Fox Corp. is boosting the presence of Tomi Lahren, with a new show at OutKick Media and as the voice of Fox News Commentary on Fox News Audio.
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Fox News faces widespread criticism for star host Tucker Carlson’s repeated focus on the racist ideology known as “replacement theory.” On Saturday, a mass shooter killed 10 people and wounded several more in a Buffalo, New York, grocery store after posting a manifesto expressing support for the ideology. Fox News also drew a seeming rebuke from President Biden after the Buffalo attack, though Biden did not name the network or any of its hosts specifically. The Media Matters survey of the Fox News coverage, which features a daily falsehood paired with an explanation and a countering factual statement, includes topics ranging from COVID-19 masking and vaccines to migration across the southern border and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The highlights:Jan. 12: Fox News correspondent Dr. Nicole Saphier stated that the average American “should not be wearing” N95 masks amid the spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant.Jan. 25: Fox News guest and Jason Miyares, the attorney general of Virginia,blamed the mental health crisis among young people during the pandemic on masking, adding that “children aren’t the cause of the spread.”Jan. 26: Fox News radio host Jimmy Failla claimed that requiring children to wear masks at school is “abusing kids,” arguing that the benefits of masking are based on “very dubious” data.Jan. 31: Fox News correspondent Dan Springer claimed the Portland, Oregon auto crime unit was “gutted” to “appease rioters” during a segment sensationalizing auto thefts.Feb. 4: Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen blamed the “border crisis” for “unleash[ing] a torrent of illegal drugs on American city streets.”Feb. 8:Fox News anchor John Roberts claimed the Biden administration is “funding crack pipes for equity.”Feb. 10:
.Fox Corp. is boosting the presence of Tomi Lahren, with a new show at OutKick Media and as the voice of Fox News Commentary on Fox News Audio.
Fox News’ audience continued to grow in May while its main cable news rivals saw viewership declines.
Chris Stirewalt, who was a veteran politics editor at Fox News until he was let go in the aftermath of the 2020 election, is joining NewsNation, Nexstar’s non-partisan news venture.
The Simpsons took aim at Fox News and Facebook during a musical number in Sunday’s (May 22) season 33 finale.In the episode titled ‘Poorhouse Rock’, Hugh Jackman and former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich led a song about the death of the US middle class.During the number, a character resembling Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is shown (via Deadline), saying: “Putin for president, next on Fox News.”Facebook is similarly called out for spreading misinformation in the song’s lyrics: “Facebook feeds our fright / They convince us things were great when gas was cheap and men were white.” A Mark Zuckerberg-like character is also seen pressing a red button which reads “death of democracy”.Is that a new carbon blob in Sector 7-G, @RealHughJackman? pic.twitter.com/8xjZ7HqxV7— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) May 23, 2022Jackman, voicing a singing janitor, begins the eight-minute musical number as a challenge to Bart Simpson – who is inspired by his father Homer’s job at the nuclear power plant.
Just days after Fox made a portfolio pitch to advertisers at its upfront showcasing Fox shows, including The Simpsons, and Fox News in the same breath, Matt Groenig & Co. shot back.
Sasha Urban editor“The Simpsons” took aim at the Fox Corporation on Sunday in a musical number about the death of the U.S. middle class, during the finale of its 33rd season.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pointed to former President Donald Trump as a big reason for the Biden administration’s “avoidance strategy” when it came to feuding with Fox News.She also detailed her relationship with Fox News’ Peter Doocy after being asked about it in a forum discussion. The forum, titled “Notes from the Frying Pan to the Fire” took place at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. The IOP Speakers Series director and moderator Jennifer Steinhauer went straight for it in one of her first questions to Psaki.“We’re just going to do the Doocy,” Steinhauer quipped. “The country was sort of mesmerized by these weekly, or often more than that, sparring that you had with the Fox News reporter in the briefing room.
tweet saying he can no longer vote Democrat because they are “the party of division and hate.” “I think it’s interesting that Elon Musk thinks that the Democratic Party is the party of hate, when the Republican Party produced a failed insurrection on January 6,” Knight responded. “This is also the party that you know has supported the big lie.
J. Kim Murphy Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has demanded that Fox News “cease all dissemination of false white nationalist, far-right conspiracy theories” in a letter sent to the network’s leaders and owner Rupert Murdoch.In the document, published by The New York Times on Tuesday, Schumer cites an alarming statistic measured by AP, indicating that “nearly one third of American adults believe that a group of people is trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.” Schumer also cites that viewers of Fox News are three times as likely to believe the theory, with marquee anchor Tucker Carlson having amplified it “in more than 400 episodes.”“I urge you to take into consideration the very real impacts of the dangerous rhetoric being broadcast on your network on a nightly basis,” Schumer wrote.
John Legend has called for Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to be “de-platformed”, accusing the presenter of espousing a racist theory that the Buffalo mass shooting suspect allegedly posted online.Payton S. Gendron, 18, is accused of carrying out what authorities have said was a racially-motivated attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday (May 14) that left 10 people dead and three injured.
John Legend isn’t holding back his criticism of Tucker Carlson.
tweeted on Friday.Several Fox hosts want to have me on to discuss the movie but the network is blocking them. Incredibly a “news network” is blocking coverage of the biggest news story in the country! https://t.co/30mdNOwHXvEarlier in the week, he took aim at Newsmax, as well as Tucker Carlson and Fox News, for instructing “2000 Mules” filmmaker and “True The Vote” founder Catherine Engelbrecht to not discuss the film, which theorizes that thousands of Democrat-paid “mules” swayed the results of the 2020 presidential election.
criticizing her disdain for celebrity cardiothoracic surgeon-turned-Pennsylvania Senate candidate, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and saying she “has a cork up her nose” about this “perfectly legitimate conservative.”“For some reason the 10 p.m.-er has a real hate-on for Oz,” he said, on Friday’s “The Mark Levin Show,” substituting her name for her timeslot on the ultra-right-wing network. “I don’t hate Oz.
A man bites dog moment happened on Friday in the White House, as the lion laid down with the lamb, at least for a photo.
would go back on him to make sure he always had proper sourcing for his claims, and applauded her for constantly being prepared for him.“All that extra homework … probably has made me a better reporter, and so I am grateful to her for that,” he said.bYou can watch the full segment from Fox & Friends in the video here and above.
FKA twigs has said she’s “honoured” to be added to the cast of the newly rebooted The Crow alongside It star Bill Skarsgård.As reported last month (April 1), the film will be helmed by Rupert Sanders, who previously directed Snow White And The Huntsman and Ghost In The Shell.Posting on Instagram yesterday (May 11), the ‘Two Weeks’ singer wrote: “i am absolutely thrilled to announce that i will be appearing alongside bill skardsgård in the crow directed by rupert sanders“i feel so honoured to be amongst such a powerful team and am already having the best time working on my character lewks with the iconic [costume designers] @kurtandbart2”. See the full post below.A post shared by FKA twigs (@fkatwigs)“The Crow is beautiful, dark, poetic and sometimes disturbing,” Sanders told Deadline following last month’s announcement.
for a job at MSNBC, forcing her to defend her integrity and “high ethical standard.” Psaki, who will step down at the end of this coming week, defended herself from claims of conflicts of interest by continuing to work as President Biden’s top press liaison even after reportedly taking a position at one of the media outlets covering her press conferences. While she did not directly mention MSNBC, she said that she recused herself from any meetings involving media outlets that may employ her after leaving the White House.“I know you can’t discuss your next job for ethical reasons,” Kurtz said.