- Monday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly-Don Lemon 1-2-3.
- Women in news stepping up their fashion game. HLN’s ‘girl power‘.
- Fox News milestone: 15 years as most watched cable news channel.
- January 2017 numbers: Fox News tops; CNN #2; MSNBC improves.
- F&F video: Judge Napolitano on confronting
- Gasparino: CNN spinoff a caveat in Time Warner deal. CNN changes.
- Mika Brzezinski modestly reveals she’s trying to adopt a Syrian family.
- Sunday showdown: Reliable Sources tops MediaBuzz. Weekend numbers.
- Tucker video: Activist says immigration orders
- Flood: Why ex-LA attorney Jamie Colby may have cable news’s best job.
- Janice Dean inducted to Weather Hall of Fame. Stephen Moore to CNN.
- Hannity: The media don’t understand Trump. Is Rachel channeling Beck?
Month: January 2017
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Eric O’Bolling-Tucker Carlson-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Lean Forward: Eight is not enough, for MSNBC’s protest coverage.
- Flood: Fox Biz clobbers longtime rival CNBC on historic Dow 20K day.
- Video: Carol Costello leaves CNN Newsroom for show on HLN. Flashback.
- Media insiders say Andy Lack wants to make (MS)NBC ‘the next Fox News‘.
- Harris Faulkner video: Gerri Willis’s Big news for Katy Tur.
- Zucker plays: CNN deploys DC investigators, skeds another Dem town hall.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: The the Sean Spicer
- Reliable Sources videos: Trump vs the media; neutrality; fact vs fiction; Fox.
- Greer: Fear and loathing sweep Today staff amid Megyn Kelly shake-up.
- Concha: Here’s why Team Trump sees the media as the opposition party.
- Stelter posts anti-Trump poetry by cancer survivor; Joe Concha cries foul.
- Darcy: CNN uses alternate math in laughable claim that they tied Fox News.
- Rothstein: Chris Hayes may soon end up being the ‘blackest face at MSNBC‘.
- YourBuzz videos: media; press;
- New and improved: Anna Kooiman website relaunch. Sunday talkers: preview.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly-Ed Henry 1-2-3.
- Out# video: Harris Faulkner on the meaning of
- Video: Military family faces incredible challenges
- Concha: Spicer’s complaint over CNN’s nomenclature doesn’t hold up.
- Shake-up at Today to make room for Megyn; Tamron Hall to leave NBC?
- Diane Falzone opens up about endometriosis. The rise of Great Big Story.
- Tel Aviv based news channel planned for US cable. Q&A: Steve Kornacki.
- Wemple: In defense of CNN; are the media mainly liberal, and if so, why?
- Rothstein: Cable newsers go berserk over Bannon’s ‘just listen for a while’.
- Baragona: Harris Faulkner remembers her mother, and Mary Tyler Moore.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Concha: Olby resurfaces…as do calls for him to ‘get off that soapbox‘.
- Yellin: CNN has sidelined real reporting for squabbling pundit panels.
- Kathleen Willey resurfaces, trash-talks Andrea Mitchell, ‘Fake’ Tapper.
- Why Tucker is all the rage. How First 100 Days uses Fox’s new Studio F.
- Tucker Carlson video: defends publishing Trump dossier.
- Q&A: Sean Hannity; Trish Regan; Chris Hayes; Joy Reid; Alisyn Camerota.
- Trump is good for (the cable news) business. Somebody horns in on Greta.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Video: has choice words for the ‘smarmy’ news media.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Maria Bartiromo on walking away from CNBC, and life at Fox.
- FTV Live: Sorry anchors, but you just aren’t as big as you think you are.
- FTV Zucker punch: Trump + Fake News = ‘Brian Stelter peeing himself.’
- Rothman: How quickly media have forgotten Obama’s War on Fox News.
- Concha: Joe and Mika give props to Tucker. Video: Payne’s
- O’Reilly talked about Chicago, Trump tweeted. Steve Cortes jumps to Fox.
- Wemple: (MS)NBC cranks up the hype machine; Tucker’s false equivalency.
- Q&A: Jake Tapper has a rule for Trump reporting. Video Q&A: Greg Gutfeld.
- Videos: Should the press Moving our embassy
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Cable Game: Is Townhall promoting fake Megyn news…and a scam?
- Megyn who? Tucker Carlson nearly doubles Kelly’s ratings in 9pm slot.
- Outnumbered videos: Panel debates Trump
- Tucker Carlson video: director. Beware the CNN spin-off!
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz tops Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- George Will on leaving Fox News: ‘It’s their toy.’ Twitter holds a Dash bash.
- Video: Pete Hoekstra vs in her debut as a Fox News contributor.
- Joanne Nosuchinsky resurfaces. Afonso: Rachel Maddow at Smith College.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Concha: Media bias and bumbling invite conflict with Trump.
- Friday’s numbers: Inauguration/Fox-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- The First 100 Days moves to Fox’s high-tech Studio F starting tonight.
- Fox signs Marie Harf as contributor, debut during tonight’s 7pm hour.
- The Cable Game: CNN’s ‘breakout’ star don’t need no stinkin’ rules.
