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Weekend Links and Open Thread

March 26, 2023March 25, 2023 by johnny dollar

MediaBuzz: Trump case, DeSantis, Krakauer.
Alex Wagner: ‘We’re figuring out what works.’
Audio: Attkisson and Krakauer. Promise kept.
Bill Barr: Dominion suit threatens a free press.
Why the silence about CNN’s defamation case?
Somerby: MSNBC couldn’t get any more phony.
FNC fires producer for disclosing privileged info.
TWC airs reruns as tornadoes strike. Sunday talk.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday’s numbers: The Five #1. Dayside, prime.
CNN cancels its promised Alison Roman show.
Friday Bill Maher segment hasn’t boosted CNN.
How Gutfeld suddenly became a late night star.
F&F video: Mark Levin sees a perilous precedent.
Psaki premiere warned GOP not to go ‘anti-woke’.
Somerby: Hacks at MSNBC do not permit dissent.
Glenn Greenwald welcomes Jen Psaki to MSNBC.
Dominion lawsuit could set ‘dangerous precedent‘.
F&F video: Benjamin Hall comes home to his family.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 by johnny dollar

Thursday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Fourth Watch: What Fox texts really show, etc.
F&F video: Benjamin Hall’s journey to recovery.
Documentary to detail Benjamin Hall’s escape.
Inside the secret mission to evacuate Ben Hall.
How Benjamin Hall escaped after missile attack.
Talgo: Attacks on FNC neither fair nor balanced.
Hurt: What’s behind efforts to silence Fox News?
Scarry: Fox texts discredit shoddy Dominion suit.
Lachlan praises Suzanne Scott’s ‘tremendous job‘.
Steinberg: The Murdochs betting big on live news.
Dominion refused invite from FNC to refute claims.
Dominion stretched to include Bartiromo in lawsuit.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday numbers: The Five #1. Dayside, prime.
Janice Dean will make you believe in miracles.
CNN on pace for worst month since June 2014.
FTV: Just what is this ‘formal training‘ anyhow?
Kurtz splits with Fox execs: ‘I strongly disagree.’
Insiders: CNN boss hasn’t won over rank and file.
Video: Howard Kurtz
with author Steve Krakauer.
Club Random video: Bill Maher
with Greg Gutfeld.
Greenwald: Media lie because the viewers want it.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 by johnny dollar

Thurs numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Fourth Watch podcast: Krakauer and Stelter.
Concha: How to turn CNN around in one step.
Q&A: Dana Perino. CNBC announces Last Call.
Janice Dean takes Joy Behar to the woodshed.
Sinking CNN ratings under inexperienced Licht.
WB CEO: Chris Licht has CNN ‘on the right path‘.
Barkley wants to help CNN: ‘It’s a sh!t show’ now.
Wednesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Tuesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, primetime.
The DeSantis team rejects Mitchell’s non-apology.
CNN’s election conspiracies. Profile: Mehdi Hasan.
Lemon: Lip service; no sale; firing never considered.
Poynter: CNN’s Lemon problem. Faux conservatives.

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday’s numbers: The Five #1. Dayside, prime.
Lemon to return, will undergo ‘formal training’.
Megyn Kelly has helpful tips for Don’s ‘training’.
Lemon drops out of Black History Month event.
Insiders calling CNN a disaster, a ‘dumpster fire‘.
Krakauer: Media finally tell the truth…far too late.
Gutfeld! video: Biden says
his dumbest thing yet?
F&F video: Social media making bias even worse.
FTV: Andrea Mitchell not so woke; awful weather.
Technical difficulties: Melber off air for entire show.
NewsNation launches branded connected-tv apps.
Circling back: Psaki to host MSNBC/Peacock show.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

February 20, 2023February 18, 2023 by johnny dollar

McCarthy gives Tucker access to 1/6 riot video.
MediaBuzz: Lemon v Nikki, strange visitors, age.
Two morning hosts debate Ukraine: only on Fox.
FTV Live: What is Brian Stelter doing nowadays?
Don Lemon off again on Monday over Haley slur.
Patricia Heaton claps back at Lemon’s misogyny.
Licht rips Lemon’s jibe: ‘unacceptable and unfair‘.
Don Lemon, Nikki Haley, and lessons of a hoodie.
Chris Cuomo nailed trying to deny his own words.
Andrea Mitchell slammed for lying about DeSantis.
MSNBC host’s Haley smear called vile and bigoted.
CNN analyst hoisted on her own petard. Sunday talk.
Gutfeld! video: Lemon
good as gone?
Today’s lawsuit.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 by johnny dollar

