- Thursday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Video: new info about intel viewed by Devin Nunes.
- Somerby: Maddow embellishes previous falsehood, making it even falser!
- Megyn’s NBC debut: on weekends?! Adams: New O’Book a nice little read.
- Bo Dietl gripes FNC didn’t hire his security people. Jonathan Mann retires.
- Q&A: Rachel Maddow on rising ratings. CNN fact-checks Russian dressing.
- Videos: on cable news; dubious re ‘hacking’.
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Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Q1 numbers: FNC breaks record, tops all cable; CNN, MSNBC increase.
- Out# videos: Bill O’Reilly talks and
- Q&A: Bill O’Reilly on sacrifice and self-discipline. Video: Mr Bill
- ‘Massive protest‘ over CNN depiction of Hindus. MSNBC: Gone Phishing.
- FTV Live: Philly’s Jillian Mele is off to Fox News for possible morning role.
- Hannity to CBS: Release the missing footage. Kayleigh is sorry; so is Mr Bill.
- Videos: Brit Hume on Tucker vs
- CNN snags Gracie Awards. Immunity negotiations in Ailes payment probe?
- Sunday Showdown: Reliable Sources trumps MediaBuzz. Weekend numbers.
- FBN beats CNBC for six months straight; Maddow tops demo for third week.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Freaky Friday numbers: Maddow-Bret Baier-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Buckman: Maddow badly bungled her ‘scoop’…and Fallon didn’t help.
- Pribila: My pick for FNC’s next breakout star. Maddow wins 2nd week.
- Another Reza Aslan golden moment: engages in Voodoo goat slaughter.
- Stonestreet: CNN’s ‘religion quiz’ doesn’t take Christianity very seriously.
- Greg Gutfeld video: Timpf, Sivan, Dobbs et al snark on
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Somerby: People are finally noticing how ridiculous Maddow is.
- Lien Forward: Trump attorneys mull legal action against MSNBC.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Maddow-Lawrence O’Donnell-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Rachel Maddow-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
- Concha: Impartial CNN journo says Trump ‘looked like a third grader‘.
- Tucker Carlson ‘did a splendid job‘ pressing Trump…says Erik Wemple!
- Surprise: Millennials getting their news from cable, with Fox in the lead.
- Five fast facts about Erin Burnett’s husband. David Shuster resurfaces.
- Fox & Friends video: her ‘wiretapping’ experience.
- Sunday Showdown: MediaBuzz-Reliable tied in demo. Weekend numbers.
- CNN wants entrée to Canada press gallery. Today’s cannibalism complaint.
- FTV: Rachel Maddow insists it’s the viewers’ fault if they believed her hype.
- Tonight Show videos: Rachel Maddow with Jimmy Fallon
- NBC fuming: never told about tax ‘scoop’, felt Maddow didn’t ‘really deliver’.
- Chumley: Thanks to Maddow, Scarborough, MSNBC for the the comic relief.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- The Five video: Greg Gutfeld and the panel on
- Steve Hilton gets Sunday night hour on Fox News: The Next Revolution.
- Concha: Maddow hands Trump ‘fake news’ ammo as social media jeer.
- Somerby: Self-adoring circus clown starts media stampede over nothing.
- Slate: Overhyped; Esquire: A nothingburger; Wrap: Will viewers defect?
- Video: Kurtz on Maddow Wemple: Fox can’t handle her scoop.
- AP: Bait and switch; Caller: Humiliating debacle; CNBC: A win for Trump.
- Maddow ‘scoop‘, first reactions: Overhyped…overhyped…and overhyped.
- Controversy swirls around Tucker Carlson segment involving Chatham, NJ.
- Moscow slams ‘odious’ CNN Russia special. Today’s cannibalism complaint.
- Tucker videos: How in the 2016 election; analyzes.
- Willow Bay resurfaces. Big news for Ayman Mohyeldin. Eagle trips up Shep.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Steinberg: FNC says Megyn Kelly has been released from her contract.
