Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz: D-Day US press talk;
  • Ratner: Elizabeth Warren is wrong about Fox.  Tucker, 2024?!?
  • Somerby: Brian Williams clown show is a parody of journalism.
  • Rothstein: You won’t believe the things that shock Chris Cillizza.
  • Another benefit of Fox News.  It was a PR stunt.  Sunday talkers.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Ingraham-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • Impartial MSNBC anchor changes ‘pro-life’ to ‘anti-abortion’.
  • Out# video: President Trump criticizes
  • Impartial CNN anchor may quit because of ‘Trump-era toxicity’.
  • Town Hall scores: Bernie/FNC tops list.  Today’s boycott update.
  • Pappu: The (all white, all left) women reshaping MSNBC daytime.
  • Tucker videos: vs democracy; Greenwald

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Tucker-Laura 1-2-3.
  • CNN’s Reliable Sources hires new producer…from Lou Dobbs!
  • Steinberg: Fox News making a pitch for tv’s late-night crowds.
  • Q&A: Greg Gutfeld on comedy, ratings, advertisers, and more.
  • Out# video:  Trump personality/leadership polling
  • Ingraham flap: Defending neo-Nazis…or opposing censorship?
  • F&F video: on Mueller, propagandists et al.
  • Don Lemon rips NYT ban: We journalists should stick together.
  • NYT journos told to avoid partisan shows like Maddow, Lemon.
  • Video: on Mueller’s statement.  More Guy time.
  • Impartial CNN anchor suggests Trump supporters ‘brainwashed’.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz: Dems Howard
  • Reliable Sources: AG Barr; Trump’s business; briefings; censorship.
  • Impartial CNN anchor has winning advice for 2020 Dems.
  • Somerby: BriWi doesn’t know squat about school segregation.
  • New CNN Instagram account is all climate change.  Doc shock.
  • Stephen Moore: I won’t return to CNN; they’re ‘vicious and vile‘.
  • Q&A: Don Lemon.  Video Q&A:   Sunday talkers.
  • No commercial plane crash coverage on CNN-funded airport tvs.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Reaction to
  • Thursday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Tucker-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Bream: I just sat there in my car crying ‘This is the end for me’.
  • Salutin: CNN is now Game of Thrones.  Jim Sciutto makes book.
  • Fox’s Father Jonathon Morris is asking to leave the priesthood.
  • Caught lying about Trump comment, Jim Acosta doubles down.
  • CNN anchors share their selections for ‘Champions of Change‘.
  • Serial killer, 12 elderly victims, yet CNN isn’t covering the story.
  • To Fox or not to Fox: that is the question.  Warren’s frantic ploy.
  • Concha: Biden gets more attention than all the others combined.
  • Flood: Maybe this impartial CNN anchor isn’t a news anchor at all.
  • Nolte: The NY Times debunks fake CNN school shooting statistics.
  • Swalwell: They’re afraid of me!  Fox Nation parley gets high marks.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: The worst mayor ever
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Tucker-Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • Today’s fake news: Jim Acosta caught lying about Trump talk.
  • Video: Ed, Brit, and Laura for his 50th birthday.
  • Swalwell can’t talk Fox into a Town Hall.   Warren’s Fox myopia.
  • Let’s play softball!  And that’s the memo.  Hemmer to quiz Barr.
  • Wemple hangs out with those people at the Fox Nation Summit.
  • Fox News #1 online.  Today’s lawsuit update.  CNN’s new partner.
  • Rand Corp study: US based journalism becoming more subjective.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Will Mark Cuban
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-The Five-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Yashar Ali: Kamala Harris refuses offer to do FNC Town Hall.
  • Impartial CNN anchor had producers’ OK to call Trump racist.
  • Slogan at CNN’s upfront pitch: The truth has never been busy.
  • Tulsi Gabbard: Clapper ‘blatantly lied’ yet hired as a tv analyst.
  • Just hours after Durham news, CNN is slanting their coverage.
  • CNN special: Trump family business.  Today’s Nazi comparison.
  • Politician attacks press…what has Brian to say about it?  More.
  • Laura video: Comey, Clapper, et al will have to
  • Pageant winners fear reprisals if they criticize Gretchen Carlson.
  • CNN town halls fail to score, some have been ‘flaming disasters‘.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: mode; is Trump
  • Reliable Sources:  Chelsea Manning; evil Fox; Facebook breakup.
  • Ill-conceived CNN segment turns partisan; ‘it felt like a protest‘.
  • Comey just tells media what they want to hear.   Sunday talkers.
  • Somerby: CNN anchors embarrassed themselves…but Fox didn’t.
  • Tucker videos: Concha rips
  • Wemple: What does Perino know? Dems on Fox should attack Fox!

