Speaking to listeners on his radio show Friday, Sean Hannity briefly addressed the controversy surrounding cable news networks’ decisions to air President Donald Trump’s daily coronavirus press briefings. But while producers and journalists at CNN and MSNBC have expressed concern about Trump daily spreading misinformation to the American people, the Fox News host has another idea about why they might not want to give free airtime […]
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Fox Business Network announced on Friday that it has officially “parted ways” with anchor Trish Regan following her controversial rant against what she called the “coronavirus impeachment scam” earlier this month. “We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors,” the network said in a statement. “We will continue our reduced live primetime schedule […]
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the syndicated TV doc who Fox News has recently leaned for coronavirus expertise, said Thursday morning that he believes doctors now feel that the “worry and panic” over the disease will be “worse than the actual coronavirus.” With U.S. deaths from the pandemic now topping a thousand, Dr. Oz appeared on Fox & Friends and expressed hope that a medication could soon be […]
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was trashing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday night when Fox News host Martha MacCallum hit her with a rude awakening. Conway accused the mayor of “lying to America” when he said he’s “been on top of” the coronavirus crisis from the beginning, pointing to tweets in which he encouraged New Yorkers to go out despite early warnings […]
The nation’s television news outlets, especially the three major cable-news networks, are grappling with a nagging paradox as President Donald Trump continues to orchestrate his White House briefings on the novel coronavirus pandemic. On the one hand, their ratings have never been higher, and viewers’ appetites for the live sessions have shown no signs of dwindling. On the other hand, journalists and executives at MSNBC, CNN […]
The Trumpy media from top to bottom is having a rough time of it these days. They had pretty much decided that COVID-19 was another “impeachment scam” advanced by the mainstream media to paint their Mango God King as incompetent. But then Fox News, the Death Star of that media universe, told them differently. The president’s messaging arm was all in on how the Democrats are […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson applauded President Donald Trump on Tuesday night for doubling down on using the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the novel coronavirus, saying the moment was the president “at his very best.” During a coronavirus press conference on Tuesday afternoon in which Trump announced he’d be seeking roughly $1 trillion in stimulus help to boost the economy throughout the pandemic, the […]
Jesse Watters has finally put his invincible ego aside and is listening to his mother. “I went to visit my mom this weekend and she made me wear gloves to come inside of her house. She is suspicious that I might have coronavirus,” the Fox News host said on The Five Monday afternoon. “I wore the gloves all afternoon in the house. That’s what it is.” […]
Fox News brass has prohibited its employees from all non-essential business travel amid the coronavirus outbreak. But some of the network’s hosts are sending viewers the opposite message: There’s never been a better time to travel! In a memo to staff on Thursday, Fox News executives Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace warned employees of COVID-19’s dangers and announced an internal policy “prohibiting all non-essential business travel […]
As the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide and throughout the U.S., some Fox News hosts have actively downplayed its severity, accusing Democrats and the media of pushing a hoax to undercut President Donald Trump. In stark contrast, Fox News brass is taking the outbreak very seriously. In a Thursday memo to staff, obtained by The Daily Beast, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and network president Jay […]
If Fox News didn’t want to have a “political” conversation about former Vice President Joe Biden’s speech about the coronavirus response Thursday afternoon, they probably should not have invited two ideologically opposed pundits to debate it. After showing viewers Biden’s address in full, Fox News host Harris Faulkner welcomed her “power panel” with a warning. “Politics aside, and we’re going to have to do that with […]
Seth Meyers just happened to notice an “absolutely insane” rant from Fox Business host Trish Regan this week that helpfully sums up the message that President Donald Trump and so many other Fox viewers are receiving on a nightly basis about the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve reached a tipping point,” Regan declared Monday night. “The chorus of hate being leveled at the president is nearing a crescendo […]
