Fox News 
-
SOURCE: CNN
4/25/2023
With Tucker, Fox Painted Itself Into a Corner
by Nicole Hemmer
Carlson was the key figure that allowed Fox News to avoid being eclipsed by MAGA and the ability of Donald Trump to command media attention without the network's help. Now the network must reckon with the costs – in legal settlements and journalistic legitimacy—of letting Carlson run the show.
-
SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/26/2023
Tucker Carlson Embodies the GOP's Cynicism
by Tom Nichols
"If you were trying to undermine a nation and dissolve its hopes for the future, you could hardly design a better vehicle than Tucker Carlson Tonight."
-
SOURCE: New York Times
4/19/2023
How Fox News Helped Break the American Right
by Matthew Dallek
The Republican Party has long struggled to keep extremists within its ranks at bay, if partly for political reasons. But the rise of Fox News has destroyed the guardrails older generations of mainstream conservatives set up against conspiracists, hatemongers, and bigots.
-
SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/7/2023
Fox's Handling of the "Big Lie" was Cowardly, but Not Unusual
by Kathryn J. McGarr
News organizations' standards of objectivity have long allowed public figures and politicians to proclaim lies without pushback, leaving the public to be arbiters of truth and falsity.
-
SOURCE: Washington Post
3/8/2023
Fox News Texts Show Long History of Ideological Media
The revelation that Fox hosts promoted what they knew were lies about the 2020 election reflects what Nicole Hemmer calls a 70-year effort by the right to sow distrust in mainstream media.
-
SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/7/2022
The Right Wants to Gut Press Libel Protections; Dominion Voting Systems Suit Shows They Might Regret it
The libel standards established by New York Times v. Sullivan are a target for conservatives who loathe the media. If they had their way Fox News would be in big trouble.
-
SOURCE: Jewish Journal
3/21/2022
Why Greg Gutfeld is Mad at Me about Ukraine and the Holocaust
by Rafael Medoff
The Ukraine crisis is engendering conspiratorial thinking from defenders of Russia's actions.
-
SOURCE: Jewish Journal
3/14/2022
Holocaust Echoes in Ukraine Conspiracy Theories
by Rafael Medoff
Some reactions to the news coverage of horrors visited on civilians echo excuses and minimization of Nazi violence against Jews, including claims that the stories are part of a campaign of emotional manipulation.
-
SOURCE: The Nation
3/20/2020
Fox News Has Always Lied to Old People. This Time It May Kill Them.
The pandemic makes obvious what has long been true: Fox News is dangerous.
-
SOURCE: New York Times
3/22/2020
Rupert Murdoch Put His Son in Charge of Fox. It Was a Dangerous Mistake.
The 48-year-old Lachlan Murdoch stood by as Fox News hosts played down the danger of the deadly coronavirus to their viewers.
-
4/30/19
The Upstart Press Mogul Who Changed How We Understand the World
by Bruce Chadwick
A review of Ink--the play about controversial media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
-
SOURCE: Informed Comment
3/20/19
No, Fox’s Katie Pavlich, the US Wasn’t the First to Abolish Slavery
by Juan Cole
Slavery began in British North America in the 1600s. So it took longer than 150 years to abolish it. More like 200 years.
-
SOURCE: Washington Post
3/20/19
The U.S. should get more credit for ending slavery ‘within 150 years,’ Fox panelist says
Many historians were quick to correct and criticize her remarks.
-
SOURCE: Washington Post
2/21/19
Tucker Carlson Attacks Dutch Historian and Defends His Words on Show
Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded Wednesday to a now-viral video of an unaired interview in which he swore at a guest, calling him a “moron” and a “tiny brain."
-
SOURCE: CNN
11-18-18
Trump has consummated the marriage between Fox News and the GOP
by Julian Zelizer
The network has been a major force in American politics, and with Trump's help, it has helped to reshape the modern Republican Party.
-
SOURCE: The San Francisco Chronicle
4-26-18
NYU’s James Fraser find himself in a rightwing vortex after Fox News attacks his textbook
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Selective quotes taken from the book out of context left a warper impression.
-
SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6-1-17
Princeton U. Professor Cancels Lectures After Fox News Labels Her as Anti-Trump
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, canceled all her public lectures this week following an onslaught of email threats after a commencement address she gave was posted by Fox News.
-
SOURCE: Media Matters
1-14-15
Fox News Gives O'Reilly A "Historical" Series After Years Of Criticism From Historians
O'Reilly, who has written a series of books focused on the deaths of prominent historical figures, has been criticized by historians and critics for shoddy scholarship and ahistorical claims.
-
SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
8-1-13
Attack on Reza Aslan puts his Jesus book in the spotlight
Not every scholarly study of early Christianity rockets to best-seller status thanks to an attack by a belligerent cable-network reporter.But that became the fate last week of Reza Aslan's Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, just out from Random House in the United States while, in Britain, the Westbourne Press is rushing the book forward from its original August 18 publication date.The fortunes of Zealot offer a cautionary tale for scholars who publish on touchy subjects—or perhaps a primer on how to provoke conservative-media hostility, and then to capitalize on it, even if you're no religious or intellectual radical....
-
SOURCE: Fox News
6-24-13
Shaped by history, Gettysburg celebrates milestone
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg changed the direction of American history 150 years ago, and the town hasn't been the same since.The couple of hundred thousand visitors expected at events to mark the anniversary of the 1863 clash won't have to look far to find remnants of the pivotal campaign of the Civil War, even outside the grounds of the meticulously maintained national park.Cannonballs and shrapnel remain embedded in a few of the roughly 200 buildings that remain from the period.Many of the businesses in the rural county seat cater to the throngs of tourists that stream into one of the country's most historic places, from General Pickett's Buffet to Abraham's Lady, a battle-era clothing shop....
News
- Josh Hawley Earns F in Early American History
- Does Germany's Holocaust Education Give Cover to Nativism?
- "Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads
- Hawley's Use of Fake Patrick Henry Quote a Revealing Error
- Health Researchers Show Segregation 100 Years Ago Harmed Black Health, and Effects Continue Today
- Nelson Lichtenstein on a Half Century of Labor History
- Can America Handle a 250th Anniversary?
- New Research Shows British Industrialization Drew Ironworking Methods from Colonized and Enslaved Jamaicans
- The American Revolution Remains a Hotly Contested Symbolic Field
- Untangling Fact and Fiction in the Story of a Nazi-Era Brothel