The Intercept
April 29, 2023
It’s been a lifetime since Fox News offloaded Tucker Carlson, and when I say a lifetime, I mean six days.
It feels like forever thanks to the exhausting velocity of theories that seek to explain the downfall of cable television’s most famous host and racist. Carlson ...
The Intercept
April 18, 2023
Will private equity save American democracy?
That question, which has lurked behind the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against Fox News, was answered today in an unsurprising fashion: no.
Fox and Dominion reached a $787.5 million settlement just moments ...
The Intercept
Aug. 29, 2022
In a spectacular display of audaciousness, Fox News is defending itself against a defamation lawsuit in the U.S. by saying it should not be punished for broadcasting lies about the 2020 election — but one of the network’s owners, Lachlan Murdoch, has just filed a suit ...
The Intercept
May 21, 2022
If your anger at Fox News is directed toward Tucker Carlson, you’re focusing on the symptom rather than the cause of what’s wrong. It is the Murdoch family, which owns Fox News, that’s the biggest advocate in America for the “great replacement theory.”
It’s right ...
The Intercept
November 19, 2020
AT FOX NEWS, a funny thing happened on the road to redemption.
As Donald Trump fell behind in the presidential vote count, Fox began pivoting away from the reality TV star it had backed for so many years. There was an early announcement by Fox that Arizona ...
The Intercept
November 6, 2020
A BEHIND-THE-SCENES STRUGGLE that could determine the extent of post-election violence in America is breaking into the open, but it’s not at the White House or inside the GOP. It is within the billionaire Murdoch family, the owners of Fox News.
On Friday morning, ...
The Intercept
October 24, 2020
Here’s a question about the controversy over Hunter Biden’s laptop: Who’s most to blame for giving this pseudo-scandal more attention than it deserves? The New York Post for publishing the first sketchy article, or Fox News for elevating it in broadcast ...
The Intercept
August 10, 2019
If you had to sum up decades of financial dystopia in America, you could go with the phrase “Money wins.” The accumulation of insane amounts of wealth by the 1 percent has flattened in its path everything else: the interests of ordinary people and the planet, as well ...
The Intercept
July 10, 2019
Yes, let’s get furious once again at Tucker Carlson, who has broadcast another segment of racist bilge at Fox News. But let’s not stop there.
In a widely circulated clip that’s getting justifiably walloped by journalists who are not admirers of white nationalism, ...
The Intercept
June 29, 2019
The mission of Unite America is lofty. As its name implies, the little-known group wants to heal a political system that has become “more divided and dysfunctional with each election cycle.”
Its bipartisan mission is an implied critique of Fox News, which has been identified, ...
