- Steinberg: FNC says Megyn Kelly has been released from her contract.
- Concha: Cronkite award judges don’t have a clue about real journalism.
- Battaglio: Ainsley, Brian, and Steve speak out as Fox & Friends surges.
- Extraordinary growth of Fox Business gives them new bragging rights.
- Wemple spends 21 paragraphs not deciding if FNC is ‘mainstream media‘.
- Bauder: Fueled by anti-Trump sentiment, Maddow’s popularity increases.
- Factor video: Rep Dennis Kucinich was while in office.
- CNN to end modern-day slavery with rallies, hashtags. Parade of horribles.
- FNC primed for upfronts. Grand jury to hear evidence on Ailes settlements.
Month: March 2017
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Freaky Friday numbers: Maddow-Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- FTV Live: CNN has hurt journalism more than Hannity ever could.
- Somerby: Maddow repeats, again and again, factually wrong claim.
- CNN series is ‘Black Mirror meets Westworld‘. HLN adds Cupp show.
- The Norman Lear Center honors Tapper, Tur, and Reliable ‘Resources’.
- Q&A: Chris Hayes insists All In isn’t dead yet. The anti-Trump bump.
- Snubbed! Trump unfollows Joe & Mika. Producers decline Megyn gig.
- Key thesis of CNN series called ‘patronizing nonsense‘. Cillizza to CNN.
- Fox & Friends videos: Time to abolish Daylight Saving?
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: Kellyanne
- Reliable Sources videos: Press-shy POTUS, Tillerson too; harmful Hannity.
- Next week’s CNN Town Hall: Tom Price. Sunday talkers: preview.
- John Roberts: master of ‘fashion tips‘. Fox News vs Gateway Pundit.
- Jake Tapper unloads to Ana Marie Cox: Trump, fake news, and more.
- Tucker Carlson video: exposes the hypocrisy of Samantha Bee.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Somerby: Misstatements, omissions…and another ‘Maddow edit‘.
- Kurtz: It’s time for Maddow, Coop et al to come out of denial.
- The POTUS media diet: CNN and Fox News…MSNBC not so much.
- Factor video: on facts, speculation, and credulity.
- Report: Megyn Kelly tired of hard news, wants to be ‘the next Oprah‘.
- Tucker: the Socrates of our time. Ed Davis: new FNC security analyst.
- Wemple enthralled by Shep outburst. Today’s cannibalism complaint.
- Zucker play: CNN show features A.I. sex dolls and romance with robots.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Wemple: John Roberts suggests the media should stop whining.
- Katz: Andy Lack looks ahead to Megyn Kelly’s role at NBC News.
- Judge Jeannine Pirro moonlighting: You the Jury premieres in April.
- Videos: Tucker Carlson cross-examines Jorge Ramos
- Q&A: How Erin Burnett became a news anchor. Fox settles with Holder.
- Somerby: Lawrence and Al’s moral stampede. Vossoughian is out at HLN.
- Ang: What did Dana Perino do on ‘women’s day’? Regrets? Bob has a few.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Out# videos: Co-hosts debate ‘day without women’
- Video: Out# panel Concha: Mika & Joe bash Out# ladies.
- Gardner: Fox News appears to have the edge in lawsuit over clip-sharing.
- Steinberg: CNN’s New Day gets ‘new mission‘ as Olby producer takes over.
- After Maddow said she’s ignoring Trump’s tweets, Coop has a brainstorm.
- Paparazzi snap Megyn. Five fast facts about Ainsley. Andrea escorted out.
- Not just Coop 360°: CNN launches virtual reality unit with Pamplano bulls.
- Ruhle show is all female. CNN hires Jason Miller. Hogue: Unfaithful Bolling?
- Erik Wemple’s strange new respect for Fox & Friends alum Gretchen Carlson.
- Zucker: Our Israel coverage is not perfect. Cannibalism controversy persists.
- Tucker video: on the recent epidemic of fake news, and fake scandals.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Rachel Maddow-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Sunday Showdown: MediaBuzz beats Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- The Late Show video: Stephen Colbert. Fox Biz sweeps the week.
