Fox News Is Running My Pillow Ads During Trump Impeachment Senate Trial

Fox News is airing full-length commercials and airing pro-Trump commentary during the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.

Media Matters for America’s Andrew Lawrence tweeted a video clip on Wednesday of Fox News airing a “My Pillow ad with audio while showing the impeachment trial on a split screen without audio.”

Fox News is running a My Pillow ad with audio while showing the impeachment trial on a split screen without audio, im losing my goddam mind pic.twitter.com/DXlF7Vm8EP

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 23, 2020

About ten minutes later, Fox News aired yet another ad for My Pillow:

Fox News is showing screen-in-screen video of the #ImpeachmentTrial during commercial breaks, without audio. Jeez, thanks for that. Fair and balanced. pic.twitter.com/whqdgE1u3q

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 23, 2020

“Fox News has the optics of covering the #ImpeachmentTrial without actually covering it,” Vox’s Aaron Rupar tweeted Wednesday evening.

“They’ve been showing screen-in-screen video of the proceedings without audio. Instead, hosts are providing Trumpian spin,” he added, sharing a video clip of Fox News’ coverage. “It’s propaganda giving the illusion of journalism. Remarkable.”

Fox News has the optics of covering the #ImpeachmentTrial without actually covering it. They've been showing screen-in-screen video of the proceedings without audio. Instead, hosts are providing Trumpian spin. It's propaganda giving the illusion of journalism. Remarkable. pic.twitter.com/NKbN2Sic1o

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 23, 2020

Here’s a comparison between CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News’ coverage of the impeachmenat trial from around 9:30pm EST tonight:

One of my favorite things with politics is flipping back and forth between CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews and just see how they are delivering news…just found this comparison really interesting – one network not giving audio of testimony, but talking over it #TrumpImpeachmentTrial pic.twitter.com/IJPgHmynVV

— Mark Welling (@maskmarv) January 23, 2020