NewsNation accuses Fox News of stealing their slogan for its Super Bowl ad
Calling out Fox News in a new TV promo, 'centrist' cable news upstart NewsNation accuses its much larger competitor of ripping off its slogan for a prominent ad the right-wing network ran during the Super Bowl this past Sunday.
The new on-air commercial, which NewsNation posted to its social media accounts on Tuesday night, points out that the Fox News promo boasts that it is a news channel 'For All America,' a slogan that is remarkably similar to the tagline that NewsNation first debuted in 2021 and slightly revised late last year.
'News for all Americans,' NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo declares in the channel's ad alongside a graphic that blares 'A Tagline So Good.' Cuomo then points out that Fox News ended their widely seen commercial with the 'For All America' slogan emblazoned on the screen.
'Sound familiar?' Cuomo snarked. 'Of course it does. They took it from NewsNation!'
While additional graphics stated that 'it's easy to talk the talk, because only one network walks the walk,' Cuomo took a swipe at Fox News for not featuring any of its conservative opinion hosts — such as Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters or Greg Gutfeld — in the Super Bowl commercial.
'Why are none of the main players at Fox in the ad?' Cuomo wondered while footage of NewsNation anchors Elizabeth Vargas, Leland Vittert, Ashleigh Banfield and Cuomo played in the background. Incidentally, Vittert was once a Fox News correspondent and host before jumping to the Nexstar-owned station in 2021.
NewsNation first debuted its 'News for All America' tagline in a promotional campaign in August 2021, which was when the then-nascent network was first expanding to a full-time cable news channel. Following the 2024 presidential election it made a minor tweak to its slogan, changing it to 'News For All Americans' as the station hoped to continue to build on the growing viewership it has experienced over the past year.
Meanwhile, as media reporter Oliver Darcy noted in his Status newsletter on Monday, 'media organizations can't seem to get enough of the phrase 'For All America'' now that Donald Trump is in office. Besides Fox News' ad and NewsNation revising its slogan, The Washington Post has been testing out the new mission statement 'Riveting Storytelling For All of America.'
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The Independent
5 hours ago
- The Independent
Fox News dishonestly spins Trump's ‘receipts' about Newsom call, which actually prove governor is right
After Gavin Newsom pushed back on Donald Trump's claim that the two had a phone call 'a day ago' about the ongoing protests in Los Angeles, Fox News published what it called 'receipts' from the president that supposedly proved that the California governor was 'lying.' Instead, the call log that Trump handed over to Fox News anchor John Roberts Tuesday showed that Newsom was right all along. That didn't seem to matter to the right-wing network, though, as multiple hosts and reporters still dishonestly spun for the president despite their 'receipt' supporting the governor's claim. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, the president was asked when he last spoke to the governor, who is currently suing the administration for federally deploying the National Guard to LA in response to the demonstrations over Trump's immigration raids. 'A day ago,' the president responded. 'Called him up to tell him, got to do a better job, he's doing a bad job. Causing a lot of death and a lot of potential death.' Captioning a clip of Trump's remarks, Newsom immediately disputed the president in a social media post. 'There was no call. Not even a voicemail,' the governor wrote. 'Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying the Marines onto our streets doesn't even know who he's talking to.' Following Newsom's denial that a call had taken place within the past day, Trump quickly called up Roberts and told him that the governor was lying. The Fox News anchor then posted on X the president's comments as well as a screenshot of Trump's phone showing the latest call activity with Newsom. 'President Trump just contacted me from Air Force 1 to say this: 'First call was not picked up. Second call, Gavin picked up, we spoke for 16 minutes. I told him to, essentially, 'get his a** in gear,' and stop the riots, which were out of control. More than anything else, this shows what a liar he is - Said I never called. Here is the evidence,'' Roberts tweeted. The screenshot on the president's phone log, meanwhile, showed two calls made to Newsom, one of which was not picked up and the other lasting for over 16 minutes. Both of these calls took place at 1:23 a.m. ET on June 7, which would have been late Friday night in California - days earlier then Trump claimed in the Oval Office. Newsom had already publicly discussed that call with multiple reporters in recent days, including in an interview with NBC News that featured the governor daring the administration to 'come get me' after Trump's border czar threatened to arrest him. The governor told NBC News on Sunday that he had a 'very decent conversation' with Trump late Friday night that lasted roughly 20 minutes, adding that the president never brought up the prospect of mobilizing the National Guard. While the call log from the president clearly supported Newsom's timeline, Roberts framed the matter as the president bringing the 'receipts' to disprove the governor during an on-air report. At the same time, he massaged the president's Oval Office remarks to give Trump a bit more cover. 