Matt Gertz

Matt Gertz is a senior fellow at Media Matters, which he joined in 2007. His work focuses on the relationship between Fox News and the Trump administration, news coverage of politics and elections, and media ethics. Matt's writing on the Trump-Fox feedback loop has appeared in The Daily Beast, HuffPost, NBC News' THINK, and Politico Magazine, and he has discussed his analysis on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and Comedy Central. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University. Matt is married to Washington Post opinion writer Alyssa Rosenberg.

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The Latest

Tax cheat TV: Fox News buries report that enhanced IRS funding would reap hundreds of billions in unpaid and overdue tax revenue

STUDY: How Sean Hannity helped build the GOP’s collapsing Hunter Biden impeachment case

The political press runs with Hur’s scurrilous partisan attack

Why Vladimir Putin picked Tucker Carlson

Trumpists say failure of Trump immunity argument will force them to conduct the political prosecutions they already want to do

A brief history of the right-wing media’s incendiary border “invasion” talking point

Sean Hannity says he discounted Trump’s stock market performance. He did --- when it fell.

Every report on immigration politics should mention this central fact

Fox personalities try and fail to will a Trump pivot into existence

Why Trump, Haley, and DeSantis are ending the GOP primary by attacking Fox

How the right-wing media built — and broke — Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign

TheBlaze’s Jason Whitlock hosts notorious antisemite to denounce supposed Jewish control of US government, Black people