Parker Molloy

Parker Molloy is a Chicago-based writer.

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Jan. 26, 2021

Right-wing media helped usher in the age of “cancel culture,” but now pretend it's an invention of the left

In an op-ed plastered across Monday’s New York Post front page, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) calls for an end to the “muzzling of America.” Despite getting a spot on the front page of the fourth-largest newspaper in the U.S., coverage across the entire…

Jan. 25, 2021

Media Matters for America

Conservatives' latest absurd attack on Biden: He's violating calls for “unity” unless he does everything we want

Unity was a major theme of President Joe Biden’s campaign, and so it wasn’t much of a surprise for the word to show up eight times in his inaugural address. But predictably, right-wing media quickly ripped Biden’s message from its context and…

Jan. 22, 2021

Media Matters for America

Now that Democrats are back in power, conservatives are again pretending to care about debt and deficits

It begins. As predictable as sunrise and sunset, Republicans and their right-wing media allies are marking the beginning of President Joe Biden’s administration by once again pretending to care about the deficit and national debt. During his…

Jan. 17, 2021

Media Matters for America

Conservatives want everyone to know that they’re the real victims of the January 6 insurrection

In the days since a mob of Trump supporters waged an attack on the U.S. Capitol, I’ve been thinking a lot about the week in October 2018 when a supporter of President Donald Trump was caught mailing explosives to prominent Democrats and a right-wing…

Jan. 13, 2021

Media Matters for America

After a week of excuses, blame, and insincere calls for unity, right-wing media must own up to their role in the January 6 attack on Congress

When it comes to right-wing media, the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been nothing if not predictable. On Fox News, you could watch the real time progression from praising the rioters to downplaying the damage to drawing…

Jan. 8, 2021

Media Matters for America

Desperate not to take responsibility for what they’ve set in motion, pro-Trump media pivot to conspiracy theories

Right-wing media have spent more than two months telling audiences that November’s election was “stolen” from President Donald Trump and promoting efforts to overturn the results. They’ve presented Trump’s loss as a great injustice and as a wrong…

Jan. 6, 2021

Media Matters for America

QAnon backers have a crazy new conspiracy theory about the election: Italy did it

One of the many problems with the slow descent into conspiratorial madness unfolding across conservative media and within the Republican Party is that once you’ve reached a point where the president is dialing up state election officials to babble on…

Jan. 5, 2021

Media Matters for America

After repeatedly telling people that the election was stolen, Fox News now justifies efforts to overturn it because Republicans “feel” it was rigged

In recent days, pro-Trump media figures and Republican lawmakers have tried to justify the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the president’s electoral loss on the basis that there are many people who believe it was rigged. Needless to say, this is…

Dec. 22, 2020

Media Matters for America

For the sake of public health, the press must avoid sensationalizing stories about adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines

It’s been an exciting and hopeful past couple of weeks in the world of COVID-19 vaccine news. On December 11, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for a two-part novel coronavirus vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech,…

Dec. 21, 2020

Media Matters for America

As Trump tries to blow up Section 230, Fox News fuels a campaign of misinformation

In an odd if not entirely unexpected act in the waning days of his presidency, Donald Trump plans to veto a bill providing more than $740 billion in military funding because of his opposition to Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, a nearly…

Dec. 15, 2020

Media Matters for America

Never let Trump’s accomplices live down their attacks on democracy

In a lawsuit filed last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed that last month's elections in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia “suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities.” The suit asked the Supreme Court to…

Dec. 3, 2020

Media Matters for America

After Biden's win, pro-Trump forces tried to subvert the election. Fox personalities have been on the front line.

By November 5, it had become clear that President Donald Trump was not going to win a second term. Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania was slipping, and with it went any real chance of electoral victory. Trump had spent months baselessly claiming that the…

Dec. 1, 2020

Media Matters for America

Right-wing media’s civil war is setting off a race to the bottom

At 11:20 p.m. on November 3, the Fox News Decision Desk called the state of Arizona for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. This, according to a New York Times report, sent President Donald Trump into a rage ahead of a 2:30 a.m. speech in the…

Nov. 20, 2020

Media Matters for America

Conservative media keep comparing Donald Trump to Stacey Abrams, but they’ve got it all wrong

President Donald Trump continues to wage war against the results of the 2020 presidential election. Though it’s been nearly two weeks since every major news organization declared former Vice President Joe Biden the clear winner of the race, Trump’s…

Nov. 18, 2020

Media Matters for America

Right-wing media dismiss efforts to save thousands of lives as a “War on Thanksgiving”

Thanksgiving celebrations may look a bit different this year as the result of the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, which has already infected more than 11 million people in the United States and killed more than 246,000, according to the Centers for…

Nov. 12, 2020

Media Matters for America

Conservatives' complaints about media calling presidential elections are desperate nonsense

On Saturday, after days of uncertainty, CNN became the first major news network to call the presidential race for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Within minutes, NBC, CBS, The Associated Press, and finally Fox News followed CNN’s lead. This type of…

Nov. 6, 2020

Media Matters for America

Right-wing disinformation about electoral fraud in Wisconsin got its start on a site disguised as a local news source

The march of election-related disinformation continues unabated. On Wednesday, an article published at a website called Milwaukee City Wire falsely claimed that a number of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wards were reporting more votes than registered voters.…

Nov. 4, 2020

Media Matters for America

Right-wing influencers are using the #StopTheSteal hashtag to buoy Trump's attempts to undercut democracy

In the wake of the 2018 midterms, a handful of influential conservative commentators rallied around a hashtag, “#StopTheSteal,” to claim Democrats were trying to “steal” the election. But there was no “steal” to be “stopped.” For the most part, the…

Nov. 2, 2020

Media Matters for America

Recent court rulings are a “win” for the right to vote, not just for Democrats

In reporting on last week’s Supreme Court ruling leaving North Carolina’s nine-day grace period for mail-in ballots intact, the Associated Press adopted a curious framing presenting it as a partisan issue. In a tweet, the AP announced the decision as…

Oct. 28, 2020

Media Matters for America

The latest Senate hearing on social media bias was just another example of right-wingers working the refs

On Wednesday, the Senate commerce committee held a hearing about content moderation on social media platforms, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were called as witnesses. The hearing was…