'After Trump said in the noon hour in the Oval Office that he called him yesterday or the other day, Gavin Newsom tweeted the following: 'There was no call. Not even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying the Marines onto our streets doesn't even know who he's talking to,'' Roberts stated, suggesting the president said something he never uttered. Going through the president's screenshot and comments to him, Roberts conceded that this showed the call happened on June 7 and that it would have been late Friday night where the governor was located. Still, the segment was framed as the president catching Newsom in a lie. 'We're waiting to see if Gov. Newsom has a response to the president's – essentially what he has there is the receipts for what he says is the call that was made,' co-anchor Molly Line declared, prompting Roberts to add: 'It's all about the receipts!' That Fox News segment was quickly picked up by MAGA media personality Charlie Kirk, who tweeted that it was 'gold' because it revealed that Trump had dropped 'the receipts on his call with Gavin Newsom.' The governor, however, promptly pushed back. 'If only he had shown the right ones... Trump doesn't even know what day it is,' he posted on X. Meanwhile, in response to Roberts' initial tweet of the president's screenshot, Newsom's press office flatly pointed out that 'this call was from 3 days ago.' Despite it being clear at this point that Trump had not refuted Newsom's claim that a call did not take place the previous day, the network continued to frame the president's comments and phone log as proof to the contrary. 'Trump brings receipts he called Newsom amid LA riots as California gov claims there wasn't 'even a voicemail,'' the headline read of Fox News' digital story on the back-and-forth, which was co-bylined by Roberts. While the digital story includes comments from Newsom and his press office pointing out that the governor was 'clearly' responding to Trump's 'comment this morning of 'a day ago,'' the report largely revolves around how the president 'hit back' at the governor's 'claims that the president did not recently call him.' The network's senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, in multiple reports on Fox News and its sister network Fox Business, essentially just pretended that the disagreement wasn't over when the president last called Newsom, but rather if Trump had ever phoned him. 'Newsom then claimed that there was no call, not even a voicemail,' Doocy said on Special Report after airing a clip of Trump's Oval Office comments. 'A screenshot of an iPhone call log to Fox News' John Roberts shows two calls from the president to Newsom on Saturday. One lasted for 16 minutes!' With the network's 'straight news' division laying the groundwork, the conservative cable giant's pro-Trump opinion hosts were then apparently given free rein to get even more deceptive with their own spin. During his primetime show Tuesday night, Jesse Watters – who had already asserted on The Five hours earlier that Newsom was 'lying' because he 'can't control the narrative' – presented an edited clip of Trump's Oval Office remarks that completely excised the president's assertion that it was 'a day ago' that he called the governor. 'Newsom responded, and he said there wasn't a phone call. He said Trump never called him. Not even a voicemail, he said,' Watters proclaimed after airing the edited video. 'But John Roberts got Trump's call logs, and it shows Trump called him late Friday night and they talked for 16 minutes,' the MAGA host added. 'Why would Newsom lie and claim Trump never called him? Why would he do that?!' The president, in the end, made sure to reference his text to Roberts when he was asked on Tuesday night about Newsom disputing his claim that the two had talked on Monday. 'Gov. Newsom says he did not speak to you a day ago, as you said in the Oval Office earlier. What's your response to that?' a reporter wondered after Trump returned from his Fort Bragg speech. 'It wasn't a day ago, a little longer than that, and I presented the phone conversation to Fox News' John Roberts and Molly Line at Fox News, because they were the ones that said it,' Trump responded. 'And we actually spent 16 point something minutes on the phone. And I told him, he's got to get his act together. …. We had a pleasant conversation. …. I'm sure you all saw it. You saw them, yeah? But why would you ask me that question if you saw it?'
