December 2021 – johnny dollar’s place

New Year’s Eve Links and Open Thread

December 31, 2021 by johnny dollar

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?
Morgan James
…
Postmodern Jukebox
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Nancy Wilson
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Katherine McPhee
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Kay Kyser
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Kacey Musgraves
…
Fantasia Barrino
…
The Carpenters
…
Ella Fitzgerald
…
She & Him
…
Idina Menzel.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter, part five…

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 by johnny dollar

Wednesday numbers: The Five-Will Cain-Kat 1-2-3.
Fourth Watch: The top five media stories of the year.
Tuesday numbers: The Five-Will Cain-Hegseth 1-2-3.
Keith Olbermann resurfaces. Today’s lawsuit update.
Ashleigh Banfield gets a side gig…playing a journalist.
Ben Domenech: Let 2022 be the year we say ‘No more!’
Almost fired O’Donnell now a critical player at MSNBC.
2022 streaming predictions: CNN+ will ‘crash and burn’.
CNN hires InfoWars regular (who criticizes Republicans).
2021 a disastrous year for Stelter’s fading Reliable Sources.
Stelter hypes anti-Bongino screed, twitter reaction ensues.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter part four:

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 by johnny dollar

Weekend numbers. Weekend media shows.
Monday’s numbers: The Five-Duffy-Baier 1-2-3.
Tapper producer resigns; police seize his devices.
Flashback: Tapper producer fired for ‘misconduct’.
Fourth Watch: Trump, Omicron, Brandon, and more.
Burack: 2021’s biggest media losers. Late night shows.
Fox News most watched cable net for six years in a row.
Calls for Maddow to address her COVID misinformation.
Janice Dean: Media omit key Cuomo facts. All about Amy.
Why did it take 17 months to arrest alleged CNN predator?
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter part three:

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 by johnny dollar

Friday’s numbers: F&F-The Five-Julie et al 1-2-3.
Claim: Lisa Boothe lost View gig over no-vax stand.
20 major media stories ignored by Reliable Sources.
CNN’s John Harwood doing clean-up for the POTUS.
Coop all but disinherits son, will only pay for college.
Kirsten Powers makes book. Bongino’s cancer battle.
Drop in cable news viewers is likely to reverse in 2022.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter part two:

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Monday Links and Open Thread

December 27, 2021December 27, 2021 by johnny dollar

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
Day After Christmas.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Shady Lane Matter part one:

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Green Chri$tma$

December 25, 2021 by johnny dollar

Every 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$tma$
listen
album

Classic Christmas radio broadcasts:

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

Classic Christmas television episodes:

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

Classic Christmas movies:

The Lemon Drop Kid
watch
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
watch
Piano Guys, Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Angels We Have Heard on High
watch
Vince Guaraldi: Christmastime Is Here
listen
album
Affiniti: O Holy Night
watch
album

Merry Christmas from johnny dollar’s place.

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Christmas Eve Links and Open Thread

December 27, 2021December 24, 2021 by johnny dollar

Was 2021 CNN’s worst year ever?
Katherine McPhee.
As streaming snowballs, what will cable news look like?
Police seize Tapper producer’s hard drives.
Pentatonix.
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

December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 by johnny dollar

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.
Yulenet.
CNN hits bottom in 2021; will viewers return?
Rooftops.
TV newsers discuss on-air challenges, changes for 2022.
Stelter, Lemon speak at sentencing of Trump supporter.
Primetime video: NFL’s Tim Green
opens up about his ALS.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part four:

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by johnny dollar

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:
Panel reacts
to Biden COVID control plan.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part three:

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 by johnny dollar

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
scandals and low ratings.
Video: Bill O’Reilly with Dan Abrams
part one,

part deux.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part two:

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Monday Links and Open Thread

December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 by johnny dollar

Friday’s numbers: Tucker-The Five-Gutfeld! 1-2-3.
Zakaria: Biden’s unpopularity is so utterly puzzling.
Jake Tapper’s producer: another pedophile at CNN?
Lauren Green: Why Christmas hymns are important.
Acosta et al gloat over FNC’s torched Christmas tree.
CNN reverts to 2020, sending most employees home.
Clay Travis mocks CNN’s ‘village idiot’ over virus thoughts.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part one:

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

December 20, 2021December 18, 2021 by johnny dollar

MediaBuzz vids:
Fox hosts;

Biden;

Meadows;

Bret Baier.
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
part one,

two,

three.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Carmen Kringle Matter…

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Friday Links and Open Thread

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 by johnny dollar

Thursday’s numbers: Tucker-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
Police report details sick world of Cuomo producer.
NBC gives Todd another job: producing for Peacock.
Video: Will Cain lays out what
Dems are really up to.
Stelter chortles over Fox News from his glass house.
Fox’s Duffys top NYT chart. Today’s lawsuit update.
CNN to take shows off HBO Max, put them on CNN+.
Fox News Radio’s Halpern elected chairman of RTCA.
Fox donates $1 million to Red Cross for tornado relief.
After warning people about crowds CNN hypes them.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

December 16, 2021December 16, 2021 by johnny dollar

Wednesday numbers: Tucker-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
Fox audience most politically diverse in cable news.
Oh, Joy: Still sore over Van Jones remarks from 2017.
Video: Will Cain lays out what
Dems are really up to.
Eva Longoria will be ‘Searching for Mexico‘ on CNN+.
Somerby: 1/6 comments by Laura, Hannity disappear!
MSNBC adds documentaries. Today’s lawsuit update.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 by johnny dollar

Tuesday numbers: Tucker-The Five-Hannity 1-2-3.
Dan Abrams video: One-on-one
with Bill O'Reilly.
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
harm, humiliate
others.
CNN ‘Heroes’ special flops with only 42k demo viewers.

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