Fox News Threatens Sanctions Against Law Firm Over Carlson, Hannity Accusations

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund is supporting a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Fox News and several of its anchors, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.The organization — which was founded in the wake of the #MeToo movement — is providing PR support to Cathy Areu, a former unpaid Fox News contributor who alleges she faced a “barrage of sexual harassment” at the network.Fox News has pushed back aggressively on Areu’s claims, releasing messages that

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says his slimmed-down media firm has fared well during the pandemic because of the assets it retained as part of its $71.3 billion sale of 21st Century Fox assets to Walt Disney.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFox News will continue thriving even if Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November’s presidential election, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch predicts.“We’ve not only been strong but we’ve grown ratings in multiple administrations, from both political parties — Clinton, Bush, Obama,” Murdoch said.

pic.twitter.com/9M8DKtq4Vn– Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 10, 2020“I’ve never seen anything like it where he talks about defunding the police, or not doing much for the police.

According to the Commission on Presidential Debates, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace will moderate the presidential debate on Sept. 29 in Cleveland.

Donald Trump, which drew 9 million viewers.

wrote to kick things off.From there, he compared Republicans to fans of a losing sports franchise who still want to support their team and scoffed at the idea Trump and his administration really represent anti-elitism when Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are involved.Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Warns RNC Night 4 Could Be Coronavirus 'Superspreader' (Video)In many tweets, whether they focused on Kushner or his own career — which he assured followers he was not jeopardizing by speaking out — he urged

talk or field guests instead of showing parts of the Republican National Convention. But that topic took a new twist on Thursday, the final night of the RNC, when Fox News ran a pro-Joe Biden commercial that drowned out a speech by Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for communications, Dan Scavino.The ad ran for two minutes just before 9 p.m.

The Five, used yesterday’s edition of the programme (August 26) to pay tribute to Riley Gale, the late frontman of thrash metal band Power Trip who died earlier this week aged 34.Despite differing political views – Gutfeld is a registered Libertarian, while Gale was outspokenly progressive – the two had struck up a friendship after the band objected to their music being used on The Five.Wearing a Power Trip t-shirt given to him by Gale and describing the singer as “an all-around brilliant dude,”

Jordan Moreau Fox News host Tucker Carlson received immediate backlash on Twitter after saying Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the shootings of two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., “decided to maintain order when no one else would.”“Are we really surprised this looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would? Everyone can see what was

Ted Johnson UPDATED: Republican convention organizers have changed plans and will allow additional media outlets to report from the Rose Garden in advance of First Lady Melania Trump’s speech on Tuesday, after a contentious call with network producers that Fox News was being given special access to the site, sources said.A correspondent and camera crew will be allowed to report from the location before the First Lady speaks.

Also Read: Fox News' Chris Wallace: RNC Is Now a 'Trump Convention,' Not a Republican Convention (Video)All three saw dips in total and demo viewers from the previous election cycle in 2016. During the first night of the RNC in 2016, Fox News had 1.6 million viewers in the key demo.That same year, CNN averaged 3.945 million total viewers in the key primetime hour, with 1.374 million of those in the key demo.

said that the GOP’s lack of new platform adoption reveals that the party is now a “personality cult” promoting Trump instead of Republican ideals.Wallace went on Monday night, “We are going to be hearing from this week the First Lady Melania Trump, the president’s four grown children, members of the White House staff, members of the Trump cabinet, most of all – and this was the second time tonight – every night of this convention.

The LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD is airing an ad arguing in favor of the Equality Act on Fox News each morning during the week of the Republican National Convention.The 30-second spot, which premiered during Fox News’ Fox & Friends program on Monday morning, will air during the show each morning in the New York and Washington, D.C. media markets.

Also Read: How to Watch CNN's Republican National Convention Coverage Live OnlineTrump’s speech formally accepting the Republican nomination for president again will happen on Thursday night to end the convention, but, as mentioned before, he is expected to pop up on the other nights as well in some capacity.

Also Read: Chris Wallace: Michelle Obama 'Flayed, Sliced and Diced' Trump in DNC Speech (Video)When Wallace tried to interject, Meadows raised his voice, trying to divert the conversation to claims that the “FBI and others within the FBI spied on the Trump campaign.”“You’re bringing it up and it’s ridiculous!” he exclaimed.Wallace responded: “The point is, it’s a hate group.

NEW YORK -- Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are providing television viewers with a distinctly different vision of the Democratic National Convention each night from their perches on Fox News Channel. Hannity calls the virtual convention “the worst infomercial ever made” and provides brief, annotated highlights of some Democratic speakers.

Chrissy Teigen is still trolling Jeanine Pirro, and made the former judge an offer after the hilariously inaccurate attack the Fox News host aimed at Joe Biden on her Saturday night broadcast.

The Guardian.According to The Guardian, in Stelter’s “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth,” which hits shelves Tuesday, he writes that in 2019, the president was “so incensed” by criticisms made by Andrew Napolitano, a New Jersey superior court judge who joined Fox News in 1998, “that he had implored Barr to send Rupert a message in person … about ‘muzzling the judge’ [Trump] wanted the nation’s top law enforcement official to convey just how atrocious Napolitano’s

his 25-minute speech in which he formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president.After the speech, the Fox News panelists discussed their immediate reactions, and it sounds like Biden’s words made a pretty big impact on Chris Wallace, Bret Baier Donna Brazile and Dana Perino.Dana Perino, who was White House Press Secretary under George W.