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Although Fox News and Fox Business are decidedly right-wing on the whole, Fox News has one liberal panelist who often butts heads with her colleagues: Jessica Tarlov. And President Donald Trump angrily railed against her during a Monday night, April 6 rant on his Truth Social platform.

Trump posted, "For Fox executives only, take Jessica Tarlov off the air. She is, from her voice, to her lies, and everything else about her, one of the worst 'personalities' on television, a real loser! People cannot stand watching her. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT."

But Trump went after one of Fox News' conservative hosts, Shannon Bream, as well.

"Tell Shannon Bream of FoxNews that it's not the Save Act, it’s the Save America Act, a big difference!," Trump posted. "Also, when she insists on having lightweight Democrat Congressmen, such as Jake Auchincloss, on her not very hard hitting show, she should correct them when they spew out Democrat propaganda and lies. She never does! I always close deals, unlike the Dems, and did great with China in every way, also, unlike the Dems!"

The Daily Beast's Cameron Adams notes that it is "unclear what triggered Trump" about Tarlov and inspired him to "offer unsolicited advice to the bosses at his favorite network about his least-favorite presenter."

"Tarlov is the latest in a growing line of female journalists to be targeted by Trump," Adams observes. "On April 1, he lost his cool with NewsNation's Libbey Dean, who had asked him whether Iran would have to make a deal for him to end the U.S. military intervention. 'You're a fresh person, you know?' Trump snapped. 'We've had a lot of problems with you, haven’t we?' In March, on board Air Force One, Trump opened fire on a female reporter from ABC. 'I think it's maybe the most corrupt news organization on the planet,' he said. 'I don’t want any more from ABC.'

The Daily Beast reporter adds, "In February, the president laid into CNN's Kaitlan Collins, 33, when she asked him what he would like to say to the survivors of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."

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Right-wing media’s “war on meat” paves the way for Trump administration to blame climate policies for rising beef prices

Special ProgramsClimate & Energy

Written by Ilana Berger

Published 12/18/25

Right-wing media's longstanding claims of a Democratic “war on meat" have given Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins cover to blame rising beef prices on Democrats and climate policy — even as cattle ranchers themselves point to climate-driven drought as one factor contributing to small herd sizes and voice their opposition to the administration’s plans to import Argentine beef.

On December 8, Rollins told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, “The cost of ground beef is actually coming down, so we’ve started now the trajectory down. But let’s be very clear: To rebuild the lowest beef herd in 75 years … will take a little bit of time. You think about the last administration. They had a war on American agriculture. They thought that cows created climate change. They didn't want big herds, and the cost of inputs were skyrocketing.”

She made similar claims prior to this appearance at least five separate times on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria, Fox News’ Fox & Friends, and CNN’s The Situation Room.

Right-wing media have long tried to pit ranchers and farmers against environmentalists and those attempting to mitigate the environmental impacts of agriculture, including falsely claiming Democratic leaders and the Inflation Reduction Act (which they often called the “Green New Deal”) would ban meat.

• ## The IRA offered only incentives to reduce methane from ranching, and ranchers and industry experts say prolonged drought, high input costs, and inflation are driving high beef prices

• • The Inflation Reduction Act included a program aimed at reducing methane emissions, but it included only “voluntary, incentive-based approaches” for farmers and ranchers.In 2023, the Biden administration announced the Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, which included plans to mitigate methane emissions. The only elements of the action plan targeting agricultural methane emissions were “voluntary, incentive-based approaches,” even though the sector is responsible for an estimated 37% of human-caused emissions globally, and about 10.5% in the U.S. According to Sentient Media, these incentives might have had the potential to “increase emissions from the sector.” Vox, [8/16/22; Reuters, 1/11/22; Sentient Media,9/28/23; The White House, 11/2/21, 12/23; Environmental Protection Agency 12/2/2; U.S. Department of Agriculture, 11/5/24]

• • Severe drought and changing weather patterns have contributed to shrinking U.S. cattle herds. According to Investigate Midwest, climate change-driven weather volatility has “made relying on typical weather patterns and grazing conditions difficult for the nation’s beef producers." That means ranchers must transport feed from farther away, increasing costs. They are also forced to wean calves earlier so heifers expend less energy feeding calves and require fewer nutrients. Some farmers have even had to cull their herds. Bloomberg, [1/31/25; Investigate Midwest, 3/13/24; South Dakota State University Extension, 3/21/25; Grain Journal, 6/12/25]

