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The Kamala Harris campaign has Fox News grasping at straws – literally

Rattled rightwing pundits keep trying out new lines of attack on Harris and Walz. Yet few of them are sticking

The Guardian - US

Tucker Carlson lost his platform but crucially he still has Donald Trump’s ear

Jettisoned by Fox News, the rightwing gadfly has a reduced audience but was still influential in the rise of JD Vance

The Guardian - US

Rightwing media decried Trump’s trial. What about Hunter Biden’s?

Trump’s was a ‘made-up charge’, while Hunter was ‘convicted of a real crime’, conservative commentators say

The Guardian - US

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Republicans leap on Hunter Biden trial after week of revealing testimony

The federal trial of the president’s son undermines Trump’s claim of a weaponized DoJ, but the right aims to make hay regardless

The Guardian - US

‘Heads, we win; tails, you lose’: how rightwing hush-money trial coverage boosts Trump

The New York court’s camera ban provides room for Trump to shape the narrative, with conservative media eager to help

The Guardian - US

Poor reviews, missing product: firms’ anti-woke offerings soak consumers

A thriving retail niche caters to the performative masculinity of the right wing, oftentimes bilking its chauvinistic client base

The Guardian - US

How the Trump trial is playing in Maga world: sublime indifference, collective shrug

The hush-money criminal trial receives less prominence in conservative media, and when Trump-friendly networks do turn to the trial, they give viewers an alternative narrative

The Guardian - US

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"Good guy with a gun" myth debunked

This is "the most personal and insidious myth constructed by the gun lobby," advocates say

Salon

Media gave much less play to Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment than Clinton remark

Main networks gave 18 times more coverage to 2016 ‘deplorables’ remark; while top papers give it 29 times more, Media Matters finds

The Guardian - US

From prime time to lurid tales in a shed: the rapid descent of Tucker Carlson

Carlson, once seen as a Republican powerbroker and even a presidential candidate, has grown more extreme and less relevant

The Guardian - US

Is Musk's DeSantis show a winning ticket for Twitter?

San Francisco (AFP) - By hosting Republican Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign launch, Elon Musk sets up Twitter as a challenger to Fox News, but doubt remains that the right-wing pivot is a winning ticket for the platform.

AFP

It’s out $787.5m and top host Tucker Carlson. What’s next for Fox News?

As 2024 election season gets under way the network must figure out how to keep its audience – and its advertisers – happy

The Guardian - US

Watchdogs: Probe McCarthy's Jan. 6 gift

"He's not an impartial finder of fact—he's a propagandist," expert says

Salon

Expert: Fox damages may exceed $1.6B

"You're looking potentially at billions of dollars of damages," predicted Norm Eisen

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The Guardian - US

Crime coverage on Fox News halved once US midterms were over

Just a week after elections, number of weekly segments focused on crime slashed in half on Rupert Murdoch’s flagship network

Salon

Fox complains Biden "too pro-Christmas"

After claiming the left is waging a "war on Christmas," Fox News slams Biden for putting up his tree too early

The Denver Post

Why Colorado’s Western Slope likely remains Lauren Boebert country, despite a string of controversies

CRAIG, Colo. — Steam rises from the coal-fired Craig Station power plant, pickup trucks filter in and out of the Trapper Mine southwest of town and Bob Seger drifts over the radio waves.

WEKU

With the midterms in their sights, defending Trump isn't a Republican priority

"The RNC and Republicans on Capitol Hill know they are poised for a great election year and what's the biggest thing that could be a hurdle to that? Donald Trump," says one longtime GOP consultant.

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Salon

Fox News trashes hearing it didn't air

Tucker Carlson cut away from video of the violence inside the Capitol while bragging about telling "the truth"

The Guardian - US

Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting

Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman’s reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows

Salon

Buffalo: It's exactly what he wants

He feeds on white rage — it got him elected president. At this point, the horror in Buffalo isn't even surprising

The Guardian - US

Trump’s Twitter dilemma: will he rejoin after Elon Musk takes over?

If the ex-president rejoins he will once again have access to a tool he acknowledged helped him win in 2016 – but it will also be an admission that Truth Social failed

Salon

#BoycottDisney is proof MAGA is a cult

Cutting followers off from the rest of the world is a standard cult tactic — and a central tenet of Trumpism

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