Fox is state TV

They covered up the payoff to Daniels.

Trump lied about interfering with the AT&T merger. He took a position that would help his pals at Fox.

Trump has hired people from Fox and Fox has hired people who left his administration. This is not an appropriate relationship between a president and a news organization.

Trump promised publicly he wouldn't interfere in DOJ's handling of the TimeWarner AT&T deal – but in Oval Office he ordered Nat.'l Economic Council head Gary Cohn to get DOJ to block it, which would hurt CNN & help Fox. Soon after, DOJ filed suit to block it, and lost in court.
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) March 4, 2019

Another Trump lie.

"I used to think Fox News was an arm of the Republican Party, now I think the White House is an arm of Fox… it’s paying off for [Trump & FOX] now… whatever may happen with Mueller, these investigations… where does Fox News go from there?" – @dthornell w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/SH60WeJ97p
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) March 4, 2019

Did Trump use the Justice Department to punish CNN? https://t.co/l66amxookO
— Slate (@Slate) March 7, 2019

NEW: Cicilline, @RepJerryNadler Press for Answers on Whether White House Interfered with AT&T-Time Warner Merger to Help Fox News, Hurt CNN pic.twitter.com/Frkr7bztGb
— Cicilline Press Office (@RepCicilline) March 7, 2019

Remember when the Obama WH briefly tried to treat Fox News like the arm of the GOP they are rather than a real journalistic outlet and mainstream journalists rallied to their defense? I hope people realize the cover they give Fox when they pretend journalism is practiced there.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 4, 2019

There are a few people at Fox who are journalists but it’s primarily a propaganda machine for Trump.

Report on Fox News’ editorial decisions about Trump administration may give insight into GOP’s approval of president https://t.co/0G2EwEV0P8
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) March 4, 2019

Yep, I wrote this during 2016 election: "Fox News Gives Donald Trump A Pass On Birther Crusade It Helped Fuel" https://t.co/R00zsfL3Jo https://t.co/s0zKmj30Sh
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) March 4, 2019

Ex Fox News host Abby Huntsman thinks the network crossed a red line by reportedly spiking the Stormy Daniels hush money story before Trump was elected in 2016 https://t.co/PApLqSfIUu
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 4, 2019

An abuse of power by Trump, who wanted to use his power as president to retaliate against a network for its coverage.

This explains why the DOJ pressed forward with an aggressive antitrust challenge that was uncharacteristic for a GOP administration. https://t.co/GU7MQgmNJU
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) March 4, 2019

This is an incredibly important piece from @JaneMayerNYer that puts to bed forever the myth that Fox is a journalistic institution https://t.co/xCgOILna1D
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 4, 2019

This is one of the worst scandals of this presidency. Trump directly intervened with the Justice Department to pursue his personal vendetta against CNN. He lied about it. DOJ officials likely lied too.
I wrote about it at the time. Column holds up well: https://t.co/JNWmtHqEmS https://t.co/5KYgSQeAHg
— Bret Stephens (@BretStephensNYT) March 4, 2019

So far, Trump got help winning the election in the form of information distortion from Russia, The National Enquirer, and Fox News. Anyone else?

(Also, is he capable of doing anything without cheating???) https://t.co/uILB80RkO7
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 4, 2019

CNN’s Stelter: Fox News Does Disservice to Viewers by Covering for Trump and Promoting ‘A Bunch of BS’ https://t.co/GF1LG6WXrv pic.twitter.com/TjKlLsGH0K
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 4, 2019

Analysis: Report on Fox News’s editorial decisions about Trump administration may give insight into GOP’s approval of president https://t.co/vbF8Eby6tv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 5, 2019

It's awful to watch commentators miss the point about Fox News. They refuse to acknowledge the degree to which Trump allies are spreading *disinformation,* the deep asymmetry of this moment, and the role of Fox/WH merger in making it happen.

Me, on this:https://t.co/Aj9rZfQF1D pic.twitter.com/QQc5bsxriC
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 7, 2019

In this NBC/WSJ poll, the vast majority of self-identified Fox watchers said Trump has been honest and truthful about Russia. Virtually all CNN watchers said he hasn't been honest. pic.twitter.com/dFHHX85Htf
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 5, 2019

"Like many conservatives, I once believed that Fox News provided a much-needed service… Unfortunately, these alternative outlets gave way to alternative realities, and eventually, to Donald Trump." —@MattKLewis https://t.co/M5HKeT1b9l
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 5, 2019

"At the highest levels of Fox News, they're not playing it straight."

