New Year’s Eve Links and Open Thread

  • Cromwell: The five bravest journalists of 2021.
  • Johnson: Where do people get the idea CNN lies?
  • Kornick: Mainstream media’s worst 2021 blunders.
  • Smythe: CNN has a problem, and it’s time for answers.
  • What are you doing New Year’s Eve?  
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter, part five…

 
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Thursday Links and Open Thread

 
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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

 
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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

 
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Monday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday numbers: The Five-Watters-Emanuel 1-2-3.
  • Kat Timpf turned down an invite to join ‘The View’.
  • Twitter user suspended for posting clip of Maddow.
  • CNN cry of ‘fake news’ proves to be fake news itself.
  • Janice shows off her Christmas present from Megyn.
  • CNN calls ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ one-liner ‘insurrection’!
  • The worst fact-checks of 2021…and why they matter.
  • CNN hosts’ favorite dishes.  Cablenews 2021 in review.
  • Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter part one:

 
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Green Chri$tma$

frebergEvery year on this day we present Stan Freberg’s enduring Christmas parable. Produced well over 50 years ago, its message remains relevant in the 21st Century:

  • Stan Freberg: Green Chri$tma$       album

Classic Christmas radio broadcasts:

  • Quiet, Please: Berlin, 1945  
  • Amos ‘n’ Andy: The Christmas Show   listen
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Missing Mouse Matter  
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Red Mystery Matter   listen

Classic Christmas television episodes:

  • Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet:  Busy Christmas  
  • The Patty Duke Show:  The Christmas Present 
  • The Ghost and Mrs Muir:  The Ghost of Christmas Past  
  • Newhart:  No Room at the Inn  

Classic Christmas movies:

  • The Lemon Drop Kid  
  • Jingle All the Way   watch
  • Home Alone  amazon  iTunes
  • Miracle on 34th Street (1994)  amazon  iTunes

Sounds of the season:

  • Judy Garland: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   
  • Piano Guys, Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Angels We Have Heard on High   
  • Vince Guaraldi: Christmastime Is Here      album
  • AffinitiO Holy Night      album

Merry Christmas from johnny dollar’s place.


Christmas Eve Links and Open Thread

  • Was 2021 CNN’s worst year ever?  
  • As streaming snowballs, what will cable news look like?
  • Police seize Tapper producer’s hard drives.  
  • Emily Compagno on The Nutcracker and the joy of giving.
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part five:

 
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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Wednesday numbers: Watters-The Five-Chaffetz 1-2-3.
  • Fourth Watch: At a crossroads; Elon Musk; fake noose.
  • CNN: Fox leads a conspiracy to incite violence.
  • CNN hits bottom in 2021; will viewers return?
  • TV newsers discuss on-air challenges, changes for 2022.
  • Stelter, Lemon speak at sentencing of Trump supporter.
  • Primetime video: NFL’s Tim Green
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part four:

 
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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday’s numbers: Tucker-The Five-LB Jones 1-2-3.
  • Elon Musk: I’m ‘not perverted enough’ to go on CNN’.
  • Creepy Cuomo ex-producer tried to buy off witnesses.
  • Gutfeld burns John Berman over CNN’s Watters smear.
  • John Roberts: What I learned from a painful Christmas.
  • The Five video: to Biden COVID control plan.
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part three:

 
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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday numbers: Tucker-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
  • Tucker Carlson tops Mediaite‘s 2021 influentials list.
  • Weekend numbers. Media shows.  Nets: total, demo.
  • Concha fact-checks Psaki.  Mayor’s mandate hits Fox.
  • CNN’ 2021: loses 73% of its viewers.  Late-night shows.
  • Before Jesse used it CNN loved the ‘kill shot’ metaphor.
  • Today’s firing demand: Fauci wants Jesse Watters axed.
  • Weekly cablenews program shares: total viewers, demo.
  • Video: Gutfeld! takes on CNN’s
  • Video: Bill O’Reilly with Dan Abrams
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part two:

 
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Monday Links and Open Thread

 
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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz vids:
  • Fourth Watch: Media’s obsession, FNS, and more.
  • Forbes: Fox News crushes competition in Q3 ratings.
  • Sandmann settles $275M libel lawsuit with (MS)NBC..
  • The perfect choice for Fox News Sunday?  Sunday talk
  • Late Show video: Anderson Cooper
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Carmen Kringle Matter…

 

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Friday Links and Open Thread

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday numbers: Tucker-The Five-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Dan Abrams video: One-on-one
  • Somerby skewers Jeremy Barr report on Fox texts.
  • Fox: Most politically diverse audience in cablenews.
  • Fox News and CNN announce dueling NYE specials.
  • Court docs: CNN producer ‘trained’ pre-teens in sex.
  • Somerby: Stelter parrots Maddow, both totally wrong.
  • Dan Abrams asks what the frak is wrong with Gutfeld?
  • Tucker video: Liz Cheney out to others.
  • CNN ‘Heroes’ special flops with only 42k demo viewers.

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