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Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
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What they don't want to talk about
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Ahead of the first presidential debate, Kevin McCarthy is flip-flopping on Biden’s mental acuity (again) www.mediamatters.org/joe-biden/ah...
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A Hitler-promoting antisemite spoke twice at Trump’s Miami resort alongside Eric and Lara Trump www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism...
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Fox News returns to “migrant crime” fixation as migrant crossings, crime plummet www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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New: Project 2025 and its partners have advocated for extreme rollbacks to reproductive rights and access to healthcare. Read our full 48-page investigative report here: www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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News outlets gorged on Hunter Biden trial coverage while ignoring Trump’s calls to prosecute foes www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...
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Fox News completely ignored Louisiana criminalizing abortion pills www.mediamatters.org/cnn/fox-news...
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Right-wing cable news forgot about their voter fraud fixation after a MAGA candidate was accused of forging signatures www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
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The policies that Trump is talking about for a second term would lead to more inflation — and top newspapers are not including that context in almost all their inflation coverage, leaving Americans in the dark Full study: www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
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Hannity, on the radio, explicitly told Arizona Republicans to change the states draconian abortion law Hours later, after Republicans blocked such changes, Hannity on Fox News said: "Democrats — you want to get rid of the law, well, you have a chance right now" www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sea...
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While MSNBC and CNN dedicated hours to the high-stakes Supreme Court hearing on mifepristone access, Fox News covered it for just 20 minutes www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/whi...
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Republican Study Committee's latest draconian budget plan — including sections targeting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and with an anti-abortion section that would jeopardize access to IVF — has been sparing covered on cable news www.mediamatters.org/social-secur...
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MSNBC and CNN gave more coverage to Trump's mass deportation plan than Fox News www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
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NBC News hires Ronna McDaniel, who played a key role in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to NBC News www.mediamatters.org/nbc/nbc-news...
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Fox News buried the Alabama frozen embryo ruling imperiling IVF, giving it just 6 minutes of coverage through noon today. www.mediamatters.org/cable-news/f...
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Trump lawyer Boris Epshteyn to Steve Bannon: "If this ruling is allowed to stand we're not going to have a presidency in this country" www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...
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Fox News is largely ignoring an appeals court ruling that Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution www.mediamatters.org/cable-news/f...
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Right-wing media use figures use a mistranslation of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s speech to push for her deportation and expulsion from Congress www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
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Fox News personalities (including a "straight news" anchor) tried to will a Trump pivot into existence. They failed. More: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Sean Hannity repeatedly bragged that the stock market being at an "all-time high" was a "Trump accomplishment" Now that Biden is president, Hannity claims that the stock market doesn't matter much and he has "never used it as any kind of real barometer" www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...
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The New York Times published 29 articles on the university presidents who attended a December congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, accounting for nearly half of all the articles published by the newspaper and four of its major competitors www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
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We're naming our Misinformer of the Year: Major news outlets keep downplaying Trump’s incendiary remarks and hazardous policies www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Major news outlets devoted dramatically less coverage to former Trump describing his political enemies as “vermin” than they did to Clinton’s 2016 “basket of deplorables” remark in the week following those respective comments www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Experts on authoritarianism are comparing the unhinged rhetoric of the Republican frontrunner for president to that of genocidal fascist dictators — but that has not compelled significant coverage from several major newspapers and broadcast networks www.mediamatters.org/abc/trump-ca...
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While some outlets — like the LA Times — included the voices of civilian Palestinians in Gaza in most of their coverage, other outlets often neglected to include them in their stories. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...