insiders reveal how Fox News became a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump

ABC  

Gretchen Carlson is most famous for her role in exposing former Fox chief executive Roger Ailes as a sexual predator, her story brought to life by Nicole Kidman on the big screen in Bombshell. Former Fox News Washington-based political editor Chris Stirewalt observed a "long, titanic" struggle between Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. In 2017, when asked if the raft of sexual harassment allegations at Fox News had been harmful to the business, Rupert Murdoch described them as "isolated incidents" and politically motivated. Fox News declined an interview with Four Corners but in a statement said: "The use of former disgruntled employees, some of whom were not part of the company during our coverage of the US presidential election and its aftermath, completely discredits any credibility of this program … We stand by our coverage with our millions of viewers who make us the most-watched cable television network.” For weeks after the election, Fox News's celebrity anchors competed with each other for Trump's attention by pushing his big lie that he had won the election. In a statement to Four Corners, Fox News said inquiries earlier this year into the insurrection on January 6 "did not implicate" the network.

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Letters to the Editor: Trump gamed the media since his ‘Apprentice’ days. How can the media atone?
1 month, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Trump gamed the media since his ‘Apprentice’ days. How can the media atone?

LA Times  

To the editor: It may not be fair to single out Fox News as a reason to distrust the media and journalism. By manufacturing his image as a reality show star, that corporate media organization laid the groundwork for the public to accept him and his lies and elect him president twice. The recent apology to America in U.S. News …

Trump Asked Rupert Murdoch To Make Fox News Go Even Easier On Him: Report
2 months ago

Trump Asked Rupert Murdoch To Make Fox News Go Even Easier On Him: Report

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former President Donald Trump reportedly held a meeting with Rupert Murdoch, the former chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp., to demand the conservative network be even nicer to Trump. “I’m going to see Rupert Murdoch,” Trump said at the end of an interview with the “Fox & Friends” hosts. “We’re not seeing Donald Trump do very …

Trump admits he's demanding Rupert Murdoch stop running 'negative ads' on Fox News
2 months ago

Trump admits he's demanding Rupert Murdoch stop running 'negative ads' on Fox News

Raw Story  

Donald Trump ended his interview with "The Fox & Friends" by admitting he was about to issue some demands for the network's founder Rupert Murdoch. Read Also: The week Fox News finally faces its reckoning "I'm going to tell him something very simple I can't talk to anybody else about. "I'm gonna say, 'Rupert, do it this way, and then …

Fox News and America’s Talking: the lessons Roger Ailes learned from his first cable network.
3 months ago

Fox News and America’s Talking: the lessons Roger Ailes learned from his first cable network.

Slate  

Before he ran Fox News, Roger Ailes launched a very different kind of channel. “Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News,” Gawker, June 30, 2011. “Fox’s 24-Hour News Is Oddly Familiar,” New York Times, Oct. 10, 1996. “Roger Ailes’s Pork Roast,” the New Yorker, Aug. 22, 1994. “At the New Fox News Channel, the Buzzword is Fairness, Separating News …

"The stock price is down": The biggest Fox News fails of 2023
1 year ago

"The stock price is down": The biggest Fox News fails of 2023

Salon  

Fox News' brand of journalism is widely regarded as, well, not quite that. Salon has rounded up some of the network's biggest fails of 2023: Putting the company's stock above telling viewers the truth about the 2020 election The depth of Fox News' apparent scheme to simultaneously deceive and appease its audience by peddling 2020 election lies was revealed early …

"Do they not realize I like to fight?" The 6 most revealing Fox News details in "Network of Lies"
1 year, 1 month ago

"Do they not realize I like to fight?" The 6 most revealing Fox News details in "Network of Lies"

Salon  

Inside Fox News its hosts, producers and executives speak solemnly about “respecting the audience.” This is the opposite of a truth meter, understand – it describes the network’s insistence on letting the viewers drive its misinformation machine. Much of what “Network of Lies” discovers is more validating than shocking, mainly that Fox News lies to appease its faithful because that’s …

The Last Test For Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Is About Character
1 year, 3 months ago

The Last Test For Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Is About Character