Weds numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
FBN’s Taylor Riggs shares travel experiences.
Video: Steve Doocy announces the big news.
Big news for Hillary Vaughn and Peter Doocy.
Wallace’s ‘mean-spirited’ Q&A with Bradshaw.
Harris Faulkner talks faith, family, and football.
Danny Freeman joins CNN from Philly’s NBC10.
NewsNation journo jailed for disrupting presser.
Gutfeld! video: Reaction to the
State of the Union.
Clothes make the man: Lemon, Caitlin get in sync.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by johnny dollar

Thursday’s numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Lemon screamed at Kaitlin for ‘interrupting’ him.
Carley Shimkus gives birth to son Brock Edward.
2023 State of the Union Address: coverage guide.
Trump dings FNC: They try to ‘make me look bad‘.
Newsmax makes false claims in spat with DirecTV.
MSNBC anchor opens up about pericarditis attack.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 by johnny dollar

Wednesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Kaitlin Collins ‘won’t play second fiddle‘ to Lemon.
F&F video: Recovering Benjamin Hall makes book.
DirecTV to add free right-leaning channel The First.
Sean Hannity quintuples CNN’s most watched show.
CNN reverses Brian Stelter ‘conspiracy theory’ claim.
MSNBC host scolds viewers: ‘Here’s the deal, moron!’
Gutfeld! video: Trans groups
slam Harry Potter author.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

January 23, 2023January 22, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday’s numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, primetime.
Julie video: Antifa waging war on law enforcement.
FBN tests new programing ground with Bottom Line.
Cuomo is ‘psychologically beat up‘ from CNN’s firing.
Colbert ridicules Lemon over his ‘tragic’ hoodie outfit.
Concha: Will CNN stand for ‘Comedy News Network‘?
Hegseth moderates Miseducation of America Summit.
F&F video: Adam Klotz
recounts his NY subway assault.
Fox News meteorologist attacked on New York subway.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

January 22, 2023January 21, 2023 by johnny dollar

MediaBuzz: Docs flap, Santos, ‘bomb throwers‘.
The Five video: Joy
gets it wrong
defending Alec.
F&F video: Restaurant kicks out Gianno Caldwell.
Hoover goes squishy on MSNBC’s anti-Semitic Rev.
R.I.P. longtime FNC executive Alan Komissaroff (47).
Megyn: Alec Baldwin will beat the rap. Sunday talk.
CNN on secret docs: most of the time it’s accidental.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 by johnny dollar

Tuesday’s numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Wednesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
CNN ‘breaks’ news…that was reported years ago.
Video:
Janice Dean reveals
‘I have Survivor’s Guilt’.
Gutfeld: CNN doesn’t need a comic…it’s a joke now.
CNN mulling comedy as Gutfeld! is thriving on Fox.
CNN’s entire schedule doesn’t equal one FNC show.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 by johnny dollar

Friday numbers: FNC/CNN #1. Dayside, prime.
New Fox Weather lineup features Amy Freeze.
Fourth Watch: Vaccine ‘disinfo’, SBF, Mr French.
MSNBC calls Latina GOPer ‘white supremecist‘.
F&F video: Shannon Bream on the
House rules.
R.I.P. Bernard Kalb, reported for NBC, CBS, CNN.
MSNBC: GOP are ‘locusts’ that ‘feed on suffering’.
The ‘new’ CNN: McCarthy ‘lost the speaker’s race‘.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 by johnny dollar

Wednesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, prime.
Tuesday numbers: Tucker #1. Dayside, primetime.
CNN scores a New Year’s Eve win in cable ratings.
Hegseth’s #1 priority: introducing his kids to Jesus.
Fox/News Corp renew their leases for 6th Ave HQ.
Anderson Cooper’s raunchy family history revealed.
CNN has found a new Senior Political Commentator.
Glenn Greenwald reacts to CNN’s new commentator.
Upset: NewsNation tops MSNBC, but there’s a catch…

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