Just two weeks of Fox News' Benghazi coverage is worth over $124 million, according to a Media Matters study. 

Fox's coverage of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya went into overdrive in the wake of House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) announcement on May 2 that Republicans would form a select committee to further investigate the tragedy. The decision marked a victory for the network, which has dedicated months -- and years -- to pushing misinformation and demanding answers to questions already addressed in the public record. 

According to a Media Matters study of publicity values for Fox programming, the network's never-ending effort to hawk the GOP's Benghazi theories amounts to a public relations windfall for Republicans valued at over $124 million.

For the two weeks following the select committee announcement, Media Matters reviewed TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite, a subscription-only database of television broadcasts, for Fox's weekday coverage of Benghazi. Data revealed that the network devoted over 16 hours and 27 minutes -- at least 225 segments -- to Benghazi in that time period. According to TVEyes' “national publicity value,” which estimates the value of 30-second slots on any given program, this coverage carries a value of approximately $124,234,562.74.

And yet, given the fervor with which Fox has politicized the tragedy since September 2012, this amount almost certainly represents but a fraction of the publicity value Benghazi scandal mongers have enjoyed from the network's devotion to their phony attacks.

METHODOLOGY: Media Matters searched Fox News Channel programming in TVEyes Monitoring Suite for “Benghazi OR Libya,” for weekday broadcasts airing 5:00 am - 11:00 pm between May 2 - May 16. Only segments with at least 30 seconds of discussion of Benghazi were included.