• • Several ranchers and cattle industry players told Fox News that prolonged drought is tightening livestock supply and hurting their bottom lines.Various cattle ranchers told Fox News and Fox News Digital that drought helped herd sizes hit a historic low and said that it was contributing to “the ongoing decline of the industry.” In 2023, a Florida-based rancher also told Fox News that extreme drought was part of the problem because it was “increasing our production costs” and it would “have a long-term effect on our bottom line.” Fox News Digital, [11/24/25; Fox News,Fox & Friends Weekend, 10/25/25; Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/12/23]

• • Inflation, high interest rates, and Trump’s tariffs are impacting ranchers. ABC News reported in October that amid rising inflation, beef prices were soaring, noting also that “tariffs modestly contributed to the uptick in overall inflation.” A report from the American Farm Bureau Federation also found that inflation and interest rates were “driving up costs for farmers.” The report noted: “When the Fed increased rates, they dramatically increased the cost of borrowing money across the economy. This has happened at a time when farmers and ranchers rely more heavily on credit due to the growing gap between commodity prices and input costs.” ABC News, [10/24/25; American Farm Bureau Federation, 8/26/25]

• ## For years, right-wing media have labeled climate policies and other Democrat supported initiatives as a “war on meat”

• • In 2019, right-wing media falsely said the Green New Deal would ban meat and that it was “bad news or cows."Fox host Brian Kilmeade said that the Green New Deal would be “bad news for cows,” adding, “Time to slaughter all of them quickly because of their propensity for gas.” Climate skeptic Marc Morano told Kilmeade the same day, “We're told we need to do all of this, from banning meat, to airline getting rid of the combustion, internal combustion engine, all to save from us from a climate emergency.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [2/8/19, 2/8/19; Fox News Primetime, 8/9/21]

• • In 2021, Fox News spread a fake story that then-President Joe Biden wanted to ban hamburgers. The administration did not call for an end to meat consumption. But on Fox News @ Night, anchor Shannon Bream asked viewers, “Could new climate impact plans limit you to just one burger a month?” She later added, “About the burger thing, I'm not going to comply with that.” On Fox News’ America Reports with John Roberts, Fox’s “straight news” program, chyrons included, “Bye-bye burgers under Biden’s climate plan,” as well as “Study: 90% of red meat out with Biden climate plan,” and “Biden’s climate plan burns all-you-can-eat burgers.” Media Matters, [4/26/21]

• • In 2022, right-wing media used farmer protests in the Netherlands over plans to cut nitrogen pollution to fearmonger about a globalist conspiracy to trample freedoms, including eating meat. The Guardian, [11/16/23; Media Matters; 7/8/22, 7/15/22, 11/8/22]

• • Frequent Fox News guest and Tennessee dairy farmer Stephanie Nash has appeared on several segments across right-wing programs, telling hosts that the “Green New Deal” and Biden’s “energy climate change initiative” would lead to “empty shelves” and that the Biden administration was targeting farmers.Nash told hosts that “Americans should be prepared for food shortages” because “the Green New Deal … is an attack on family farmers and ranchers,” and that “climate change has always been a hoax for the agriculture industry, they continue to blame agriculture for global warming and change of our planet. … I think this is just an excuse to continue to blame agriculture, to continue to let our farmers struggle around this country.” She also said that the administration was “trying to push agriculture out of the United States, pushing this plant-based food.” As recently as this October, Nash said on Fox Business, “Everybody knows that we’ve been bringing in more imports than ever the last two years, and that’s thanks to the Green New Deal. … Trump is trying to fix that and bring back American agriculture.” Fox Business, *Varney & Co.*, [8/10/22, 10/3/25; Fox News,Fox & Friends, 8/5/22; Newsmax, Rob Schmit Tonight, 7/6/22; Fox Business, Cavuto: Coast to Coast, 8/10/22;]

• • Fox Business host Jackie DeAngelis said that “what happened to Big Oil … same thing is going to happen to the farmers.”DeAngelis argued that “more regulations make it harder for those companies to increase supply” and that “food costs will continue to rise.” Fox Business, *Cavuto: Coast to Coast*, [8/10/22]

• • A 2024 Fox Business interview with a cattle rancher pushed the narrative that “global sustainability initiatives could cause millions of people to starve.” Host Dagen McDowell told Texas and Colorado-based cattle rancher Shad Sullivan that “the climate crusading wack jobs want to destroy us, our life, and your livelihood." Sullivan told the hosts that “they've all teamed up in this anti-meat rhetoric that you see sweeping across the globe, to get control of the people. And that's all it amounts to, is total control.” [Fox Business,The Bottom Line, 2/15/24]

• • Right-wing media falsely claimed that Kamala Harris wanted to “get rid of” red meat. Fox contributor Jason Chaffetz, for instance, made the claim on three different segments, saying, “She wants to get rid of meat.” Former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host and current Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also translated Harris’ support for changing the dietary guidelines to “get rid of red meat.” Media Matters, [8/6/24]

