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When you ask people what they think about a policy practice -- say, blowing away random speedboats in the Caribbean on grounds that they...

How does the media agenda go together at the Fox News homepage these days? Let's enjoy a current example, with some trivia from the past...

Here's a charmingly ornate bit of fabrication from the Fox homepage Friday morning ,* just to help set the stage for Saturday's ...

  If you've been wondering who gets to serve the word salad at the Fox News homepage, here's a quick look at headlines, 2022-24. The...

Fox News seemed to have a little bit of trouble settling on a top story Saturday morning, so let's play an agenda-setting game. Assuming...

It seems sort of a truism of the whole agenda-setting project that when an issue (think Vietnam, civil rights or the 1968 campaign in the or...

 Every now and then, you run across a unicorn in the Fox data, as in this example from April 2024. Nothing unusual, of course, about a ...