Fox Gives Advice to Tanker Pilots

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Article in Daily Kos by Walter Einenkel, 3/9/36

Headline:  “Sailing through a war zone is no big deal, says Fox News”

“The crew over at ‘Fox & Friends’ is twisting itself into a propaganda pretzel trying to spin President Donald Trump’s Iran war, with hosts Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones unabashedly sharing their bizarre thoughts Monday. . .”

“Kilmeade then chastised oil-tanker captains for refusing to sail through a potential war zone in the Strait of Hormuz.

“If you want to diminish the Iranian threat, if you want to make sure that this ends up with complete Iran capitulation, sow some guts and go through that strait and do it,” he said. . .”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/9/2372385/-Sailing-through-a-war-zone-is-no-big-deal-says-Fox-News?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_9&pm_medium=web

FCC Doesn’t Probe Fox News?

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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 3/9/26

Headline:  “Shouldn’t Brendan Carr be launching an FCC probe of Fox Broadcasting Co.?”

“Federal Communications Chairman Brendan Carr faces an important test of his stated standards for news organizations this week: If he’s not just looking to punish media outlets for being insufficiently deferential to President Donald Trump, he must launch a news distortion investigation of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Broadcasting. . .”

“Fox News’ right-wing propagandists would lose their minds if a Democratic president did such a thing. But on Sunday morning, the network instead seemed to hide the president’s disrespect toward the dead. While purporting to cover the previous day’s event, Fox & Friends Weekend aired months-old footage. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/shouldnt-brendan-carr-be-launching-fcc-probe-fox-broadcasting-co

US International Media Coming Back?

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Article in The Washington Post by SDcott Nover, 3/9/26

Headline:  “Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs”

Subhead:  “Kari Lake, the Trump appointee in charge of Voice of America and other international broadcasters, has used dubious authority in her effort to dismantle the agency.”

“A federal judge in Washington ruled Saturday that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America, and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff. . .”

“The decision is the latest in a string of legal defeats to the Trump administration’s year-long effort to dismantle USAGM, the federal agency that in addition to Voice of America oversees other U.S.-funded international broadcasters including Radio Free Asia. . .”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/07/kari-lake-unlawful-voice-of-america-ruling/

Objectivity or Bias?

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Article in popular Resistance by Chris Hedges and Ahmed Eldin, 3/6/26

Headline:  “Chris Hedges Report: The Media’s Capitulation to Power”

Subhead:  “The propagandistic purpose the corporate media serves in the age of the American-Israeli project of genocidal colonialism.”

Ahmed Eldin: “They think they can justify their biased coverage under the guise of objectivity in 2025 when people are getting information right from the source. And whether that information is framed in a conventionally journalistic way, which some people would say is like, this view from nowhere where you don’t put your own identity into the story. I mean, look, let’s be real. Journalism is changing for better or worse. Storytelling is changing. . .”

Chris Hedges: “I want to talk about objectivity because that is, that’s a trope. Objective truth is not what they print. . .”

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https://popularresistance.org/the-medias-capitulation-to-power-w-ahmed-eldin/

 

Crackdown on Media

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Article in Common Dreams by Julia Conley, 2/6/26

Headline:  “Retaliation? Nashville Journalist Detained by ICE After Reporting on Trump Crackdown

Subhead:  “ICE abductions of noncitizen journalists take the reporters best equipped to cover immigration Subhead: enforcement”

“Press freedom groups on Friday were calling for the immediate release of Estefany Rodríguez, a journalist with Nashville Noticias and Univision 42 Nashville, after she was detained by federal immigration agents while traveling in her marked press vehicle. . .”

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/nashville-ice-arrests

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Article in The Hill by Bernard Goldberg, 3/6/26

Headline: “With media distrust at an all-time high, journalists must do some soul-searching”

“Just about every day a new poll drops — and when it shows how unpopular President Trump is, the so-called mainstream media can’t wait to blast it across the screen. Breaking news! Flashing graphics! Panels of experts nodding gravely.

“Bad news for the president is good news for liberals — whether they’re in the media or just watching it.

“But there’s one poll the media treats like it has a contagious disease. It comes out every year from Gallup. And it measures something inconvenient: trust in the media. . .”

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https://thehill.com/opinion/5769193-media-trust-erosion-journalism/

War – Not Iran – But MAGA Media

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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 3/6/26

Headline: ” ‘You unbelievable coward’: conservative US media in open warfare over Iran”

Subhead:  “Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin are all trading blows over US involvement – while Sean Hannity says he’s staying out of it”

“The stars of the conservative media movement have been duking it out – in extremely personal terms – over Donald Trump’s decision to enter the United States into a conflict with Iran.

While it can be hard to cleanly group the warring factions, much of the fighting has centered on disagreements about whether the US is too deferential to Israeli interests. Those arguing that position most prominently include former Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, while conservative media personalities like Mark Levin (a current Fox News host) and Ben Shapiro have strongly supported both the American intervention in Iran and collaboration with Israel. . .”

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/06/conservative-media-open-warfare-over-iran

A Plate Full of –

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 3/6/25

Headline:  “Ellison’s CNN Platitudes”

Subhead:  “David Ellison finally addressed CNN’s future—but his rehearsed talking points offered few clues about what he’ll actually do with the news network.”

“Early Thursday morning, on the sunny Paramount lot in Los Angeles, David Ellison sat for an interview with CNBC. . .”

“What Ellison did not address on his own, though, was the elephant in the room: CNN, the prized news asset that played an outsized role in the war over WBD’s assets. Indeed, since making the winning offer for the David Zaslav-led empire, Ellison had been absolutely mum about the future of the globally recognized news brand. . .”

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https://www.status.news/p/david-ellison-cnn-cbs-news-future

Ice & Media Databases

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Article in Poynter by Angela Fu, 3/5/26

Headline:  “Journalists push back against parent companies’ contracts with ICE”

Subhead:  “Some reporters at Law360 and Reuters are raising concerns about ICE’s use of their companies’ databases in immigration raids”

“More than 200 journalists at Law360, a legal news outlet, and its sister publications have signed a letter demanding that their parent company RELX drop its contract with the Department of Homeland Security.

“The letter, which was signed by more than 80% of the union representing editorial staff at Law360 and regulation news site MLex, states that the $22.1 million contract “raises imminent human rights concerns” given recent actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within DHS. . .”

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https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsrooms-letter-against-ice-dhs/

Media Control Under the Rock

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Article in by Saurav Sarkar, 3/5/26

Headline:  “Three Massive Funds Control a Chunk of Most Media:”
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Subhead:  “Maybe that’s why you might not have heard of them”

“Recently, FAIR (2/3/26) took a look at the owners of the biggest online media outlets. It focused on the controlling owners of those outlets, which are mostly publicly traded corporations. But a lot of the money—about $2 trillion dollars—invested in the top 50 online media outlets in the US is not the controlling owners’. Rather, it is possessed by minority institutional investors that manage assets for others.

“Take BlackRock, Inc., for instance. Innovation & Tech Today (7/8/22) called it ‘the biggest company you’ve probably never heard of.’ The multinational’s influence comes from the $13.5 trillion it manages on behalf of retirement funds, governments, other corporations and individual investors. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/three-massive-funds-control-a-chunk-of-most-media/