Decoding Fox News

Apr 08 2025 215 ep. 47 mins 511

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A weekly analysis of 15 hours of Fox News programing hosted by Juliet Jeske a researcher and journalist with a background in covering extremism.

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Podcast #157 - Trump's Tariff Fever Dreams and Robots! Robots! Robots!

Apr 08 2025 51 mins

Last week, as trillions of dollars of value were lost on the stock market and other global trading markets, Fox News hosts promoted the idea of a bipartisan Senate and House investigation into Joe Biden’s cognitive decline during his presidency. They couldn’t have come up with a worse solution for improving investors’ confidence in the U.S. economy than a never-ending inquiry

Podcast #156 - Fox News - Signalgate? But Her Emails!

Apr 02 2025 50 mins

Last week Fox News revived its hatred of the network’s favorite Democratic villainess to distract its viewers from Signalgate - the messy and embarrassing scandal involving top military and intelligence government officials discussing an airstrike in Yemen on their personal phones with a reporter privy to their every word. Hillary Clinton - the ultimate liberal, corrupt, establis

Podcast #155 - Fox News: The Week When Everyone Went Rogue

Mar 27 2025 50 mins

Last week on Fox several guests and a few hosts openly debunked lies the network was trying to promote. It was a festival of guests and Fox News employees accidentally going rogue as they didn’t follow the Fox News narrative. Something wonky happened in the propaganda matrix. Even Fox News hosts inadvertently undermined their own talking points. Were the astronauts really strande

Bonus Podcast - How Fox Covered the Pentagon Texting Scandal

Mar 26 2025 54 mins

On Monday Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, published a story about how he was accidentally invited into a group chat on Signal where top defense and intelligence officials planned a military strike on Yemen. Fox tried to ignore the story then had a complete meltdown over it. The Trump administration hit its first iceberg of sorts but luckily this time no one went

Podcast #154 - A Thousand Tiny Violins for Elon Musk

Mar 19 2025 58 mins

Last week as the stock market tanked, the delicate truce between Israel and Hamas faltered, Russian drones pummeled Ukrainian cities, and another commercial airplane burst into flames Fox News wanted its viewers to take pity on the richest man in the world. On Fox Elon Musk was portrayed as a selfless man dedicated to helping his adopted country pull itself out of a death spiral of

Podcast #153 - As Trump Implodes Fox Disses Democrats

Mar 12 2025 57 mins

As the stock market tumbled and Trump’s approval ratings continued to drop the folks on Fox cherry-picked biased polls, mislead their viewers about tariffs, repeated the president’s lies about immigration and demonized Democrats. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/sub

Bonus Video Podcast - How Fox Covered Trump's Speech to Congress

Mar 07 2025 46 mins

This video podcast includes additional commentary for audio listeners. I breakdown how Fox News covered Trump's Speech to a Joint Session of Congress from "Fox & Friends" until "Hannity" This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe

Podcast #152 - The Cracks in DOGE Start While Trump's Mind Turns To Mush

Mar 06 2025 58 mins

Last week on Fox News the network took a slight shift away from its aggressive promotion of Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) to focus on a favorite topic - incompetent Democrats. The minority party was everything all at once - too old, young, radical, meek, uptight, woke, sleepy, bombastic, corrupt, backward, ineffective, Machiavellian and shifty. On “The

Bonus Video Podcast - Oval Office Meltdown

Mar 01 2025 39 mins

A rare video podcast that covers how multiple Fox News shows covered Donald J. Trump’s disastrous Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This covers programming before the meeting, the meeting itself and “The Five,” “The Five,” “Special Report with Bret Baier,” “The Ingraham Angle,” “Jesse Watters Primetime,” and “Hannity.” This

Podcast #151 - Fox Pretends Everyone Loves Elon Musk Even as Voters Scream They Hate Him

Feb 26 2025 56 mins

Last week the folks on Fox continued to elevate Elon Musk as a wildly popular champion of the American people while they pretended proposed $5000 DOGE dividend checks issued to every adult American would not cause inflation. Crime, the economy, transgender athletes, DEI programs, the woke mind virus, border crossings and mass deportations all took a backseat as the network became a