- MSNBC host appropriated reporting of two journalists without attribution.
- Iraqi baby named after Arwa Damon. Carol Costello show debuts in April.
- ‘What does a dead guy’s brain taste like?’ Outrage over cannibalism on CNN.
- Impartial CNN anchor on health care plan: the rich will like it, others may not.
- Video: Lauren Green makes book. CNN racism lawsuit at CA Supreme Court.
- Maddow’s plan to defeat Trump in 2020. CNN’s Jeff Kepnes rejoins MSNBC.
- Videos: Spirited debate on wiretapping claims via and
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Monday Links and Open Thread
- Freaky Friday numbers: Maddow-O’Watters-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Stelter slams Levin’s ‘conspiracy theory‘; Levin’s blistering response.
- Spangler: CNN tweaks online strategy, adds free originals to CNNGo.
- Ouch: CNN surpassed in New York Festival news nominations…by RT!
- Q&A: Jake Tapper makes book; Alisyn as well. Steve Kornacki at F&M.
- CNN’s Believer opens with cannibals; Juluri: anti-immigrant and racist.
- Fox & Friends video: being targeted by Obama admin.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: claim; reviews;
- Reliable Sources: Unprecedented; diversity; deception; nix on neutrality.
- Fox & Friends video: Trump wiretapping claims.
- Zurawik: Trump’s ‘war on press’ is no match for Barack Obama’s.
- Report: Heather Naurt hired as State Department Spokeswoman.
- MSNBC signs Mark Halperin as analyst. Tom Shillue makes book.
- CNN hires another impartial reporter…Valerie Jarrett’s daughter!
- Intelligence Report video: Joe Concha on the stories
- Kaylee Hartung jumps from ESPN to CNN. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Flood: How Maddow doubled her ratings; has FBN dethroned CNBC?
- Tucker video: Entrepreneur offers Q&A: Reza Aslan.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Videos: Outnumbered debates pols meeting with
- FTV Live: CNN Town Hall slips; Tapper not talking; everyone hates Van.
- FTV Live: CNN paying a YouTuber more than Wolf and Coop combined!
- Chris Hayes paints America as an oppressed colony of a tyrannical state.
- Finding Jesus season premiere. CNN celebrity chef’s new digital venture.
- No CNN for you: Youtube ‘skinny bundle’ leaves out the Turner channels.
- Wemple snarks on Trump over CNN report. Daily Show video: Jake Tapper.
- Concha: MSNBC says ratings up because they have the ‘smartest coverage‘.
- Tucker videos: Dem calls for journo explores
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Why Shannon Bream loves covering the Supreme Court.
- FTV Live: Sour Lemon; no news is good news…at the YMCA.
- Katy Tur: I’m not a Trump critic, I’m a journalist. Katy does a one-eighty.
- Folkenflik: Despite attacks and snubs, CNN ‘reclaims its newsy mission‘.
- Concha: Despite negative media Trump polling well; CNN’s Trump ticker.
- Ana Cabrera named weekend anchor. Shep vs Trump fans. Crisis averted.
- Tucker videos: Dem in Trump speech; freed
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: speech/Fox – analysis/Fox – analysis/CNN 1-2-3.
- February 2016 program ranker: Fox News holds nine of top ten slots.
- Fake news: NBC+MSNBC claims speech win, but fails to add Fox+FNC!
- Somerby: Hour of Chris Matthews and comedians was a bad ‘gong show’.
- News coverage of Trump Presidency ‘really, really negative‘, even on Fox.
- Concha: Backlash hits CNN for all-male glam shot on Zucker cover story.
- Zucker play: CNN exec’s bold plan to dominate digital and beat BuzzFeed.
- Greg Gutfeld on life, books, and more. FNC viewers tuned out the Oscars.
- FTV Live: It’s time for CNN to cover Trump more fairly. ICN: Not so fast.
- David Gregory at SU. Coop stiffed by Oscar. Burnett: Is Trump a traitor?
- Fox News signs David Bossie, CNN engages Jack Kingston, as contributors.
- Wemple write-up of F&F Trump interview dumps the praise in an addendum.
- Videos: Wallace on the speech; media impressed.