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10 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The latest sign that Fox is punishing its "news" side and promoting its "opinion" demagogues as it desperately tries to rebuild its ratings. Now scheduling five straight hours of right-wing propaganda, from 7 p.m. to midnight.
mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-t…
Adding insult to injury, Gutfeld mocked Chris Wallace's response to the Biden inauguration. mediamatters.org/greg-gutfeld/g…
Anyway, this is the guy Fox News decided should have a bigger platform.
Poor Juan WIlliams.
Really astounding how bare the Fox talent cabinet is these days. "This never would have happened under Roger Ailes" is an overdone genre, but that monster did have the ability to find people who were good at television.

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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
11 Feb
Decent chance he’s on Tucker Carlson’s show by the end of the week.
He did Ingraham’s podcast last week, she was talking up a left-right alliance against the “Big Science” vaccination effort. mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham…
Carlson’s doing a cowardly “why won’t big tech and the experts let you ask questions about the vaccine” schtick that this slots into perfectly. And he’s hosted RFK Jr. to do anti-vaccine commentary in the past. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
10 Feb
A thread of some things I wrote that are newly relevant today.

Sept. 17: "Trump will likely respond [to Biden gaining ground after trailing] by trying to delegitimize the vote in tweets fueled by Fox News’ conspiracy-minded, fraud-obsessed coverage." mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-an…
Nov. 4: "President Donald Trump and his propagandists at Fox News are seeking to reduce confidence in the election tallies in order to build a case to toss out Democratic ballots and steal the election." mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-an…
Nov. 5: "Trumpist media figures are recklessly touting false and nonsensical fraud accusations to bolster the president’s position.... h a full-spectrum effort to undermine confidence in the election results, raising tensions and fomenting unrest." mediamatters.org/fox-news/despi…
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
10 Feb
Every journalist given access to a Fox employee should ask this question: "Have you taken a coronavirus vaccine, or do you plan to take it when you become eligible?"
mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
Fox's primetime hosts are are doing a cowardly and irresponsible “just asking questions” bit.

They're either pandering to anti-vaxxers who they likely hope will bolster their flagging ratings -- or just demonstrating their own deep and dangerous stupidity.
With social distancing and face masks, what the network's hosts advocated wildly diverged from the behavior its executive demanded.

Rupert Murdoch doesn't seem concerned about the safety of the vaccines - he was one of the first to receive it. Who else at Fox is getting a shot?
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
10 Feb
Things are bad, actually.
Tucker’s boss took the vaccine but he wants his audience to live in fear over it as long as they keep tuning in.
Fox could save a lot of its viewers from a terrible death but they think this will juice their ratings. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
9 Feb
I listened to Laura Ingraham's podcast with RFK Jr.. It was 30 minutes of him pushing anti-vaxx conspiracy theories and medical misinformation, with Ingraham chiming in to praise him and highlight their "common ground." mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham…
Ingraham opened the interview with RFK Jr. by fearmongering that “your kids” will need to take the coronavirus vaccine “before being permitted to go back to school"
Ingraham then praised RFK Jr. for being "all over this issue for so many years, of vaccinations and their safety or, in some cases, lack thereof, and for that he’s gotten an enormous amount of grief."

She knows exactly what she's doing.
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5 Feb
Donald Trump sent 65 live-tweets of Lou Dobbs' Fox Business show, quoting from it nearly 40 times from Aug 1, 2018, through his Twitter banning. He loved Dobbs' abject sycophancy.

Trump's final Dobbs live-tweet was December 1, 2020.
Dobbs helped shape Trump's policy initiatives. Notably, Trump repeatedly lashed out at Google because of wrong things he had seen on Dobbs' show: mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/trum…

And consulted with him during the 2019-2020 government shutdown over the border wall: mediamatters.org/donald-trump/t…
This is the best thing written about Dobbs' show in the Trump era: "The sinister pro-Trump propaganda of Lou Dobbs," by the late, great @SimonMaloy
mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/sini…
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