• • In an interview with Rollins, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade blamed “craziness around climate change” for “a shortage of shrinking cattle” herd sizes. Kilmeade claimed that this was because of “the methane from the cows they thought was killing the ozone.” Rollins agreed that Democrats have “waged war” against cattle ranchers. Fox News, Fox & Friends, [11/24/25]

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2. ### Fox News contributor blames DEI for shooting deaths at Brown University

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3. ### Fox found its culprit for high grocery prices following Democratic election victories — Joe Biden

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fox “straight news” anchor spreads anti-abortion misinformation that FDA-approved medication, mifepristone was rushed to approval and is dangerous

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PUBLISHED 04/23/23

As Maggie Koerth and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux wrote for 538:

Despite the name, the accelerated approval process was used to subject mifepristone to heavier regulation and more monitoring after it was approved. It certainly did not speed up approval. From start to finish, approving mifepristone took 54 months. The average length of the process for all other drugs approved in 2000 was 15.6 months.

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CitationFrom the April 23, 2023, edition of Fox News' Fox News Sunday

SHANNON BREAM (FOX NEWS SUNDAY ANCHOR): Quickly, I want to ask you about the Supreme Court leaving mifepristone, the abortion pill, on the market while the legal fight about it plays out. I want to read you something from apro-life OB-GYN who wrote about this battle and the fact that she says the FDA has ignored safety issues with the pill. She says this: "It fast-tracked the abortion pill using its accelerated drug approval authority, ludicrously designating pregnancy as a quote 'serious or life-threatening illness.'" She says "as many as 7% of women that use abortion pills early in pregnancy need follow-up surgery, up to 15% will hemorrhage and 2% will have an infection." So, why shouldn't that not be part of the conversation, legal and otherwise? Shouldn't the FDA's number one priority be patient safety?

REP. DEBBIE DINGELL (D-MI): The number one priority of the FDA needs to be about patient safety. I don't think the Supreme Court — and I think they made that clear this week — you had conservative justices joining with others that sent it back to the courts and have said let the FDA do their job. You know, I think a lot of people don't understand what they wanted to do was ban a drug that also is used in Cushing's syndrome. I was a woman that suffered from endometriosis and was trying to get pregnant. It helps fibroid urine endometriosis.

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papa John’s pizza restaurant founder John Schnatter went on Fox News for a slice of what the network does best: a post-scandal interview to rehabilitate a disgraced conservative’s public image in 30 minutes or less.

In 2018, Schnatter was forced to resign as board chairman of Papa John’s after it was revealed that he used “the N-word” on a conference call with company executives. According to Forbes, the call “was designed as a role-playing exercise for Schnatter in an effort to prevent future public-relations snafus.” Schnatter had previously resigned from his position as CEO in December 2017 after criticizing some NFL players’ ongoing protests against police brutality, but he remains the largest shareholder in the company.

In the past few weeks, Schnatter has been cooking up a comeback -- and serving it up through Murdoch-owned outlets. In September, he gave multiple “exclusive” interviews to Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, and on October 29, he wrote an op-ed for the Murdoch-owned New York Post, criticizing Papa John’s current corporate leadership and expressing regret over his decision to leave. In the op-ed, Schnatter also complained that he was a victim of a false media narrative regarding the conference call.

Schnatter’s next stop on his apology tour was Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream. Anchor Shannon Bream failed to ask the former CEO, who donated to President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016, about the support he’s received from online hate groups, allegations of sexual misconduct, and what has been described as a “toxic” work culture at the company under his leadership.

Instead, Bream helped Schnatter deliver fresh excuses for his use of the racial slur (which she referred to as “racially charged language”) and praised his former company’s pizza sauce. She also repeated Schnatter’s framing in the New York Post op-ed that his use of the infamous slur was somehow not that bad because New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had also used the word in an interview.

After the former CEO said the conversation in which he used the slur and was forced out of his company as a result was a “positive call” in which he “adamantly expressed” his “disdain for racism,” Bream followed up by framing a defense for his remarks, asking Schnatter if he was “trying to display to people what not to do.” She also set him up to push for a new job at his old company and asked if he feels “there's room in society for people when they do make a mistake.”

Fox News opinion hosts are pros at helping disgraced conservative figures redeem themselves, as Sean Hannity has done for Roy Moore, Roseanne Barr, and Donald Trump Jr., or as Tucker Carlson recently did for Megyn Kelly. Bream’s segment only further disproves her claim that real journalism is “alive and well” at Fox -- in reality, the best the network’s “straight news” division has to offer is free PR for the racist pizza guy.

