Unclear whether the press will sustain the coverage, but this is what using the agenda-setting power looks like.
When I say it matters whether the press sustains the coverage, this is what I'm talking about -- the 2018 NYT bombshell about how Trump's fortune was built on tax fraud faded quickly, didn't make the Sunday shows that week: mediamatters.org/donald-trump/p…
How things are going right now on the websites of the largest news outlets in North Carolina after CNN broke its story about Mark Robinson's "dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum" -- a thread.
Fox’s response to Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo peddling thirdhand election fraud lies she didn’t bother to check demonstrates how the network has abandoned anything resembling journalistic standards in its quest to return Donald Trump to the White House.
Bartiromo repeatedly told her Fox Business viewers this week about a “Democrat operation” to register “massive lines of illegals” to vote at Texas government offices, a story she originally attributed to the wife of a friend of a friend and made no apparent effort to verify.
Her thirdhand gossip was swiftly debunked by the local Republican Party and the Texas Department of Public Safety, with a spokesperson for the latter noting that her conspiracy theory was “kind of racist.”
Maria Bartiromo repeatedly used her Fox Business show to peddle an election fraud conspiracy theory that she claimed originated with the wife of a friend of a friend in Texas.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says her story is "kind of racist" and "simply false."
On Sunday morning, Bartiromo posted an item to X alleging that “a massive line of immigrants” had been obtaining driver’s licenses and registering to vote at three Department of Motor Vehicles offices in Texas:
She didn't leave the third-hand unsubstantiated claims to her social feed. On Monday and Tuesday she repeatedly aired them on her Fox Business show -- having apparently done no independent reporting to confirm claims that she said originated with the wife of a friend of her friend.
Psycho shit like this will get you lots of bookings on Tucker Carlson's show but normal Americans are too busy cheering the U.S. women in gymnastics to create chalkboard scrawls blaming Kamala Harris for who Algeria sends to the Olympics.
Trump’s once-formidable polling lead evaporated, the Vance rollout is in shambles, and his supporters casting about for someone to blame.
They're responding with the hateful shit that the MAGA freakshow loves but that repulses normal people. mediamatters.org/fox-news/maga-…
When you're absolutely devoted to the cause of Olympics women's sports.