- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Greta-Shannon Bream 1-2-3.
- Megyn snags first joint interview with train terror attack heroes.
- Hamill: Tough-talker Joe Scarborough goes soft. Stormy Weather.
- CNN to live stream debate; Trump says donate the profits to vets.
- Factor video: First look: Tamera and Adam’s daughter Ariah.
- Wilstein: CNN is doing Trump’s job for him. Jorge Ramos: Half-true.
- Schreiber: Angelou: yes; Harris-Perry: no thanks. Weekend numbers.
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Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: The Five-Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- TCG: Unbalanced Reliable Sources discussion targets Fox News.
- Chris Cuomo needles Megyn. Alisyn and Beckel: together again.
- Why Andrea Mitchell limited her questions to Hillary about emails.
- Greg Gutfeld Show video: The of the Summer of ’15.
- How impartial journalist Luke Russert triggered 1225 anti-gun emails.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- She’s got mail: Megan Kelly hears from fans, angry viewers.
- Fox & Friends Weekend video: The Summer
- Concha: Only one scenario makes sense for BriWi on MSNBC.
- Stelter: Trump to appear on Fox after two-week hiatus. More.
- Media Buzz: The Carly Hillary
- Reliable Sources: Summer of Trump, Hugh Hewitt, Fox vs BLM.
- Schram: CNN has a chance to stage a real Presidential debate.
- Trish Regan joins Jefferson Foundation. Lisa Ling’s Life returns.
- Battaglio: Nets want in on cable windfall. Nichols’s NFL special.
- Your Buzz videos: the
- Latino group protests MSNBC cutback of Diaz-Balart’s Rundown.
- The real reason CNN changed their debate criteria. Sunday talkers.
- Zurawik: Arwa Damon reports plight of refugees with power, passion.
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Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- After two week hiatus, Trump booked on FNC…with O’Reilly.
- Updegrove: Bill O’Reilly is ‘killing it’ (Parade cover story v/TVN).
- Friday Fox News Reporting special: The Hidden Harvest.
- Byers hire: CNN building a strong media team. Q&A: Josh Levs.
- Trump starts insult war with Hewitt to gin up debate viewership.
- ICN: Floundering MSNBC running out of ideas. Concha: Update.
- CNN cuts deal with Samsung. Fiorina likely to be the 11th wheel.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
- Christie refuses to sign pledge on CNN but signs on FNC.
- Concha: Morning Joe expands, Kate Snow to afternoons.
- Video: of email legal intricacies.
- She’ll throw the pamphlet at her: Andrea to interview Hillary.
- Mixed reaction to Axelrod jump from MSNBC to CNN.
- Fox News v TV Eyes: You win some and you lose some.
- Zurawik: Scant national coverage of Freddie Gray hearings.
- Left-leaning PPP poll asks about
- Factor video: Bill O’Reilly and Jorge Ramos, unedited interview.
- Spotted: Geraldo at Dershowitz brunch. Spiffy debate graphics.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Rothstein: Stelter’s egotism led to CNN exec’s departure (v/CNNC)?
- Outnumbered video: on restoring law and order.
- Griswold: Don’t let Fiorina bully her way into debate. Big money.
- Budowsky: Megyn Kelly is the 21st century’s Edward R Murrow.
- August program ranker: FNC holds top ten (25-54), top 14 (total).
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Weather weather everywhere…but it will be without Al Roker.
- Hasbro hatches Harris Faulkner hamster; Fox anchor files lawsuit.
- Stelter and King lose a producer; CNN gains Politico’s Dylan Byers.
- Factor video: rips coverage of Black Lives Matter.
- Profile: Navy fighter pilot, now Fox News correspondent Lea Gabrielle.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Zucker punched: CNN gives in, will ‘re-evaluate’ its debate criteria.
- August upset: Even with 10-day vacation Megyn tops all cablenews.
- August numbers: Fox News surges higher; CNN, MSNBC, HLN, FBN.
- Somerby: Self-contradictions beset Maddow’s payola-style pimping.
- Lowry: Perverse CNN debate criteria make no sense. Q&A: Coop.
- Why Tyler Hardin spent mornings with Maria. Weekend numbers.
- FNC addresses controversy over debate times. Colby’s crib for sale.
- Wemple: Joe Scarborough would deprive his viewers of information.
- Fox Biz claims fraudulent reality proposal from Pawn Stars producers.
- Somerby: Cable news inanity. Amanda Carpenter: new CNN contributor.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: O’Bolling Factor-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Concha: Fox, CNN cover BLM kill-cops chant; others not so much.
- Zucker play: More games. CNBC’s Kudlow to make Senate run?
- FTV: CNN and MSNBC in a competition to out-Trump each other.
- Rowland: CNN debate criteria hurt Fiorina, may help John Kasich.
- F&F video: Marine to the Marine Corps Ball.
- Pro-Sanders rapper does segments on MSNBC up to ‘five times a week‘.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: on-air the
- Reliable Sources videos: Jorge Ramos, Trumpnado, an on-air murder.
- Breaking! Megyn Kelly leaving Fox?!? Oh wait…never mind. More.
