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Media Matters weekly newsletter, April 18

04/18/25 10:46 AM EDT
In response to Trump saying he doesn't know what the Congo is, Newsmax's Greg Kelly says “nobody knows what all these countries are”

04/18/25 9:25 AM EDT
On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains how right-wing media's reaction to Abrego Garcia shows cracks in Trump’s narrative dominance

04/17/25 7:07 PM EDT
Greg Gutfeld gives panicked dismissal of tanking stock market

04/17/25 6:09 PM EDT
Fox claims Trump's tariffs will restore American manufacturing. Experts say they are hurting business.

04/17/25 3:54 PM EDT
Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “The fight moves now, in my opinion, to take on feminism once and for all, and that's the next great battle”

04/17/25 3:33 PM EDT
Fox News attacked due process at least 77 times in just over five weeks

04/17/25 2:47 PM EDT
Kevin Roberts tells Mark Levin that Heritage has started planning Project 2029

04/17/25 2:46 PM EDT
OutKick host Riley Gaines: “I believe the gender ideology movement as a whole really is an attempt to normalize pedophilia”

04/17/25 1:13 PM EDT
Broadcast TV news mentioned solutions in 23% of its climate coverage in 2024

04/17/25 12:47 PM EDT
Steve Bannon calls on the Trump administration to “get to the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin in Madison”

04/17/25 11:55 AM EDT
Callers to conservative radio shows voice their displeasure with Trump’s tariffs

04/17/25 10:32 AM EDT
Jesse Watters says it's “common sense” to deny due process to people being sent to an El Salvador prison

04/16/25 8:44 PM EDT
Jeanine Pirro dismisses the need for due process for people in America being sent to an El Salvador prison

04/16/25 5:57 PM EDT
Study: Most Pro-Trump podcasters support Trump's tariffs but some fractures emerge

04/16/25 2:43 PM EDT
Right-wing media baselessly promoted claim that Tufts student was associated with Hamas — an internal State Department memo said otherwise

04/16/25 11:20 AM EDT
Newsmax host: “The Trump administration needs to purge immigration judges”

04/16/25 9:49 AM EDT
Newsmax host says Kilmar Abrego Garcia “signed up for the thug life”

04/16/25 9:45 AM EDT

Media Matters weekly newsletter, April 18

In response to Trump saying he doesn't know what the Congo is, Newsmax's Greg Kelly says “nobody knows what all these countries are”

On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains how right-wing media's reaction to Abrego Garcia shows cracks in Trump’s narrative dominance

Greg Gutfeld gives panicked dismissal of tanking stock market

Fox claims Trump's tariffs will restore American manufacturing. Experts say they are hurting business.

Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “The fight moves now, in my opinion, to take on feminism once and for all, and that's the next great battle”

Fox News attacked due process at least 77 times in just over five weeks

Kevin Roberts tells Mark Levin that Heritage has started planning Project 2029

OutKick host Riley Gaines: “I believe the gender ideology movement as a whole really is an attempt to normalize pedophilia”

Broadcast TV news mentioned solutions in 23% of its climate coverage in 2024

Steve Bannon calls on the Trump administration to “get to the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin in Madison”

Callers to conservative radio shows voice their displeasure with Trump’s tariffs

Jesse Watters says it's “common sense” to deny due process to people being sent to an El Salvador prison

Jeanine Pirro dismisses the need for due process for people in America being sent to an El Salvador prison

Study: Most Pro-Trump podcasters support Trump's tariffs but some fractures emerge

Right-wing media baselessly promoted claim that Tufts student was associated with Hamas — an internal State Department memo said otherwise

Newsmax host: “The Trump administration needs to purge immigration judges”

Newsmax host says Kilmar Abrego Garcia “signed up for the thug life”

Right-wing media endorse a potential Supreme Court challenge to same-sex marriage

Fox helps Kennedy Jr. spin the CDC purge

Trump's immigration raids are largely catching noncriminals. Fox's coverage suggests the opposite.

Mary Holland suggests to Steve Bannon that there could be an acting director of the CDC or “Kennedy's team will simply be sort of overshadowing things”

From Katrina to Helene: A timeline of Fox News’ hurricane misinformation, harmful narratives, and climate denial