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Will Dem investigations
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Tucker-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Piers has a proposition for Megyn.  Zucker nukes Lauer rumor.
  • MSNBC host also Pelosi advisor.   Angela Rye at Wiley College.
  • A ‘beloved figure’ at Fox News, his job there is extremely solid.
  • Yashar:  Guy to fly solo; Heilemann up for MSNBC weekend gig.
  • The dog that didn’t bark on MSNBCNN.  The glass is Harf empty.
  • Throwback Thursday:  It came, it went…and now it’s back again.
  • 17-term Dem Congressman to get CNN documentary treatment.
  • Somerby: Joe & Mika had no clue what they were laughing about.
  • New ‘Fox Corp’ beats expectations: cable channels lead revenues.
  • Video: Tucker skewers gloating over ‘loser’ Trump.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: on Trump’s taxes.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Tucker-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • CNN anchor not so impartial in rowdy abortion discussion.
  • CNN promotes K-File Trump thread but it doesn’t end well.
  • After buyouts, CNN staffers concerned layoffs coming next.
  • Impartial CNN anchors ‘ecstatic’ over leak of Trump tax info.
  • Video: Nadler and AG Barr
  • Glauber: Fox News an unlikely power player in Dem primary.
  • Martha Mac’s Town Hall preview.  Video: w/ Colbert.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Preview of Thursday’s
  • Tuesday numbers: Sean Hannity-Tucker-Laura Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • Who better to get a Crown Heights College honorary degree?
  • Facebook didn’t trust CNN, treated visiting cameramen as spies.
  • Rozsa: I was a liberal guest on FBN…and, hey, it was totally fine.
  • Moulitsas to Buttigieg: You wanna be a team player, stay off Fox.
  • Monday’s numbers: Tucker-Hannity-Town Hall 1-2-3.   It’s a boy!
  • Numbers too big to resist: Klobuchar to appear in FNC town hall.
  • The Five video: guests on show from Nashville.
  • Sanders town hall most watched.  CNN craters.  Monica finds work.
  • Friday’s numbers: Tucker-Laura-Bongino 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
  • FNC #1 online.  Don Lemon moonlighting.  Media Matters flips out.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Hannity-Tucker-Laura Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • Outnumbered video: ACLU comes to
  • Impartial CNN anchor at Dem town hall asks audience to clap!
  • Jackie DeAngelis jumps to Fox Biz.  Two Ailes shows too many.
  • Chuck Todd blisters Chris Cuomo: Nobody wanted to hire him!
  • Brest: A dozen CNN town halls, a dozen losses to FNC, MSNBC.
  • Concha: Bernie’s smart move shows why DNC should reconsider.
  • CNN to air another Dem town hall.  Media swells gather to party.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Assange and charged.
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Tucker-Sean Hannity-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Q&A: Don Lemon.  CNN workers want luxury gym discounts.
  • Does Fareed Zakaria want to goad Trump into war with Russia?
  • Report: Disgraced Matt Lauer plans to make comeback on CNN.
  • Tipton: Impartial CNN anchors freak out over ‘spying’ testimony.
  • CNN is coming apart.  Van Jones is all for forgiveness.  Swiss biz.
  • Stars of Ailes mini-series speak: a journey to ‘totally expose him‘.
  • Outnumbered video: Must the 2020 Dem ticket
  • One Gillibrand bit on Fox topped MSNBCNN town halls combined.
  • Stelter, Doocy, Hannity, Maddow et al named to distinguished list.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: more bad his time.
  • Reliable Sources: Axelrod; Murdoch; Trump; he-man women-haters.
  • Grove: Is Megyn campaigning for a job in ‘right-wing media’?
  • Hegseth hit with disgusting, obvious smear?  Sunday talkers.
  • Tucker videos: in a free society?
  • Brian vs Soledad.  Sinclair hires FNC expats.  Tomi makes book.
  • Free press? Sure…just not for Fox.  Easy peasy Lemon squeezy.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: at Intel Committee session.
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Ingraham-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • Impartial CNN anchor to Dem candidate: ‘Nice job, nice job!’
  • Fox News’ Morgan Ortagus Trump choice for UN spokesman.
  • Katz: FNC foreign correspondent Trey Yingst enters Gaza City.
  • Tucker videos: How Pelosi reacts.
  • Somerby: The question that doesn’t get asked…except on Fox.
  • Outnumbered video: Trump threatens to
  • Profile: MSNBC’s ‘masterful speaker‘, The Rev.  That’s our Olby!
  • Nicolle and Michael sitting in a tree…  Survey says: It’s Maddow!
  • Geragos slams ex-employer: a ‘lame-ass know nothing network‘.
  • Stelter: Fox surge due to slow news week?!  Here come the judge.
  • Cuomo: What wrong facts did we report? Adams: Glad you asked…

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