- Concha: Cronkite award judges don’t have a clue about real journalism.
- Battaglio: Ainsley, Brian, and Steve speak out as Fox & Friends surges.
- Extraordinary growth of Fox Business gives them new bragging rights.
- Wemple spends 21 paragraphs not deciding if FNC is ‘mainstream media‘.
- Bauder: Fueled by anti-Trump sentiment, Maddow’s popularity increases.
- Factor video: Rep Dennis Kucinich was while in office.
- CNN to end modern-day slavery with rallies, hashtags. Parade of horribles.
- FNC primed for upfronts. Grand jury to hear evidence on Ailes settlements.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Freaky Friday numbers: Maddow-Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- FTV Live: CNN has hurt journalism more than Hannity ever could.
- Somerby: Maddow repeats, again and again, factually wrong claim.
- CNN series is ‘Black Mirror meets Westworld‘. HLN adds Cupp show.
- The Norman Lear Center honors Tapper, Tur, and Reliable ‘Resources’.
- Q&A: Chris Hayes insists All In isn’t dead yet. The anti-Trump bump.
- Snubbed! Trump unfollows Joe & Mika. Producers decline Megyn gig.
- Key thesis of CNN series called ‘patronizing nonsense‘. Cillizza to CNN.
- Fox & Friends videos: Time to abolish Daylight Saving?
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Somerby: Misstatements, omissions…and another ‘Maddow edit‘.
- Kurtz: It’s time for Maddow, Coop et al to come out of denial.
- The POTUS media diet: CNN and Fox News…MSNBC not so much.
- Factor video: on facts, speculation, and credulity.
- Report: Megyn Kelly tired of hard news, wants to be ‘the next Oprah‘.
- Tucker: the Socrates of our time. Ed Davis: new FNC security analyst.
- Wemple enthralled by Shep outburst. Today’s cannibalism complaint.
- Zucker play: CNN show features A.I. sex dolls and romance with robots.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Out# videos: Co-hosts debate ‘day without women’
- Video: Out# panel Concha: Mika & Joe bash Out# ladies.
- Gardner: Fox News appears to have the edge in lawsuit over clip-sharing.
- Steinberg: CNN’s New Day gets ‘new mission‘ as Olby producer takes over.
- After Maddow said she’s ignoring Trump’s tweets, Coop has a brainstorm.
- Paparazzi snap Megyn. Five fast facts about Ainsley. Andrea escorted out.
- Not just Coop 360°: CNN launches virtual reality unit with Pamplano bulls.
- Ruhle show is all female. CNN hires Jason Miller. Hogue: Unfaithful Bolling?
- Erik Wemple’s strange new respect for Fox & Friends alum Gretchen Carlson.
- Zucker: Our Israel coverage is not perfect. Cannibalism controversy persists.
- Tucker video: on the recent epidemic of fake news, and fake scandals.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Rachel Maddow-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Sunday Showdown: MediaBuzz beats Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- The Late Show video: Stephen Colbert. Fox Biz sweeps the week.
- MSNBC host appropriated reporting of two journalists without attribution.
- Iraqi baby named after Arwa Damon. Carol Costello show debuts in April.
- ‘What does a dead guy’s brain taste like?’ Outrage over cannibalism on CNN.
- Impartial CNN anchor on health care plan: the rich will like it, others may not.
- Video: Lauren Green makes book. CNN racism lawsuit at CA Supreme Court.
- Maddow’s plan to defeat Trump in 2020. CNN’s Jeff Kepnes rejoins MSNBC.
- Videos: Spirited debate on wiretapping claims via and
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Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: claim; reviews;
- Reliable Sources: Unprecedented; diversity; deception; nix on neutrality.
- Fox & Friends video: Trump wiretapping claims.
- Zurawik: Trump’s ‘war on press’ is no match for Barack Obama’s.
- Report: Heather Naurt hired as State Department Spokeswoman.
- MSNBC signs Mark Halperin as analyst. Tom Shillue makes book.