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For decades, Fox News executives have responded to the critique that the network serves as a mouthpiece for the Republican Party by pointing to the work of its “news side” journalists. But Trump’s election and his administration’s effective mergerwith Fox has created a new problem for the rebuttal: Many of Fox’s longest-serving “news side” staffers have headed for the exits.

Last month, it was Shep Smith who left.

Now, Catherine Herridge, Fox’s chief intelligence correspondent and a veteran of more than two decades there, is the latest to leave the network. CBS News announced that she had been hired as a senior investigative correspondent. Herridge said that "I feel privileged to join a team where facts and storytelling will always matter.”

Herridge’s reporting at Fox often aligned with Republican talking points and fed the conspiracy theories of the network’s prime-time stars. But she had inexplicably won the respect of journalists outside Fox, and as such her departure is another blow to Fox’s embattled “news side.”

Fox staffers speaking anonymously to reporters have over the last few years given quotes like Fox “feels like an extension of the Trump White House,” “We have a chance to turn the corner at Fox, and perpetuating this conspiracy theory damages our integrity,” “ARE WE STILL AIRING THAT SHIT?!” and “People throughout the company think a new line was crossed.”

To the extent that there has been a battle of values between Fox’s “news” and “opinion” sides, it is clear who is winning. Fox News is a Trump propaganda operation, through and through.

Here's what Fox's "news side" really is: Fox "news side" anchor Shannon Bream bragged about Fox and challenged people to watch one of its news programs for a week and to find any unfairness. We watched her own show for a week and found the same propaganda that you'd find from the opinion side on Fox.

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Shannon Bream's “1 week challenge” proves that Fox's “straight news” is just more pro-Trump propaganda

Shep Smith reportedly resigned because of Fox's pro-Trump lies. Shannon Bream's “news” program exemplifies the problem.

WRITTEN BY ERIC KLEEFELD

PUBLISHED 10/29/19 11:35 AM EDT

Fox “news side” anchor Shannon Bream bragged about the network's news division. A week long review of her show Fox News @ Night revealed the same pro-Trump lies that you'd expect from any of Fox's opinion shows.

After Shep Smith recently resigned from the network (reportedly due to its pro-Trump bend), Bream publicly claimed that the network’s “straight news” side — as distinct from its opinion commentary — is still thriving. “If anything, I’d say our news division is growing, and I’d welcome people to check us out for themselves and make their own decisions,” she told Forbes last week. “I’ll give you an experiment: watch us for an hour, pick one of the news shows: 6, 7, 11,” Bream said. “There are any number of products you can choose. Watch it for a week and get back to me. I would love to hear what you have to say.”

Bream posted a “1 week challenge”:

We decided to take Bream up on this challenge: This writer watched her show for all of last week. Every episode featured a mix of the usual Republican talking points from guests, such as complaints about the alleged unfairness of the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry processes, alongside pro-Trump obfuscations, and outright falsehoods presented without pushback — making the show indistinguishable from any of Fox News’ purported “opinion” shows.

Bream’s show serves to actively misinform her viewers

On the October 21 edition of the show, Fox News correspondent Garrett Tenney merely repeated that in an interview with Fox host Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump talked about issues “such as that [Democratic National Committee] server which the FBI says was hacked by Russians, but the president suspects Ukrainian involvement”:

CitationFrom the October 21, 2019, edition of Fox News' Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

GARRETT TENNEY (FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT): The president tonight is defending that phone call which is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry by focusing on the issues he raised with President Zelensky, such as that DNC server which the FBI says was hacked by Russians, but the president suspects Ukrainian involvement.Watch.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: There was a server, the DNC server, that never went to the FBI. The FBI didn't take it. It was taken by somebody that, I guess, it's CrowdStrike. That's what I've heard. And referring to that, that's not for an election that's going into the future. That's for a past election that was a catastrophe.

Neither Tenney nor Bream offered any pushback on the president’s false claim about the DNC server. In fact, not only is there no evidence that Ukraine is involved in the DNC email hack, the server doesn’t even exist as a single physical object. The DNC emails were constructed across multiple cloud computing servers, and the security firm CrowdStrike turned over complete forensic replicas of those virtual disk images to the FBI.

These facts make Trump’s search for “the DNC server” in Ukraine disconnected from reality. But a Fox News viewer might never know that from watching the network’s “news”-side coverage.

On that same Monday episode, Bream presented what seemed like a straightforward overview of Trump’s boast that he’s “bringing troops home” from Syria, reporting, “Critics are pointing to the latest U.S. troop deployments elsewhere in the region asking, what about those troops?”

