Republican Challenges and Media Gaps

Last week Fox News hosts rejoiced over the federal takeover of Washington D.C., praised Trump for an excessively long cabinet meeting and demonized all transgender people after another tragic mass shooting at a Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

When President Donald J. Trump declared that he would send National Guard troops into Chicago the network celebrated the idea of U.S. military personnel fighting crime in the third largest city in the country. The word "‘Chicago’ appeared 132 times in the transcripts last week. But according U.S. News & World Report Chicago did not even make its list of the top 25 most dangerous cities in the United States for 2025-2026 .

Other important topics for the Murdoch owned media empire included Cracker Barrel’s decision to go back to its original logo, Gavin Newsom’s social media posts, a recent Democratic National Committee summer meeting and the ICE arrest of Kilmar Abrego Garcia an undocumented immigrant who has been treated like a pawn in Trump’s brutal crackdown on illegal immigration.

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