- Freaky Friday numbers: Maddow-Melber-Reid 1-2-3; a historic week.
- Somerby: ‘Lousy work‘ by CNN’s Coop, and beyond that…’Good God!’
- Somerby: Embarrassing Joe/Mika bio and its preoccupation with hair.
- Today’s adulatory profile of Joe & Mika, and their storybook love affair.
- Next Revolution video: Health insurance companies are
- Count the errors in MSNBC attack on Trump’s wives. Betsy likes to watch.
- CNN’s Jim Acosta wouldn’t do a correction, now Chris Cillizza won’t either.
- Flood: Fox News rips NY Times ‘hyperventilating to the media’ over apology.
- NY Times asks Fox to apologize for reporting what Special Ops General said.
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Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-O’Donnell-Williams 1-2-3.
- Gainor: Temper tantrums by CNN stars pushed out hated Spicer.
- Q&A: Abby Huntsman talks pregnancy and the working mom life.
- Brands pay three times as much for ad time on Tucker vs Maddow.
- CNN devises new twist on Russia fixation: sleeper agents in the US!
- Sky News video: Harris Faulkner’s take on the US political landscape.
- CNN analyst compares OJ’s daughter’s comments to Meghan McCain’s.
- Ex Kerry staffer Melber will double as opinionizer and NBC legal analyst.
- The Five video: Pompeo slams NY Times for
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Gregg Jarrett tells Tom Shillue: the OJ parole board got it wrong!
- Wednesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-O’Donnell-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Another bad day for Cillizza: ‘Is he not watching his own network?’
- MSNBC, CNN ignore major scandal. Inside CNN’s online talk show.
- Greta: CNN’s McCain bragging is ‘so tasteless’. New CNN protest set.
- Q&A: Ainsley Earhardt; Trish Regan; Andrea Mitchell (via TV Newser).
- Video: Comments on Sen McCain from and
- Q&A: John Roberts. Throwback Thursday: The first and forgotten anchor.
Thursday’s Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-O’Donnell-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- F&F video: Daughter of slain NY police officer
- Tamron Hall resurfaces. Greta hints Bill O’Reilly may resurface soon.
- Impartial CNN anchor stunned: “All of those hands…it’s very strange.”
- Acosta won’t make correction, but gets to headline a journalism gala!
- CNN called out for ‘fake news’ over bogus reporting of a terror attack.
- The Five video: Greg Gutfeld reacts to ‘Morning Joke’
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
- Behind the scenes at the most influential morning show in America.
- Erik Wemple calls Fox & Friends a ‘planetary threat’, wants it ‘killed’.
- Hogue: Did Chris Cuomo admit CNN has decided to go anti-Trump?
- Still waiting for Acosta’s correction. Is Jim having some bad hair days?
- Alisyn Camerota quits twitter. Q&A: Eric Bolling talks swamp-draining.
- Late Show videos: Joe & Mika with Colbert
- Tucker video: Robust Putin debate with Lt Col Ralph Peters
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Somerby: Cable news deploys ‘insipid shills‘ and ‘weird demagogues’.
- Monday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-O’Donnell-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Fox & Friends corrects report; will CNN’s Acosta do likewise for this?
- Mission accomplished: Mika Brzezinski signs three-book mega-deal.
- Steinberg: One year after Ailes, Fox News has persisted…at being #1.
- Gorka cites Nick-at-Nite cartoons in heated exchange with Camerota.
- Rothstein: Why did Jake Tapper accuse me of ‘reveling in anti-Semitism’?
- Q&A: Don Lemon talks to the NY Times about argan oil and brown shoes.
- Sunday showdown: Reliable Sources beats MediaBuzz. Weekend numbers.
- Video: Prof Jonathan Turley clears up the raging
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-America’s Newsroom-The Five 1-2-3.
- Video: Gregg Jarrett says to collude or meet with Russians.
- Jim Acosta: Blowhard or crusader? Krakauer: Acosta’s quest for virality.
- Hasson: CNN’s very bad—no, awful—week. Charen: Vindictive and petty.
- Concha: Kellyanne Conway and Chris Cuomo’s contentious confrontation.
- Fox News signs Ari Fleischer as a contributor. CNN makes deal with Hulu.
- Latest ratings are good news for FNC. Bolling makes book, book makes #3.
- F&F videos: Tom Shillue on and his
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Out# video: Panel debates Brian Stelter, CNN, and
- Friday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Kim Guilfoyle-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- MSM spotlights CNN sting denials, doesn’t report on the original videos.
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz edges Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- Newsweek says Fox stories didn’t ID reporters…when they did exactly that!
- Easley: Media flubs give Trump fresh ammo. Larry King sticks up for CNN.
- CNN tweets urge free speech…after suggesting twitter should ban Trump!
- Videos: Anna Kooiman at a and the
- Ziegler: CNN didn’t ‘blackmail’ or ‘threaten’ the creator of that wrestling video.
- Concha: CNN says don’t mock us or we’ll expose you—what a CNN PR disaster!
- Twitter erupts: CNN threatens to expose video maker. Concha: CNN scorched.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Videos: Tucker with The Five on
- Audio Q&A: Harris Faulkner on journalism, relevance, and more.