CitationFrom the October 21, 2019, edition of Fox News' Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

But the next night, Bream uncritically presented the administration’s talking points about the controversial U.S. withdrawal:

CitationFrom the October 22, 2019, edition of Fox News Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

SHANNON BREAM (ANCHOR): Tonight, Vice President Mike Pence says he's optimistic because negotiations for a permanent end to the Turkish offensive are ongoing. Also saying that President Trump is keeping his word to the American people by bringing our troops home.

On the October 23 edition of the show, Bream presented a segment about Democrats’ impeachment strategy using rhetoric almost identical to that of the Trump campaign, warning: “As the possibility of impeachment picks up steam, elitistsnationwide appear to be seizing the opportunity to offend the half of the country that actually supports President Trump.”

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CitationFrom the October 23, 2019, edition of Fox News' Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

That same day, Fox News had itself reported on the new Quinnipiac poll, which showed Trump’s approval rating at only 38% compared to 55% approval for the impeachment inquiry and 48% support for outright impeachment and removal. But viewers watching Bream’s Wednesday segment would not know that the majority of Americans support the impeachment inquiry.

Then on October 24, Bream hosted renowned journalist Ronan Farrow, whose reporting and new book Catch and Kill on media cover-ups of sexual harassment and assault reports have made enormous waves in the industry. During the interview, Bream stepped out of her supposedly “straight news” anchor role to play partisan defense: She tried to deny Farrow’s reporting that the National Enquirer’s catch-and-kills on Trump included reports of sexual assault and not just consensual affairs.

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CitationFrom the October 24, 2019, edition of Fox News' Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

Bream was out on Friday, but guest anchor Mike Emanuel still played host to more far-out, right-wing conspiracy theories. In a discussion about Attorney General Bill Barr’s ongoing attempts to discredit the previous investigations of the Trump campaign and Russian involvement in the 2016 election, criminal defense attorney David Bruno raised an allegation about Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor suspected of being a connection between the Russian government and former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos. (Mifsud’s current whereabouts are unknown.)

“Mifsud is the one that fed George Papadopoulos the original information that Russians had dirt,” Bruno stated. “Now, can you imagine if that came from the United States government internally? I don't know that speculation, but that is the most interesting part about the Italy connection is Joseph Mifsud.”

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CitationFrom the October 25, 2019, edition of Fox News' Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

There was no pushback from Emanuel against Bruno’s reference to a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory that the then-presidential candidate was somehow the victim of an elaborate frame-up by the U.S. government.

And as a special bonus to the “1 week challenge,” this past Monday night’s episode featured among other things a discussion with Trump-supporting Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress, an extremist religious right figure who has been criticized for religious bigotry, and estranged Democratic pollster Doug Schoen — both of whom agreed that Trump is not a racist.

“Look, I've known President Trump for four years, there's not one scintilla of evidence that he's a racist,” Jeffress said. “In fact, anybody who knows the president knows that if you support him, he embraces you, regardless of your race. And if you oppose him, he attacks you, regardless of your race. That's the essence of what it means to be colorblind."

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CitationFrom the October 28, 2019, edition of Fox News' Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

Jeffresscontinued: “But Shannon, I'm not sure the Democrats want to be the ones talking about racism, when in their history, they're the ones who supported the Ku Klux Klan, they opposed the abolition of slavery, and they continue to worship at the shrine of Planned Parenthood.”

In response, neither Bream not Schoen mentioned Trump’s documented history of racial discrimination in housing and hiring, as well as the fact that he built his political following by spreading the racist conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. There are plenty more examples.

As Media Matters previously documented, Bream has also been a reliable mouthpiece for anti-abortion talking points, such as repeating misinformation from the anti-choice group Center for Medical Progress, which engaged in a 2015 smear campaign against Planned Parenthood by releasing deceptive videos. In addition, she has frequently misgendered trans people or referred to them as a gender with which they do not identify. It is a stigmatizing form of harassment that goes against journalistic best practices.

Bottom line: You’re not going to find unfiltered news coverage on Fox News — not even from the “news” side, because there really isn’t a news side at all.

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fox News anchor Shannon Bream hosted renowned journalist Ronan Farrow, whose reporting and new book Catch and Kill on media cover-ups of sexual harassment and assault reports have made enormous waves in the industry, included bringing deserved heat on NBC News executives. But Bream's interview with Farrow got interesting as soon as Farrow's reporting about how the National Enquirer buried stories about Trump came up.

