Rt Wing Media

Trump-Jesus in News Again.

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Article in Media Matters by Payton Armstrong, 4/8/26

Headline: ” ‘Heretic’: After Trump spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain likens Trump to Jesus during Easter, right-wing media figures lash out”

Subhead: “Tucker Carlson called it ‘so vile’ and ‘such a sacrilege,’ while conservative influencer Brett Cooper said, ‘Maybe these people should not be involved in our government’ “

“Right-wing media figures are lashing out at President Donald Trump’s personal spiritual adviser and senior adviser to the White House Faith Office Paula White-Cain for likening Trump to Jesus during an Easter event, labeling her an ‘unabashed heretic’ and ‘batsh*t crazy.’

“White-Cain is a televangelist, pastor, and Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser who has ‘long been a prominent and polarizing figure in evangelical circles.’ White-Cain has an extensive history of extreme rhetoric, including declaring that opposition to Trump is equivalent to opposition to God. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/heretic-after-trump-spiritual-adviser-paula-white-cain-likens-trump-jesus-during

News Predictions Can be Wrong?

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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. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-promised-oil-and-gas-prices-would-quickly-drop-once-us-attacks-iran-ended-analysts-say

Stupid Media People?

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Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 4/9/26

Headline: “Trump slams conservative media figures over splitting with him on Iran “

“President Trump on Thursday tore into several right-wing media figures who had been reliably supportive of him during his second term until the U.S. war in Iran broke out. . .”

“ ‘I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon,’ Trump wrote in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform. ‘Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5824607-trump-iran-war-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly/

TV President Redux?

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Article in Poynter by Pete Croatto, 4/9/26

Headline:  “Q&A: What Tucker Carlson’s path reveals about where journalism is headed”

Subhead:  “New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle, author of a biography on the former Fox News star, breaks down why Carlson may run for president”

“Tucker Carlson’s career is ‘a good cautionary tale,’ says The New Yorker’s Jason Zengerle, author of ‘Hated By All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind,’ a riveting, sharp-eyed biography of the political pundit’s rise from acclaimed magazine writer to cable news mainstay to leading MAGA shriek.

“His path also represents the crumbling of journalism and the growing, troubling influence of a man who increasingly lives in an echo chamber. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/jason-zengerle-tucker-carlson-unraveling-conservative-mind/

Surrender or Victory?

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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.’ ”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/how-fractured-right-wing-media-are-spinning-trumps-iran-capitulation

Media and “Shields”

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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.’ ”

Read the whole article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/iranians-defend-infrastructure-trump

Christian Media Missiles?

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Article in Media Matters by Staff, 4/6/26

Headline:  “On The Weeknight, Angelo Carusone discusses how the Iran war is seen in the Christian nationalist media space: ‘They’re getting impassioned because he’s making these very explicit calls to their religion’ “

“. . .And the undercurrent that’s taking place that this is in fact a Holy War, that it is Biblical. And the rhetoric that you pointed to is the most mild examples of that. I mean, Trump has posted a video, tapping into a notion that he is the prophecy come to life, that part of what he is doing now was prophesized in the Bible. And that lit up Christian nationalist communities. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/weeknight-angelo-carusone-discusses-how-iran-war-seen-christian-nationalist-media

If it Bleeds – it Doesn’t Lead Anymore

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Article in AlterNet by Matthew Rozsa, 4/6/26

Headline:  “Right-wing media empire hemorrhaging subscribers as Trump’s coalition crumbles”

“President Donald Trump’s media ecosystem for a long time depended on major online brands like The Daily Wire and Blaze Media, but as one of their fellow conservative publications pointed out, Trump’s coalition is dissolving — and with it, the base of support upon which many of these media outlets once stood firm.

“Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is in trouble on YouTube, losing significant numbers of subscribers—with Shapiro himself down a whopping 80,000 in the first quarter of the year, according to a new survey of political channels by researcher Kyle Tharp,” wrote The Bulwark’s Will Sommer on Monday. It’s more proof that dissident and increasingly anti-Trump voices like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have the energy in right-wing media. Shapiro, by contrast, is stuck defending an unpopular war with Iran.’ ”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/right-wing-media-fail/

 

Fox on the Run?

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Article in Media Matters by Ed McMaster & Isabella Sherk

Headline:  “Right-wing media figures castigate Fox News for pushing ‘blatant propaganda” on the war in Iran’ “

Subhead:  “Former Fox hosts and other right-wing media figures have called out the network for ‘cheerleading’ Trump’s war”

“Right-wing media figures including former hosts for Fox News are calling out the network for its sycophantic coverage of the Iran war.

Ex-Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are attacking their former employer over its role in promoting President Donald Trump’s Iran war, with Kelly accusing Fox of ‘cheerleading’ the conflict and Carlson claiming the network is advocating for escalating to a ground invasion. Other right-wing media figures have similarly accused the outlet of ‘endless cheerleading’ for the war and spreading ‘blatant propaganda.’ ”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-figures-castigate-fox-news-pushing-blatant-propaganda-war-iran

Pyrrhic Victory over Evil Media?

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Article in Status by John Passantino. 3/28/26

Headline:  “Carr Blares the Horn”

Subhead:  “The FCC chairman’s comments at CPAC laid bare the Administration’s views controlling the media and sidelining critics as a political victory”

“On Friday afternoon, Brendan Carr took the stage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, where thousands of MAGA faithful gathered to cheer on the movement’s right-wing agenda. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission sat on a comfortable white chair in front of the crowd and bragged about Donald Trump’s dismantling of media outlets and the journalists who have lost their legacy platforms. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/brendan-carr-media-cpac-trump-fcc