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Fox's “straight news” didn't exist in 2021

12/29/21 9:13 AM EST
Misinformer of the Year: Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” approach is destroying American democracy

12/28/21 10:37 AM EST
By the numbers: A year of conservative media fearmongering over “critical race theory”

12/28/21 9:12 AM EST
In 2021, right-wing media scapegoated unions for supposed school indoctrination, COVID-19 restrictions, and global supply chain shortages

12/27/21 9:06 AM EST
Fox News spent 2021 mainstreaming the white supremacist “great replacement” theory

12/27/21 9:05 AM EST
A dozen times right-wing media said something ridiculous about climate change in 2021

12/23/21 10:25 AM EST
Fox News employs its own familiar anti-vaccine tactics to attack COVID booster shots

12/22/21 9:38 AM EST
“Kill shot,” “deadly,” “ambush”: Fox host Jesse Watters tells audience to go after Dr. Anthony Fauci

12/21/21 12:28 PM EST
Steve Bannon defends “great Jesse Watters” violent rhetoric against Fauci: “We’re getting you”

12/21/21 10:53 AM EST
Fox News attacks NIH chief Francis Collins for urging debunk of COVID-19 misinformation

12/20/21 11:11 PM EST
Tucker Carlson: “This is not a public health campaign designed to save you from a variant that has not killed a single confirmed American”

12/20/21 9:52 PM EST
Conservative media spread false claims and fearmonger about medicated abortion after FDA approved mailing the drug

12/20/21 3:49 PM EST
At TPUSA event, Sebastian Gorka is asked when it will be time to overthrow the government

12/20/21 3:12 PM EST
TikTok and negligent reporting created mass panic about an unfounded national school shooting day hoax

12/20/21 2:08 PM EST
Steve Bannon tells his audience “when you’re in the room, the count’s accurate, and we win”

12/20/21 2:01 PM EST
Breitbart thrives on Facebook, in part because the platform rewards sensational photos and videos

12/20/21 10:01 AM EST
Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone: “Because there is a consensus forming around the destructive power of Fox News, it incentivizes the call to action, which is to go to cable companies and say, ‘Do not make me pay more money for Fox News.’”

12/19/21 2:06 PM EST
On WNYC's On The Media, Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone explains how Fox’s COVID-19 misinformation “changed the relationship” with the rest of news media

12/19/21 1:49 PM EST

Fox's “straight news” didn't exist in 2021

Misinformer of the Year: Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” approach is destroying American democracy

By the numbers: A year of conservative media fearmongering over “critical race theory”

In 2021, right-wing media scapegoated unions for supposed school indoctrination, COVID-19 restrictions, and global supply chain shortages

Fox News spent 2021 mainstreaming the white supremacist “great replacement” theory

A dozen times right-wing media said something ridiculous about climate change in 2021

Fox News employs its own familiar anti-vaccine tactics to attack COVID booster shots

“Kill shot,” “deadly,” “ambush”: Fox host Jesse Watters tells audience to go after Dr. Anthony Fauci

Steve Bannon defends “great Jesse Watters” violent rhetoric against Fauci: “We’re getting you”

Fox News attacks NIH chief Francis Collins for urging debunk of COVID-19 misinformation

Tucker Carlson: “This is not a public health campaign designed to save you from a variant that has not killed a single confirmed American”

Conservative media spread false claims and fearmonger about medicated abortion after FDA approved mailing the drug

At TPUSA event, Sebastian Gorka is asked when it will be time to overthrow the government

TikTok and negligent reporting created mass panic about an unfounded national school shooting day hoax

Steve Bannon tells his audience “when you’re in the room, the count’s accurate, and we win”

Breitbart thrives on Facebook, in part because the platform rewards sensational photos and videos

Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone: “Because there is a consensus forming around the destructive power of Fox News, it incentivizes the call to action, which is to go to cable companies and say, ‘Do not make me pay more money for Fox News.’”

On WNYC's On The Media, Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone explains how Fox’s COVID-19 misinformation “changed the relationship” with the rest of news media

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has repeatedly said Project 2025 will last beyond the next Republican administration

GOP U.S. Senate nominee from Virginia promoted candidacy on show that has repeatedly called for political violence

Heritage Fellow calls for the “entire elimination of DEI and inclusion” in schools

Trump's RNC speech was divisive, but front pages of mainstream media claimed it was “unifying” and “healing”

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