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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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  • Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • Videos: Dana Perino talks about politics and Jasper
    on F&F
    and The View.
  • Concha: ‘Trump TV‘…what would it be, where would it be, would it work?
  • Coop set to do ‘uncensored’ stage show with producer of Real Housewives.
  • Media Buzz edges Reliable.  Weekend numbers.  CNN tops demo for month.
  • CNN’s new set until election day; Fox News’s new set beginning election day.
  • Chilly reaction to Time/Warner deal as execs try to preserve CNN’s integrity.
  • Kelly File video:
    Judge Napolitano
    on where recent FBI leaks are coming from.
  • Factor video: Mr Bill
    asks Jennifer Rubin
    to back up her criticisms of The Factor.
  • Stiles: CNN Trumpsession nets them an extra $100 million.  Q&A: Ana Navarro.
  • Somerby: The ‘basic fact‘ Maddow didn’t tell viewers.  Hannity the propagandist.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • MediaBuzz videos: Press
    vs Trump;
    cozying up
    to Clinton;
    Chris Wallace.
  • Reliable Sources videos: ‘Rigged‘ elections; hyping Trump TV; AT&T deal.
  • Yesterday’s Wemple O’Whine triggers today’s Martin Dugard response.
  • Fox & Friends video: Segment with
    Martin O'Malley
    starts civil, turns rowdy.
  • Engulf & Devour: AT&T pays $85 million for Time Warner…including CNN.
  • Nancy Grace mystery movie debuts this weekend.  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Somerby: Maddow’s reporting on Christie is ‘propagandistic, Hannityesque‘.
  • YourBuzz videos:
    Wikileaks;
    the
    women;
    collusion;
    media
    mob;
    press
    vs GOP.
  • Audio: Behind the scenes with Chris Wallace.  Maria Bartiromo moonlighting.
  • Black Christian sues CNN for discrimination.  ‘Pussy’ prattle perturbs parents.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • Wednesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Video: Joe Concha asks ‘How does John Harwood
    have a job
    right now?’
  • Special Report video: All-star panel on
    what we've learned
    from Wikileaks.
  • A banner year for Fox News.  Frank Luntz home includes Oval Office replica.
  • ICN: After CNN’s Zakaria whitewash, don’t expect an investigation of Brazile.
  • Meet the inspiring girls of We Will Rise.  Somerby: Is Maddow out of her mind?
  • Ryle: Is inflammatory CNN Money report trying to make oil investors nervous?

Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • Friday’s numbers: Maddow-Hannity-O’Reilly/O’Donnell (tie) 1-2-3.
  • Bloomberg reporter asks: Did Russians order NY attacks to help Trump?!
  • Concha: Pack media resort to bullying the refs ahead of first Prez debate.
  • To smooth Brian Williams’s acceptance MSNBC paired him with Maddow.
  • Meyer: Chris Hayes ridiculed for dumb tweet.  CNN hires Brekke Fletcher.
  • Zengerle: Joe Scarborough has big dreams…including Trump: The Musical?!
  • Lean Forward: Impartial MSNBC reporter agrees, Gore won Florida in 2000.
  • Perino & Stirewalt videos: Candidates
    react to attacks;
    what
    makes a good poll.
  • F&F video:
    It's a girl!
    Hogue: Mornings get a jarring jolt.  RIP CNN’s Tom Mintier.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • Friday’s numbers: Hannity (Tucker) – Coop – Megyn Kelly – 1-2-3.
  • FTV Live: Fox News hires Taya Kyle, widow of Chris, as contributor.
  • Somerby: Maddow was so moved she just ‘couldn’t talk’…or was she?
  • Coop ‘in the running‘ for Live with Kelly.  The questions Fareed forgot.
  • CNN sets second Libertarian Town Hall.  MSNBC producer calls it quits.
  • Jeffrey Lord: Here comes the big, and inevitable, transition at Fox News.
  • Q&A: Robin Meade, Michaela Pereira on Ailes allegations.  Who aired Pat?
  • Media Buzz video:
    Joe Concha
    analyzes Hillary on Fox, CBS burying a story.

Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • Friday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Coop-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • Concha: Gabriel Sherman ‘sources’ say Ailes exit is imminent.
  • Stelter: Review not concluded, ex-employees may be quizzed.
  • Ariens: An inside look at the media swarming the FNC.
  • The Five video: A look at the gang’s
    road trip activities.
  • Somerby: Maddow understands that what she said is just not true.
  • Concha: News nets prepped for convention, and maybe much more.
  • Q&A: Bret Baier talks conventions, coffee, Colbert, and Carlson.
  • Specularama: Why Megyn isn’t talking about Roger.   Cupp’s pilot.
  • The Brothers Murdoch may make changes at FNC…unless they don’t.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • 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:
    Stereotyping;
    playing
    the blame game;
    race
    and misery.
  • 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.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • 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
    tries to talk sense
    to DL Hughley, who resists.
  • F&F video:
    Wounded Warriors Soldier Ride
    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
    part one,
    two,
    three,
    four.
  • 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

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  • 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
    part one,
    part two.
  • 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
    two mysteries
    about AG Lynch’s testimony.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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  • Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • Somerby: Megyn Kelly coverage fairer to Gov McAuliffe than Maddow’s.
  • Legends & Lies premiere tops rivals in totals and demo.  Weekend numbers.
  • Outnumbered video: Outrage over
    lenient sentence
    in Stanford rape case.
  • Q: Did Trump get Bill O’Reilly’s questions in advance?  A: No. ‘Never, ever.’
  • O’Reilly Factor, Kelly File videos:
    Point,
    counterpoint.
     Wemple: Bill the racist.
  • CNN’s Awra Damon found a cause in plight of burned Iraqi boy.  Today’s oops.
  • Audio Q&A: Bret Baier on WLS.  Q&A: Stacey Dash.  MSNBC spiffs up visuals.
  • Did White House cut reply to Fox News from transcript?   CNBC debuts Binge.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • Media Buzz videos: Trump
    vs media;
    Hillary
    vs Trump;
    Laura Ingraham.
  • Reliable Sources videos: Cenk Uygur; Trump vs press; Couric and Rosen.
  • Farhi: Welcome to Punditstan, land of gleaming teeth and hot takes.
  • Rothstein: ‘Fancypants’ Maddow producer says Daily Caller not legit.
  • Are ‘phoners’ making a comeback? It depends.  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Flood: Stuart Varney’s secret weapon.  Legends & Lies: The Patriots debuts.
  • Somerby: Rachel Maddow gets it right, but Chris Hayes gets it very wrong.
  • Your Buzz videos: Hill’s
    emails;
    Vince
    Foster;
    suing
    Gawker;
    soft
    on Hillary?
  • HuffPo: Chris Matthews colluding with corporate media to ‘coronate’ Hillary.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video:
    Obscure blogger
    gets a mention from Eric Bolling.
  • The Five video:
    Bill O'Reilly joins
    a lively discussion of Hillary’s speech.
  • Jen Psaki loses it, attacks James Rosen for ‘vilifying me on television’.
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • F&F videos:
    Richard Grenell rips
    ‘cover-up’ at State;
    Adm Kirby
    responds.
  • Borchers: What happened when Bret Baier asked twitter for story ideas.
  • May program ranker: FNC F holds 14 of 15 top slots, 8 of top 10 in 25-54.
  • Nguyen: Michelle Fields ‘learned a thing or two’ from brush with scandal.
  • Kelly File video: Documents trigger fresh
    debate over Trump U
    lawsuit.
  • Somerby: How Rachel Maddow has become one of the biggest fakes on tv.
  • