- Monday’s numbers: DNC/CNN – DNC/MSNBC – Coop 1-2-3.
- Concha: Conventions serving up the best political drama in decades.
- CNN tops rivals and broadcast on first night of DNC. Today’s oops.
- Showdown: Media Buzz tops Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- Murdoch memo congratulates FNC staff on convention week victory.
- F&F video: his RNC speech, Dem unity, and more.
- Concha: Michael Clemente leaving Fox News (unrelated to Ailes drama).
- Schlichter: Don’t let liberals destroy Fox News. Profile: Jacob Soboroff.
- Wolff: Roger Ailes’s next moves may determine the future of Fox News.
- Ad at CNN ‘blurs lines‘ between ads, editorial. Q&A: CNN exec Otto Bell.
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Weekend Links and Open Thread
- Media Buzz videos: it’s
- Reliable Sources: Ailes bails part one, part two, part three, part four.
- Fox & Friends video: in leaked DNC emails.
- Jake Tapper responds to criticism re DNC emails referencing him.
- Q&A: Meghan McCain says ‘I no longer recognize my party’.
- Harris Faulkner lawsuit clears first hurdle. Sunday talkers: preview.
- The ‘Political Insiders’ one-hour special Saturday. Governor Gretch?
- Wasserman-Schultz complained about Mika, Chuck Todd intervened.
- Abrams: Running MSNBC I didn’t compete with Ailes, I emulated him.
- NYT exposé on Fox News ‘culture’ cites
- Concha: If timing is everything, Fox scored a bullseye with Ailes exit.
- Guthrie: Behind the scenes on day one at Fox News sans Roger Ailes.
- Bauder: Rupert Murdoch vows Fox News without Ailes is still Fox News.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: FNC/10pm-Megyn Kelly-CNN/10p 1-2-3.
- On night two Fox News tops all, beats broadcast nets at 10pm.
- Q&A: Greta on anchoring conventions, and what’s in her trunk.
- Concha: Carl Bernstein credits Drudge, not FNC, for Trump win.
- Concha: Day two RNC winners and losers include FNC, MSNBC.
- Impartial CNN reporter declares first two days of RNC ‘a disaster‘.
- F&F video: Brian Kilmeade goes of Special Report.
- Rutenberg: Will news nets be a truth squad or a Trump infomercial?
- Profile: Maria Bartiromo is getting into politics. Weekend numbers.
- CNN joins the Kik Bot Shop, is adding solicitations to Great Big Story.
- Drudge tweet triggers media scramble. Q&A: Greta. The 13-day war.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- Concha: O’Reilly pulls off a rare 2016 feat. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Q&A: Joe Scarborough is making music. Audio Q&A: Meghan McCain.
- Ratings for 20 Kelly Ripa co-hosts put Coop near the bottom of the pile.
- Your Buzz videos: playing race
- Maddow: 25 things you don’t know about me. CNN is up for nine Emmys.
- Abby Huntsman talks about Fox and Ailes. Litigants squabble over venue.
- Q&A: Ainsley Earhardt, John Roberts. MSNBC’s somber 20th anniversary.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- CNNC: Much ado about an unplugged cable. This is CNN.
- Steinberg: TV news placing its bets on splashy ‘town hall’ productions.
- Ariens: Innuendo-drenched Gretchen Carlson clip from 2007 surfaces.
- Grove: Fox News colleagues mad that Megyn hasn’t stuck up for Ailes yet?
- Ellefson: As a VP at FNC, Neil Cavuto had no business sticking up for Ailes.
- Wemple: Hannity’s plane ride makes FNC look like GOP; today’s O’Whine.
- Moses: CNN’s digital emphasis aims to ‘find new readers‘ wherever they are.
- Wemple: O’Reilly’s interview shows why Hillary should do more Fox News.
- Concha: O’Reilly gets first live post-attack interviews with and .
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Bret Baier, Megyn to lead FNC conventions; Bartiromo, Regan on FBN.
- Kelly File video: Megyn to DL Hughley, who resists.
