Edwin Eisendrath is joined by Juliet Jeske, founder of Decoding Fox News, a crowd-funded media project. The conversation examined Jeske's monitoring of Fox News and how its coverage is shifting amid political and audience pressures. 

Here are a few highlights from the conversation:
- Fox News has reduced diner segments and voter panels, while remaining critical of the war and increasingly featuring nonpolitical subjects such as UFOs and crime.
- The network remains dominant in cable news but is losing viewers ages 25–54; coverage of political events has also become less extensive.
- Jeske described the network as struggling to address the gas crisis, the Iran war, and Trump’s relationship with Russia, while showing renewed support for Trump ahead of the midterms.
- Coverage of Ukraine remains divided, including on-air disagreement over responsibility for the war. 
- In addition to her Decoding Fox News project, Jeske also creates “Trump without Trump” clips, replacing Trump’s voice and obscuring his face while preserving his words accurately.
- She described building the project through research, a grant, and later audience-funded support.

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