Fox News has aired live over 11 hours of Trump rallies since April 28

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That’s 83 times more coverage than CNN and MSNBC combined.

Since April 28, Trump has held 10 rallies. Fox News carried every single one of those rallies live for their entire duration, totalling 11 hours and 21 minutes of airtime. During that same time, CNN has not aired a single second of Trump’s rallies live, while MSNBC has aired just over 8 minutes of Trump’s rallies live. CNN occasionally cuts to correspondents during the rallies who report on what’s going on, and hosts on the network often note they’re monitoring the rallies for any news on stories of the day.

Fox, on the other hand, makes Trump rallies a central part of its programming for the evening. Before the rally, Fox figures discuss the upcoming rally. During it, they show the rally. Afterward, they discuss the rally.

Fox's obsession with Trump rallies isn't contained to just Fox News' cable network. Both Fox Business and Fox News' YouTube channel often air the rallies as well.

In total, by airing Trump’s rallies unfiltered and uninterrupted, Fox has essentially gifted Trump over $20 million in free advertising value, according to calculations by media monitoring service iQ media. As Trump’s rallies become increasingly about supporting Republican candidates, and himself, Fox is basically giving a big donation to the Republican party.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/06/In-the-past-few-months-Fox-News-has-aired-live-over-11-hours-of-Trump-rallies/220909

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1. and the rallies are incredibly repetitive

and the objects of the rally get almost no mentions and no airtime...

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2. That's because Fox is the official propaganda arm for

Trump and the Complicit Republican Congress. Fox is Goebbels' wet dream. The gavel-to-gavel coverage of Trump's incessant rallies by Fox reinforces, spreads and beams the Trump message to the deplorables unable to attend in person.

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3. "We find footage of The Don much cheaper than real programming"