Tag: Christopher Ruddy

Newsmax had long been firmly on the side of Ukraine after Russia’s invasion of the country, even leveraging it to snipe at the Fox News competition over its pro-Putin leanings (until it…

Last year, Newsmax settled a defamation lawsuit filed against it by election-tech company Smartmatic for an amount revealed months later to be $40 million — a bit of inconvenient timing given that…

It’s been a while since we checked in on how Newsmax is handling itself since it went public in April, and, well, it’s become even more self-promotional: One Newsmax TV host got…

Having finally launched its initial public offering after months of hype and teasing, Newsmax then had to try and keep up the momentum. An April 8 article by Sandy Fitzgerald was a…

For a good part of the year, Newsmax has been promoting its IPO stock offering to its readers and viewers in the hope of enticing viewers to buy in — CEO Christopher…

Newsmax was still in Trump-sycophancy mode on July 15, two days after the assassination attempt on him, and into July 16: Meanwhile, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy inserted himself into the story with…

A June 9 Newsmax article was quite literally a press release about itself, even though it was oddly credited to “Newsmax wires”: Newsmax Inc. is pleased to announce that it will seek…

Newsmax has had a bit of a streak lately in making substantial and dishonest edits to on-air interviews. Mediaite caught one on Feb. 27: Viewers who caught Tuesday’s edition of Frontline on Newsmax were…

One thing Newsmax loves to do is tweak its Fox News competition by portraying it as dying while Newsmax is on the asendency, as well as hyping any controversy that could be…

After more than 258 articles attacking DirecTV for dropping its TV channel and trying to goad Republican politicians into demanding government interference into a business decision, Newsmax mysteriously stopped the attacks after…