The Guardian
7 hours ago
- The Guardian
Jimmy Kimmel on troops in LA: ‘Disgusting and unnecessary abuse of power'
Late-night hosts react to Donald Trump sending troops to Los Angeles in response to protests to his immigration raids, and dispute the Fox News narrative of insurrection. Jimmy Kimmel tore into Donald Trump in front of a full house in Hollywood, 'which might be surprising to you in other parts of the country who've been watching cable news and believe this city is some sort of totalitarian hellscape right now,' he noted. 'It most certainly is not.' Kimmel showed footage of life as usual outside the studio in Los Angeles – 'not only is it not an apocalypse, they're having a Disney Pixar movie premiere right now' – in contrast to the Fox News narrative of a violent insurrection. And he tore into the president, first for pursuing brutal raids on immigrants working in the city, arresting and detaining thousands without due process. 'I'm very angry,' he said. 'I cannot believe what's going on. I knew it was going to be bad. I did not know it was going to be this bad. People who have lived here their whole lives, people who have been in this city longer than I have, the vast majority of whom have never done anything wrong are being abducted – which is the correct word to use – by agents in masks hiding their identities. Grabbing people off the street and at work, and sending people to detention centers.' 'And to protest that, which is not only our right as Americans, it's our responsibility, Los Angelenos have been gathering to demonstrate – with very few exceptions, peacefully demonstrate – to voice their opposition to this disgusting and unnecessary abuse of power instigated by our mentally ill president.' Trump, he added, is 'dead-set on exacerbating this. He actually wants conflict. He is intentionally inflaming and lying to make it seem like there's a war going on here. He wants there to be a war going on here, and he doesn't care who gets hurt in it. There's no riot outside. We have more so-called unrest here when one of our teams wins a championship. But that's not what you're seeing on TV.' 'Trump wants it to seem like anarchy, so he goes around our governor, he calls in 4,000 troops from the National Guard, 700 active marines,' Kimmel continued. 'You know, when we had the wildfires that devastated big chunks of our city, he did absolutely nothing. Now that we're in the middle of a non-emergency, send in the National Guard!' The president, Kimmel added, 'lies about everything, but it's especially maddening when it's about a situation you are physically in. Everyone in this room right now knows that none of these doomsday scenarios the president and his minions keep imagining allowed are remotely true. There are no mobs. There's no violent insurrection. There are Americans who are upset, marching to protect their neighbors, no matter what this sick person says.' 'Donald Trump created this problem,' he concluded. 'He's putting the police and the military in danger. He is the one deporting children and their parents without any process. He's the one who has Ice agents outside immigration offices arresting the people who showed up to do the right thing and check in with the immigration office.' 'This is not a problem we have, this is a problem he made, and is intentionally doing everything he can to make it worse,' he added. 'He is purposefully pitting Americans against each other to create protest porn for Fox News.' On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert looked ahead to a massive military parade in Washington DC this weekend. The parade, nominally for Flag Day, will feature 7,500 soldiers, 28 Abrams tanks, 50 military helicopters, 28 Stryker armored vehicles, a display of rocket launchers and missiles, plus 34 horses, two mules and a dog. 'This is dictator stuff,' said Colbert. 'An unprecedented peacetime display of military hardware on American soil, and all I can say is: not enough mules!' The parade is also supposed to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American military's founding, though it just so happens to coincide with the president's 79th birthday. 'A military parade in Washington? That's just for his 79th. For his 80th, he's going to make the whole army go on a girl's trip to Nashville,' Colbert quipped. 'If you're keeping track, the running tally of reasons for Trump's big boom-boom parade are: Flag Day, the 250th Army anniversary and also, for some reason, winning World War II 80 years ago,' Colbert noted before a clip of Trump in the Oval Office claiming that 'we're the only country that didn't celebrate the victory.' According to the secretary of the army, there's yet another reason for the parade: to tell the public about the army. 'Well thank goodness!' Colbert joked. 'Because without this parade, the American people would have no awareness of any of our military branches, unless they watch before a football game, during a football game, the football game post-show, or if they live in Los Angeles, California.' Trump knows best: nothing calms down a situation like a military invasion 'By now, you've probably seen all the protest footage coming out of LA in the wake of Trump's immigration sweeps,' said Desi Lydic on the Daily Show. 'But despite what you're seeing on the news, keep in mind that most of the protesters have come with more of a chill SoCal vibe.' Lydic cut to footage of protesters dancing, playing music and blowing bubbles. 