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born conservative news titan, announced his retirement from News Corp., the parent company of Fox, Fox News and countless other media properties across the Anglosphere, on Thursday. In addition to these levied and looming financial losses, Fox News’ promotion of Trump’s lies could also cost the Murdochs the broadcasting licenses issued by the Federal …

Departure of Murdoch as Fox leader comes as conservative media landscape is increasingly fractured
1 year, 3 months ago

Departure of Murdoch as Fox leader comes as conservative media landscape is increasingly fractured

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The departure of Rupert Murdoch as the leader of Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings after decades at the helm is unlikely to have as much of an impact on conservative media overall as it would have a decade ago. “I think if Rupert Murdoch had stepped down in 2000 it would have had …

Column: Rupert Murdoch is sliding into retirement. His malign influence isn’t going anywhere
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: Rupert Murdoch is sliding into retirement. His malign influence isn’t going anywhere

LA Times  

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down from the chairmanship of his media companies. Thursday’s announcement that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp. prompted news organizations the world over to ransack the obituaries they have been keeping in their vaults. — Rupert Murdoch, unrepentant at publishing the forged Hitler diaries in 1983 Murdoch may be …

Rupert Murdoch ‘often wishes Donald Trump was dead’
1 year, 3 months ago

Rupert Murdoch ‘often wishes Donald Trump was dead’

The Telegraph  

Rupert Murdoch often wishes that Donald Trump was dead during “frothing at the mouth” rants about the former US president, according to a new book. Mr Trump’s death has become a recurrent subject in the Australian billionaire’s rants, according to new book The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty by Michael Wolff. The book also claims …

Fox News in the news
1 year, 8 months ago

Fox News in the news

NPR  

Fox News in the news Why cover the network and its people? Enlarge this image Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor When NPR does a story on Fox News or its on-air personalities, we often hear complaints from audience members. When we talked to media correspondent David Folkenflik, he explained why he believed the …

Trump has lost his 'safe space' on Fox News
1 year, 8 months ago

Trump has lost his 'safe space' on Fox News

Raw Story  

As Donald Trump plunges headlong into his third bid for the presidency, he appears to be getting the cold shoulder from Fox News which could hinder his chances of re-election. As Grynbaum noted, normally reliable Trump supporter Jason Chaffetz -- a former GOP House member -- recently lashed out at the former president after his recent interview with Fox News …

Explained: How Rupert Murdoch runs Fox News
1 year, 9 months ago

Explained: How Rupert Murdoch runs Fox News

Firstpost  

In late 2020, Rupert Murdoch was holed up in the English countryside with his now ex-wife, far from Fox News headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. The pandemic seclusion left him “bored,” he recently said in a deposition, with little to do “but write stupid emails.” Those “stupid emails” now make up an extraordinary paper trail that has exposed the inner workings …

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is front and center in Dominion’s defamation suit
1 year, 9 months ago

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is front and center in Dominion’s defamation suit

LA Times  

How do you solve a problem like Maria Bartiromo? On Nov. 5, 2020, two days after the election, Washington anchor Bret Baier warned Jay Wallace, who oversees news-gathering at Fox News, that Bartiromo had been pushing false claims about the election. Bartiromo is on the air for 15 ½ hours a week on Fox Business Network as host of “Mornings …

Rupert Murdoch questioned Fox News coverage of stolen US election claims, court documents show
1 year, 9 months ago

Rupert Murdoch questioned Fox News coverage of stolen US election claims, court documents show

ABC  

Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch said TV hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham may have gone "too far" in their coverage of voter fraud claims after the 2020 US elections, court documents reveal. Key points: Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $2.4 billion in a defamation lawsuit Dominion accuses the TV network of amplifying debunked claims that it …

Q: Who's unsurprised by shocking Fox News revelations? A: Ex-Fox journalists
1 year, 9 months ago

Q: Who's unsurprised by shocking Fox News revelations? A: Ex-Fox journalists

NPR  

Q: Who's unsurprised by shocking Fox News revelations? "I was not particularly surprised," former Fox politics director Chris Stirewalt says. "There's not one thing that surprised me or struck me," says former Fox commentator and guest host Julie Roginsky. Sponsor Message Private exchanges and sworn testimony secured by Dominion Voting System's legal team show that Fox News' producers, stars and …

