Conservative Media Shrugs at Market Turmoil

“Nervous investors seeking news about the plunging markets on Monday afternoon would have been out of luck if they turned to the websites of The New York Post, The Daily Caller, One America News or The Blaze. Not one of those right-leaning outlets featured articles about the sell-off as the closing bell rang, cementing Wall Street’s steepest decline of the year,” the New York Times reports.

“And Fox Business Network, which pledges to ‘deliver content focused on investing, optimism and the American dream,’ placed coverage of the drop on its site below a story about temporary outages on Elon Musk’s social media site, X.”

“As President Trump’s unpredictable and halting tariff policies rattled investors this week, many of his most loyal supporters in the media and on Capitol Hill chose to barely mention the news — or to frame it as a potentially good thing.”