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Fox News Spends Hours On Targets Pride March And Seconds On Church Child Sex Abuse Scandal

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A new report from media watchdog group Media Matters revealed that Fox News dedicated more than 2 hours of hysterical coverage on the backlash to Target’s Pride Month displays while running less than a half-minute of coverage on a new bombshell report detailing sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Illinois. According to the report, the right-wing TV network spent two hours, 12 minutes, and 32 seconds covering the Target backlash between May 23 and May 30, coverage which included multiple Fox correspondents expressing outrage that Target would expose children to clothing with positive messages about the LGBTQ+ community. Fox devoted just 22 seconds of airtime to cover findings of an investigation conducted by the Illinois attorney general’s office accusing 451 clergy members from the Illinois Catholic Church of abusing nearly 2000 children in the state over a period spanning nearly 70 years. Those figures are significantly higher than the 103 individuals previously acknowledged by the church when the state’s review began in 2018. The repeated targeting of pro-LGBTQ+ products and sentiments, thinly veiled as defenses of children’s innocence, fit into Fox and right-wing media’s larger homophobic campaign to conflate the LGBTQ+ community with grooming and child abuse

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  • Dr. Julio Capo, Jr

    A proud board member of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, one of the largest LGBTQ archives in the United States, and an associate professor of history and the deputy director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) at Florida International University. He is the author of the book “Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940” and an editor and contributor to the Made by History section of The Washington Post, which offers historical context to today’s headlines.

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