Fox & Friends and Sean Hannity rack up ratings victories while cheerleading for the president, whose approval numbers hit a high point in June.
The disclosure that President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen had also done legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity came as a New York judge disappointed a lawyer for Trump by letting prosecutors proceed with the cataloguing of evidence including multiple electronic devices that were seized in raids while a system is set up to ensure that records protected by attorney-client privilege aren’t disclosed to investigators.
Fox News Channel’s day-opener seems much like it has for 20 years, a peppy talk show about news that advances a conservative point of view, and is mocked by some critics for a lack of intellectual rigor. The difference now is that one of its regular viewers is the most powerful person in the world, who takes his cues from what he sees.
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The fact that Fox News Channel’s Dana Perino was chosen to question Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg last week speaks to Perino’s growing role at Fox, and a sense that sources are trusting her as an honest broker of information.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham returned to work with defiance Monday, denouncing a “Stalinist” effort by liberals to stifle the free speech of conservatives and promising […]
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Ralph Peters: Why I Left Fox News
Ralph Peters:”As I wrote in an internal Fox memo, leaked and widely disseminated, I declined to renew my contract as Fox News’s strategic analyst because of the network’s propagandizing for the Trump administration. Today’s Fox primetime lineup preaches paranoia, attacking processes and institutions vital to our republic and challenging the rule of law.”
While the Trump era has been a boon to cable news in general, Fox News finished 2017 as the most-watched basic cable network in both primetime (with an average of 2.4 million viewers) and total day (1.5 million), according to Nielsen ratings. And Fox’s website, long neglected under former leader Roger Ailes, emerged as a powerful complement to its broadcast partner.
Fox News Channel has hired Jeff Paul as a West Coast correspondent. Beginning April 23, Paul will be based out of FNC’s Los Angeles bureau and report to Nancy Harmeyer, […]
Fox News Channel launches the third season of the historical docu-series Legends & Lies on Sunday, March 25, at 8 p.m. ET. Hosted by Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade, this season, Legends & Lies: The […]
John Bolton, the next national security adviser, was a longtime commentator. He’s the latest TV personality to go from the small screen to the White House.
Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army officer, said he told Fox News Channel at the beginning of the month that he did not want his contributor contract renewed because he believed Fox had “degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.”
Fox News Channel will present a second edition of The Wise Guys: DC Edition on Sunday, March 18, at 8 p.m. ET. Moderated by former Education Secretary Dr. Bill Bennett, co-panelists include: retired […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News anchor Shepard Smith has re-signed a multiyear contract with the network. 21st Century Fox and Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch announced the contract […]
The parents of murdered Capitol Hill staffer Seth Rich are suing Fox News for emotional distress, claiming its coverage of the crime painted their son as a traitor and has prevented them from properly dealing with his death.
Fox News Channel will present a special, Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey, on Sunday, March 11, at 8 p.m. ET. This one-hour show will examine the life of the renowned minister Rev. Billy Graham […]
Nancy Harmeyer promoted to vice president of domestic bureaus, while Greg Headen has been upped to director of the foreign desk.
The two networks are long and bitter rivals, of course, and have tweaked each other off and on since Fox News’s inception in 1996. But the crossfire has taken on new intensity in the Trump era. Hosts at CNN and Fox now trade blows almost daily about whose coverage or commentary about President Trump is more distorted or unfair.
Fox News has come out victorious in a blockbuster ruling on Tuesday that could cause a sharp derailment in the sharing of clips from the cable network. In the decision, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals analyzes copyright fair use and comes to the conclusion that TVEyes, a media monitoring service, went too far by giving its customers the ability to watch virtually all of Fox News’ content.
A network spokeswoman says that a ssocial media tory that Smith has been let go for his “obvious disrespect for President Trump” is “completely false.” Smith was on the air Monday afternoon in his regular time slot.
