Selective Coverage

Defending ICE by Rt. Wing Media

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Article in Media Matters by Sophie Lawton, 5/29/26

Headline:  “Right-wing media defend ICE detention center amid protests over horrible living conditions”

“Right-wing media are defending the living conditions at Delaney Hall, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in New Jersey, following reports of a detainee hunger strike sparking protests outside. In addition to repeating Department of Homeland Security talking points about the conditions, media figures have attacked protesters outside the facility, claiming the demonstrations are “performance art,” among other allegations. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-defend-ice-detention-center-amid-protests-over-horrible-living

World Burning? No News Here.

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Article in Media Matters by Evlondo Cooper, 5/27/26

Headline:  “How broadcast TV news covered environmental justice in 2025”

“Environmental justice coverage — reporting that connects the harmful effects of pollution, environmental hazards, or policy decisions to socially marginalized communities — remained nearly absent from corporate broadcast TV news last year, even as environmental risks and pollution exposure affected communities across the country. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/how-broadcast-tv-news-covered-environmental-justice-2025-0

NYT is a Fan?

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Article in Daily Kos by Oliver Willis, 5/25/26

Headline:  “The Gray Lady is a Trump fangirl

“The New York Times has a long history of producing journalism that has changed the course of politics around the globe. And it has done this during Donald Trump’s two presidential terms, exposing inconvenient truths as well as his corruption.

“But unfortunately, in the 16 months since Trump was sworn in for a second term, the outlet has also embarrassed itself by advancing pro-Trump falsehoods, swooning over his rhetoric, and covering up his barrage of misstatements, gaffes, and outright lies. . .”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/25/800043379/media/new-york-times-trump-fangirl/

Media Missing Stock Trades?

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Article in Daily Kos by Oliver Willis, 5/20/26

Headline:  “Major news outlets are ignoring Trump’s shady stock trades”

“The mainstream media has largely ignored a report detailing how Donald Trump has consistently publicly touted companies in his role as president while quietly buying up their shares.

“On Monday, Judd Legum of the Popular Information newsletter published an investigation correlating Trump’s financial disclosure filings with his public statements. And he found a pattern: Trump praises companies or visits their facilities while purchasing their stock. . .”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/20/800041940/media/media-ignoring-trumps-shady-stock-trades/

Rich-People-Gala Real News?

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Article in FAIR by Janine Jackson, 5/8/26

Headline:  “NYT on Met Gala: If You Don’t Like It, Shut Up”

“Plenty of people felt that the Met Gala, a celebration of wealth and celebrity—where a ticket cost $100,000 and a table $350,000—was painfully tone deaf right now as our country spends billions of dollars to attack other countries and bankroll a genocide, people are being snatched off the street and sent to camps, and the White House goes after anyone who says anything about it they don’t like. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/nyt-on-met-gala-if-you-dont-like-it-shut-up/

Fox in the White House

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Article in Status by Natalie Korach 5/4/26

Headline: “Fox’s Pledge of Allegiance”

Subhead: “Rupert Murdoch’s network, having learned its lesson in 2020 is unshakably sticking with Trump while other major MAGA media voices have broken with him over the Iran war.

“On Tuesday night, as Donald Trump feted King Charles and Queen Camilla at a white-tie state dinner, the room could have easily been confused for a Fox News greenroom. . .”

With much of the network’s primetime lineup on the guest list, it served as a visual manifestation of Fox News’ continued allegiance to the Trump White House, standing in sharp contrast to a constellation of right-wing media personalities who have amassed huge digital followings and publicly broken with him on the Iran war. . .

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/fox-news-iran-war-coverage-trump

“60 Minutes” Censorship?

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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 4/30/26

“The veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi expressed concern about “the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear” at CBS News and her uncertainty about whether she will keep her job after she pushed back on a directive to change her December segment on Venezuelans who were sent to the Cecot prison in El Salvador.

Alfonsi spoke about the incident for the first time on Thursday evening after receiving the Ridenhour prize for courage at the National Press Club in Washington. . .”

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/30/60-minutes-sharyn-alfonsi-cbs-news

Complained About CBS Edits Once?

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Article in The New Republic by Malcolm Ferguson, 4/28/26

Headline:  “Deranged Trump Rants Edited Out of 60 Minutes Interview After Shooting”

Subhead:  “CBS news didn’t air some particularly troubling rants from President Trump in its interview following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.”

“CBS News’s 60 Minutes cut out large portions of its interview with President Trump in which he rambled about his ballroom, how hot his Secret Service agents are, and how the No Kings protests are just like the Ku Klux Klan. . .”

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https://newrepublic.com/post/209590/trump-rants-edited-out-60-minutes-interview-cbs-shooting

Criticize Israel in the Media?

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Article in The Guardian by Jason Stanley, 4/27/26

Headline:  “Why is the US media silent about Israel’s role in Trump’s decision to go to war?”

Subhead:  “I suspect the main reason they avoid criticizing Israel is that they believe that would be antisemitic. But this is both dangerous and wrong”

“. . .The western media has been admirably clear that Putin has a closer relationship with Trump than any previous US president (and admirably critical of this relationship). But there has been no similar level of transparency in the media about Israel’s influence on US policy. . .”

“Crucially, propaganda does not just take the form of lies. Omitting mention in the news media of crucial facts is also paradigmatic of state propaganda. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/trump-israel-trump-war

Oily Fox News?

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Article in Media Matters by Zachary Pleat, 4/23/36

Headline:  “As gas prices go up from the Iran war, Fox News celebrates the ‘biggest payday in history’ for oil companies”

Subhead:  “The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is straining the American and global economies”

“Fox News is embracing the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to President Donald Trump’s war against Iran as an economic boon for U.S. petroleum exports — even though the closure will further increase American gasoline prices. Fox has already tried to downplay the increasing fuel prices that have resulted from the closure, which is currently straining both the U.S. and global economies in numerous ways, including threatening famine and global recession. , ,”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/gas-prices-go-iran-war-fox-news-celebrates-biggest-payday-history-oil-companies