Rt Wing Media

MAGA Media and Women

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Article in Media Matters by John Knefel, 12/10/25

Headline:  “Right-wing media are poised to escalate attacks on women as MAGA cracks emerge”

Subhead:  “As MAGA begins to fracture, elements of the coalition may seek to rally behind anti-feminism”

“The right-wing media and policy ecosystem appears poised to escalate its attacks on the basic rights of women as a weakened President Donald Trump lurches toward the end of the first year of his second term. The campaign to roll back decades of material gains for women is coming from both the gutter sexists and the would-be high-brow elements of the conservative media world, and it could serve as a rallying point for an increasingly fractured MAGA movement. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/right-wing-media-are-poised-escalate-attacks-women-maga-cracks-emerge

Credibility to Media Also Sinking?

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Article in The New Republic by Greg Sargent, 12/3/25

Headline:   “Trump Tirades at Media Darken as MAGA Bloodlust on Bombings Boils Over”

Subhead:  “As Trump and MAGA hit new levels of depravity on his boat bombings and anti-immigrant crackdown, the writer of a piece connecting these dots discusses the centrality of sadism to Trump-MAGA politics.”

“. . .Trump just unleashed a hateful rant to the media about Somali immigrants to set the stage for a coming campaign to arrest them en masse. Meanwhile, MAGA excitement over the Caribbean Sea bombings is spiking: Pete Hegseth tweeted out a deeply sadistic cartoon celebrating these extrajudicial killings. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://newrepublic.com/article/203887/trump-seethes-darkly-media-maga-bloodlust-bombings-boils

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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz & Rob Savillo, 12/2/25

Headline:  “Scrounging for a Hegseth defense, right-wing commentators seize on NY Times report”

Subhead:  “Hegseth’s supporters split hairs over his culpability”

“Right-wing commentators have seized upon a New York Times report on the U.S. military’s September 2 extrajudicial killing of 11 people on board a boat the Trump administration alleged was carrying drugs in the Caribbean, claiming that the article ‘DEBUNKED’ a previous Washington Post report that triggered congressional scrutiny over potential war crimes. But the Times actually confirmed, rather than undermined, the Post’s account. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/scrounging-hegseth-defense-right-wing-commentators-seize-ny-times-report

Lie to Get Viewers Back?

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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 12/2/25

Headline:  “Murdochs blessed Fox News plan to air 2020 election fraud claims, Smartmatic alleges”

Subhead:  “In key hearing in defamation case, Fox counters that network simply covered allegations by Trump associates”

“Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch authorized a plan for Fox News to embrace Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 in a bid to win back viewers angry with the network, a lawyer for the voting technology company Smartmatic argued on Tuesday.

“ ‘The conservative viewers, their bread and butter, abandoned them,’ J Erik Connolly told the New York state supreme court judge David B Cohen. ‘So what do they do? They return back to what they know best: they return back to disinformation, pro-Trump propaganda and xenophobia. The election story and the election fraud claims was the perfect vehicle for them to get back onto their core messaging’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/02/rupert-lachlan-murdoch-fox-2020-election

Sometimes The Press Fails

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Article in FAIR by Janine Jackson, 11/26/25

Headline:  “Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre”

“. . .As Joe Torres (Free Press, 5/27/21), co-author of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, recounted, the local white-owned press didn’t just fuel the massacre; it also helped cover it up. The other main local paper, the Tulsa World, provided the white narrative of the massacre in its headline (6/1/1921) the next day: ‘Two Whites Dead in Race Riot.’. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/press-remembers-oldest-survivor-of-tulsa-massacre-but-not-presss-role-in-massacre/

Fake Media War?

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Article in Media Maters by Zachary Pleat, 11/24/25

Headline:  “Right-wing media praise Trump’s made-up excuses for war against Venezuela”

Subhead:  “Trump massively inflated threat from Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” smuggling fentanyl into the US”

“President Donald Trump and right-wing media have been quick to cite fentanyl interdiction as the supposed justification for the administration’s likely illegal strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, which they have blamed on so-called “narco-terrorists” tied to the regime of President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. But reporting has shown the Trump administration’s excuses are built on lies. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/national-security/right-wing-media-praise-trumps-made-excuses-war-against-venezuela

New Reporters Party?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Amos Barshad, 11/24/25

Headline:  “Partying at Mar-a-Lago with the New MAGA Media Stars”

Subhead:  “While major news outlets obsessed over the anticipated release of the Epstein files, Trump-friendly news influencers celebrated how far they’ve come.”

“. . .The event is a chance for the new right to gather and celebrate itself: While Trump freezes out or directly attacks legacy media, MAGA content creators exist in an influential, symbiotic relationship with the White House, where they are welcomed into the press room as never before. . .”

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https://www.cjr.org/feature/james-okeefe-media-group-citizen-journalist-award-gala-maga-news-influencer-content-creator-mar-a-lago-trump-news.php

Some Media Vanishing?

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Article in Media Matters by Ben Van Bloem, 11/21/25

Headline: “Right-wing media figures are starting to declare “MAGA is dead”

Subhead: “Some right-wing personalities are announcing the end of Trump’s MAGA movement and claiming ‘America First is ASCENDANT’ “

“A growing number of right-wing figures are criticizing President Donald Trump’s economic decisions, foreign policies, and continued handling of the Epstein files. Some in right-wing media are even declaring that the Trump-centric ‘MAGA movement’ is ‘dead.’ . . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes/right-wing-media-figures-are-starting-declare-maga-dead

Some Media: Selective Treason

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Article in Media Matters by Gideon Taaffe & Jack Winstanley, 11/20/25

Headline: “Right-wing media figures are calling a recent video from Democratic lawmakers ‘treason’ and ‘sedition’ ”

“Sean Hannity: “The video that encourages military members to defy illegal orders ‘is unlawful, a brazen act of subversion against our country’ ”

“After six Democratic lawmakers released a video encouraging active members of the military and intelligence community to ‘refuse illegal orders,’ as they are required by law, many right-wing media figures claimed that they are committing ‘treason,’ fomenting ‘sedition or insurrection,’ and trying to “trigger a military coup.’. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-figures-are-calling-recent-video-democratic-lawmakers-treason-and

Watch TV – Send Troops

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Article in ProPublica by Rob Davis, 11/12/25

Headline: ” ‘Riots Raging’: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops”

Subhead: “After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of ‘Portland rioters’ routinely instigating violence was misleading.”

“When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on television.

“He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. ‘What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,’ he said, a comment that became an internet meme as some Portland residents juxtaposed it with tranquil images of the city. . .”

Read the full story at:

http://“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops

Frenemies in the Media

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Article in Media Matters by Jack Wheatley & Gideon Taaffe, 11/11/25

Headline:  “Following Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, fault lines have emerged as right-wing media battle over the future of MAGA”

Subhead:  “Some in MAGA media have tried to distance their movement from Fuentes and his ideas while others have suggested the white nationalist streamer is ‘mainstream now’ “

“Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes has precipitated a right-wing media struggle over the future of the MAGA movement.

“While many traditional right-wing media figures criticized Carlson for platforming Fuentes and not pushing back strongly enough on his rhetoric, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts posted in support of Carlson, calling the former Fox host’s detractors a ‘venomous coalition” and Carlson a “close friend” to The Heritage Foundation. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes/following-tucker-carlsons-interview-nick-fuentes-fault-lines-have-emerged-right-wing