Parker Molloy

Parker Molloy is a Chicago-based writer.

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Sep. 25, 2020

In the battle for the Supreme Court, media call Republican hypocrisy savvy while treating Democrats as extremists

Just four years after the Senate Republicans unprecedentedly blocked President Barack Obama’s final Supreme Court nomination on the grounds that voters should have a voice in selecting the next member of the court, they and President Donald Trump are…

Sep. 23, 2020

Media Matters for America

A decade after screaming about nonexistent “death panels,” Fox News is downplaying the deaths of 200,000 Americans

A decade after sounding the alarm about nonexistent “death panels” for seniors -- and eight years after obsessing over the four lives tragically lost in the Benghazi attacks -- Fox News has spent the past six months systematically downplaying,…

Sep. 22, 2020

Media Matters for America

Pro-Trump media accuse Democrats of being “anti-science” for trusting scientists

During a Sunday interview with Fox News host Mark Levin, President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “denigrating” possible coronavirus vaccines because they don’t want him to get credit for having a vaccine “in record time.” Trump’s comments echo a…

Sep. 19, 2020

Media Matters for America

Right-wing media figures make disparaging remarks after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death

Right-wing media figures responded to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- a feminist and cultural icon -- with disparaging remarks, attacks on Democrats, and even excitement. Despite refusing to even hold a hearing for President…

Sep. 13, 2020

Media Matters for America

Pro-Trump disinformation efforts could tilt the entire election — if media outlets and tech companies let it happen

In January 2017, my colleague Matt Gertz wrote a piece titled “What Journalists Can Do When The President Is A Liar” in which he urged the press to rethink the way presidents are covered in the context of President-elect Donald Trump: Journalists…

Sep. 9, 2020

Media Matters for America

Mark Zuckerberg denies Facebook is a “right-wing echo chamber,” but the facts tell a different story

In a new interview with Mike Allen of Axios, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the social media platform from accusations of being a “right-wing echo chamber,” explained why the site doesn’t treat anti-vaccination content the same way it treats…

Sep. 8, 2020

Media Matters for America

The press is making the same mistakes as 2016 — and time is running out to fix the problem

Right-wing commentator and thorn in my side Erick Erickson coined a phrase a while back that I can’t help but admire. “You will be made to care.” I kick myself for not coming up with it first, because while he uses the phrase to talk about culture…

Sep. 3, 2020

Media Matters for America

Trump encouraged his supporters to commit voter fraud, but too much of the media responded with a shrug

It’s entirely possible that President Donald Trump committed a felony on Wednesday when he instructed his supporters in North Carolina to vote twice as a way to test anti-fraud systems. This might come as a surprise to many voters, as the story was…

Aug. 26, 2020

Media Matters for America

Pro-Trump media’s outrage over Pelosi’s “domestic enemies” is laughable as the RNC rage-fest carries on

The world of conservative media is in an uproar over vehement comments Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made about the threat the president poses to the election during a recent appearance on MSNBC Live with Ayman Mohyeldin. But right-wing…

Aug. 14, 2020

Media Matters for America

Trump uses his 1980s tabloid playbook to get favorable headlines today

President Donald Trump knows the value of a good headline. Luckily for him, the press has spent the past several decades willingly providing Trump with the splashy front-page stories that have helped fuel his rise to power. In his pre-politics life…

Aug. 7, 2020

Media Matters for America

Twitter’s enforcement inconsistency undermines its efforts at policy reforms

Every so often, Twitter rolls out a policy that sounds genuinely good, winning praise from the platform’s fans and critics alike. Its decision to restrict the spread of false and potentially harmful COVID-19 information, to crack down on…

Aug. 4, 2020

Media Matters for America

PolitiFact’s “Trump-O-Meter” is an embarrassing encapsulation of the problem with modern media

On Monday, fact-checking organization PolitiFact tweeted a link to one of the entries in its “Trump-O-Meter” campaign-promise tracker. In doing so, the organization highlighted a longstanding problem with its own work. PolitiFact tweeted: “As a…

Aug. 3, 2020

Media Matters for America

After riding Ebola fears to victory in 2014, right-wing media are playing politics with the 2020 pandemic

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but the way pro-Trump media have covered the ongoing coronavirus pandemic stands in pretty stark contrast to how those same outlets covered Obama-era scares such as the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Ebola was a major…

Jul. 27, 2020

Media Matters for America

Journalists have been obsessing over Trump supposedly changing his “tone” for five years

It’s been more than five years since Donald Trump rode down the golden escalator of his eponymous New York City tower to a crowd containing actors paid to cheer for him. There, he announced his campaign for president. As months passed, it became…

Jul. 22, 2020

Media Matters for America

Mainstream news outlets keep running stories about performative GOP opposition to Trump

In June 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss Republicans’ imminent nomination of then-candidate Donald Trump. There, he sought to calm the nerves of Trump-skeptical members of his party. “I do…

Jul. 10, 2020

Media Matters for America

QAnon may be coming to Congress, and journalists need to be ready

“Gun-toting” restaurateur Lauren Boebert came out ahead of incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton in the Republican primary for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. She was described as a “guns rights activist” by Twitter, USA Today’s headline read, “5-term…

Jul. 7, 2020

Media Matters for America

Facebook has repeatedly caved to bogus right-wing pressure

Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg met with leaders of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign today. Following the meeting, members of the campaign were clear that Facebook offered “the same old talking points” and intended to take…

Jul. 1, 2020

Media Matters for America

The right-wing playbook against supposed liberal media bias is being used on tech giants with alarming effectiveness

On Sunday, The Washington Post reported how President Donald Trump and Republicans have used baseless charges of anti-conservative bias to create an increasingly conservative-friendly environment at Facebook. Nothing about the Post’s reporting is…

Jun. 22, 2020

Media Matters for America

Stories about TikTok teens taking down Trump ignore simpler explanations for his low turnout in Tulsa

Think TikTok teens tanked Trump’s Tulsa turnout? That’s a theory being reported by outlets like CNN, The Guardian, and NBC News. In the run-up to President Donald Trump’s most recent rally, K-pop fans and teens on video-based social media site TikTok…

Jun. 18, 2020

Media Matters for America

The Federalist threw itself a pity party over a warning from Google, baselessly complaining about anti-conservative tech bias

Conservative media outlets are mad about censorship again. This time it’s Google that has earned their ire. On Tuesday, NBC reported that Google had banned right-wing conspiracy theory site ZeroHedge from its ad platform and issued a warning to…