- F&F video: kicks off from the FNC plaza.
- Wilstein: O’Reilly stands by Ailes, rips our ‘out of control, tabloid society’.
- Late Night video: Bill O’Reilly with Seth Meyers
- Make way for the King: Ashley Banfield frozen out of convention coverage.
- Carlson’s lawyer says arbitration is unfair because ‘they’re all white men‘.
- Carlson’s contract could shroud her litigation in the secrecy of arbitration.
- Hannity defends Newt plane ride: favor for a friend; Sean snags Trump’s VP.
- Lean Forward: José Diaz-Balart leaves MSNBC, will anchor NBC Saturdays.
- Concha: Should MSNBC let Maddow anchor conventions after Hitler crack?
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Bruce: Carlson implies all female Fox hosts prostituted themselves.
- ICN: Every day CNN looks less and less reputable compared to FNC.
- FTV Live: CNN’s Lewandowski also being paid by Trump campaign.
- Late Show videos: Bret Baier with Stephen Colbert
- Goodrich: Bill Hemmer shares his take on Trump and all things RNC.
- Luke Russert leaving (MS)NBC to ‘pursue other interests’ (via Stelter).
- CNN convention anchors to include Coop, Cuomo, Tapper, Lemon et al.
- Concha: Tapper’s crazy route to CNN stardom. CNN fights privacy suit.
- Concha: Even if Gingrich isn’t a VP candidate, Fox unlikely to rehire him.
- Road trip: Pittsburgh or bust. Bill and Matt’s breakfast in the Hamptons.
- Real Story, sans Gretchen, scores its biggest ratings ever. Q&A: Maddow.
- Q&A: Bret Baier on Ailes, Fox, and more. Wemple: Leave Megyn out of it.
- McFarland: There was never a whisper of Roger being one of ‘those men’.
- Gretchen Carlson: I’m standing up for what happened to me and the truth.
- Kennedy video: Judge Nap spots about AG Lynch’s testimony.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Concha: Rush to judgment…can Roger Ailes get a fair trial in the press?
- CNN producer scolds people for not having backed Black Lives Matter.
- Joe Biden in two places at once! Wemple: Today’s O’Whine.
- After Evan Bayh, Fox News releases contributor Newt Gingrich.
- The Five video: The about five years of The Five.
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz tops CNN’s Reliable. Weekend numbers.
- Lean Forward: Maddow, Matthews to lead MSNBC convention coverage.
- Steinberg: How will Fox News move forward post-Roger Ailes lawsuit?
- Hasselbeck: Roger, Steve, Brian always treated me with enormous respect.
- Cavuto: Take it from a guy with an illness…these accusations are just sick.
- Guilfoyle: I’ve talked to 30 female colleagues at Fox; they all support Ailes.
- Faulkner, Earhardt, MacCallum speak out: ‘He changed the arc of my career’.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-O’Reilly/Jake Tapper (tie) 1-2-3.
- Concha: Experts say past Ailes allegations may not be admissible.
- Out# video: protestors misled by some networks.
- The Cable Game: CNN is basically declaring war on Fox News.
- Greg Burke resurfaces…as the new chief of the Vatican press office.
- Q&A: Bill O’Reilly on Obama, Trump, and expanding his own empire.
- CNN hopes Pereira can bring HLN ‘back to its roots‘; a ‘chillaxed‘ vibe.
- Concha: Multiple missteps beset Dallas coverage. Harris-Perry to BET.
- Sub-hosts getting better ratings than Gretchen. 21C hires investigators.
- Hogue: F&F’s empowered Carlson flirted and twerked with the best of them.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: video media
- Reliable Sources videos: A week of social media; evil Ailes; legal finagling.
- Former MSNBC anchor claims she was ‘blacklisted at CNN‘ by Don Lemon.
- F&F debate: Were Hillary remarks on Dallas shootings
- Wemple: When images get ahead of confirmations. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Kim Guilfoyle: Nobody believes this…Ailes is a man who ‘champions women’.
- Flashback video: Gretchen Carlson’s just 17 days ago.