- Bedard: Why Bret Baier wrote two endings for Three Days in January.
- MSNBC snags biggest Saturday audience in years…and they still lose.
- Outnumbered video: Press secretary Sean Spicer’s
- Wemple: How CNN shielded its viewers from Sean Spicer’s falsehoods.
- Greta’s hubby gets hot pix. Hinderaker: When will CNN become self-aware?
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: Spicer
- Reliable Sources videos: Trump declares war; Brian Fallon; 50 questions.
- CNN refused to air Spicer briefing: press’s role ‘different under Trump‘.
- Special Report videos: Reactions to and Trump
- Mild mannered F&F host ‘Shut up and do some work.’
- Clean sweep: FNC inauguration coverage #1, tops cable and broadcast.
- Concha: CNNer likens rioters to Boston Tea Party; F-bombs fly at march.
- Video: give their takes on Trump’s inaugural address.
- Paskin: CNN couldn’t hide its ‘deep anxiety‘ over Trump’s dystopic vision.
- Chu: CNN charges against Crowley a ‘heavily exaggerated, political hit-job‘.
- Fox contributors no longer: Will, Dash, Ed Rollins, Cal Thomas, Marvin Kalb.
- Your Buzz videos: Jim bringing
- Zurawik: TV’s winning formula for the inauguration. Sunday talkers: preview.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Bret Baier-Tucker Carlson-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- MSNBC inauguration anchors: Trump’s speech ‘dark‘ and ‘Hitlerian‘.
- Nancy Sinatra: Why do you lie, CNN? Jake Tapper in a twitter spat.
- Guess who wasn’t invited to the DeploraBall? FNC signs Nigel Farage.
- Updated Inauguration coverage schedules. Today’s Wemple O’Whine.
- Zucker fires ‘warning shot‘ at Trump. CNN reminds staff not to march.
- Davich: Local YMCA stopped showing the ‘fake news’ channel on its tvs.
- Zurawik: Cable news dominance explains much about the 2016 election.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg says even icons must
‘I Wasn’t Supposed to Be Drinking on the Job’
J$P Video! Brian Kilmeade’s tour of the Inauguration Media Complex:
From Fox & Friends, 19 January 2017
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- The Cable Game: How many Republicans allowed on MSNBC prime?
- Zucker play: CNN reporter covering DoJ…is Valerie Jarrett’s daughter!
- Concha: CNN seeking reporter to cover an imminent ‘wave of fake news‘.
- Video: Tucker debates HuffPo ‘crackpot’ who demands
- Bauder: Tucker’s 9:00 pm ratings top Megyn’s. Deb: Embeds a mixed bag.
- Lawrence O’Donnell caught spreading ‘fake news’. Maddow wins wax Ike.
- ICN: Why the Daily Kos argument for Joy Reid over Greta is preposterous.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Martha MacCallum 7pm bow a knockout, tops MSNBCNN combined.
- New Pew: Fox top source for voters…FNC 19% CNN 13% MSNBC 5%.
- Katz: Guide to tv Inauguration coverage. Anna Kooiman resurfaces.
- Concha: The rise of Tucker Carlson, and the fall of Greta van Susteren.
- Greta responds to fans: Same show, same me, just a different channel.
- Factor video: on reactions to Trump. Q&A: Van Jones.
- Fox News re-ups, expands leases; plans new state-of-the-art newsroom.
- Sunday Showdown: MediaBuzz tops Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- Ellison: Latest Megyn Kelly specularama sees her as the next Matt Lauer.
- Sincerest form of flattery: Katy Tur anchors show on Trump first 100 days.
- Don Lemon’s condo goes for nearly $1 million. Bret’s inauguration playlist.
- Videos: Jake Tapper with Seth Meyers Q&A: Jeff Zucker.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity-Eric O’Bolling 1-2-3.
- Video: Judge Napolitano tells Shep about his
- Out# video: Are the boycotting Dems actually
- Super Bowl on Fox means O’Reilly to interview Trump. Instant O’Whine.
- Video: Tucker grills DNC contender Bret Baier in Naples.
- The Cable Game: CNN rallies to Jim Acosta’s defense, but there’s a catch.
- CNN signs contributors David Fahrenthold et al. Will AT&T sell off CNN?
- Rothstein: Stelter bullied on twitter, seeks pity. CNN wins award for beer.
- CNN previews comedy series at Sundance fest. Cablers converge in Davos.
- Maddow to reinvent her show for the Trump era. Today’s Wemple O’Whine.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- The Five video: He’s baaack… to Fox News.
- Deja vu all over again: Bob Beckel returns to Fox News and The Five.
- Q&A: Abby Huntsman on her move to Fox and early morning television.
- WashTimes: CNN learns a lesson…airing fake news will earn you contempt.
- Watson: CNN may not be fake news, but there isn’t much real about it either.
- Video: Joe Concha slams CNN for at Trump’s presser.
- The First 100 Days debuts tonight. Martha MacCallum Q&A: Adweek, Fortune.
- Monica Crowley declines Team Trump post. David Gregory’s spiritual journey.