Bad news this week for Trump – but Fox viewers might have missed it | Margaret Sullivan

The network continues to cater to its presidential ‘audience of one’, downplaying his supreme court loss and more Two breaking stories roiled US politics this week and immediately got big play on most news sites. The supreme court surprisingly rejected – for now – Donald Trump’s attempted restrictions on mail-in ballots, a blow to Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. And the investigative site ProPublica revealed that a Russian oligarch had helped to bankroll the Bahamas wedding of Trump’s son Donald Jr, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The blockbuster story quickly became ProPublica’s most-read article this year and was covered heavily elsewhere.

“There’s no looking away from this Trump scoop,” wrote CNN’s Brian Stelter. Unless you watched Fox News, of course. There, it was business as usual. The wedding blockbuster got barely a nod on Monday night: a mere minute on the rightwing network’s evening programming, as the progressive non-profit watchdog Media Matters reported. “The news broke during the 7 p.m. hour, but Laura Ingraham, a law school grad, didn’t bother to tell viewers,” Stelter noted. Neither did the other big-name Fox opinion hosts, Jesse Watters and Sean Hannity. You would have had to wait until