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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

14 Apr

https://twitter.com/MonmouthPoll/status/1382348307796799490

As I've been saying for months, Fox News has a unique responsibility to get their viewers vaccinated. Their failure to try -- and in fact, to mock people who suggest they should bother -- is a moral abomination. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…

https://twitter.com/MonmouthPoll/status/1382348307796799490

I dunno maybe a little signaling of virtue to try to keep your audiences alive would be a good idea.

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1382126620895502340

This is the most-watched show in cable news. Seems like a problem.

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1382126620895502340

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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

13 Apr

People on this website trying to claim that there's "more to" New Jersey than the part of the Turnpike you see in the credits for The Sopranos: No one believes you.

"iTs bAsiCalLy tHe SaMe As cOnnEcTiCut"

When people who don’t know how to pump their own gas come for your mentions:

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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

13 Apr

I am extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate "the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution" from "the J&J vaccine is not safe and the others may not be either" in the minds of normal people. An incredibly crucial, high-stakes test for the press.

Tune in to Fox News tonight when Tucker Carlson interviews Alex Berenson about how they were right all along, the government and the media were lying about the vaccines which are not safe.

All of which is to say that I am not a public health expert but this seems like a pretty massive risk to take over a one-in-a-million risk against a virus with a U.S. body count of more than 550,000.

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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

12 Apr

@Finneganporter

I spoke with @Finneganporter at @BusinessInsider about Tucker Carlson's mainstreaming of white nationalist talking points.

The interview was actually conducted before he went all-in on the great replacement theory last week. businessinsider.com/how-tucker-car…

@Finneganporter

@Finneganporter @BusinessInsider Respectfully, I think people still asking "where are the Murdochs" after last week's comments are missing the point. Where they are is monetizing Carlson's bigotry. He's been doing this for years, and they've been behind him every step of the way.

@Finneganporter

@Finneganporter @BusinessInsider Likewise, if you're asking "why won't newsroom leaders like Bret Baier do something about Tucker Carlson?" the answer is "he is busy getting rich."

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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

9 Apr

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-…

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