— DNC Chair Perez explains a Democratic National Cmte. decision to bar Fox News from hosting 2020 Democratic primary debates. https://t.co/lVIqb7D4cv
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 7, 2019

Fox News made an ideological and financial decision to become Trump's propaganda arm. Obviously that forecloses the chance to host a DNC primary debate. How is anyone surprised by this?
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) March 7, 2019

“Unlike most news organizations, Fox News doesn’t seem to have a department in charge of ethics and standards…

So, yes, Fox News can continue to function as something close to Trump TV… But everyone ought to see it for what it is.” https://t.co/gxCNozJBwv
— Priyanka Aribindi (@priaribi) March 7, 2019

so for b-roll for a story about american millenials saying they are socialist, fox news used footage from a demonstration in moscow pic.twitter.com/B65Z6bOSh3
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) March 7, 2019

To be clear, the RNC did just this in 2016 for their own primary debates. No one seems to remember thathttps://t.co/Kdkduudotw https://t.co/txekIM9Upo
— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 7, 2019

An Alabama editor defends the KKK

Editor who wrote Klan editorial has penned countless racist, sexist, xenophobic pieces https://t.co/hdeth30FJ4
— Chip Brownlee (@ByChipBrownlee) February 19, 2019

Stories like this remind me of the mainstream media‘s role throughout history in perpetuating white supremacy https://t.co/uHVPU3nkI4
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) February 19, 2019

Truly terrifying https://t.co/V8IpZmaMLU
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) February 19, 2019

The editor of a small newspaper in Alabama is facing pressure to resign after calling for the Ku Klux Klan to “ride again” against politicians in Washington https://t.co/4y0mZ14340
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 19, 2019

Trump threatens retribution over Saturday Night Live skit

Trump continues his dictator-like comments on the media. He can’t even take satire, let alone serious critiques. Sad!

Trump asks a good question: How do television networks get away with criticizing the president without “retribution”?

The answer is the 1st Amendment. It’s part of the Constitution. https://t.co/PjONzNIsTz
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 17, 2019

It's become commonplace enough in the past two years that it no longer gets much notice. But it's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribution" against a television network because it satirized him.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 17, 2019

Shameful comment by any American president https://t.co/9tpuoPTUkx
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) February 17, 2019

Someone should read and explain the First Amendment to Trump. https://t.co/E65gzBFfJ2
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) February 17, 2019

Enemy of the People was a term “adopted in Nazi Germany — ‘If someone wears the Jewish star, he is an enemy of the people’ — and, perhaps most famously, in the Soviet Union under Stalin, when being labeled enemy of the people amounted to a death sentence.” https://t.co/KG5TcAD7nb https://t.co/jGUw1y8PJ0
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 17, 2019

The president calls for "retribution" against a comedy show that makes fun of him. pic.twitter.com/rK48lhQTxd
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 17, 2019

I know it feels like just more of the same, but you must never forget how awful it is. It is a despicable sentiment from the elected head of a democratic government. He brings shame on us all. pic.twitter.com/KKUR4GNuPS
— Tamara Cofman Wittes (@tcwittes) February 17, 2019

You know why the SNL cold open lampooning Trump's emergency declaration was only so-so? Because it was too close to what actually happened.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 17, 2019

A national leader threatening “retribution” against those who practice political satire. What would you say if you saw this in any other country? https://t.co/XjpzDN16Yy
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 17, 2019

Don Cheadle wore a Soviet Union hockey jersey with “Trump” and “45” on the back at the end of SNL after hosting. Shade level: Masterful pic.twitter.com/hrDjPRulXy
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) February 17, 2019

CNN should not have a town hall with Schultz now

This is right on the money. CNN and other networks helped Trump tremendously by giving him so much coverage. Schultz hasn’t even announced that he is a candidate. Give the town halls to the actual candidates.

