Which major outlets covered laura ingraham interviewing elon musk in 2024 or 2025?
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Executive summary
Laura Ingraham’s on-air interactions with or defenses of Elon Musk in 2024–2025 were primarily broadcast and promoted by Fox News — including clips from The Ingraham Angle — and those segments were picked up or analyzed by a handful of other outlets such as TheWrap, OK! Magazine, Yahoo and DailyKos in the reporting sample provided [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. The sources supplied do not show major mainstream newspapers (e.g., New York Times, Washington Post) or CNN running original coverage of an Ingraham–Musk interview in 2024–2025 within this dataset, a gap that should be noted as a limitation of the reporting set (reporting set limitation noted).
1. Fox News was the original platform for Ingraham–Musk material and hosted the primary segments
The primary place where Laura Ingraham’s exchanges about Elon Musk appeared was on Fox News’ own programming — notably clips from The Ingraham Angle discussing Musk’s actions and disagreements with public figures and policy, including episodes in May and June 2025 where Ingraham unpacked Musk-related news and defended him [1] [2] [4]. Fox News also ran a November 2024 segment in which Maye Musk, Elon Musk’s mother, appeared on The Ingraham Angle — demonstrating that Fox produced and broadcast material directly tied to the Musk family and Ingraham’s platform [3]. Those Fox segments are the provenance for much of the secondary coverage cataloged in the provided results [1] [3].
2. Entertainment and industry outlets covered or amplified specific Ingraham–Musk moments
A number of non-Fox outlets in the supplied set reported on or analyzed Ingraham’s comments about Musk rather than hosting original interview footage; TheWrap documented Ingraham’s on-air reaction to Musk’s description of USAID and associated policy rhetoric in February 2025, framing it as commentary on Musk’s proposals and Ingraham’s praise for dismantling agencies [5]. OK! Magazine wrote about Ingraham defending Musk over a contentious gesture at the January 2025 inauguration, treating the exchange as a pop-culture/reactive story rather than an exclusive interview [6]. Yahoo carried a syndicated/news roundup piece in June 2025 summarizing Ingraham’s defense of Musk amid public disputes, which largely recapitulated Fox’s coverage [4]. These outlets therefore functioned as amplifiers and critics of the Fox-hosted material rather than independent sites of an Ingraham–Musk sit-down [5] [6] [4].
3. Opinion and left-leaning aggregators also tracked the episodes, often as critique or context
Left-leaning or opinion-oriented sources in the sample, such as DailyKos, have used Ingraham’s segments as fodder for commentary on misinformation and media behavior, including a December 2025 piece noting Ingraham’s amplification of questionable items and Musk’s own reactions to viral or false material [7]. That pattern — Fox producing the content and other outlets either amplifying, summarizing, or criticizing it — is consistent across the provided results, and shows how an on-air exchange at a cable opinion show becomes a wider media topic without necessarily being independently reported as a new exclusive by other major newsrooms [7] [4].
4. What the supplied reporting does not show (and why that matters)
Within the collection of sources provided there is no clear evidence of a standalone, original Laura Ingraham–Elon Musk interview published by major national newspapers or broadcast networks outside Fox during 2024–2025; instead, the materials are Fox segments and secondary coverage by outlets like TheWrap, OK! Magazine, Yahoo and opinion sites that summarized or critiqued those segments [1] [2] [3] [5] [6] [4] [7]. Because the search results here are a limited set of reporting, this analysis does not prove the absence of such coverage elsewhere — only that the provided sources identify Fox News as the principal host of Ingraham’s Musk-related material and that a small set of entertainment, trade and opinion outlets covered or reacted to it (reporting set limitation noted).