- Concha: CNN deserves credit for hiring Lewandowski and Scottie Nell Hughes.
- Bartiromo: I’ve known Ailes for 25 years; he’s been ‘nothing but a professional‘.
- New Ailes allegations are from as far back as 1960s. FNC settles suit re 9/11 pic.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Shep Smith/11pm-Megyn Kelly/10pm-O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Video: Is rhetoric on social media
- Brian Williams ridiculed for repeated JFK references in Dallas coverage.
- Snoozing: CNN 30+ minutes behind FNC with coverage of Dallas shootings.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Attorneys for Roger Ailes cite breaches of contract by Gretchen Carlson.
- FTV Live: Gretchen Carlson’s personal, handwritten letters to Roger Ailes.
- Kiran Chetry: Despite an ‘ugly’ parting, Ailes always treated me with respect.
- Concha: The five key questions in Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment suit.
- Greta: ‘I’ve been in Ailes’s office a million times…he just doesn’t do this stuff‘.
- Wemple: Gretchen Carlson ‘gets real‘. Rutenberg: FNC faces ‘changing mores‘.
- Judge Pirro scorches ‘absurd’ Carlson lawsuit: she ‘never filed a complaint to HR’.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Throwback Thursday video from 2008: on Fox & Friends.
- Oddsmakers’ favorite for new Kelly Ripa co-host: Anderson Cooper.
- Big news for Brianna Keilar. CNN hires yet another Trump surrogate.
- Katz: Struggling ratings and fudged numbers won’t help Carlson’s case.
- FTV Live: The likelihood of Carlson’s case ever going to trial is ‘remote’.
- Ziegler: Coverage of Carlson suit already becoming tribal and partisan.
- Wemple: Don’t settle, Gretchen, so you can force Roger Ailes to testify.
- Collins: In 2015 book Gretchen Carlson lavishes praise on ‘brilliant’ Ailes.
- ICN: Carlson has been poorly advised; her broadcast career is likely over.
- Carlson lawyers say lawsuit about ‘more than money‘, but expect ‘millions’.
- Factor video: on media coverage of Hillary email news.
- Tucker: NBC and CNN have put Trump a step away from the White House.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bourdain-CNN Newsroom-Bourdain 1-2-3.
- Roger Ailes responds to Carlson allegations: false and defamatory.
- Video flashback: on leaving Fox & Friends.
- Carlson attorneys to explore claims about Ailes in Sherman book.
- Fields: Gretchen not the first Ailes victim, says anonymous source.
- Gretchen Carlson fired by Fox, files harassment suit vs Ailes. More.
- Is CNN’s Declassified telling the truth? MSNBC investigates…clip art!
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly/Dennis Miller-Sean Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz tops Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- Kelly File video: Hillary’s email claims fact-checked
- Wemple: Latest hire shows CNN suits determined to torture their anchors.
- Hollywood director wants Andrea Tantaros for move role, but can’t find her?!
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Controversy swirls around Brian Williams’s ‘Richard Pryor’ crack.
- CNN hires another Trump supporter, who posts celebratory video.
- Video: with FBI’s Hillary recommendation.
- Somerby: Manifestly, the ‘smartest person on tv’ is a corporate clown.
- Rivera in talks for book...Geraldo of Arabia: From Tora Bora to Trump.
- Tillison: The Rev declares Harris Faulkner and Kennedy ‘anti-woman‘.
- Hogue: F&F producers torture viewers. Who will O’Reilly be killing next?
- Mt Pleasant’s Sara Murray has come a long way. Katie Welnhofer sacked.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly-Anderson Cooper 1-2-3.
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly/Sean Hannity (tie)-O’Reilly 11pm 1-2-3.
- Outnumbered video: Does attack in Turkey mean that
- Sunday showdown: Media Buzz tops Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- Fox & Friends video: Benghazi report coverage.
- Shepard: Hiring Corey ‘a smart move‘. Television’s snakes and weasels club.
- CNN insiders rip Zucker, compare Stelter segment to something from Pravda.