Month: January 2018

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video: Gutfeld mocks CNN’s
    'socialism is cool'
    tweet.
  • Friday’s numbers: Maddow-Lawrence O’Donnell-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • Instant post-exam CNN spin on Trump: He could still be unfit.
  • Trump orders Acosta ‘out’ following racial accusations.  More.
  • ‘Knight Foundation’ decrees Fox News is ‘uniquely detrimental‘.
  • FNC impeachment series could become documentary franchise.
  • Umstead: How Suzanne Scott keeps FNC at the top of the pack.
  • MSNBC ‘news’ devotes airtime to Murdoch divorce speculation.
  • Fox teams with Perino mentoring program.  Bolling, Greta hacked.
  • Impartial MSNBC anchor demands Ivanka speak out against Dad.
  • Tucker videos:
    Elites' hypocrisy
    over immigration;
    the truth
    hurts.
  • Gretchen, Joe, Mika get ‘first amendment’ awards.  Cuomo is sorry.

Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video:
    Trump gets blamed
    for Hawaii’s mistake.
  • Cuomo calls Indian-American aide ‘Raj Whatever-His-Name-Is‘.
  • Matthews ducks Meet the Press gig.  Nancy Grace finds work.
  • No Pyeongchang for you: Today leaves Megyn behind in NYC.
  • Next Revolution videos: Anger
    over immigration;
    bias
    at Google.
  • Video:
    Jamie Colby previews
    season four of Strange Inheritance.
  • Media don’t like ‘sh!thole countries’ either.  Betsy watches Brian.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • MediaBuzz videos: a
    sh!tstorm;
    a
    porn star;
    Oprah
    mania;
    Bannon.
  • Reliable Sources: ‘Racist’ Trump; fitness to serve; Oprah; libel laws.
  • CNN uses unknown woman as Patty Hearst to ‘romanticize rape’.
  • Impartial CNN journalists praised as ‘woke’ for ‘taking on Trump’.
  • Q&A: Nicolle Wallace.  Deja vu: Obama attacks Fox News viewers.
  • Advice to foreign spies: target Fox News!  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Athey: Chris Matthews ‘jokes’ about Cosby pills and Hillary Clinton.
  • Late Night videos: Jake Tapper with Seth Meyers
    part one,
    part two.

Friday Links and Open Thread

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  • Outnumbered video: Panelists chew over
    'sh!thole' kerfuffle.
  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • Faulkner raising the bar for tv news. Maddow blamed for threat.
  • Q&A: Janice Dean. Video:
    Janice
    with Martha.  Ronan finds work.
  • Trump gets legal advice from Judge Nap.   MSNBC, Vox team up.
  • Tucker videos: The
    'sh!thole' countries;
    TPS outrage
    is over votes.
  • Zucker play: CNN revives O‘Reilly Factor shtick – ‘word of the day‘.
  • CNN: Trump’s a racist; yeah, what he said.  Today’s Megyn nitpick.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • Out# OT video: Prof Dershowitz has
    issues with the FISA law.
  • Joe & Mika’s epiphany: Anti-Trump media have gone too far.
  • Gretchen Carlson ‘leaving the door open‘ to a future in politics.
  • Holmes: Instead of CNN, airport tvs should show animal videos.
  • Q&A: Jamie Colby found a Rembrandt in a New Jersey basement.
  • F&F video: How
    Janice Dean dealt
    with criticism of her appearance.
  • CNN hearts Oprah.  Q&A: Brooke Baldwin; Joan Walsh; Chris Cuomo.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video: The right wary of
    immigration compromises.
  • James Rosen left Fox amidst sexual harassment complaints.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Maddow-Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Harrington: CNN has ‘lost it’.  RT sends a surprise gift to CNN.
  • The Opposition video:
    Brian Stelter.
      Ronan Farrow resurfaces.
  • Tucker video: Does Google
    discriminate against conservatives?
  • Young man, you’ll find many ways to watch news at the YMCA.
  • Janice Dean: What MS has taught me about my big, strong legs.
  • Impartial CNN anchor rails against wall, tells America ‘Get woke!’
  • Strange Inheritance begins 4th season.  CNBC expands primetime.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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  • Court tosses out frivolous $48M lawsuit against Fox News.
  • Monday’s numbers: Maddow-Lawrence-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Outnumbered video: Texts may
    implicate FBI agents
    in leaks.
  • Weekend numbers: ‘Five bloated corpses‘ top Sunday prime.
  • Will Chris Matthews be next to get the axe?  Q&A: Dana Bash.
  • Zucker play: Jim Acosta named Chief WH correspondent; more.
  • Lowry not renewed.  Kucinich leaves FNC.  Alice Stewart re-ups.
  • Impartial MSNBC anchor: Congrats on Trump hating your book!
  • The Story video: Ben Shapiro probes the
    Oprah for Prez
    boomlet.
  • FTV: Brian Stelter, and the media, completely missed the message.

Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five: Everyone
    got the memo
    at the Golden Globes.
  • Friday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Hannity-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • Fox hater tells Brit Hume to commit suicide like his son did.
  • Video: Judy and Joe’s take on
    media diagnosing
    mental illness.
  • Next Revolution video: Wolff’s Fire & Fury…is it
    fact or fiction?
  • Daily Beast editor on Wise Guys: Five bloated corpses, dimly lit.
  • Behind the scenes of Tapper vs Miller: ‘You should be ashamed!’
  • CNN claims guest had to be escorted out after Tapper interview.
  • Betsy watches Brian so you don’t have to.  John Gibson resurfaces.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • MediaBuzz videos:
    Bannon
    brawl;
    tweets
    trigger media;
    Mooch.
  • Reliable Sources: Constitutional crisis; press access; mental illness.
  • Greer: Why Megyn refused to interview author Michael Wolff.
  • Dammit I’m a doctor, not a media critic.  Don’t quote me, but…
  • CNN preps series to focus on the ‘radical story’ of Patty Hearst.
  • Brown: Has CNN lost its way?  FNC tests Bennett roundtable show.
  • Recipe for success? Gretchen to drop swimsuits from Miss America?
  • CNN stays mum over co-opting accusations.  Sunday talkers: preview.

Friday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video: Is Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury 
    fact or fiction?
  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • Video:
    Geraldo erupts
    over ‘low-down, dirty slander’ of Trump.
  • The Story video: Venezuelan journalist
    targeted by Fusion-GPS.
  • Lawrence O’Donnell makes book.  The Root doesn’t like Tucker.
  • 127 Life Time health clubs ban cable news.  A question of timing.
  • Q&A: Brooke Baldwin; does her series rip off black woman’s show?

Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five videos: Flap over
    the Wolff book;
    Biden
    rips Trump.
  • Erickson: Attacks on FNC driven by jealousy, not substance.
  • Outnumbered video:
    New fallout
    from Steve Bannon quotes.
  • Wednesday numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • Tuesday numbers: Rachel Maddow-Sean Hannity-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • There something Phishy at MSNBC.  Baier to keynote for ABA.
  • NBC reporter objects to ‘Trump Country’…but there’s a catch.
  • Ex-CNNer launches liberal news service.  Joe Trippi finds work.
  • CNN studio gets extreme makeover. #TT: CNN and the markets.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five videos:
    Bannon's blast;
    Trump’s
    media 'awards'.
  • MSNBC, MSM stay mum on Chris Matthews sexism charges.
  • Greta reprimands James Murdoch for disparaging Fox News.
  • Willie Geist, Craig Melvin ‘devastated‘ over losing out to Hoda.
  • Tucker video: Joe Concha reviews the
    worst media fails
    of 2017.
  • Tapper: Trump’s tweets are ‘not stable behavior‘.  Pot prevails.
  • CNN media critic: ‘Madness.’ Trump ‘not well…not fit for office‘.
  • Twitter suspends ex-sheriff over ‘calls for violence‘ against CNN.
  • The Story video: Sailor jailed over photo
    speaks out about emails.
  • Video:
    Cooper
    with Colbert. Weekend numbers. Monday numbers.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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Jan 1, 2018

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Our best wishes to you for a healthy and rewarding 2018.

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