Rt Wing Media

Rt. Wing Media has Pregnant Pause

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Article in Media Matters by Reed McMaster & Torri Lonergan 7/2/26

Headline:  “Right-wing media target pregnant and female travelers following SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling”

Subhead:  “Pundits suggested refusing pregnant travelers visas, deporting “birthing-aged” women, and even sterilizing travelers entering the United States”

“After the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, right-wing media proposed draconian policies to prevent travelers potentially giving birth in the United States. The policies demanded by right-wing media — which almost exclusively target female migrants — were often proposed under the guise of combating birth tourism, which the U.S. already has enforcement tools in place to prevent. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/supreme-court/right-wing-media-target-pregnant-and-female-travelers-following-scotus-birthright

O’Reilly Decides Who is a Journalist?

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Article in The Wrap by Jacob Bryant, 7/1/26

Headline: “Tucker Carlson Are Only Anti-Trump Because They’re ‘Personalities,’ Not Journalists.  ‘I’m not in it for clicks,’ he adds”

“. . .While talking with Piers Morgan on ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored,‘ O’Reilly was asked why he thought Kelly, Carlson and even people like Marjorie Taylor Greene had all started attack Trump more often. . .”

“O’Reilly thought that it all came down to one very important thing: Kelly and Tucker were personalities and not real journalists.

“ ‘Well, look, I can’t speak for them as far as their motivation is concerned. I can tell you that they’re not journalists! None of them are,’ he said. ‘They are personalities and very successful personalities. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bill-o-reilly-slams-megyn-kelly-tucker-carlson-anti-trump/

Murdoch Media Menace?

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Article in The Guardian by Amanda Meade, 7/1/26

Headline: ” ‘This is the dark art’: new book claims pattern of personal attacks by Murdoch media empire”

Subhead: “In a book dedicated to ‘the bullied’, two former News Corp journalists outline a behavior pattern they call ‘getting Murdoched’, which they say harms individuals and public debate”

“‘Murdoched’, a term Dodd and Ricketson coin for the book, means to be ‘editorially attacked when one’s ideas or deeds do not accord with the media proprietor’s programs or publications.

“The book examines ‘murdoching’ across the US, the UK and Australia, including dozens of interviews with prominent people and ordinary citizens about the way they were treated in newspapers, such as the Sun and the New York Post, and cable television network Fox News.

Dedicated to ‘the bullied’, the book focuses squarely on Murdoch’s ‘way of doing journalism’ Dodd and Ricketson write. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/01/andrew-dodd-matthew-ricketson-getting-murdoch-book-bullying-factory

Media Say People Envy the Gold?

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Article in The Guardian by Arwa Mahdawi, 6/30/26

Headline:  “Doubt that Elon Musk ‘earned’ his trillion? Rightwing media says you’re in an ‘impotent envy cult’ “

Subhead:  “The lovefest from Musk’s conservative fans completely overlooks the unscrupulous tactics behind his immense wealth”

“. . .The National Review dismisses anyone who questions Musk’s wealth as being part of ‘an impotent envy cult’. Per the National Review: ‘There are such things in history as great men, and Musk is one of them.’ The Los Angeles Times (owned by another billionaire born in South Africa) is similarly enthusiastic; columnist Jonah Goldberg explained that Musk’s trillionaire status ‘is a good thing, actually’ because the economy is not a ‘static pie’: innovation grows the pie, meaning more pie for everyone. . .”

“Are you wondering where your slice is? Or how the world’s richest people have claimed, according to Oxfam, more of this pie than half of humanity?. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/jun/30/elon-musk-trillion-rightwing-media

Some Media – Climate? No-Problem

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Article in Media Matters by Evlondo Cooper, 6/29/26

Headline:   “Right-wing media could use a quieter 2026 hurricane forecast to downplay climate risk before storms form”

Subhead:  “El Niño may reduce Atlantic storm formation, but fewer expected storms does not mean lower public risk”

“Right-wing media have repeatedly cited the impacts of El Niño, short-term weather variability, and quieter stretches of hurricane season to argue that storm risks from climate change are exaggerated, and now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ‘below-normal’ 2026 Atlantic hurricane forecast gives that playbook a new opening. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/right-wing-media-could-use-quieter-2026-hurricane-forecast-downplay-climate-risk

Sinclair Changes News

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Susie Banikikarim, 6/26/26

Headline:  “Agenda Journalism”

Subhead:  “The Baltimore Sun swipes at Wes Moore, and a seasoned reporter resigns. Plus: Holding the police accountable, and the grim reality of wellness treatments.”

“On Monday, Jeff Barker, who spent twenty-five years as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun, posted on X that he was resigning. ‘I was proud to have been there during a long period when our reporting followed the facts wherever they happened to lead,” he wrote. “I’m not saying anything readers can’t see for themselves, but The Sun has changed since its purchase by David Smith, executive chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. I no longer fit there.’

“It was a stark rebuke of The Sun and of its owner, Smith, a wealthy conservative who once told Donald Trump: ‘We are here to deliver your message. Period’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/laurels-and-darts/agenda-journalism-baltimore-sun-west-moore-sinclair-david-smith-barker-resign-mississippi-senatobia-police-shooting-atlanta-journal-consitution-ajc-wellness-georgia.php

Posterior Reporting

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Article in Raw Story by Thom Hartman, 6/22/26

Headline:  “Opinion | The truth about Trump was finally blared across this newspaper’s front page “

“This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily Libero, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump’s politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front page. The Italian word is coglione. The polite translation is ‘idiot.’ The translation that George Conway and half of social media reached for, and the one the paper plainly intended, is a good deal blunter than that and more dictionary accurate: ‘a–hole.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-meloni/

Media Hawks are Angry

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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz. 6/17/26

Headline:  “Right-wing hawks absolve Trump of Iran MOU responsibility, blame Vance instead”

“The right-wing media’s hawks recognize the reported memorandum of understanding that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance signed with Iran on Sunday is a dog’s breakfast that fails to achieve the administration’s stated war goals and leaves the U.S. in a weaker geostrategic position than before it began. But they also understand that the cult-like structure of the MAGA movement means that criticizing Trump directly could trigger an audience revolt . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/right-wing-hawks-absolve-trump-iran-mou-responsibility-blame-vance-instead.

Many Rt. Wing Media Are Unhappy

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Article in Media Matters by John Knefel, 6/27/26

Headline:  “The right-wing media revolt against Trump’s proposed MOU with Iran”

Subhead:  “Conservative pundits are trashing the White House’s memorandum of understanding”

“Right-wing media figures and outlets, including many that have been all-in on President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, are in open revolt against his proposed memorandum of understanding that seeks to deescalate the conflict. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/right-wing-media-revolt-against-trumps-proposed-mou-iran

Local Stations – Exploding Prices?

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Article in Media Matters by Zachary Pleat & Gideon Taaffe, 6/15/26

Headline:  “Sinclair’s national programs offer a Trump-friendly spin on his costly oil and gas prices, while local broadcasts show harm to Americans”

Subhead: “Local stations — including some owned by Sinclair — have been at the forefront of documenting American pain at the pump”

“Americans are feeling pain at the pump and elsewhere thanks to the ongoing surge in oil and fuel prices from President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, and local television news stations have been at the forefront of documenting that pain, with even some local stations owned by the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group airing such coverage. Sinclair’s national programming, however, has often applied a Trump-friendly spin while discussing high gas prices, downplaying the increases and suggesting they’ll be short-lived. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-rising-gasoline-oil-and-fertilizer-prices/sinclairs-national-programs-offer-trump