After CNN announced a town hall with Howard Schultz, Democrats fear the cable news giant is, once again, valuing celebrity over everything else https://t.co/tHjY2o8bap
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 11, 2019

Let’s look back. Jeff Zucker, now head of CNN, gave Trump a big boost by having The Apprentice on NBC. CNN gave Trump a ton of coverage in 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeff-zuckers-singular-role-in-promoting-donald-trumps-rise/2016/10/02/7c3d4366-865b-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html?utm_term=.4435f655746f

“Ten years later, it was Zucker, now the head of CNN, who gave Trump astonishing amounts of free exposure in the Republican presidential primary on the cable network, continually blasting out his speeches and rallies — often unfiltered and without critical fact-checking.

“It’s a not-unfair knock on CNN to say that they went all in on Trump and helped him enormously,” Ken Lerer, co-founder of the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed, said in a recent onstage interview at City University of New York’s journalism school. “I think it was a strategy, a programming strategy.”

Those paragraphs are from the article which is linked to before them.

Great New York Post Bezos headline

If ever there were a scandal crafted for a New York Post headline. pic.twitter.com/fioJhSiRhn
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 8, 2019

Who are you going to believe?

Trump is like the old Marx Brothers line:

I saw someone on Twitter refer to this – it’s like Trump saying are you going to believe him or the testimony that was on TV? The line from Duck Soup is usually attributed to Groucho but it’s Chico dressed up as Groucho.

Trump is such a liar!

Newspapers and newspaper jobs are disappearing

Bad news for all of us

New study: the steady loss of local newspapers and journalists across the country contributes to the nation’s political polarization https://t.co/uu5v4EKqR1
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) January 30, 2019

Newspapers are still shedding on average 1,000 jobs per month – more than mining, steel, fishing and all the beleaguered industries politicians talk about.

The news industry – in all formats – is in crisis. We need sustainable business models for journalism https://t.co/OJccQf7L2f
— Indira Lakshmanan (@Indira_L) January 24, 2019

45% of newspaper journalism jobs have disappeared since 2007.

Digital news outlets had replaced only 18% of those jobs even before recent layoffs at BuzzFeed, HuffPo, Mic, etc.

This isn't just a jobs thing, it's about people not getting basic information they used to. pic.twitter.com/hBV0W52Zxr
— Mike Rosenberg (@ByRosenberg) January 25, 2019

This is a superb thread on the decline of the newspaper industry. I’d add only two (little) notes: 1. Fast home internet connections (approx mid-aughts) helped stomp print circ; 2. Smartphones (beginning ‘07’) drove everyone to mobile. Otherwise, applause, @JeremyLittau! https://t.co/JOqPzO2uhh
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) January 25, 2019

.@mcclatchy emailed 450 employees, about 10 percent of the newspaper chain's staff, offering buyouts. #MiamiHerald https://t.co/Agiy2Ctl8f
— Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) February 1, 2019

Journalism layoffs in just the past month:

HuffPost: 20
BuzzFeed: 250
Vice: 250
Gannett: 400
McClatchy: 450
— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) February 1, 2019

Trump’s anti-Muslim bigotry shows through in his prayer rugs tweet

I despise Trump for many reasons but the top two are that he is a liar and a bigot.

Trump and his supporters will rightfully complain about the Buzzfeed story that said Trump told Cohen to lie. How is this different? It doesn’t have a lot of sources and they are anonymous.

Fact Check: President Trump revived an old and still unproved rumor that hints that Islamic migrants were entering the United States through Mexico and could pose a terrorism threat https://t.co/Bmdubbt713

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) January 19, 2019

Let's be clear. The daylight between @SteveKingIA's overt racism and Trump's unsubtle "the Muslims are coming!" is PAPER-THIN. But, will any Republican lawmakers say so? https://t.co/OIRwwFEcTU

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) January 18, 2019

NEW: "Muslim prayer rug" story that Trump tweeted was written by ex-press secretary of anti-immigration hate group, @willsommer reports https://t.co/4Bd9WCyqZU

— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) January 18, 2019

The Washington Examiner article the president is quoting is very bad. The “prayer rugs” claim was made by a single rancher who would not allow her name used and who apparently provided the journalist no evidence. pic.twitter.com/iq4t0BOzR9

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 18, 2019

The president of the United States is tweeting about imaginary prayer rugs found by a supposed anonymous rancher who, if he exists, is repeating an urban (rural?) legend from a few years ago. But Trump has benefitted from stoking anti-Muslim prejudice before. Why not try again? https://t.co/TZ2FnWj2Xz

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 18, 2019

The whole prayer rugs on the border thing is an ancient right-wing talking point. In 2014, another "prayer rug" was discovered on the border. It turned out to be an Adidas shirt. https://t.co/QeSApcSE4P pic.twitter.com/A1BKnyKjGT

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 18, 2019

Reporters on the border tell me migrants often carry small heavy rugs to throw over the barbed wire and then dump them when they make it to the U.S. side. Has nothing to do with Islam, Mr. President. https://t.co/8jb9GAhlAc

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) January 18, 2019

A classic of the racist genre.