Bream went out of her way to try to draw distinctions between Trump and other predators in Farrow's book, saying that Trump engaged in "consensual" relationships. Farrow pushed back, saying that "this is the first example of a reporter looking at the master list of all of the killed stories that the Enquirer had about Trump. And on that list was, for instance, the Jill Harth allegation, which is an allegation of nonconsensual contact of assault. So, you know, it's important to know when we talk about Trump, there are those serious allegations in the mix as well."

Jill Harth filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Trump in 1997 and spoke out in 2016, saying that Trump had repeatedly groped and attempted to rape her.

This interview has major ramifications. It comes as Fox News and Bream are trying to make a big PR pushin the wake of Shep Smith's abrupt resignation from Fox News. Smith resignation was prompted by the widespread pro-Trump ethos at the network. Fox's defense to this has been to declare that its news side is different. But this interview reveals that talking point as just another Fox lie. The network has no problems with Farrow's reporting while he's talking about NBC News executive or Harvey Weinstein or anyone of the sort. But as soon as the topic switches to Trump, the network goes into full-fledged protect mode. There's just no question at this point that the entirety of the network is a propaganda operation.

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For years, Media Matters has documented how Fox News operates as the communications are of the Republican Party. Among other examples, party officials cycle in and out of the network like a revolving door and Fox employees fundraise and even stump for Republican candidates.

However, on many occasions Fox employees went even further, using their close relationships to party officials for personally benefit. This week, Media Matters compiled a comprehensive list of examples of Fox figures using their proximity to Republican officials for personal gain and celebrity to benefit the party.

Here are some of the most egregious examples:

• Fox hosts Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity, Pete Hegseth, Laura Ingraham, and Jeanine Pirro have received over $500,000 combined in speaking fees from Republican groups while working at the network.
• Members of Fox's purported "news" division, such as anchor Shannon Bream and Fox News Senior Vice President of business news Neil Cavuto, have also headlined conservative events, including alongside Republican officials. In one instance, Bream spoke at a conference that also featured then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (whom she later interviewed on her program).
• Fox News employees have spoken at events that have financially benefited President Donald Trump. For instance, Chris Stirewalt -- a member of Fox’s “news” division -- spoke at an event for the petroleum industry at Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. And Jeanine Pirro has done events in which the proceeds went to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
• Three Fox News hosts -- Brian Kilmeade, Pete Hegseth, and Shannon Bream -- have cancelled speeches at conservative events this year following Media Matters reporting.

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There are many reasons that Fox News’ false dichotomy between the network’s so-called “news” and “opinion” divisions is laughable, but there is perhaps no clearer indication than the sheer amount of anti-abortion misinformation spread by both "opinion" and “straight news” personalities alike.

After the Democratic National Committee announced that Fox News would not be hosting any of this year’s Democratic presidential primary debates, backlash from Fox’s senior leadership was swift, with officials imploring the DNC to “reconsider its decision” on account of the “ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism” reportedly shown by some of the network’s hosts. As Variety previously reported, the network had already rolled out a messaging campaign to reassure wary advertisers about the outlet’s legitimacy, extolling the virtues of the network’s news hosts. This messaging campaign is merely a repackaging of the same inaccurate story Fox has been telling for years: Viewers and critics shouldn’t hold the blatant xenophobia, sexism, racism, and lies of the opinion side against the allegedly objective news team. But this recycled talking point further falls apart when it comes to anti-abortion misinformation spread by the network’s hosts.

In January, abortion rights measures in New York and Virginia sent Fox News and broader conservative media into a frenzy. Although both measures were attempts to protect abortion access should the Supreme Court overturn or weaken Roe v. Wade, Fox News hosts across the network’s news and opinion programs seized on the opportunity to spread sensationalized misinformation and attack Democrats for allegedly supporting “infanticide” or so-called abortions “up until birth.” Despite these inaccurate characterizations, Fox News devoted over six and half hours of coverage before the 2019 State of the Union address to falsely claiming that these state measures allowed “infanticide” -- a talking point that ultimately appeared in President Donald Trump’s remarks. In fact, Trump and Republican lawmakers are reportedly banking on using anti-abortion extremism to rally voters for the 2020 elections -- a strategy that was on full display during the most recent Conservative Political Action Conference.

It’s no secret that Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity -- each a part of Fox’s volatile and increasingly bad-for-business prime-time lineup -- are all frequent anti-abortion misinformers. Although Fox has attempted to distinguish the work of Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Shannon Bream, and Chris Wallace from their colleagues, these "news"-side hosts have all pushed their share of lies, distortions, and misinformation about abortion and reproductive rights.

Bret Baier

Although Fox clearly has a profit motive in portraying Baier as a straight news host, there is little to distinguish him from his colleagues on the opinion side when it comes to his abortion-related reporting. In Media Matters’ annual study of abortion-related coverage on evening prime-time cable news programs, Baier and his program Special Report have consistently been dominated by anti-choice talking points and inaccurate statements about abortion and reproductive rights.

