Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-Situation Room 1-2-3.
  • Petition demands MSNBC stop hiring all those white conservatives.
  • Rothstein: Mika tells manly man Joe the White House is full of sissies.
  • Fox News retires its ‘fair and balanced’ slogan.  Q&A: Rachel Maddow.
  • ‘It’s a sh!t show!’: ‘Panicked’ meetings at NBC over Alex Jones segment.
  • Advertisers, afraid to offend, are shaping the content of news programs.
  • Ex-CNNer mulls Congressional run.  Van Jones heading to Miami Beach.
  • The 13 most-watched Fox News programs since Tucker replaced Mr Bill.
  • Tucker videos: with Aresh Aramesh; on collusion.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Maddow-Tucker Carlson-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • Concha: NBC needs to pull Megyn’s interview with Alex Jones.
  • Steinberg: The unprecedented cable news wars in the Trump era.
  • Former FNC employee:  Workplace harassment suit is ‘meritless’.
  • Sunday showdown: Reliable beats MediaBuzz.  Weekend numbers.
  • Tucker Carlson video: Joe Concha sees a at CNN.
  • Back to the 90s.  CNN’s new ‘travel vertical‘.   Tapper at Dartmouth.
  • HuffPo: The problem with Greta is that she’s too fair and balanced.
  • The Five video: Debate over terrorism and its enablers
  • Hall: Stop the madness… before advertising boycotts destroy us all.
  • You can leave Fox News, but the boycotts will follow you everywhere.

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-The Five-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Juan Williams honored as Journalist of the Year.  Sean zings Joe.
  • Tucker Carlson video:  Who is to blame for
  • As Hannity predicted, haters hysterically hype his ‘abrupt’ vacation.
  • Friedman: End near for ‘erudite, clear-thinking’ O’Donnell.  
  • Flood: Fox News is cleaning up its act.   FNC files response to Roginsky.
  • Chicheko: Greta helps to transform the life of a deformed Liberian boy.
  • All is forgiven: Cramer’s sorry for bad Polish joke.  CNN launches tech site.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Concha: O’Donnell exemplifies the defeat of gloom-and-doom media.
  • Out# video: over Hillary’s ‘pathetic’ excuses.
  • Lovebirds make it official…they’re engaged.  The Joe and Mika story.
  • April stunner: Rising star Heather Childers at 5am beats Greta at 7pm!
  • April program ranker: Fox has eight of the top 10.    25-54 demo ranker.
  • Videos: Tucker discusses Comey with and
  • Rothstein: Brit Hume and Paul Begala in a twitter spat.  Today’s lawsuit.
  • Somerby: It’s all clowning, pretty much all the time.  NBC scorches CNN.
  • Randi Kaye revisits unsolved mystery.  Revamped HLN gets re-revamped?

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-The Five-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Pomerantsev: Tucker’s pugnacious debates are like sporting events.
  • Jessica Tarlov is newest FNC contributor.  Chief of Staff Hannity?!?
  • O’Reilly: Trump right about civil war, Dan Rather et al are ‘morons’.
  • CNN host admits to sharing ‘fake news’.  CNN prevails in app appeal.
  • Grim: Despite ‘ratings wreck’ Greta, MSNBC continues shift to right.
  • Tucker Carlson makes book…actually two multi-million dollar books.
  • Videos: Tucker talks violence with and
  • Q&A: Charles Gasparino, Will Ripley in N Korea.   John King in Canada.
  • Late Night videos: Rachel Maddow with Seth Meyers

Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • Gorka: Tapper interview of Conway ‘treated a woman like a punching bag‘.
  • MediaBuzz videos: The the Kellyanne
  • Reliable Sources videos: Trump is unstable; or battle-tested; worst WH week.
  • HuffPost: This is the definition of ‘fake news’, and CNN is guilty as charged.
  • Katz: Greta to emcee 2017 Press Club Foundation Congressional dinner.
  • Staples: Omar Butcher opens up about years of racial discrimination at CNN.
  • Wemple: White House reply to CNN ‘authoritarian‘.  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Spicer WH briefings beating broadcast soaps.  Tamron Hall visits Steve Harvey.
  • Your Buzz videos: Kellyanne and a Tom