1. What’s wrong with prayer rugs?

2. Who would lug a prayer rug across the Atlantic, up through South America, into and across Mexico, only then to ditch it in Texas? https://t.co/5j8jL1SaAK

— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 18, 2019

Decline in newspaper employees and circulation

Bad news.

The number of newspaper newsroom employees fell from about 71,000 in 2008 to 39,000 in 2017, a decline of 45%. https://t.co/Iptn2zMTGV pic.twitter.com/F9WW5L4C5p

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) January 7, 2019

Dallas Morning News Cuts 43 Jobs, Including 20 In Newsroom, In 'Digital-First' Pivot https://t.co/oLcVic7oWh pic.twitter.com/qSNu4ECTHO

— Aakshi Gupta (@aakshi97) January 13, 2019

Since 2000, newspapers shed 241,000 jobs. The entire coal industry employs only 50,000 miners. https://t.co/IbOp43aSrw pic.twitter.com/gMMBJtwDPY

— Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) July 24, 2018

NEW DATA: Estimated total US daily newspaper circulation in 2017 was 31M for weekday, 34M for Sunday. Both down 11% and 10%, respectively, from 2016: https://t.co/Zn9BFHHQUu pic.twitter.com/f7RTUqqnE5

— Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) June 13, 2018

The city that never sleeps finds that it’s running out of reporters to report

Lack of diversity in newsrooms

Incredible to see Alexandra Ocasio Cortez being called a “media scold” and Trump-like for simply pointing out a lack of black representation at a major news outlet.

Just shows that so many are more invested in preserving the status quo than including black voices in media.

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) January 13, 2019

Pew Research – November 2018 – Newsroom Employees Are Less Diverse Than U.S. Workers Overall https://t.co/f8IAKlfZQM

— I See Karma 1619 – 2019 🖤 (@see_karma) January 13, 2019

For @farai's report racial and gender diversity in U.S. newsrooms, none of the TV news networks, including CBS News, were willing to provide statistics. Alt-text: graphs on racial/gender of 2016 political reporting teams by newsroom, and of all editorial staff (when available). pic.twitter.com/ELkyx8AlHf

— Eileen Clancy (@clancynewyork) January 13, 2019

Seeing conversation abt diversity in political reporting

Remember the problem is structural. Outlets must be better and finding/developing black talent, but industry must rethink rules that have long catered to white and wealthy: unpaid internship track, "objectivity," etc

— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) January 13, 2019

So this is how y’all plan on covering a democratic primary that in large part will be determined by black women, comes through S.C., and has the most AA candidates running for POTUS in history?

Someone signed off on this. Smh. Diversity matters. https://t.co/ahEoKCEYTx

— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) January 13, 2019

Seems that I should re-up this: https://t.co/hRbmzoqei9 @CBSNews #diversity

— jelani cobb (@jelani9) January 13, 2019

Important read from @joannelipman, and something I think about a lot. –>

"The industry’s overwhelmingly male leadership has repercussions well beyond the newsroom." https://t.co/2uwHS3eoqI via @usatoday

— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) January 11, 2019

Convinced that every time some journalist tweets/writes a bad take on race, gender or some other diversity topic that draws significant criticism, their DMs are filled with praise from like-minded people. And that significantly shapes how seriously they process the criticism. 😕

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 13, 2019

Dear @CBSNews, I am encouraged by the diversity you DID include. But when it comes time to discuss the inevitable role that race and racism will play in the election, who will you turn to for a perspective with nuanced & personal understanding of the African American experience? https://t.co/yqViF535oY

— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) January 13, 2019

You know who doesn’t care about diversity in press corps? People who never have to worry they won’t be reflected, heard or valued.

— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) January 13, 2019