Zachary Pleat | Media Matters for America

Zachary Pleat is a senior researcher at Media Matters, where he has worked since January 2009. He has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of South Florida.

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Broadcast TV evening news prioritized stock market updates and inflation coverage over all other economic issues in the first quarter of 2024

04/25/24 9:59 AM EDT
Top 5 newspapers continue to mostly ignore presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s inflationary policies

04/23/24 9:31 AM EDT
Fox continues to mislead about grocery inflation

04/11/24 2:04 PM EDT
Right-wing media attack Biden plan to relieve 30 million student loan borrowers as “vote buying”

04/09/24 4:19 PM EDT
Trump's inflationary policies were almost totally ignored in the top 5 US newspapers' early 2024 inflation coverage

03/25/24 9:51 AM EDT
Media outlets are falling for Trump’s “bloodbath” spin: The auto industry under Biden is now stronger than it's been in nearly 20 years

03/18/24 5:50 PM EDT
Trump's disastrous CNBC interview where he signaled openness to cutting Social Security shows the perils of the MAGA media bubble

03/14/24 2:38 PM EDT
Right-wing media are coming for your retirement

03/13/24 5:14 PM EDT
Grocery inflation last month was flat, but Fox was hammering Biden on food costs anyway

03/12/24 3:57 PM EDT
Conservatives rally to defend failed “trickle-down economics” model after Biden criticized it

03/08/24 4:19 PM EST
America is producing more energy than ever, but Fox News is attacking Biden over it anyway

03/07/24 8:11 PM EST
Tens of millions of Americans are inundated by credit card junk fees — and now right-wing media are rallying to defend this price gouging

03/06/24 4:26 PM EST