The Far Right’s Manufactured Meaning of Critical Race Theory
Right-Wing commentators have deliberately manufactured a set of caricatures to make the public—mainly the white public—feel threatened.
Why Carlson’s Alliance With Hungarian Fascism Matters
Tucker Carlson’s endorsement of Viktor Orbán is a signal of what kind of society Carlson would like to see in the United States.
Why Do White Republicans Oppose Black Lives Matter?
The role of right-wing media purveyors of outright bigotry and falsehood in turning white Republicans strongly against the Black Lives Matter movement should not be overlooked.
‘We Need to Mobilize People Who Don’t Want to Pay Tucker Carlson’s Salary’
“A lot of the policies that have been put in place seem really backward; they take choice out of the hands of consumers—whether it’s choice for an internet connection, whether it’s a choice for the type of cable stations that you subscribe to—and they put them in the hands of these large companies, who have far too much control over the ways that we connect and communicate.”
Tim Karr on Paying for Fox News Racism, Lynn Parramore on Hedge Funds vs. Green New Deal
Tucker Carlson spews harmful nonsense like it’s his job, which it is, and he gets some $10 million a year from it—but did you know that, if you have cable, you’re paying into that income?
Right-Wing Media Joined Trump in Enabling Health Disaster
Right-wing US media—led by Fox News, Donald Trump’s main press cheerleader—joined the Trump administration in minimizing the dangers of a global pandemic.
Corporate Media Still Waiting for Trump to Knock Over a Bank
What’s changed between 1974 and 2019? The biggest transformation was the realization of the longstanding Republican dream of a right-wing media network.
Fox News’ Self-Fulfilling Propaganda on Ocasio-Cortez
Fox News’ story on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s polling conveniently left out the key role that the network itself has played in damaging the public reputation of the congressmember, thanks to a relentless propaganda campaign over the past six months.
Colleagues Defend Tucker Carlson’s ‘Ideas’—That Iraqis Are ‘Monkeys,’ Child Rape Is ‘Commitment to Love’
For champions of civility coming to Tucker Carlson’s defense, the problem for public discourse is not his vile statements, but any suggestion that the public could be better served.
Pundits Policing Protest at Tucker Carlson’s House
Commentary on a demonstration outside the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this month used an exaggerated version of events to delegitimize a wide range of protest tactics.
Media Parroting ‘$1000 Bonus!’ Stories Helped Give Trump’s Tax Cuts Majority Support
How did a tax cut that mainly benefits a small group of top earners become broadly popular? One reason is the nonstop deluge of stories over the past two months, cheerleading alleged “tax cut bonuses” from large corporations.
Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
As consensus emerges not just around the science of climate change, but also its amplifying effects on extreme weather events, Murdoch’s media empire—and the Republican Party that its talking points inform—will remain the last holdout.
Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Guarantee the Right to a Megaphone
Every person you see on air is there because someone chose to put them there, and is taking the place of someone else who might be there.
Roger Ailes: No One Did More to Debase US Politics
I can’t think of a single individual who’s had more impact on our country’s politics over the last 20 years. There would have been no Trump presidency without the decades of disinformation spewed by Fox News.
Is Hannity, the Last of the Longtime Fox Stars, Looking for the Door?
With former CEO Roger Ailes and star anchor Bill O’Reilly gone, attention at Fox News Channel is shifting to Sean Hannity—the last of the channel’s big stars who have been with the network from the Clinton years to Trump.
Karma Catches Up With Bill O’Reilly
Corporate advertisers, undeterred by O’Reilly’s years of on-air racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, outright lying and hate-mongering, evidently decided that was a bridge too far.
NYT Cites FAIR’s ‘Harrumph’ in Obit for Alan Colmes
The New York Times reports that FAIR “harrumphed”: “If the Harlem Globetrotters have the Washington Generals as their nightly fall guys, Sean Hannity has Alan Colmes.”
Fox News Going All-In on Trump in the New Era
Beck’s hire signaled to the network’s base and the country at large the direction Fox would take as a reaction to Obama’s election. Eight years later, after a very different election result, at a different moment for the country and the network, Fox is once again signaling its priorities to an incoming administration
NYT’s ‘Journalistic Detachment’ Before Iraq War Is Detached From Reality
For those in center-left media, the impulse to rewrite their own role in selling the Iraq War is all too tempting–to turn Fox News into a cartoon propaganda outlet, and their own editorial drum-beating, war protester-mocking, aluminum tube-peddling and Dick Cheney water-carrying as “detached” journalism.
Talking About Racism May Be Destructive to Cable Relationships—Unlike Domestic Violence Charges
without destroying your relationship there—bringing up the status of people of color at the network
