Zachary Pleat | Media Matters for America

Zachary Pleat is a senior researcher at Media Matters, where he has worked since January 2009. He has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of South Florida.

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Mainstream media are portraying Trump’s Syria deal as a cease-fire, while Fox News praises it as a win, but experts say it’s neither

10/17/19 4:49 PM EDT
National media outlets fail to call Trump hosting G-7 at his Doral resort the blatant corruption that it is

10/17/19 4:02 PM EDT
The Hill pushes misinformation from Trump that it debunked earlier this month

10/17/19 2:27 PM EDT
Conservative media freak out over reporting that the Trump whistleblower, a career intelligence analyst, had contact with a former vice president

10/11/19 6:06 PM EDT
Forty-three new women came forward to describe assault and harassment by Trump. Newspapers ignored them.

10/10/19 1:17 PM EDT
“He campaigned on this”: The Fox News figures defending Trump’s abandonment of America’s anti-ISIS Kurdish allies

10/08/19 2:03 PM EDT
Media outlets uncritically quote Trump’s unhinged accusation of “treason” against House Democrats

10/07/19 2:12 PM EDT
Fox figures dubiously claim diplomats’ text messages show no Trump/Ukraine quid pro quo

10/04/19 4:06 PM EDT
Conservative media figures defend Trump for openly calling on Ukraine and China to investigate a political opponent

10/03/19 4:53 PM EDT
Mainstream media uncritically quote Trump’s false “coup” label for impeachment inquiry

10/02/19 11:39 AM EDT
The many ludicrous justifications right-wing media used to call for Obama’s impeachment

09/30/19 10:17 AM EDT
Mainstream media’s misleading headlines are helping the Trump administration spread propaganda about his Ukraine scandal

09/24/19 2:08 PM EDT