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Fox News Sued By Hunter Biden Over Fictionalized Trial Miniseries
Hunter Biden is suing Fox News over a fictional six-part miniseries in which it staged a criminal trial related to his foreign business dealings. In a lawsuit filed on Sunday in New York’s state Supreme Court, Biden alleges the series “intentionally manipulates the facts” and “distorts the truth” while displaying images of him in the […]
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‘The Apprentice’ VP Edition? Fox News Plans Interview Series With Trump Veep Contenders
Think of it as a vice presidential edition of The Apprentice. Fox News on Wednesday will kick off a series in which its Fox & Friends co-hosts interview people who are on the short list to be former President Donald Trump’s VP pick. Fox says that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott […]
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Fox News Promotes White House Correspondents Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich
Fox News is making some changes to its White House bureau … subtle changes, at least. The cable news channel has promoted White House correspondents Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich to senior White House correspondents. They will both continue to cover the Biden administration, with Heinrich also continuing to host Fox News Audio’s Fox News Rundown podcast. […]
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TV Ratings: 18.8M Viewers Watch Trump Guilty Verdict Coverage
TV news coverage of former president Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in a New York trial drew a big crowd Thursday. Nearly 19 million viewers (18.81 million, to be precise) watched coverage of the verdict — cameras aren’t allowed in New York state courtrooms — on the three big cable news channels (CNN, Fox News and MSNBC) […]
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John Oliver Mocks Fox News Reporter for Asking “Dumbest Question Ever” on TV
John Oliver used his opening segment on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to talk about the “hard crackdown” on college students in the U.S. protesting the Israel-Hamas war. He showed clips from a live Fox News report at Columbia University in New York. “Police swarmed campuses in numbers so extreme; this student summed it up pretty […]
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Critic’s Notebook: Fox News Plays Knight in Shining Armor to a Beleaguered Trump-on-Trial
Donald Trump faced the first of what could be many criminal cases this week, as CNN and MSNBC covered the trial exhaustively and the usual right-wing apologists fretted about the former president's well-being.
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All Jesse Watters Wants Is a Little Good Press
It has been a year since Fox News fired its top-rating primetime anchor Tucker Carlson in the wake of the network’s $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over false election claims. In June, the network put The Five co-host Jesse Watters in the prized 8 p.m. slot. Watters, whose latest book Get It Together […]
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After Injury in Ukraine, War Reporter Benjamin Hall Returned to the Field in Israel for Fox News Special
Two years ago, Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall was critically wounded in an attack while reporting from Ukraine. His cameraman, Pierre Zakrzewski, and a local journalist who was working as their translator and fixer, Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, were killed in the attack. Hall, survived, albeit barely. He lost one leg and the foot on his other leg, […]
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Martin Scorsese to Host and Produce a Docuseries for Fox Nation
Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese is bringing his talents to Fox Nation, the streaming service of Fox News Channel. The Killers of the Flower Moon director will host, narrate and executive produce for an eight-episode docudrama called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints. The series will debut on Nov. 16 and run through May 2025. Each episode […]
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U.K.’s GB News Broke “Impartiality” Rules With Politicians Acting as News Presenters, Says Regulator
The upstart GB News network, the U.K. equivalent of Fox News Channel, has been found to have breached media regulations around politicians moonlighting as TV news presenters. “A series of Ofcom investigations today concluded that five programs on GB News featuring politicians acting as news presenters broke broadcasting due impartiality rules,” Ofcom, Britain’s media regulator, said in […]
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Fox News, Smartmatic Handed Wins in Dueling Claims Over Election Falsehoods
Fox News’ last-minute decision to pay nearly $800 million to avert a trial over accusations it defamed Dominion Voting System by broadcasting false statements that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is paying off. A New York state supreme court judge, in an order issued Wednesday, found that Smartmatic must face Fox News’ counterclaims accusing […]
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Fox News’ Trump Town Hall Outdraws CNN’s DeSantis-Haley Debate
Donald Trump has held a consistently large polling lead over the other candidates in the Republican presidential primary. Head-to-head TV forums for the former president and his two closest challengers Wednesday night mirrored the polls — as well as the usual state of play on cable news. A Fox News town hall featuring Trump easily outdrew […]
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