Matt Gertz
senior fellow for Media Matters for America
Matt Gertz is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, a progressive research center that monitors the U.S. media. His work focuses on the relationship between Fox News and the Republican Party, media ethics and news coverage of politics and elections.
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Carlson allowed the Holocaust-denying white supremacist streamer, who has said “Hitler is awesome,” to sand down his vile rhetoric for Carlson’s huge audience.
Filings in Smartmatic’s lawsuit against the network show that the channel’s “pivot” after the 2020 election was just a taste of what’s to come.
As he works to demolish American health care research, the network that championed him is nowhere to be found.
The president’s media allies have mostly followed his marching orders.
Hiring people to lead government agencies because you like their takes on right-wing TV comes with major drawbacks.
No credible news outlet would employ the president’s relative as a host. But Fox doesn’t function like a normal news outlet.
The Fox-fueled hiring spree represents a return to form for the former president.
The right-wing information space will remain a rich breeding ground for Russian propaganda
Five months before the election, claims that only fraud could explain a future Trump defeat are already common in the right-wing media ecosystem.
Trump’s effort to delegitimize this trial leans heavily on favorable commentary from his friends at Fox.