'So there's definitely a chance that this can all be resolved peacefully, as long as nobody escalates this thing with an unnecessary force, we'll be A-OK.' Not so, after Trump sent in 4,000 national guard troops over the objections of governor Gavin Newsom, as well as 700 active duty marines. 'Nothing calms down a situation like a military invasion,' Lydic joked. 'In fact, that was part of my birth plan. I was like 'honey, I want candles, classical music and 700 armed marines storming the hospital room.'' 'You know, I'm beginning to wonder if Trump is intentionally trying to escalate this situation, because more chaos allows him to portray blue states as centers of crime while positioning himself as a strongman that the country needs to rally around … ' Lydic quipped. 'No, that's silly. I'm sure he's just doing what's best for everyone.' And on Late Night, Seth Meyers referred to a new interview in which Trump said that Elon Musk had been 'disrespectful' to the office of the president. 'And if the guy selling these thinks that's bad…' Meyers said, referring to Trump's superman-styled digital tokens, adding in his Trump voice 'he has no respect for the office I'm putting on Airbnb!' Trump, meanwhile, is set to attend the opening night of Les Miserables this week at the Kennedy Center. 'It's the story of a convicted criminal who struggles to find redemption by going to see Les Miserables at the Kennedy Center,' Meyers joked. ''Les Miserables' is French for how Trump will feel while sitting through it.' And finally, the fast-food chain Chipotle is set to launch a new Adobo ranch dip. 'And then about four hours later, you'll launch it,' Meyers joked.
Daily Mirror
7 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
'I was at LA protests - cops swarmed as terrified families fought for rights'
Donald Trump ordered the deployment of National Guard troops into Los Angeles following anti-ICE protests where people unhappy with the aggressive immigration policy have taken to the streets Arriving in Los Angeles after nearly a week of anti-ICE demonstrations in the city, the National Guard being called in and President Donald Trump threatening to arrest California Gov. Gavin Newsom, I had no idea what I was walking into. Parking about two blocks away from Los Angeles City Hall, I made my way down Main Street to the now scattered protests near the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, where much of the weekend protests took place. On my way, I saw the vandalism scrawled over signage, buildings, and sidewalks throughout downtown - but I did not see rioting, I did not see looting. I saw people fighting for their rights. Despite the pushed narrative, I saw a scared community on Tuesday. Afraid of having their families ripped apart, fearful of seeing their friends and neighbours taken away, and scared that this could only be the beginning. I saw what Americans have done since a group of colonists hurled tea into the Boston Harbor in 1773 to protest their government - use their rights. To me, there's nothing more fundamentally American than the right to protest your government's actions. Engaging in protest honors the millions of lives sacrificed so that we may have the right to do so. As Abraham Lincoln said, "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Making my way past the Federal Building, I saw what appeared to be heavily armed National Guardsmen patrolling the entrance, with a handful of protesters lobbing insults and jeers at them as they stood stoic and at attention. Large swaths of LAPD and California Highway Patrol officers lined the streets, blocking foot traffic to the Federal Detention Center, where many of the people swept up in Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids over the past several days were being held. As the day wore on, more and more heavily armed officers arrived on the scene, with some bystanders telling me they had already detained several people and set off canisters of tear gas and flash bangs, although I did not witness that myself. The first demonstrator I spoke with told me he flew all the way from Wisconsin to attend the protest, saying these protests were history in the making and he couldn't watch from the sidelines. "I booked a one-way ticket here, brought my camera, and here I am, just here supporting a lot of different stuff mainly, but the fact is the system of capitalism has failed us," said Liam, who did not wish to provide his last name. "I'm very passionate about my country, and people like to say I'm not patriotic, but I think the most patriotic thing you can do is realize your country's flaws and work to change them." A theme of many left-leaning protests I've attended over the years has been everyone bringing their own cause into the demonstration, regardless of whether it is the main cause being highlighted, and that was no different on Tuesday. Many used the demonstration to air out every grievance they had with the Trump administration, whether it be cuts to the federal government, immigration, or the war in Gaza. For much of the day, I found myself bouncing back and forth between several scattered protests all over downtown, and the police, to their credit, were very much restrained from what I witnessed. Nearly everyone carried signs and engaged