Matthew Gertz

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30 Mar, 6 tweets, 1 min read

oh fuck

Thanks dad.

If you feel an urgent need to buy me a drink right now, I'm Matthew-Gertz on venmo.

oh god he’s tweeting through it

tucker too great just great

oh hell now people going to think I’ve been to dinner with Tucker Carlson

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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

29 Mar

Every media controversy these days feels more consequential because it's happening against the backdrop of a collapsing industry featuring heightened precarity for everyone who works in it.

Every HR and editorial policy shift at the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic is unusually important because they're rare lifeboats that are likely to weather the storm.

A change in a political magazine's leadership matters more because there are fewer places for writers whose work don't fit the scheme to go.

Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

29 Mar

Newest hire acknowledges that Fox News is a pro-Trump propaganda outlet.

https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1376510553791811591

This sort of comment is actually good for Fox because they're more worried about winning back folks who drifted to OAN/Newsmax out of concern that Fox was insufficiently propagandistic.

Anyway time for more whining about how Peter Doocy isn't on "the list" for Biden press conferences. mediamatters.org/fox-news/reali…

Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

25 Mar

Did I miss it or in addition to there being no questions at the press conference about the pandemic were there also no questions about the economy?

So issue number one and issue number two for the public in every poll and... they just don't come up?

I get that reporters prioritize their personal interests and what they think will make news, but this is pretty out of touch.

https://twitter.com/JesseCharlesLee/status/1375152956207730688

I feel like I'm having trouble calibrating on this one because "priorities of WH reporters diverge wildly from those of the public" is such a deeply normal media problem.

Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

18 Mar

Greg Walden and Tucker Carlson once teamed up for the single hackiest Fox segment I've ever seen. Thread...

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1372568254074486795

I was working the Saturday morning shift back in 2013, watching Carlson's show at the time, Fox & Friends Saturday, when Walden, then the NRCC chair, came on for an interview.

At the time, the big story in Washington was the sequester, the mandatory budget cuts required under a deal between Obama and the Republicans. The GOP was trying to make hay over the stuff the Obama admin was supposedly cutting and not cutting.

Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

18 Mar

Fox News spent virtually no time on Trump’s call for his supporters to get vaccinated, giving the comments roughly 6 minutes 30 seconds of coverage in the following 36 hours. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…

Trump's comments were important because his supporters are the ones most resistant to vaccination.

But they'll only have an impact if those followers hear about them -- and Fox isn't doing its part to make that happen.

Fox has a particular responsibility here because its hosts have convinced viewers not to trust any other news source. That means that they're the best way for Trump's comments to reach that audience.

Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

16 Mar

DOJ/FBI/DHS/CISA assess that Putin "had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach," the Ukrainian legislator who collaborated with Rudy Giuliani on Biden smears (these were championed by OAN in particular).

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…

The agencies claim that the notion that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election is false -- Sean Hannity pushed this one relentlessly, stoking Trump's rage toward the country. mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/s…

Right, the report: "Russian proxies... made contact with established U.S. media figures and helped produce a documentary that aired on a U.S. television network in late January 2020."

Left, OAN documentary that aired January 25 of that year.

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