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According to a recruiting email obtained by the conservative Bulwark, Fox News is seeking health workers to give COVID-19 tests to employees who balk at being vaccinated.

What is telling about the hiring drive is that the company is suggesting the those who find employment with them are looking at "indefinite/long-term assignment" that could lead to over a year of employment.

White House correspondent April Ryan said this week that she is "concerned" that former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham could be murdered by fans of former President Donald Trump.

According to Ryan, Grisham "is now toast" among Republicans after writing her tell-all book about the Trump administration.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki encouraged Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy not to dumb down his reporting on a spending bill that is being pushed by Democrats.

During Monday's White House briefing, Doocy suggested that Democrats have been dishonest by claiming that the overall cost of the bill would be "nothing" because it is paid for by tax hikes on corporations and wealthy individuals.

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon on Monday defended his plan to use "shock troops" to rebuild the government during a Republican takeover.

"If you're going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon explained to NBC News last week.

Fox News faced backlash over the weekend due to a report about Sen. Tammy Duckworth's taxes.

In a column on Sunday, Fox News writer Dom Calicchio reported that Duckworth had not paid property tax on her Illinois home since 2015.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) explained recently that she often tries to troll the media when she doesn't see headlines "attacking" her.

During an interview on OAN, Boebert said that she had made an "error" by using campaign funds to pay utility and rent bills.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo claimed over the weekend that the Black community had a "huge outpouring for conservative values" during the 2020 and 2016 elections.

Bartiromo made the remarks while interviewing Christian Walker, the son of Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker.

According to a report from CNN -- based upon a tell-all book about the Donald Trump White House -- former first lady Melania Trump was just as obsessed with what people were saying about her in the news and social media as her fame-obsessed president husband.

Relying on excerpts from former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham's upcoming blockbuster memoir "I'll Take Your Questions Now," revealing inner White House doings, CNN reports that Melania -- despite her above-it-all demeanor -- cared deeply about how she was perceived and what was written about her in the press.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Thursday lashed out at CNN host Don Lemon over criticism of the congressman's grilling of Defense Department officials.

During his Thursday night program, Lemon accused Gaetz of "grandstanding" and "trolling" with his questioning of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley.

Things got awkward on Fox News on Wednesday evening during the handoff between Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham's show.

Ingraham mentioned a "big announcement" that apparently did not come.

On Monday, September 20, liberal MSNBC host Joy Reid addressed media coverage of the Gabby Petito missing person case — stressing that while Petito, a 22-year-old white female, should certainly be covered, it's wrong that there isn't "the same media attention when people of color go missing." Reid's comments have inspired a great deal of discussion, and in the Bay Area, anchor Frank Somerville has been suspended by KTVU-TV Channel 2 (a Fox affiliate) after a dispute over a tagline that would have noted the disparity Reid pointed out.

According to Bay Area News Group reporter Chuck Barney, "KTVU was prepared to air a news report detailing the latest developments in the case. Somerville wanted to add a brief tagline at the end of the report that questioned the extraordinary level of media coverage devoted to the story. Sources said he wanted to point out that the U.S. media often disproportionately covers tragedies involving young white women, while largely ignoring similar cases involving women of color and indigenous people."

Fox News host Howard Kurtz said that he felt attacked by his viewers after reporting the results of a so-called audit of Arizona's 2020 presidential election.

On his Sunday news program, Kurtz noted that former President Donald Trump had "unloaded" on the media's reporting of the audit, which was conducted by Cyber Ninjas.