Article in Mediaite by David Gilmour, 11/3/26
Headline: “Greg Gutfeld Gets Angry Text From Trump While on Air: ‘You Wouldn’t Believe This One…’”
“President Donald Trump rage-texted Fox News host Greg Gutfeld during a live broadcast on Election Day, demanding that he deliver a blistering attack to co-host Jessica Tarlov, who had just been reporting on political spam bombarding Americans’ phones as the midterms approached. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 11/4/26
Headline: “Fox News suffers ratings slump on bleak election night for Republicans”
Subhead: “In early, preliminary figures, the news channel trailed several other networks in prime-time viewership”
“On a midterm election night that was a huge disappointment for Republicans, with Democrats taking control of the US House and Senate, the country’s most prominent conservative television network felt the brunt of viewer disillusionment with Donald Trump and his party, according to preliminary audience numbers.
“The Fox News Channel, which often leads in viewership on election night, appears to have come out far behind the competition. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/nov/04/fox-news-midterm-ratings
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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 11/4/26
Headline: “The midterm results are a crushing rebuke to Fox News’ Trump propaganda”
“. . .For Fox’s troubles, the network received a significant drop in viewership leading up to Election Day — one apparently triggered by disaffected Republicans changing the channel — and election night attacks from a president who called in and lashed out at the network for being insufficiently supportive. . .”
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/midterm-results-are-crushing-rebuke-fox-news-trump-propaganda
Article in The Bulkwark by Will Sommer, 11/2/26
Headline: “MAGA Preps for the World to End—Literally”
Subhead: “With Republicans fearing electoral doom, right-wing pundits send their audience to the bunker.”
“ROUGHLY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS FROM NOW, the Republican party could be looking at a set of catastrophic results in the midterm elections. If polls are to be believed, the party’s defeat could be severe enough to represent a repudiation of the party’s entire direction over the past decade.
“Yet pro-Trump media figures are urging their audiences to focus their attention on an even more dire possibility: a total global apocalypse. Whether it’s the prospect of a world-ending war, a debilitating cyberattack, or some other kind of catastrophe, luminaries on the right increasingly feel the end may be nigh. . .”
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-preps-doomer-prepper-for-the-world-to-end-literally
Article in Media Matters by Hanne MacDonald & Jack Wheatley, 11/2/26
Headline: “These 49 figures within the right-wing media ecosystem are claiming they have had contact with Donald Trump or the White House”
Subhead: “Since May, media personalities and election denial activists have made at least 123 claims about speaking with Trump or White House staff and even influencing policy”
“. . .Many of these individuals — who range from prominent election deniers to Fox News personalities and influential podcasters — claim to have discussed policy during phone calls and texts with Trump, meetings in the Oval Office, or other interactions with White House staff. . .”
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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jem Bartholomew, 11/2/26
Headline: “‘Let’s Get Rid of Her’”
Subhead: “Voters may punish Donald Trump at the polls this week. But he has already shattered the norms of political journalism.”
“. . .Tracey Tully, a New York Times reporter who covers New Jersey, waiting with a pen and pad. She had asked to enter the event, but had been told that it was private and members of the media were not welcome. . .”
“. . .On July 18 in Waynesville, North Carolina, a reporter for the Asheville Citizen-Times—part of the USA Today Network, and owned and operated by Gannett—said he was “physically blocked entry” to a campaign event for Michael Whatley, a Republican Senate candidate. . .”
“. . .On October 13, at a public briefing in Cambridge, Maryland, Andy Harris, a congressman from Maryland, told Cat Murphy—a journalism graduate student at the University of Maryland, credentialed as a reporter for the Capital News Service—“I’m disinviting you.” . . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 10/30/26
Headline: “Ousted 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega on overhaul at CBS News: ‘It hurts to watch’”
Subhead: “Vega said she still doesn’t know why she was fired from the show, which has experienced a slump in ratings”
“Cecilia Vega, the 60 Minutes correspondent fired as part of a dramatic overhaul of the CBS News show this spring, said it “hurts” to see what has happened to the storied newsmagazine and other segments of the network, and repeated allegations that she was told to insert “factually untrue” information into her work. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/30/60-minutes-correspondent-cecilia-vega-cbs-news
Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 10/28/26
Headline: “Embattled CBS leader Bari Weiss downplays concerns about weak 60 Minutes ratings”
Subhead: “CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing ‘tremendously well’”
“. . .Weiss completely overhauled 60 Minutes in late May, ousting the show’s executive producer and parting ways with three top correspondents, including Scott Pelley. But the show has struggled to even match last season’s viewership, which averaged 9.1 million viewers per episode.
“The show’s most recent episode drew just 5.64 million viewers, ‘one of the smallest audiences for the program in years’, Variety reported. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/28/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes
Article in Al Jazerra by Staff, 10/23/26
Headline: “FCC Democrat warns broadcasters to resist Trump’s media pressure tactics”
Subhead: “Democrat Anna Gomez warns broadcasters against yielding to Trump-era FCC’s claims of fake polls and news distortions.”
“Anna Gomez, the sole Democratic member of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called on the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to ramp up its response to pressure from the administration of US President Donald Trump on major news networks and broadcast television stations in advance of the midterm elections on November 3. . .”
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Article in Media Matters by Zachary Pleat, 10/21/26
Headline: “Here are the right-wing media figures endorsing ‘despicable’ ad from Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy”
Subhead: “The ad features Democratic nominee Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who defended her husband’s reported sexual assault of Acton when she was a child”
“Multiple right-wing media figures are promoting an ad released this week by Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign targeting his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, featuring her mother calling her a liar. However, Acton has been estranged from her parent since the age of 12 in 1978, when her mother defended the candidate’s stepfather against accusations he had sexually assaulted Acton . .”
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Article in The Hill by Mallory Wilson, 10/23/26
Headline: “Trump spars with NBC reporter over Ramaswamy attack ad”
“President Trump engaged in a vigorous back-and-forth Friday with NBC reporter Monica Alba. . .”
“Reporters asked Trump about fellow Republicans denouncing the ad that was created by Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP candidate for Ohio governor. . .”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6168553-donald-trump-vivek-ramaswamy-ad-nbc-reporter/
Article in The Washington Post by Scott Nover and Miriam Waldvogel
Headline: “White House takes new swipes at press, blocking a reporter and threatening an outlet”
Subhead: “The moves mark the latest attempt by the White House to push back on coverage it dislikes by revoking access normally granted to members of the media.”
“The White House this week launched new broadsides against the news media, blocking a reporter from serving in the pool covering the president and sending a letter threatening Politico over its coverage of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. . .”
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