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9 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
When my mentions weren't distracting me I wrote kind of a lot this week. Thread.
"What the Republicans call a 'working class' agenda is just a revamped Fox News culture war" a look at the laughably thin right-wing "populism" from a GOP memo and its source at Fox: mediamatters.org/fox-news/what-…
"Sean Hannity and his Fox News colleagues leave Matt Gaetz for dead," my look at how the congressman gamed the right-wing attention-getting infrastructure and how it stopped caring about him once he hit scandal. mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-…
"The tedious media debate over the meaning of 'infrastructure,'" a quick look at the dumbest talking point I've seen in a while. mediamatters.org/joe-biden/tedi…
"Fox fills ranks with Trump veterans," a comprehensive review of the network's revolving door. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-f…
"Every Fox News advertiser bears responsibility for Tucker Carlson’s bigoted replacement theory rant," my take on Carlson's latest controversy mediamatters.org/fox-news/every…

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A Nexis search of newspapers returns 1,199 results for "Republicans pounced" compared to 1,900 results for "Democrats pounced."

For news transcripts, it's 274 for "Republicans pounced" and 616 for "Democrats pounced."
James Freeman of the WSJ ran some similar searches for a column a couple years ago if you don't believe me.
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I swear this is real.
This is one of Fox's premiere "news side" programs doing a segment about a Portland, OR, high school that is considering changing its mascot.
So it looks like the school's name was recently changed to Ida B. Wells-Barnett HS and was also changing its mascot to the evergreen and a single board of ed director suggested there might be a link between trees and lynching, and now Fox is freaking out.
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This is a total ethering of one of Fox News' go-to coronavirus "experts."

Alex Berenson has made at least 75 appearances on weekday shows since the start of the pandemic, 51 in primetime. He is "the Secretariat of being wrong."

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Choice expert quotes grappling with Berenson theories:

"His point is absolutely stupid."

"The claim he is making is simply fearmongering."

"Actually, his argument is even worse than your analogy."
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30 Mar
oh fuck
Thanks dad.
If you feel an urgent need to buy me a drink right now, I'm Matthew-Gertz on venmo.
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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.
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