The New York Times is America's newspaper of record and is published by A.G. Sulzberger.

The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., and is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Byron York has worked at the conservative Washington Examiner since 2009 and it also a Fox News contributor. He previously wrote for National Review.

The American Broadcasting Company is owned by Disney.

CNN was founded by Ted Turner in 1980 as the first 24-hour cable news channel and is currently owned by AT&T.

The National Broadcasting Company has been broadcasting on television since 1939 and first broadcast on radio in 1926. NBC is owned by Comcast.

Sean Hannity has been a Fox News host since its launch in 1996 and hosts the prime-time show Hannity. He was a huge promoter of birtherism and has engaged in multiple conspiracy theories to defend President Donald Trump from numerous investigations, including exploiting the tragic murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich and amplifying claims of a “deep state” plot to take down the president. Hannity is also a close unofficial adviser to Trump, even appearing at a campaign rally alongside him.

Rush Limbaugh held the top spot in talk radio ratings; his radio program The Rush Limbaugh Show was been nationally syndicated since 1988. He used to be a kingmaker in national Republican politics, regularly referring to himself as the “titular head of the Republican Party,” but he had reduced influence following a massive ad boycott campaign in 2012. President Donald Trump gave Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom during the State of the Union address in 2020.

David Asman hosts a short weekend show on Fox called Forbes on FOX and is also a Fox Business anchor, co-hosting the weekly afternoon show After the Bell. He formerly had his own Fox Business show, Power and Money, but it was cancelled in 2012.

Michael Savage is a pro-Trump talk radio host with a history of violent and hateful rhetoric. Savage often brags about his close relationship with President Donald Trump.

Andrew Napolitano provided legal commentary for Fox News, formerly had his own Fox Business show Freedom Watch, and was a frequent guest host for Glenn Beck's Fox show. He made comments in 2010 revealing himself to be a 9/11 truther, and he has pushed other conspiracy theories at Fox. He also has extreme libertarian views on government and has said that many federal government programs and agencies and even parts of the U.S. Constitution are unconstitutional.

Howard Kurtz hosts the weekly Fox News show MediaBuzz, where he criticizes media reporting and outlets but devotes the bare minimum to covering Fox’s own scandals. He previously hosted a similar show on CNN called Reliable Sources, and before that he had a Washington Post column in which he also criticized media.

Operation Fast and Furious was a program by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives during the Obama administration that allowed guns to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with the aim of building arms trafficking cases against drug cartel figures. The operation led to charges against dozens of people but also lost track of nearly 2,000 weapons. Conservative media spread a conspiracy theory that the operation was designed to create violence in Mexico to give the Obama administration justification for new gun laws.