Fox News Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/fox-news/ A platform for change Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:40:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Right-wing media has become too big for the center-left to ignore https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2023/09/right-wing-media-has-become-too-big-for-the-center-left-to-ignore/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:44:29 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=14226 For years, Stephen Colbert dined out on the line “reality has a well-known liberal bias,” not just because it’s a good turn of phrase, but also because it’s true. Reactionary elites know that their arguments can’t hold up under scrutiny. It’s why Fox News and Newsmax host far fewer left-wing commentators on their debate panels […]

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]]> Tucker Carlson’s departure and Fox News’s expensive legal woes show the problem with faking ‘authenticity’ https://flux.community/jacob-l-nelson/2023/04/tucker-carlsons-departure-and-fox-news-expensive-legal-woes-show-the-problem-with-faking-authenticity/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:18:06 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13289 For decades, Fox News thrived because the people behind it understood what their audience wanted and were more than willing to deliver: television news – or what Fox called news – from a populist perspective. Fox is consistently the most-watched cable news channel, far ahead of competitors like MSNBC and CNN. That’s in large part due […]

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]]> Fox settlement shows press freedom isn’t incompatible with accountability https://flux.community/ari-paul/2023/04/fox-settlement-shows-press-freedom-isnt-incompatible-with-accountability/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:39:39 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13260 When was the last time you forked over nearly $800 million? Really think. There must have been some moment, some dispute where you decided to reach deep within your checking account to find the better part of a billion dollars—a dispute where you weren’t wrong, but you wanted to end things the easy way. Well, Fox […]

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]]> Republican elites and their Fox counterparts hate Trump, but they can’t get rid of him https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2023/03/republican-elites-and-their-fox-counterparts-hate-trump-but-they-cant-get-rid-of-him/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 03:08:26 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13231 The ongoing legal battle between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox Corporation has yielded a treasure trove of evidence pointing to a verdict that the right-wing cable infotainment channel willfully propagated lies about the 2020 election. It’s also revealed another truth: No one in the right-wing media ecosystem likes disgraced ex-president Donald Trump. “I hate him […]

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]]> Lindsey Graham promises ‘riots in the streets’ if Donald Trump is held accountable for his crimes https://flux.community/barbara-morrill/2022/08/lindsey-graham-promises-riots-in-the-streets-if-donald-trump-is-held-accountable-for-his-crimes/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:00:06 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12169 Having spent more than five years publicly debasing himself to prove his fealty to Donald Trump, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham really upped his game on Sunday night, promising widespread domestic violence if the Department of Justice dared to declare that no one is above the law: And I’ll say this, if there is a prosecution of Donald […]

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]]> Fox News propagandists and guests spewed racist ‘invasion’ rhetoric 20 times in just three days https://flux.community/gabe-ortiz/2022/07/fox-news-propagandists-and-guests-spewed-racist-invasion-rhetoric-20-times-in-just-three-days/ Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:00:20 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=11707 There is no daylight between the violent rhetoric of racist mass killers and the Fox News propaganda network. In 2019, a white supremacist spewed “invasion” rhetoric three times throughout a so-called manifesto before driving hours to El Paso, Texas to target Latinos; 23 were killed, and another 23 were injured. The Fox propaganda network spewed this same rhetoric at […]

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]]> We’ll never know how many people are dead because of Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda https://flux.community/eric-boehlert/2022/01/well-never-know-how-many-people-are-dead-because-rupert-murdochs-propaganda/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://flux.community/2022/01/well-never-know-how-many-people-are-dead-because-rupert-murdochs-propaganda/ The post We’ll never know how many people are dead because of Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda appeared first on Flux.

]]> Fox News hosts privately begged Trump to call off the mob on Jan. 6, while publicly claiming it was antifa https://flux.community/oliver-willis/2021/12/fox-news-hosts-privately-begged-trump-call-mob-jan-6-while-publicly-claiming/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:26:27 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/12/fox-news-hosts-privately-begged-trump-call-mob-jan-6-while-publicly-claiming/ The post Fox News hosts privately begged Trump to call off the mob on Jan. 6, while publicly claiming it was antifa appeared first on Flux.

]]> Tucker Carlson inadvertently attacks his own fan in desperate bid to shift blame for Capitol attack https://flux.community/david-neiwert/2021/12/tucker-carlson-smears-fan-his-show-leftist-provocateur-desperate-bid-shift/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:16:13 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/12/tucker-carlson-smears-fan-his-show-leftist-provocateur-desperate-bid-shift/ The post Tucker Carlson inadvertently attacks his own fan in desperate bid to shift blame for Capitol attack appeared first on Flux.

]]> Fox News, right-wing group attack ‘Sesame Street’ for daring to include Asian Americans https://flux.community/oliver-willis/2021/11/fox-news-right-wing-group-attack-sesame-street-daring-include-asian-americans/ Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:39:07 +0000 https://flux.community/2021/11/fox-news-right-wing-group-attack-sesame-street-daring-include-asian-americans/ The post Fox News, right-wing group attack ‘Sesame Street’ for daring to include Asian Americans appeared first on Flux.

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