While President Trump was preparing to address the nation on a global pandemic, viewers who may have tuned in early on Fox saw a panel of judges attempting to figure out which celebrity just sang Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” from behind a giant pink bear head on The Masked Singer. After saying it would be “hella hard” to figure it out, judge Nicole Scherzinger began […]
Both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden have canceled planned rallies this week amidst the coronavirus pandemic. But so far, the Trump campaign has refused to make the same commitments. On Wednesday, Trump campaign spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany went on Fox Business Network for what she must have assumed would be a friendly chat with typical Trump loyalist Stuart Varney. She ended up getting much more than she […]
Fox Business Network host Trish Regan unleashed a truly bonkers tirade at the top of her primetime program Monday night, insisting that the coronavirus outbreak is actually “another attempt to impeach” President Donald Trump. Regan—who seemingly competes with fellow FBN host Lou Dobbs over who can be a greater sycophant to the president—delivered her monologue in a breathless tenor that felt more at home in a […]
In response to a Thursday night segment in which a Fox News host seemingly peddled an anti-Semitic trope about Jewish billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt sent a letter to the network’s chief expressing how “deeply disturbed” he was that the host played into “deep seated anti-Semitic canards.” On Thursday night’s broadcast of The Ingraham Angle, Raymond Arroyo—filling in for regular host Laura Ingraham—dedicated […]
Kellyanne Conway got some unexpectedly tough questions when she appeared Wednesday on Fox News to offer her take on the Super Tuesday results. Host Martha MacCallum began by asking the White House counselor to respond to reports that President Trump is “concerned” about potentially going up against former Vice President Joe Biden in the fall “because he is popular in some of those rust belt states.” […]
Former interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile lashed out Tuesday at Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel during a Fox News appearance, repeatedly telling McDaniel to “go to hell” for claiming the Democratic primary will be “rigged” against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Hours before polls close in 14 Democratic primary states, Brazile—now a Fox News contributor—was asked by America’s Newsroom anchor Sandra Smith to react […]
Last night, John Oliver unloaded on President Trump and Fox News’ boneheaded responses to the rapid worldwide spread of coronavirus, which has included pushing a variety of conspiracy theories, bold-faced lies, and outright racism on the public. And Monday night, Seth Meyers followed suit—first throwing to a press conference Trump held on Saturday where he alleged, “Since the early stages of the foreign outbreak, my administration […]
Fox News host Jesse Watters demanded a formal apology from China on Monday before pushing unproven rumors that the new coronavirus came from Chinese citizens “eating raw bats and snakes.” With fears heightening around the virus as the death toll in the United States jumped to at least six on Monday, Watters began Monday’s broadcast of Fox News chatfest The Five by lashing out at China, […]
Condé Nast will eliminate the use of non-disclosure agreements related to harassment and discrimination, and plans to release some employees from existing harassment or discrimination-linked arrangements. In a Friday morning note to staff shared with The Daily Beast, Condé Nast management said the iconic publisher, which includes more than a dozen titles like The New Yorker, GQ, and Vogue, among others, will end such NDAs, and […]
President Donald Trump has once again taken aim at a Fox News host for being insufficiently loyal to him, mocking anchor Neil Cavuto at a Colorado rally on Thursday night hours after blasting him on Twitter over a segment about Trump’s “cringeworthy” 2016 debate performances. Fox News contributor Richard Fowler and anchor Ed Henry, however, jumped to the defense of their network colleague minutes after Trump’s […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to 11 people, including several convicted felons who are either Fox News regulars or have been championed by the president’s favorite cable-news network. Among those granted pardons or sentence commutations were former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to sell former President Obama’s Senate seat; former New York City police commissioner […]
Even though internal Fox News documents caution that frequent guests Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon traffic in “disinformation,” the network can’t seem to quit booking them. Since The Daily Beast first reported on the 162-page document, produced by the network’s research division known as the “Brain Room,” Giuliani—who, according to the briefing, has a “high susceptibility to disinformation”—has made at least four separate appearances on Fox. […]