Fox News

The Daily Beast reports: Three former Fox executives expressed “deep disappointment” for their roles in helping Rupert Murdoch launch Fox News, saying that their efforts helped create the “Fox disinformation machine.” In a blog post published on Wednesday, Ken Solomon, Bill Reyner and Preston Padden—all of whom took credit for “helping to give birth” to Fox’s television networks—detailed the parts …

The New York Times reports: Ray Epps, the man at the center of a widespread conspiracy theory about the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Fox News and its former host Tucker Carlson of defamation for promoting a “fantastical story” that Mr. Epps was an undercover government agent who instigated the violence …

The New York Times reports: Mr. DeSantis was seen by many in the Republican Party as the strongest possible alternative to former President Donald J. Trump, who had repeatedly attacked the network and had seen his relationship with its owner, Rupert Murdoch, evaporate. Four months later, with Mr. DeSantis’s campaign having failed to immediately catch fire against Mr. Trump, Fox …

The Daily Beast reports: Months after fully severing ties with CPAC, Fox News appears to have distanced itself from another major conservative powerhouse: Turning Point USA. In years past, the cable network maintained a close, nearly symbiotic relationship with the Charlie Kirk-led MAGA student group, with Fox News stars regularly appearing at TPUSA events and Fox Nation livestreaming the entirety …

“With Trump up for re-election, the media needed a fraud to take him out. They knew Joe Biden basically would do what he was told. He’d do anything for power. And if he didn’t do it, they’d blackmail him because they knew everything about his secret little life, so they pumped up Joe’s phony brand and savaged anybody who pointed …

Mediaite reports: Gavin Newsom does not “occasionally” tune into Fox News — he watches the network primetime show’s every night and his staff have told he has an obsession, he told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. “Do you think Democrats should still be appearing on Fox or should they not be appearing,” Psaki says in a follow up. “It contributes to the …

The New York Times reports: Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted on his since-canceled Fox News program, one looms large: a conspiracy theory that an Arizona man working as a covert government agent incited the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol to sabotage and discredit former President Donald J. Trump and his political movement. What’s …

“We’re seeing desperate middle class Chinese – these are generally not poor people – because they can pay $35,000 a head to the Mexican cartels to bring them in. “But among them are packs of males of between 5 and 15 who are of military age, not coming with family groups, pretending not to speak English, and engaging in Chinese …

Mediaite reports: Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo was blunt in confronting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) about his campaign’s early struggles. In an interview on Sunday Morning Futures, Bartiromo referenced a Politico Playbook item on Saturday titled “failure to launch” — which included an internal assessment from a leading DeSantis surrogate, who admitted “we are way behind” in the polls. “What’s …

Mediaite reports: Fox News Digital retracted a story on Friday that “inaccurately attributed” a scathing statement to former President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price. Prior to its retraction, Fox News had published a supposed quote from Price claiming there was “no way” he would support Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign “after he fired me.” “The only …

Media Matters has the transcript: CHARLES HURT (GUEST): And, quite frankly, I was sort of half-joking when I said that I thought that the White House press office planted the cocaine just so they wouldn’t have to talk about, like, the economy and everything else. But they would rather talk about Hunter Biden the crackhead. PETE HEGSETH (HOST): You think …

Fox News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he’ll participate in the first Republican presidential nomination debate “regardless” of whether former President Donald Trump takes the stage at the August showdown. “I’ll be there regardless. I hope everybody who’s eligible comes. I think it’s an important part of the process and I look forward to being able to be on …

Mediaite reports: Guests on Thursday’s edition of Kudlow were unimpressed with the presidential campaign of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is polling well behind frontrunner Donald Trump in the GOP primary. Host Larry Kudlow asked radio talkshow host Mark Simone if DeSantis will drop out soon. “I mean, Vivek Ramaswamy is now at 10%,” Kudlow said, referencing the longshot candidate. …

“You’d want people to kind of know what they were doing. You’d want armed people to be doing it and to do it. But it is amazing that you have all of this concern about liability where it sorts of cuts against the employees. What about the liability for the employees? You’re creating — I think the legal term is …

The Guardian reports: Fox Corporation has settled for $12m a lawsuit by the former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, who had made claims of gender discrimination. She also accused the network’s lawyers of pressuring her to make misleading statements in the Dominion Voting Systems case, her lawyer Tanvir Rahman said on Friday. Fox settled with Dominion for $787.5m in April …

Variety reports: Geraldo Rivera has called Fox News his home since leaving CNBC in 2001 to join as the cable outlet’s ostensible war correspondent. He appears to have a lost a recent battle. After being ousted from a rotation on “The Five,” Rivera said in a video post on Twitter Thursday, he is leaving Fox News. “I’ve been fired from …

Media Matters reports: Fox News personalities are weaponizing the news that President Joe Biden recently began using a CPAP machine to help with the widespread disorder of sleep apnea to fearmonger over his physical and mental health. Their baseless claims run the gamut, from arguments that the sleep apnea diagnosis is a charade to cover up Biden’s purported dementia to …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson is reportedly raising funds for a new media venture in the wake of his Fox News ousting, and many of his former staffers at the network are reuniting with him for the project, according to a new report. Puck News’s Dylan Byers reported on Wednesday that Carlson is currently raising funds for the venture and that …

Media Matters has the transcript: GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): It’s okay to cry, my fellow guys. A survey finds that 71% of modern men confess to being in touch with how they feel and 82% of women are saying the same thing. I can’t even see who this survey is. 37% of men say being called sensitive would be a compliment …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Three people in New Hampshire asked me why FoxNews uses such “horrible” pictures of me when doing or promoting a story. The coloring, distortions, everything are just so bad. They must sit and look at 100 different shots, and then take the 10 absolute worst. My staff has even complained about it …