Notably, Baier hosted a 2016 town hall with Democratic presidential candidates and used the platform to recycle misleading right-wing anti-abortion talking points. On his program, in the same year, Baier inaccurately described a common abortion procedure as “dismemberment abortion” and misled viewers that a Supreme Court case involving access to contraceptives was actually about abortion rights. Baier previously invoked a longstanding right-wing media talking point comparing legally operating abortion providers to convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell. In 2009, Baier even went so far as to falsely assert that the Obama administration would allow doctors to be jailed for refusing to perform abortions.

Martha MacCallum

Beyond frequently hosting anti-choice guests such as Live Action founder Lila Rose and Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins, MacCallum seemingly makes little secret of her personal views on abortion and will often use sensationalized rhetoric when discussing the topic.

Even before MacCallum became a staple of Fox’s evening lineup, she was already a serial anti-abortion misinformer. In 2015, MacCallum attacked Planned Parenthood for allegedly using taxpayer money to support abortion care (the organization does not, as the Hyde Amendment bars the use of federal funds for abortion services). Like Baier, MacCallum also used a 2016 presidential primary forum as an opportunity to spread anti-abortion misinformation sourced from the anti-choice group Center for Medical Progress’ (CMP) deceptive videos attacking Planned Parenthood. Since MacCallum began hosting her own program, she has consistently promoted anti-abortion talking points about later abortion and Planned Parenthood. In 2017, MacCallum pushed several myths about the existence of so-called “sex-selective” abortion practices, even demanding a guest on her program explain whether it was acceptable “for someone to decide because they don’t like the sex of their baby to abort it at eight months.”

Shannon Bream

Whether appearing as a correspondent on Special Report or hosting her own program, Fox News @ Night, Bream has been a frequent source of anti-abortion misinformation on Fox. Despite representing the network’s so-called “straight news” contingent, Bream’s promotion to host her own program was celebrated by anti-abortion leaders.

Bream was a frequent promoter of CMP’s deceptive videos, even hosting the Fox News “special” promoting the group’s claims in 2015. In 2016, Bream touted “exclusively obtained” copies of letters from a House investigation based on CMP’s allegations -- letters received a full day before they were publicly released or shared with Democratic members of the investigative panel, in direct violation of congressional rules. Since then, Bream has repeatedly signal-boosted anti-abortion talking points and myths by spreading misinformation about abortion safety, letting guests make inaccurate allegations about Planned Parenthood without pushback, and citing polls commissioned by anti-abortion groups without necessary context to suggest a lack of public support for abortion. If there’s a talking point circulating around anti-abortion media and personalities online, it’s more likely than not that it will eventually surface on Bream’s program.

Chris Wallace

Although Chris Wallace does not discuss abortion as frequently as some of his Fox colleagues, his invocation of so-called “partial-birth” abortion during the final debate of the 2016 presidential election is more than enough to disqualify the anchor from consideration as a fair and balanced voice on abortion-related issues. Wallace’s inaccurate and sensationalized question was then picked up by other right-wing media outlets and has since re-emerged in Trump’s current talking points about abortion. Wallace has also shown a propensity for repeating right-wing smears against Planned Parenthood, citing anti-choice videos attacking the organization well before CMP’s campaign of deception began.

It doesn’t matter whether viewers watch so-called "news" or "opinion" programming: Both are likely to contain sensationalism, outright lies, and harmful characterizations about abortion patients, providers, and procedures -- seemingly no matter the potential consequences.

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3/22/19): The James Madison Institute announced on March 22 that “Bream has had to cancel her appearance at our annual dinner.” JMI announced that the keynote speaker will instead be Jason Riley, “a Wall Street Journal columnist, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Fox News commentator, and best-selling author.”

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, who is part of the network’s “news division,” is scheduled to keynote a fundraiser for a conservative group alongside Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Bream and DeSantis are set to speak at the James Madison Institute’s 2019 annual fundraising dinner on April 3. Tickets for the event start at $150. JMI also stated that sponsors to the event “get access to our VIP reception before the dinner with special guest Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody,” who is a Republican.

JMI is a nonprofit organization that describes itself as “Florida’s premier free-market think tank.” The organization has ties to billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. In 2016 and 2017, the Charles Koch Foundation gave JMI a combined $392,000 for general operating support.

