Month: May 2017

Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • MediaBuzz videos: Is it
    a coup?
    Ending
    press briefings?
    About
    that eyeroll.
  • Reliable Sources videos: Worse than Watergate; a tipping point; Nixonian?
  • Trump mulls shake-up, considers Kimberly Guilfoyle for press secretary?
  • It’s ‘who we are’: MSNBC hires eight white guys.  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Gerri Willis talks cancer survival.   CNN gives Axelrod another hosting gig.
  • Videos: The Five ask will
    Trump end
    briefings? Mr Concha has
    a better idea.
  • MSNBC and Maddow ride the Comey wave.   Clayton Morris moonlighting.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

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  • Specialists video: What was
    Trump up to
    with his comment on briefings?
  • Thursday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-O’Donnell-Brian Williams 1-2-3.
  • Glenn Beck audio: Bill O’Reilly on being
    fired by Fox News,
    plus
    Comey etc.
  • Mika: CNN ‘disgusting’ for giving Kellyanne air time.  Olby in a twitter spat.
  • Rothstein: MSNBC rampage against Sarah Sanders.  New MSNBC shows?
  • Bell: Most everyone on  CNN is ‘playing a character‘.   Wolf Blitzer at HPU.
  • Fox News continues to drive 21CF revenues.   Jeffrey Toobin moonlighting.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • Video:
    Cavuto and Concha
    on why 30 sources don’t guarantee truth.
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Media critic Trump: ‘dumb’ Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo a ‘chained lunatic’.
  • Tucker Carlson video:
    Joe Concha
    on manic media going to DefCon One.
  • Ariens: Soledad and Grace set to resurface.  Somerby: Coop goes 7 on 1.
  • Rothstein: Sara Murray has uneasy reaction to Spicer wedding comment.
  • Legal woes complicate FNC CEO search.  21C earnings top expectations.
  • Parties mum on dismissal of lawsuit against CNN.  Cooper: Save MSNBC!
  • Bahamas flap involves Shillue, Levy, Evan Siegfried.  Q&A: Shepard Smith.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

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  • Specialists video:
    Pat Buchanan
    on equating Comey with Watergate.
  • Comey Tuesday numbers: Maddow-Coop-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Concha: CNN Mook, Conway segments exemplify media taking sides.
  • F&F video:
    Judge Napolitano
    on Comey firing, calls for special counsel.
  • Concha: Media seemingly collude with Yates to ignore criminal leaks.
  • Deadline: White House connects the dots with DC-rich graphics design.
  • Tucker Carlson videos: Former
    DNC advisor,
    Brit Hume,
    Rep
    Tim Ryan.
  • Wolff: Is the Sinclair group competition for FNC?   Advertisers are back.
  • Katz: Fox News most-watched channel in all cable for 18th week in a row.

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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Updated 6:23 pm  Use our valuable bandwidth to post your cable news comments in today’s open thread.

Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • Friday’s numbers: The Five-Tucker Carlson-Rachel Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Outnumbered video:
    Rowdy debate
    over Obama health care remarks.
  • Steinberg: Fox News hires NBC’s Marianne Gambelli to lead ad sales.
  • Olbermann: CNN was going to hire me but didn’t…because of Trump!
  • Video: Julie Banderas
    behind the scenes
    with the NYPD Security team.
  • CNN reporter who hyped O’Reilly boycotts opposes them with Colbert.
  • Sketch by impartial CNN anchor draws fire.  W Kamau Bell makes book.
  • MSNBC signs ex-Republican George Will, refurbishes graphics package.
  • Kornacki named (MS)NBC National Political Correspondent.  Flashback.
  • CNN is ‘fake news’, says Netanyahu!  Larry King: I never saw bias at CNN.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • MediaBuzz videos:
    health care;
    late-night
    comedy;
    Corey
    Lewandowski.
  • Reliable Sources videos: Fox probe widens; more lawsuits; Fox Trump ties.
  • Q&A: Kelly Wright tells why he’s suing FNC.  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Simon: Megyn Kelly is being hyped as the ‘New Godzilla of morning tv’.
  • Spin Stops Here Tour may lose one of its players.  Liz Claman in Omaha.
  • CNN anchor suggests Trump wants jobs credit that belongs to Obama.
  • FNC anchor demands Mississippi remove confederate emblem from flag.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

