• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Concha: When Obama zings Fox, guess who benefits?
• Another skirmish in The War on Fox: FNC returns fire.
• Video: Media Ebola coverage: chaotic or indispensable?
• Shep Q&As: HottyToddy; SBNation; audio: ESPN; JOX-FM.
• Scarry: Disclosure issues haunt Alex Wagner.  More.
• Electrifying new CNN series to focus on...painters?!
• Steel: CNN at crossroads, reasserts itself (via CNNC).
• Weprin: CNN’s ‘reality’ strategy at a critical crossroads.
• Imus video: Bill Hemmer.  Swells gather at The Rev’s rave. 
• Factor video: Are airstrikes on ISIS part of a ‘phony war’?
• Top ten Heroes countdown begins.  Rowe debut: ‘intriguing’.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, oreilly, cooper