Rupert Murdoch Reveals How Sean Hannity Really Felt About Donald Trump After Election
1 year, 9 months ago

Rupert Murdoch Reveals How Sean Hannity Really Felt About Donald Trump After Election

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch told Paul Ryan, the GOP former House speaker-turned-Fox Corp. board member, how Fox News’ Sean Hannity really felt about Donald Trump in the weeks following the 2020 election. While Hannity publicly supported the former president on his widely watched prime time show, he’d actually “been privately disgusted with Trump for weeks, but …

Fox News' reasons for lying to its viewers go deeper than 'money, power and fame': conservative
1 year, 9 months ago

Fox News' reasons for lying to its viewers go deeper than 'money, power and fame': conservative

Raw Story  

Questions continue to be raised over Fox News executives allowing on-air personalities to continue to spout conspiracy rumors about the 2020 presidential election results while at the same time they were privately texting and emailing each other, acknowledging that they were helping to spread lies. RELATED: 'I strongly disagree': Fox News host speaks out after company bans reporting on Dominion …

Trump is going on 'fringier' shows because even Fox News is wary of having him on: NYT's Haberman
2 years, 1 month ago

Trump is going on 'fringier' shows because even Fox News is wary of having him on: NYT's Haberman

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday raised some eyebrows when he called for the impeachment of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, despite the fact that there is no mechanism for him to be impeached. However, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman observes on Twitter that Trump made these remarks on the far-right network Real America's Voice, which is even more …

The new CNN chief trying to shake off channel's post-Trump hangover
2 years, 3 months ago

The new CNN chief trying to shake off channel's post-Trump hangover

The Telegraph  

In a note to staff, he said CNN should act as a "truth-teller, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers". The big question is whether Licht's tilt away from opinion will prove a miscalculation that could cede further ground to Fox News, or revive the channel’s fortunes. Fox, the right-leaning opinionated news network that championed Donald Trump's presidency, secured an …

Fox News flips on Donald Trump during Jan. 6 hearings
2 years, 5 months ago

Fox News flips on Donald Trump during Jan. 6 hearings

Raw Story  

After spending more than a year promoting Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud, Fox News appears to be changing its tune as the January 6 committee presents increasingly damning evidence of the former president's complicity in the Capitol riot. Roughly a week later, Fox News host Martha MacCallum, who at one point called the Capitol riot "a huge victory," …

Fox News flips on Donald Trump during Jan. 6 hearings
2 years, 5 months ago

Fox News flips on Donald Trump during Jan. 6 hearings

Salon  

After spending more than a year promoting Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud, Fox News appears to be changing its tune as the January 6 committee presents increasingly damning evidence of the former president's complicity in the Capitol riot. Roughly a week later, Fox News host Martha MacCallum, who at one point called the Capitol riot "a huge victory," …

Fired Fox politics chief could provide 'big key part' of evidence against Trump: MSNBC
2 years, 6 months ago

Fired Fox politics chief could provide 'big key part' of evidence against Trump: MSNBC

Raw Story  

During an MSNBC panel discussion on the first of six House select committee hearings about the Jan. 6 insurrection, White House correspondent Garrett Haake suggested that a fired Fox News political director could prove to be the one who provides devastating evidence against Donald Trump. With the committee focused on proving that Trump knowingly lied about the election results by …

Biden called Fox News ‘destructive’ and Murdoch ‘the world’s most dangerous man’, new book claims
2 years, 8 months ago

Biden called Fox News ‘destructive’ and Murdoch ‘the world’s most dangerous man’, new book claims

The Independent  

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Former Fox News political editor warns GOP that Trump wants to keep them 'hopelessly divided and exploitable'
2 years, 11 months ago

Former Fox News political editor warns GOP that Trump wants to keep them 'hopelessly divided and exploitable'

Raw Story  

Former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt on Wednesday issued a warning for Republicans who think they can appease former President Donald Trump. "You hear Kevin Cramer and you hear some of these other people talk about how Donald Trump is going to want to do what's good for the Republican Party -- I don't think that's what Donald Trump's …

Fox News tries to keep Trump fans satisfied, but at what cost?
3 years, 10 months ago

Fox News tries to keep Trump fans satisfied, but at what cost?

