Article in Media Matters by Zachary Pleat, 4/10/26
Headline: “Fox promised oil and gas prices would quickly drop once US attacks on Iran ended. Analysts say prices will be elevated well into next year.”
“Analyses from consulting firms, economists, and at least one government agency are contradicting rosy promises by Fox News personalities that oil and gasoline prices would quickly drop toward pre-war levels once U.S. attacks on Iran ceased. . .”
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Article in Media Matters by Giddeon Taaffe, tri Lonergan, Noah Towe, 4/8/26
Headline: “How fractured right-wing media are spinning Trump’s Iran capitulation”
Subhead: “Right-wing media have been split over the war. As a ceasefire is agreed to, some figures claim Trump ‘negotiated the deal of his life,’ others argue he ‘chickened out again’ and warn the deal ‘could be an amazing victory for Iran.’ “
“Right-wing media are split on the temporary two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, with some calling it ‘victory’ and crediting Trump’s ‘hyperbolic rhetoric,’ while others remain skeptical, going as far as to call it ‘total U.S. defeat’ and arguing the deal is ‘very difficult to accept.’ Both critics and supporters of the war have criticized the terms of the ceasefire, saying it is a ‘defeat’ and that ‘Iran practically got everything that they wanted.’ ”
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Article in The Intercept by Katherine Krueger, 4/7/26
Headline: “The Media Just Can’t Help Turning Iran Fighter Jet Rescue Into ‘Black Hawk Down’ “
Subhead: “Everyone reported the exact same story at the exact same time — and they all relied on the same liars who got us into this mess.”
“Neither Josh Hartnett nor Ewan McGregor were there, but the way the mainstream media is telling it, they might as well have been. The Sunday morning rescue of a U.S. airman shot down over Iran launched a thousand breathless tick-tock retellings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and many, many more — helpful water-carrying for an administration prosecuting a deeply unpopular war without a clear end in sight. . .”
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https://theintercept.com/2026/04/06/iran-fighter-jet-rescue-media-coverage/
Article in Common Dreams by Stephen Prager, 4/7/26
Headline: “Western Media Called Out for ‘Misleading’ Portrayal of Iranians Defending Infrastructure as ‘Human Shields’ “
“ ‘The real legal and moral question is why civilian infrastructure is being targeted at all,’ said one expert.
“After US President Donald Trump made his genocidal declaration on Tuesday that the ‘whole civilization’ of Iran ‘will die tonight,’ reports began to roll in of people across the country standing outside the power plants, bridges, and other civilian infrastructure the president promised to bomb. . .”
“The government has encouraged Iranians, including children and young students, to take to the streets to form human chains around infrastructure that may come under threat, leading some Western media outlets to raise the fear that people were being used as ‘human shields.’
“Sina Toossi, a fellow at the Center for International Policy, however, said this “is a deeply misleading framing. . .”
“ ‘This is about people trying to safeguard electricity, water, and basic civilization under open threat,’ Toossi said. ‘The real legal and moral question is why civilian infrastructure is being targeted at all.’ ”
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/iranians-defend-infrastructure-trump
Article in The Hill by Ashleigh Fields, 4/7/26
Headline: “Fox integrating Kalshi prediction markets data across news platforms “
“The Fox Corporation on Tuesday said it would integrate data from Kalshi prediction markets across multiple platforms to enhance the audience experience.
“Insight from the prediction market will be shared on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Weather and the Fox One platform, according to a press release announcing the integration sponsored by Kalshi. . .”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5820864-fox-corporation-integrates-kalshi-markets/
Article in Media Matters by Ilana Berger, 4/3/26
Headline: “Right-wing media’s narrative that high gas prices are ‘short-term’ and ‘temporary’ is undermined by reporting from major energy conference”
Subhead: “CNBC anchor Morgan Brennan: ‘The growing chorus on Wall Street, including JP Morgan, Blackrock, Citadel, those are all warning that the war and ongoing oil shocks are being underpriced’ “
“While many right-wing media personalities continue to parrot claims from the Trump administration that high gas prices are a short-term consequence of the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran, a few are starting to question that narrative.
“During S&P Global’s CERAWeek, a Houston-based energy industry conference held this year from March 23-27, attendees and other experts expressed concern over the long-term consequences of President Donald Trump’s war constraining energy supply in the Strait of Hormuz, making clear to reporters that the situation is likely worse than the market is showing. . .”
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Article in Daily Beast by Tom Latcher,. 3/30/26
Headline: “MTG Brands Fox News ‘Fake News’ as MAGA Civil War Deepens”
Subhead: “Ann Coulter also compared the network’s Iran war coverage to its false 2020 election claims.”
“Former Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has turned against MAGA’s favorite TV channel as the Republican civil war over Iran goes nuclear.
“Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has long echoed the American First narrative of the Republican Party’s MAGA wing. But some prominent MAGA supporters are falling out of love with the cable network over its backing for Donald Trump’s war on Iran.
“Trump’s friend-turned-foe MTG accused the network of peddling ‘fake news’ and ‘brainwashing boomers’ over Iran. She wrote on X Sunday, ‘Fox News is now the fake news. Brainwashing boomers to support what we voted against.’. . .”
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/mtg-brands-fox-news-fake-news-as-maga-iran-civil-war-deepens/
Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 3/13/26
Headline: “Dire Strait: Trump’s Fox Cabinet ignored Hormuz in the month before the U.S. attacked Iran”
“It’s little wonder that President Donald Trump didn’t seem to worry about the Strait of Hormuz in planning his war of choice against Iran: His Fox News advisers utterly ignored the possibility that Iran could respond by closing that critical shipping lane as they urged the president to launch the attack last month.
“Roughly 20% of global crude oil and liquified natural gas, along with a ‘dominant’ share of global fertilizers, reach world markets by flowing from the Persian Gulf through the narrow strait between Iran and Oman and into the Indian Ocean. . .”
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Article in FAIR by Julie Hollar, 3/4/26
Headline: ” ‘What Do Americans Think?’—and by ‘Americans,’ We Mean Right-Wing Texans”
Subhead: “Media are still trying to turn Trump’s decision into a problem for the party that didn’t launch the unpopular war rather than for the one that did.”
“Polling before and immediately after President Donald Trump’s Iran attacks has shown clear public opposition to war with Iran. . .”
“While public opposition to the war since it began has received fairly widespread coverage, at the New York Times, public opinion was framed in an entirely different way: The paper spotlighted six right-wing Texans in a piece (3/2/26) purporting to illustrate the question . . .”
“It’s one of the most egregious examples yet of the Times‘ ongoing series we like to call ‘Trump Supporters Support Trump’ (e.g., FAIR.org, 2/15/17, 7/24/19, 2/4/26). Frankly, it’s hard to come up with any explanation for this wildly skewed framing, other than offering a sop to right-wing critics of the paper. . . .”
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https://fair.org/home/what-do-americans-think-and-by-americans-we-mean-right-wing-texans/
Article in Daily Beast by Ewan Palmer, 3/3/26
Headline: “CNN Staff Furious After MAGA Pundit Boosts Trump War Propaganda”
Subhead: “The complaints about Scott Jennings were so severe that senior leaders at the network were called in.”
“CNN’s MAGA mouthpiece Scott Jennings left journalists at the network furious after he shared Iran war propaganda from Donald Trump that contradicted their own reporting.
Several staff complaints were made against Jennings, a firebrand figure who is often rude and dismissive during his CNN appearances, after he claimed he received intel about why the president had launched an attack on Iran, according to Status. . .”
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