- Concha: Bob Beckel’s best options to reboot his cable news career.
- Who is Mr Megyn Kelly? Bob Beckel resurfaces. Sunday talkers.
- Grove: The Rev is happy to be demoted. Audio Q&A: Chris Hayes.
- Near-invisible network’s website crashes ahead of Trump-Palin chat.
- Rubin: CNN’s ‘phony excuse’ to keep Carly Fiorina out of the debate.
- Turmoil at Al Jazeera America as another female executive is leaving.
- Your Buzz videos:
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Megyn Kelly #1 in key cable news demo Tues-Weds-Thurs.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Turmoil at MSNBC: High-profile anchors oppose news pivot.
- Wemple: Hillary response shows distaste for accountability.
- Profile: Ed Henry, the tough, but fair, thorn in Hillary’s side.
- Sanchez: I was there; CNN’s Katrina coverage ‘sucked’. More.
- Don Lemon dings CNN for ‘homophobic’ coverage of shooter.
- MSNBC downplaying Katrina anniversary…because of BriWi!
- CNN ‘brands’ its ‘smothering’ coverage of the WDBJ shooting.
- Q&A: Charlie Gasparino. Video: Shep’s
- Wemple: The Rev gets moved to a time ‘when everybody’s sleeping‘.
- Go back to the island? Elisabeth Hasselbeck has ‘said no many times‘.
- Tameez: The real reason for Donald’s trumped-up ‘feud’ with Fox News?
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Rather, Maddow, Chip Reid promote Fox conspiracy theories.
- Oops: CNN changes Hillary poll finding to ‘trustworthy’.
- Snow job? Joe Concha says MSNBC has big plans for Kate Snow.
- Leibovich: Larry King prepping invites for his ultimate farewell act.
- Videos: on Jorge Ramos; on The Kelly File.
- Linkins: Fiorina is upset with CNN’s debate criteria…and she’s right.
- Throwback Thursday video: about working in ‘a dump’.
- Wemple: Another truce? Megyn doesn’t need your protectorship, Roger!
- Controversy swirls around CNN airing, and not airing, full shooting video.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Report: The Rev is being shunted to 8am Sunday mornings.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Concha: In the Fox/Trump battle royale…who’s the winner?
- Rothman: Fox News ‘took the first step in a noble direction’.
- Wemple: Why does Roger Ailes keep sticking up for Megyn Kelly?
- Zurawik: Trump will get his comeuppance from Fox News and Ailes.
- TCG: Has Gabriel Sherman made common cause with Team Trump?
- CNN spends most time on Trump speech, bumps its Katrina special.
- Former Aussie PM and Labor Party leader gets anchoring gig on CNN.
- Fox & Friends video: with the New York Fire Dept.
- Chris Hayes on the challenge of holding an audience (via Brian Stelter).
- Hennessey: The ‘alternative universe’ focus group that stunned Frank Luntz.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Factor video: O’Reilly on Trump, and loyalty.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Market turmoil bumps Biznet viewership; FBN hits its peak.
- ‘Black Monday’ reactions from Trish Regan and Liz Claman.
- Trump to Megyn in 2011: ‘You’ve done a great job, and I mean it’.
- Kilmeade video: Graham slams ‘idiot’ Trump over Megyn attacks.
- Ailes blasts Trump: ‘Disturbing…crude…irresponsible…’
- ICN: How FNC should respond to Trump…go passive-aggressive.
- Support for Megyn Kelly follows Trump tirade. Weekend numbers.
- Ariens: Donald Trump welcomes Megyn back from vacation. More.
- Grove: Now that Megyn Kelly is back, why not invite Donald Trump on?
- Dr Drew spends two days on Transgender in America. Manu Raju to CNN.
- Melissa Harris-Perry at Wake Forest U. Rachel Maddow stat rated: False.
- The Rev chortles as he beats CNN: ‘They said I wouldn’t be on four weeks’.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Trump Rally (FNC)-Bream-O’Watters 1-2-3.
- Stern: Phone call about Megyn alleged by Sherman didn’t happen.
- Concha: CNN scores big wins online while traditional tv flounders.
- Biznets set special coverage for ‘Black Monday’. Fox Biz tops CNBC.
- Zurawik: Cable news hosts in full kiss-up mode with Donald Trump.
- Somerby: Maddow wastes 20 minutes on another wrong prediction.
- Video: ‘It O’Reilly ‘kills it’ with ‘incredible’ ratings week.
- Patrick Stewart tutored in cable news by Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart.
- It’s CNN’s turn for complaints on debate criteria. Jamie Gangel to CNN.
- Reliable Sources cites Fox as ‘perfect’ example of something they didn’t do.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- Media Buzz videos: media
- Reliable Sources videos: Trumpnado, anchor babies, covering Katrina.
- Linda Kelly: I didn’t raise my daughter to be a victim.
- Concha: One-trick-pony Matthews deploys the race card again.
- Invitation to a lawsuit: Something doesn’t seem quite right here.
- Biznets sked special weekend coverage. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Zurawik: CNN’s nuanced Baltimore coverage bests the competitors.
- Howard Kurtz videos: Hillary polls Trump