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Erin Burnett 1-2-3.
  • Video: ‘poorly reasoned, absurd’ 9th Circuit ruling.
  • Bill Moyers has a sadz because CNN let Kellyanne Conway speak (v/CNNC).
  • Topel: CNN’s History of Comedy explores censorship, sexism, and more.
  • His eyes fill with tears, there’s a lump in his throat…the Post profiles Olby.
  • Daly: Megyn Kelly under fire from all sides for just doing her job.  Word up!
  • Q&A: Chris Hayes in Chicago; Greta asks ‘where are the primetime women?’

Monday Links and Open Thread

Thursday Links and Open Thread

Monday Links and Open Thread

Thursday Links and Open Thread

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Martha MacCallum 7pm bow a knockout, tops MSNBCNN combined.
  • New Pew: Fox top source for voters…FNC 19% CNN 13% MSNBC 5%.
  • Katz: Guide to tv Inauguration coverage.  Anna Kooiman resurfaces.
  • Concha: The rise of Tucker Carlson, and the fall of Greta van Susteren.
  • Greta responds to fans:  Same show, same me, just a different channel.
  • Factor video: on reactions to Trump.  Q&A: Van Jones.
  • Fox News re-ups, expands leases; plans new state-of-the-art newsroom.
  • Sunday Showdown: MediaBuzz tops Reliable Sources.  Weekend numbers.
  • Ellison:  Latest Megyn Kelly specularama sees her as the next Matt Lauer.
  • Sincerest form of flattery: Katy Tur anchors show on Trump first 100 days.
  • Don Lemon’s condo goes for nearly $1 million.  Bret’s inauguration playlist.
  • Videos: Jake Tapper with Seth Meyers Q&A: Jeff Zucker.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: John Martha
  • Reliable Sources: Trump hostile to facts, sees press as opposition; BuzzFeed.
  • Video: Jesse Watters visits scene of brutal
  • Concha: Trump should make cable news town halls the new fireside chats.
  • The Cable Game: After one week, Greta finds herself in unfamiliar territory.
  • Martha MacCallum rises to primetime.   Chris Wallace pushes back on Shep.
  • Tucker Carlson video: Putin is far from our biggest threat.
  • Fox News contributor running for DNC chair:  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Lean Forward: Maddow, Matthews, Williams anchor inauguration on MSNBC.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday’s numbers: Obama (CNN)-Don Lemon-Rachel Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Outnumbered video: Bret Baier and panel examine
  • Concha: Mika Brzezinski slams CNN, Buzzfeed over unverified reporting.
  • Somerby: Remember when Maddow wasn’t pretending to admire Greta?
  • Grove:  Greta on MSNBC is the same ideology-free show as Greta on Fox.
  • Columnist takes shot at Fox women…gets called out by CNN contributor.
  • Q&A: Gretchen Carlson, Greta.  FNC’s Three Days in January.
  • 9/11 truther Van Jones has ‘high hopes‘ for his series of CNN ‘conversations’.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
  • Outnumbered video: Sean Spicer previews the
  • CBS This Morning video: on Three Days in January, and more.
  • The Cable Game: Missing persons…Housecall, Insiders, Massi, Dash, etc.
  • Wolff: The best laid plans of Megyn and the Murdoch boys go badly awry.
  • Factor video: Tucker on celebrities, and Fox’s primetime.
  • Sunday Showdown: MediaBuzz beats Reliable Sources.  Weekend numbers.
  • White media outraged by white man.   CNN’s video wall.   Favre phones in.
  • Videos: Van Jones w/Seth Meyers  Nancy Grace resurfaces.
  • Spargo: Greta ‘never liked‘ Megyn Kelly, didn’t know they’d both be at NBC.