in traditional call-and-response chants such as "Who's streets? OUR STREETS" and "Show me what democracy looks like. THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE." One woman said she came out to set an example for her son that what the Trump administration is doing to immigrants is morally wrong. "I don't agree with what ICE is doing; I don't agree with illegal search and seizures just because the Trump administration thinks this is okay-mobilizing the military for domestic reasons? When we're not even doing anything. Some bad actors are causing violence and throwing things at the cops, and I don't stand for that. I stand for peaceful protesting and utilizing my First Amendment right to disagree with what they're doing," said Danielle Kahl. "It's not okay, and I don't agree with it, and I'm not gonna teach my kid that it's okay. I'm gonna teach my kid that he needs to see for himself what's going on with his own eyes and then decide for himself." Not all those present were there to support the immigrant community; some seemingly were there to antagonize the protesters and elicit a response. One man continued screaming about how ICE was deporting child sex traffickers and, when confronted by protesters, quickly backed off and attempted to play the victim. At one point, a man told a black woman arguing with the man to not even respond to his attempts to antagonize, to which the man replied to her, "Listen to your overseer," something that I, and many others, took as blatantly racist remarks, alluding to chattel slavery. Even those who Trump's aggressive immigration policy may not directly affect turned out to support the Los Angeles community, saying they can't live their day-to-day lives knowing that innocent families are being torn apart. "I just can't sit by anymore, act like nothing is happening, and just live my day-to-day life. Okay, criminals, he [Trump] ran on that, that's what he's gonna do. I'm not okay with the children; there are no children that are criminals; they're getting taken out of our schools; we should all be affected, we're all affected," said Scottie Taylor while holding a sign that read, "Jesus was never brutal." "I'm a 50-year-old white woman; I've had friends that have had their husbands deported. But the main reason I'm here today is because I'm tired of them trying to distort the narrative, and I'm here because, again, I'm a 50-year-old white woman in the middle of downtown LA, and I feel safe. There's no need for 4,000 National Guard troops," Taylor added. As more heavily armed police officers made their way downtown to contend with several groups of protesters blocking the 101 Freeway, something done during many protests in the city, I thought things might be winding down for the day. I decided to make my way back to the entrance of the Federal Building, where the same 15 or so National Guardsmen were guarding the door. As I photographed them, I noticed what appeared to be the commanding officers bark out several orders, and the troops stepped forward. Looking up from my camera, I saw two of the largest groups of protesters I'd seen that day, converging in front of the building and marching uptown towards LA Live and arena. This was the main event of the day, and tired and sunburned as I was, I ran to the front of the pack and followed them as they marched through the greater Los Angeles area, all the way up to the 110 Freeway entrance and back down to City Hall. Thousands of people flooded the streets with many cars tailing behind them, honking their horns in support, hanging out the window waving Mexican and American flags, and chanting "ICE OUT OF LA" as they made their way down the street. And when I say down the street, I mean they were in the middle of the street, blocking traffic with little police presence around them. However, drivers didn't seem annoyed by them; they honked their horns in support and leaned out the window to yell encouraging messages. As I approached the front of the protest, a man tapped me on the shoulder to show me something on his phone. A news alert said that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had imposed an 8 p.m. curfew for downtown LA. I thanked him and continued following the protestors. This was when I saw with my own eyes blatant vandalism taking place, with some people jumping out of their cars to spray the side of highway onramps and buildings, some with completely irrelevant messages, making clear they were likely just opportunists, taking advantage of the situation. One of the people even accosted me to snap a photo of him spraying the graffiti, which struck me as odd, as many protesters throughout the day covered their faces when I pointed my camera at them, not wanting to be seen at the protest. As my legs grew tired and my resolve weakened, I checked the time on my phone, which told me it was 7:30 pm, which was my signal to wrap it up as I did not want to be caught outside past the imposed curfew. Thirsty and tired, I found salvation at a local 7/11, where I refueled with a Mountain Dew. I called an Uber to take me back to my car and called it a night. Sitting in my Uber recounting the day's events to my driver Angel, we both look on in shock as several military vehicles carrying what I can only assume to be National Guard troops; I wondered whether what I saw that day warranted a full-blown military response.