- CNN hires another impartial reporter…Valerie Jarrett’s daughter!
- Intelligence Report video: Joe Concha on the stories
- Kaylee Hartung jumps from ESPN to CNN. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Flood: How Maddow doubled her ratings; has FBN dethroned CNBC?
- Tucker video: Entrepreneur offers Q&A: Reza Aslan.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Concha: Slate reports Colmes death by calling him ‘patsy’, ‘buffoon’.
- Lean Forward: Ari Melber gets weekly show for 100 days. Flashback.
- Spicer excludes CNN et al from press gaggle; CNN media critic reacts.
- Video: Kimberly Guilfoyle and Sean Hannity
- Survey says: Coop, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity top most-trusted list.
- As cable news gets nasty, Zurawik implores pundits to stop the Hitler talk.
- Cillizza: Trump election making cable news great again (i.e. more partisan).
- Zucker play: CNN may boycott the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
- Pundit for sale: Ed Schultz, a progressive on MSNBC, now an RT Trump fan.
- Lean Forward: Maddow, Matthews, BriWi anchor Trump address coverage.
- CNN anchor wants tolerance of men exposing privates in girls’ locker rooms.
- Video: Anna Kooiman on Aussie TV. Tucker: an FNC moneymaker.
- Video: Tucker grills DNC advisor calling Trump for bathroom policy.
- Megyn and the battle for NBC’s future. Venezuela’s CNN ban spurs blowback.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Videos: remember Alan Colmes.
- R.I.P.: Alan Colmes. Friends and colleagues react. Video: Alan
- Somerby: Maddow rewrites history in another fake pseudo-confession.
- Veritas releases CNN audio bomb. Gold: falls flat; Borchers: overrated.
- Rothstein: Wimpy Wemple whines about Coppins’ Tucker Carlson piece.
- Coppins: Tucker’s hour is provocative, cringe-inducing, terrific television.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson/Sean Hannity (tie) 1-2/2.
- Chris Matthews ‘blown away‘ that Hollywood isn’t about glamour or looks.
- Another CNN town hall: McCain/Graham. Hogue: Bob Beckel unrepentant.
- Cover/Line blends politics, pop culture. Rowley: CNN’s fake diabetes news.
- Tucker video: Ex-CIA operative fears a is ‘out of control’.
- Rothstein: CNN throws mud at James O’Keefe ahead of imminent ‘audio bomb’.
- Conservative ‘provocateur’ targets CNN with release of secretly recorded audio.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Jesse O’Watters-Ed Henry-Rachel Maddow 1-2-3.
- Somerby: Rachel Maddow, changing and disappearing unwanted facts.
- CNN contributor ridicules ‘little boy’ Jared Kushner. Q&A: Reza Aslan.
- FNC signs Ezekiel Emanuel as a contributor. Craig Melvin snags POTUS.
- Was Sanders surrogate ‘blacklisted’ by MSNBC? Tamron Hall resurfaces.
- Audio: Mike Gallagher rips (and Brian Stelter) over false tweet.
- Factor video: O’Reilly asks if the US really has panelists
- Martha MacCallum would like Trump to call in on tonight’s Town Hall special.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly-Don Lemon 1-2-3.
- Women in news stepping up their fashion game. HLN’s ‘girl power‘.
- Fox News milestone: 15 years as most watched cable news channel.
- January 2017 numbers: Fox News tops; CNN #2; MSNBC improves.
- F&F video: Judge Napolitano on confronting
- Gasparino: CNN spinoff a caveat in Time Warner deal. CNN changes.
- Mika Brzezinski modestly reveals she’s trying to adopt a Syrian family.
- Sunday showdown: Reliable Sources tops MediaBuzz. Weekend numbers.
- Tucker video: Activist says immigration orders
- Flood: Why ex-LA attorney Jamie Colby may have cable news’s best job.
- Janice Dean inducted to Weather Hall of Fame. Stephen Moore to CNN.
- Hannity: The media don’t understand Trump. Is Rachel channeling Beck?