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White House calls out news outlets for being ‘woke’ and biased, but the list includes one shocking name that has everyone confused

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Od:Towhid Rafid
2. Prosinec 2025 v 19:45

The White House just created a new webpage called “Media Offenders” to call out news outlets they say don’t give positive coverage of the president. The page has an “Offender Hall of Shame” and a “Media Offender of the Week” section that targets specific publications.

According to HuffPost, the page went live last week, and something strange happened right away. Fox News ended up on the list. The White House accused the conservative network of “bias” and being “woke.”

It turned out to be a big mistake. The White House had confused a reporter’s identity and thought they worked for Fox News when they didn’t. A spokesperson told The Washington Post the reporter didn’t work for the network at all. After Fox News complained, the White House removed them from the page over the weekend.

This media battle goes way beyond a simple website

The updated page says about the outlets it lists: “These outlets don’t just get it wrong – they do it over and over again.” For Monday’s edition, the White House named The Boston Globe, CBS News, and The Independent as the current “offenders of the week.” They’re accused of “subversion” for reporting last month that President Donald Trump suggested Democratic veterans in Congress should be hanged after those veterans told US military members to avoid following illegal orders.

The webpage is part of the president’s ongoing attacks on media outlets that criticize him. Last month, Trump called a veteran White House reporter “piggy” when she asked about the Jeffrey Epstein files. He also called an ABC reporter “insubordinate” for asking similar questions. The administration has faced backlash for other controversies too, including why gas prices vary across America.

NEW: Karoline Leavitt on the White House's brand new 'Media Offender of the Week' section on its website:

"Overwhelmingly, the fake news that we see pumped out of this building on a day-to-day basis — it's honestly overwhelming to keep up with it all, and to constantly have to… pic.twitter.com/mg5khsR8kD

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 1, 2025

The administration has also filed lawsuits against media companies. They threatened to sue the British Broadcasting Corporation for $5 billion. The New York Times faced a $15 billion lawsuit that got thrown out. CBS News’ parent company was sued for $20 billion but settled for $16 million.

The Wall Street Journal faced a $10 billion threat, though Trump ally and Journal owner Rupert Murdoch made a deal. ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit from Trump for $15 million. This isn’t the first time the White House has tried controlling its image – they recently attempted to portray Trump as a gaming icon, which backfired with Halo fans.

The White House is using both public shaming through webpages and massive lawsuits to fight media outlets that report critically on the administration.

Fox News decided to repurpose 100 celebrity voices without permission, but one star they stole from guarantees a legal catastrophe they won’t survive

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Od:Manodeep Mukherjee
25. Listopad 2025 v 01:30

Fox News Media just announced a new religious podcast, but the network is already facing a massive legal headache after repurposing audio from over 100 film and TV stars without their permission. The new project, called “The Life of Jesus Podcast,” has completely shocked celebrities like Kristen Bell and Brian Cox, who had absolutely no idea their voices were being used for a Fox News production.

You’d think a network would check with the talent first, especially when one of the stars they stole from is Brian Cox. Remember, Cox has publicly criticized the network before, having literally called Fox News “like, the devil” back in 2021. So, you can imagine how thrilled he is about this unauthorized reuse.

His representative confirmed to Rolling Stone that Brian recorded the audio for a different project over a decade ago. “He was unaware that the audio would be repurposed for a new podcast series in 2025,” the rep stated. He, like many others, didn’t hear about this whole mess until Wednesday.

This seems like a clear-cut case of artists’ rights violation

The network announced this whole situation on November 19 as part of its expansion of Fox Faith. This massive podcast claims to broadcast the “life, teachings, and miracles of Jesus Christ” using audio originally recorded up to 15 years ago for a New Testament audiobook.

Kristen Bell, who voiced Mary Magdalene for the original 2010 project called The Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible, was completely blindsided by the news. This is Bell’s second time this year when she has been in the news for reasons unrelated to her work. A representative for The Good Place star confirmed that while she consented to the original audiobook recording, “nobody told her that work would be remixed for something else.”

If Kristen Bell doesn’t sue, Brian Cox or Sean Astin probably will as they are both also tied to this “project.” Because Brian Cox HATES Fox News, and with Sean Astin being SAG-AFTRA president, I’m sure he’s absolutely furious over his voice being used without consent.

— Sav (@Bananas4Gibbons) November 21, 2025

In a truly unbelievable twist, Bell actually learned about the unauthorized remix on Tuesday when she was invited onto Fox & Friends as a guest to promote the very project she didn’t know existed. Other major names appropriated for the new podcast include Sean Astin, Malcolm McDowell, Neal McDonough, Julia Ormond, and John Rhys-Davies.

This is where things get really sticky for the network. It’s one thing to upset a few actors who recorded something 15 years ago, but it’s another thing entirely when you appropriate the work of the leader of the actors’ union. Sean Astin, whose voice was used for the project, is currently serving as the 4th national president of SAG-AFTRA. Fox is definitely going to find out if “repurposing” all this talent’s work is against union rules, and I’d bet all my money that it is.

This is a massive legal catastrophe waiting to happen, and it couldn’t have picked a worse time to mess with union rules. Fox News gained some public goodwill last month by refusing to sign the Pentagon Press Policy, but I guess all of that is now down the drain.

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