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  • Specialists video: Kellyanne Conway, Tyrus join
    healthcare debate.
  • Thursday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-The Five-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Concha: Trump camp blasts CNN as MSM blackout of advert spreads.
  • Video:
    Bernard Goldberg
    talks comedy, politics, and Stephen Colbert.
  • Rothstein: WaPo writer tells journalists to avoid Tucker Carlson’s show.
  • Mohajer: Tucker’s success after many flops typifies white male privilege.
  • Zurawik: Bullying, brow-beating Tucker symbolizes patriarchy, privilege.
  • Somerby: Maddow quietly changes Flynn story she’s peddled for months.
  • LaCorte: There’s little real evidence to support the spin against Bill Shine.
  • Attorney for FNC accusers talks to Sky News regulators.  What Bo knows.
  • Smith: The inside story of Joe’s carefully choreographed proposal to Mika.
  • Profile: Van Jones.  Shep Smith at Ole Miss.  CNN still cites ‘hands up’ story.
  • After four days, viewer reactions to Fox News Specialists seem discouraging.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Concha: O’Donnell exemplifies the defeat of gloom-and-doom media.
  • Out# video:
    Meghan McCain erupts
    over Hillary’s ‘pathetic’ excuses.
  • Lovebirds make it official…they’re engaged.  The Joe and Mika story.
  • April stunner: Rising star Heather Childers at 5am beats Greta at 7pm!
  • April program ranker: Fox has eight of the top 10.    25-54 demo ranker.
  • Videos: Tucker discusses Comey with
    Rep Tim Ryan
    and
    Joe DiGenova.
  • Rothstein: Brit Hume and Paul Begala in a twitter spat.  Today’s lawsuit.
  • Somerby: It’s all clowning, pretty much all the time.  NBC scorches CNN.
  • Randi Kaye revisits unsolved mystery.  Revamped HLN gets re-revamped?

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

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  • Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-The Five-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Pomerantsev: Tucker’s pugnacious debates are like sporting events.
  • Jessica Tarlov is newest FNC contributor.  Chief of Staff Hannity?!?
  • O’Reilly: Trump right about civil war, Dan Rather et al are ‘morons’.
  • CNN host admits to sharing ‘fake news’.  CNN prevails in app appeal.
  • Grim: Despite ‘ratings wreck’ Greta, MSNBC continues shift to right.
  • Tucker Carlson makes book…actually two multi-million dollar books.
  • Videos: Tucker talks violence with
    José Antonio Vargas
    and
    Brit Hume.
  • Q&A: Charles Gasparino, Will Ripley in N Korea.   John King in Canada.
  • Late Night videos: Rachel Maddow with Seth Meyers
    part one,
    part two.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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  • Specialists video: Backlash grows over
    obscene Colbert 'joke'.
  • Monday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-The Five-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Tomi Lahren to Fox, MSNBC: Here am I. You can hire me now.
  • April numbers: Fox News #1 again; CNN, MSNBC show growth.
  • Sunday showdown: Reliable tops MediaBuzz.  Weekend numbers.
  • Gold: CNN refuses to air Trump ad containing ‘fake news’ graphic.
  • Five fast facts about Eboni Williams, Kat Timpf, and Eric Bolling.
  • Graphics/studio designs for The Story and Specialists.  Fancy pants.
  • Q&A: Eboni Williams.  Hogue: The Fox News Specialists felt like filler.
  • Arthel Neville moonlighting…in handbags?!  Richard Quest in Lagos.
  • Mr and Mrs Stelter open up about fertility and imminent parenthood.
  • Videos: Tucker grills
    WH Correspondents
    Prez;
    Mr Concha
    responds.
  • Olmstead: Why is CNN producing campaign ads for Mark Zuckerberg?
  • Greenfield: Is CNN willing to offend every religion on earth…except one?

Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • Specialists video: Series premiere opens with
    debate on healthcare.
  • Friday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-Maddow-Martha MacCallum 1-2-3.
  • Megyn will host 9am hour of Today, airing opposite Ripa and Ryan.
  • Come rain, go Shine: Fox exec is out…Hannity hardest hit.  Wemple.
  • Rothstein: Viewers want more Morning Joe…without Joe and Mika.
  • MediaBuzz video:
    Joe Concha
    talks Trump, ‘fake news’, and ESPN.
  • Hogue: The News Specialists better avoid the Mika trap.  Today’s lawsuit.
  • MSNBC hires Glenn Thrush.   CNN swells mingle with the brunch bunch.