While the organization states that it is nonpartisan, it has heavily praised Republican officials and their policies:

• During the 2018 campaign, JMI released a report attacking then-Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum and praising DeSantis, his GOP opponent. The institute wrote that Gillum’s agenda “would adversely impact the business climate of the State through higher taxes, a sharply higher minimum wage and State mandates to expand government-controlled health insurance.” The group added that DeSantis’ agenda, by contrast, would “largely maintain the pro-growth-oriented strategy of Florida through low and stable taxes, would preserve and strengthen the state’s business climate, which supports the attraction, retention and expansion of employment-generating business enterprises.”
• JMI has frequently praised President Donald Trump and his economic policies. Its website archives pieces by JMI-affiliated writers which carry such headlines as: “Trump tax reform — why don’t more Americans understand the benefits?”; “Donald Trump’s dream team for economic success”; “Right-sized fuel efficiency: Thank you, Donald Trump”; “Tax Reform Makes 2017 a Win for Trump and the Nation”; and “Could Trump’s Presidency Become the Most Cooperative in American History?”
• The organization has also praised Florida Republicans such as former Gov. Jeb Bush, and Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott; JMI’s CEO and president Robert McClure wrote that “Florida has been blessed with tremendous, conservative leadership over the past 20 years, championed by the likes of Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Rick Scott, among others.” All three have also lauded JMI, while Jeb Bush served on JMI’s board of directors in the early 1990s.

In 2013, Progress Florida and the Center for Media and Democracy issued a reportcriticizing JMI on issues such as its anti-environmental policies and funding by the Kochs. From the report:

Over the years, JMI has released several “studies” and reports that deny global warming is happening, call for an end to clean energy programs, advocate for expanded offshore drilling despite the risks to Florida’s shores from deeper wells (like BP’s Deep Water Horizon), and push for corporate tax breaks, all of which would directly benefit the Koch brothers’ corporate and personal interests.

Bream is part of Fox’s purported “news division,” which Fox News executives point to when touting the channel’s alleged independence (in reality, the "news" and opinion sides are both cogs in the same propaganda machine). She said in a 2017 interview with TVNewser about her then-upcoming program Fox News @ Night: “I’m in the news division, so it will be all straight news, not opinion. Certainly we’ll have people on the program from all sides of the story, but it’s really about giving our viewers another straight hour of news.”

DeSantis has frequently appeared on Fox News,. Fox News helped DeSantis win both his Republican primary and general election campaigns and host Sean Hannity campaigned for DeSantis in Florida.

Media Matters has documented Bream’s long history of misinforming viewers about reproductive rights topics. She has also helped champion right-wing efforts to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Bream

Shannon Bream (born Shannon DePuy,^[1] c. 1970/1971)^[2] is an American journalist for the Fox News Channel.^[3] In 2017, Bream became the host of the prime time program Fox News @ Night.^[4]

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Biography

While attending Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, she won the beauty-pageant title Miss Virginia in 1990. She participated in the Miss America 1991 pageant. Her scholarship award covered much of her education.^[5]

After graduating from Liberty University in 1993 with a degree in Business,^{[citation needed]} Bream returned to Tallahassee and attended law school at Florida State University. She interned with Florida Congressman Bill McCollum, in the US House of Representatives. McCollum would later become the Florida Attorney General. While at law school at Florida State, she won the Miss Florida USA pageant (1995) and placed fourth in the Miss USA 1995 pageant.^[5]

Career

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After graduation from Florida State University College of Law (1996), Bream moved to Tampa, Florida and began her law career.^[6]

She eventually made a career change from the legal profession to pursue a career in television news.

In 2001, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, becoming the evening and late-night news reporter for the CBS affiliate, WBTV.^[5] In 2004, after three years at WBTV, Bream joined Washington D.C.'s NBC affiliate WRC-TV. At WRC-TV, she was a weekend anchor and covered general assignments.

While at WRC-TV, Bream met Brit Hume, who was the managing editor of the Fox News Channel's Washington bureau. With his encouragement, she submitted audition tapes to Fox News. Bream joined the Fox News Channel in November 2007, and is based in the network's Washington, D.C. bureau.

References

1. ^ "Thank You Veterans". Fox News. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011.
2. ^ Jenning, Linda Kramer (September 10, 2012). "How Fox News Channel's Shannon Bream Went From Pageants to Politics". Glamour. Retrieved March 26, 2018. For Shannon Bream, now 41...
3. ^ "Shannon Bream". Fox News. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
4. ^ Flood, Brian (September 21, 2017). "Shannon Bream to host new 'Fox News @ Night' prime-time show". Fox News. Retrieved March 26,2018.
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6. ^ Linda Kramer Jenning. "How FOX News Channel's Shannon Bream Went From Pageants to Politics". Glamour. Retrieved April 14, 2016.

External links

• Biography on FoxNews.com
• Liberty.edu profile

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