LA Times  

On Feb. 10, Fox News was in lockstep with other cable news channels and major broadcast networks in presenting more than four hours of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. But at 5 p.m. Eastern, Fox News pulled away from the most graphic video evidence of violence during the insurrection by pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 …

This Fox News employee was fired after infuriating Trump — now he's speaking out
3 years, 10 months ago

This Fox News employee was fired after infuriating Trump — now he's speaking out

Raw Story  

Chris Stirewalt, who was fired from his position as Fox News' political editor earlier this month, infuriated President Donald Trump and his allies when he called Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night. It's important to understand where Stirewalt fit in at Fox News, which has hard news programming and opinion programming. But calling Arizona for Biden angered Trump and …

Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt out in company restructuring
3 years, 11 months ago

Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt out in company restructuring

LA Times  

Chris Stirewalt, the Fox News digital politics editor, is leaving the network as part of a company restructuring that eliminated more than a dozen jobs. While Fox News executives cited the job reductions as part of an ongoing streamlining of its operations, Stirewalt was likely targeted due to his role in the network’s decision to call Arizona for President-elect Joe …

Fox News fed on Trump's lies. As ratings dip, it can't escape
3 years, 11 months ago

Fox News fed on Trump's lies. As ratings dip, it can't escape

LA Times  

America’s most militarized Inauguration Day in modern history is ours to witness Wednesday when Joe Biden is sworn in as the nation’s 46th president surrounded by 25,000 National Guard troops, armored vehicles and razor wire. Sean Hannity on Fox News on Aug. 14, 2017, discussing events surrounding that summer’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. Fox News did not …

Newsmax Rises On Wave Of Resentment Toward Media — Especially Fox News
4 years ago

Newsmax Rises On Wave Of Resentment Toward Media — Especially Fox News

NPR  

Newsmax Rises On Wave Of Resentment Toward Media — Especially Fox News Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP Updated at 3:03 p.m. Trump appeared Sunday morning on Maria Bartiromo's Fox News program; she has evolved from a financial journalist to a muscular source of support and consolation for the president. On the air, its personalities include former …

Trump-friendly Newsmax seeks to cut into Fox’s viewership
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump-friendly Newsmax seeks to cut into Fox’s viewership

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Now that his largely invisible network has suddenly been flooded by fans of President Donald Trump, Newsmax television personality Grant Stinchfield is puffing out his chest. “We’ve really cornered Fox from the right,” said Chris Ruddy, Newsmax founder and friend of Trump. “Donald Trump is the most powerful person in the world,” said Greg Kelly, a former …

With Trump's Loss, Murdoch's Fox News Faces Wrath And Tough Choices
4 years, 1 month ago

With Trump's Loss, Murdoch's Fox News Faces Wrath And Tough Choices

NPR  

With Trump's Loss, Murdoch's Fox News Faces Wrath And Tough Choices Enlarge this image toggle caption Ethan Miller/Getty Images Ethan Miller/Getty Images Updated at 3:16 p.m. Fox News stars stoked potential scandals involving Biden's son Hunter based on unauthenticated reports from Murdoch's New York Post — material Fox's own reporters largely could not validate. CNN reported Friday that Fox News …

‘Hoax’ book reveals extent of internal unease at Fox
4 years, 4 months ago

‘Hoax’ book reveals extent of internal unease at Fox

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Brian Stelter knows critics accuse Fox News of bending the truth in order to maintain its staunch support of and closeness to President Donald Trump. Yet, Stelter’s account gives a sense that, from an editorial standpoint, there’s no one really in control — that Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham and the “Fox & Friends” morning team can essentially do …

Trump complains that Fox News is “not watchable,” urges viewers to switch to “fair & balanced” OANN
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump complains that Fox News is “not watchable,” urges viewers to switch to “fair & balanced” OANN

Salon  

President Donald Trump complained about Fox News' weekend coverage on Sunday before urging viewers to switch over to the even more adamantly pro-Trump outlet One America News Network. Though Fox News' opinion lineup has been compared to North Korean state TV for heaping dubious praise on Trump and echoing his talking points for years, the president has repeatedly groused about …

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