Fox News

=== Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville ===
{{Further|Unite the Right rally}}

Fox News hosts and contributors defended Trump's remarks that "many sides" were to blame for violence at a gathering of hundreds of [[white nationalists]] in Charlottesville, Virginia.<ref name="Grynbaum-2017a">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/business/media/wow-stunned-tv-hosts-reacted-in-real-time-to-trump.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/business/media/wow-stunned-tv-hosts-reacted-in-real-time-to-trump.html |archive-date=January 2, 2022 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title='Wow': Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump |last=Grynbaum |first=Michael M. |date=August 15, 2017 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=August 16, 2017 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Weigel-2017">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/08/17/in-conservative-media-an-amen-chorus-defends-trump-on-charlottesville/ |title=In conservative media, an amen chorus defends Trump's comments on Charlottesville violence |first=David |last=Weigel |author-link=David Weigel |date=August 17, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 18, 2017 |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230072906/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/08/17/in-conservative-media-an-amen-chorus-defends-trump-on-charlottesville/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Some criticized Trump.<ref name="Weigel-2017"/><ref name="Byers-2017">{{Cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/16/media/fox-charlottesville-prime-time/index.html |title=After Trump's Charlottesville remarks, Fox News focuses on the left and the media |last=Byers |first=Dylan |date=August 16, 2017 |website=CNN Money |access-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-date=September 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907035733/https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/16/media/fox-charlottesville-prime-time/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In a press conference on August 15, Trump used the term "alt-left" to describe counterprotesters at the [[white supremacist]] rally, a term which had been used in Fox News' coverage of the white supremacist rally.<ref name="Grynbaum-2017a"/> Several of Trump's comments at the press conference mirrored those appearing earlier on Fox News.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-charlottesville-press-conference-white-supremacy/ |title=Trump Cribbed His Charlottesville Press Conference Straight From Fox News |first=Ashley |last=Feinberg |date=August 15, 2017 |magazine=WIRED |access-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230083847/https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-charlottesville-press-conference-white-supremacy/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to [[Dylan Byers]] of CNN, Fox News' coverage on the day of the press conference "was heavy with "[[whataboutism]]". The average Fox viewer was likely left with the impression that the media's criticism of Trump and leftist protestors' toppling of some Confederate statues were far greater threats to America than white supremacism or the president's apparent defense of bigotry."<ref name="Byers-2017"/> Byers wrote "it showed that if Fox News has a line when it comes to Trump's presidency, it was not crossed on Tuesday."<ref name="Byers-2017"/>