- Out# video: The panel debates — what else? —
- F&F videos: Anna Kooiman on the USS N Carolina
- Kelly Wright has a new album…and it’s nothing like Joe Scarborough’s.
- Hanson-Firestone: Greta’s top five MSNBC moments. Greta makes book.
- 16 Morning Joe Trump insults that got personal, from ‘schmuck’ to ‘jackass’.
- Concha: CNN’s reaction to ‘wrestling’ tweet plays right into Trump’s hands.
- Stelter: Trump’s tweet ‘scary…dangerous’. Betsy watched Reliable Sources.
- CNN tattled on Trump to twitter, invoked ‘hateful’ rule. Berman: CNN caved.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: The WH The
- Reliable Sources: Tweets; a new low; transparency; press freedoms at risk.
- F&F videos: Anna Kooiman with and
- Veterans? Schmeterans! CNN skips vets ceremony to revisit Nixon.
- The Five video: for the media. The long walk home.
- Flashback: Mika sneers at ‘long legs’ of Harris Faulkner, Sandra Smith.
- Zurawik: Mika and Joe ‘compelling;’ they speak with ‘moral authority‘.
- Greta: I’m not interested in going back to CNN, but Fox News…maybe.
- HuffPo: Greta’s past at FNC killed her chances for success at MSNBC.
- Steinberg: MSNBC to pre-empt Maddow on Fridays for Richard Engel.
- Jenna Lee admits to ‘mixed emotions’, and hope for the ‘next adventure’.
- Kellyanne reacts to CNNer who described her face as ‘hit with a shovel’.
- Coleman: ‘Panic’ hit CNN as Jake Tapper displayed fake magazine cover.
- Makers of CNN sting videos: MSM is ‘on notice’. Sunday talkers: preview.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- After less than six months, Greta is out at MSNBC.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-The Five 1-2-3.
- Somerby: Remember Olbermann/Musto’s unvarnished misogyny?
- Out# video: Panel reacts to about Joe and Mika.
- Concha: Joe, Mika, and Trump seem incapable of acting like adults.
- Kim Guilfoyle says it’s not her last week at Fox: signs new contract.
- Audio: Andy Levy announces that this is his last week at Fox News.
- Video: Julie Roginsky announces this is at Fox News.
- Barr: MSNBC giving Hugh Hewitt minimal promotion for new show.
- CNN is making Cillizza a ‘brand’. Conservative activists target CNN.
- F&F video: on how he dealt with CNN’s hit piece.
- Q&A: Scarborough expounds on his musical genius, Trump, and more.
- The Five video: Does new undercover video deepen the
- Impartial CNN anchor: Trump is putting journalists in physical danger.
- Impartial CNN journo mad that WH takes questions from conservatives.
- Budowsky: CNN Russian Connection like journalism of Edward R Murrow.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-The Five-Rachel Maddow 1-2-3.
- Q2 cable news program ranker: Fox News holds 14 of top 20 slots.
- Q2 biznet shake-up: CNBC dips to 20-year low as FBN surges 47%.
- Q2 numbers: FNC dominates cable news for 62nd month in a row.
- Q2: Fox News tops all cable nets; MSNBC, CNN show improvement.
- MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle snags a $7.5 million Upper East Side crib.
- Kansas man arrested for stalking Joanne Nosuchinsky at her NYC pad.
- CNN producer caught on tape: the Russia coverage is ‘mostly bullish!t‘.
- Turley: Travel ban ruling should force the media to examine themselves.
- The Late Show video: talks Mean Dads with Stephen Colbert.
- Jim Acosta: I’m ‘blackballed‘. Soldier’s mom rips CNN’s ‘twisted’ reality.
- Videos: Sharyl Attkisson on the origins of
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz beats Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Three journos involved in retracted CNN report have resigned.
- Friday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-Maddow-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Greer: Fair-weather liberals have had their fill of Megyn Kelly.
- Megyn NBC ratings sink to new low. Andrea Mitchell honored.
- Hogue: ‘The band’ is back together; Heather’s new 5am partner?
- Don Lemon at Sag Harbor High. Oh, Joy: Russia…Russia…Russia…
- Hugh Hewitt MSNBC premiere gets hostile reception from the left.
- Joe Scarborough releases anti-Trump mushroom cloud music video.
- Videos: CNN retraction etc Monday
- CNN tightens rules after retracting fake story; Reliable Sources silent.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: Acosta the tiff
- Reliable Sources: Phil Donahue; Fox Trump ‘infomercial‘; the GOP liars.
- Anna Kooiman heading back to the USA for FNC July 4th weekend.
- Boyle: CNN retracts ‘very fake’ report on Scaramucci, Kushner et al.
- Megyn: ‘I have zero doubt I can do this job.’ Sunday talkers: preview.
- As Fox News builds new cutting edge newsroom, Studio N goes dark.
- Duin: CNN spotlights gay 12-year-old Mormon…but is it really news?
- Tucker video: after attempt to assassinate GOP reps.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
- It’s no joke: The History of Comedy returns to CNN with season two.
- Somerby: What MSNBC refused to say about Comey and the ‘tapes’.
- Erik Wemple scolds Fox for saying what MSNBC refused to mention.
- MSNBC scores a hat trick: three errors of fact in one single sentence.
- Tucker video: why didn’t MSNBCNN air Trump speech?