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4 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What unity in policy-making looks like -- the Biden American Rescue Plan is shockingly popular. navigatorresearch.org/broad-bipartis…
**very, very quietly**

Fox News has been too busy doing insane culture war segments to explain to its viewers why they should hate legislation that helps millions of Americans.
Fox News transcripts referencing "debt" or "deficit" over the last month, via Nexis*: 38

Fox News transcripts referencing "cancel culture" over the last month: 272

*Nexis does not include Fox daytime, it basically covers 4 p.m. to midnight plus some weekend primetime shows.
Obviously the impetus to instead tell your audience that the Democrats are trying to destroy them has its own sizable downsides: mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-p…

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4 Feb
Would-be GOP candidates are flocking to Fox News -- and basically no other TV network -- to build their brands. Here's who made the most appearances on weekday shows in January mediamatters.org/fox-news/2024-…
Ten GOP politicians who might seek the Oval Office made a combined 44 appearances on Fox’s weekday programming in January -- and zero appearances on CNN or MSNBC.
Those Republicans are gravitating to the network's "opinion" shows, where they can build their brands with softball questions from right-wing hosts.
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This seems great! nytimes.com/2021/01/29/hea…
(Not great is how far down I need to scroll in an article whose headline stresses the vaccine’s lower efficacy against the South Africa strain to find that paragraph!)
Headline/lede/20th paragraph
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28 Jan
This is incoherent. It would be useful for the New York Times editorial board to lay out which of these executive actions they specifically think Biden shouldn't have done. That they don't bother to do so is telling.
The closest they get is this paragraph about how protections for DREAMers would be more durable if they were legislated. No shit, that's why that's included in Biden's immigration plan. Should he not have done this in the interim? They don't say.
The Times doesn't say that any of these executive actions exceeded Biden's authority, and indeed most of them are repealing previous Trump EOs. Why would the proper mechanism for doing that be legislation?
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These major companies said they would stop donating to GOP members of Congress who sought to overturn the 2020 election results -- but are still running ads on Fox News:
@amazon
@att
@BCBSAssociation
@comcast
@dell
@LillyPad
@pfizer
@sanofi
@Walgreens
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These companies said they would pause all PAC contributions in light of the January 6 insurrection -- but are still running ads on Fox News:
@CharlesSchwab
@GM
@jpmorgan
@kroger
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26 Jan
We've reached the "Fox primetime hosts defend QAnon adherents without ever mentioning what they actually believe" portion of the network's desperate grab for ratings. mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham…
You can imagine a world where Fox hosts used their unique credibility with their right-wing audience to warn them away from dangerous extremism, but that's not where this is going.
Here's me last August predicting that Fox hosts would inevitably end up claiming that the danger of QAnon was blown out of proportion by Democrats and the media and that it was all an attack on run-of-the-mill Trump supporters. mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
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21 Jan
You spend years working your way up at CBS and CNN, you jump to Fox News, spend a decade there, you become chief White House correspondent, then finally you get your own afternoon show, which you use to do... this.
Pretty grim stuff from Fox's "news" side today.
OH GOD IT GOT; WORSE
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