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Fox News and podcasters in the right-wing media ecosystem bury recent reporting on alleged domestic abuse by Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller

The Benny Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Megyn Kelly Show, Steve Bannon's War Room, The Ben Shapiro Show, Loomer Unleashed, Tim Pool Daily Show, and Timcast IRL all ignored the story

  • The right-wing media ecosystem has largely buried recent reporting detailing reports of alleged domestic abuse by Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), with Fox News spending just 4 minutes discussing the story and several popular podcasters ignoring it completely. 

    On July 28, The New York Times published details of alleged domestic abuse by Miller previously reported by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). According to Politico, Miller’s “Republican colleagues have been slow to respond” to the story, with several prominent Ohio Republicans — including gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy and Vice President JD Vance — refusing to answer requests for comment from the outlet. On August 3, President Donald Trump described Miller as a “good person,” during a press gathering inside the Oval Office.

    One GOP operative, meanwhile, described the situation as “Graham Platner on steroids,” referencing the former Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine who dropped out of his race on July 10 following reports of alleged sexual assault. And on August 2, Sen. Moreno called for Miller to drop out of the race before a looming August 5 deadline to replace him on the ballot before the November midterm elections. Moreno's statement came after Miller made a statement denying the claims and saying that he would stay in the race.

    Fox News has largely ignored the latest reporting, with the network dedicating just 4 minutes of coverage to the story. That coverage has mostly taken the form of headline reads from news anchors, with just one discussion occurring on The Five in which co-host Greg Gutfeld claimed he “didn't know about that” after co-host Jessica Tarlov brought up the reports about Miller. Newsmax spent 8 minutes covering the latest reporting, including several discussions on August 3. 

    Media Matters also reviewed transcripts of several popular online shows within the right-wing media ecosystem, including The Benny ShowThe Joe Rogan ExperienceThe Megyn Kelly Show, Steve Bannon's War RoomThe Ben Shapiro ShowLoomer UnleashedTim Pool Daily Show, and Timcast IRL and found that none of them mentioned Miller or reporting about the alleged domestic abuse.

  • Methodology

  • Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream and Kinetiq video databases for all original programming on Fox News Channel and Newsmax TV for the term “Miller" within close proximity of any of the terms “Max," “rep," “representative," “Republican," “GOP," “Ohio," “abuse," or “domestic" or any variations of either of the terms “violence" or “allege" from July 28, 2026, when The New York Times published reporting about alleged domestic abuse by Rep. Max Miller, through 3 p.m. ET on August 3, 2026.

    We timed segments, which we defined as instances when the reports of alleged domestic abuse by Rep. Max Miller were the stated topic of discussion or when we found significant discussion of the reporting. We defined significant discussion as instances when two or more speakers in a multitopic segment discussed the reporting with one another.

    We also timed mentions, which we defined as instances when a speaker mentioned the reports of alleged domestic abuse without another speaker in the segment engaging with the comment, and teasers, which we defined as instances when the anchor or host promoted a segment about the reporting scheduled to air later in the broadcast.

    We rounded all reported times to the nearest minute.

    We also searched transcripts in the Fight.fudgie.org podcast database for all original episodes of The Benny ShowThe Joe Rogan ExperienceThe Megyn Kelly Show, Steve Bannon's War RoomThe Ben Shapiro ShowLoomer UnleashedTim Pool Daily Show, and Timcast IRL for the term “Miller” from July 28, 2026, through 1 p.m. ET on August 3, 2026. We manually reviewed the hits for those shows to determine if a mention of “Miller” was related to Max Miller.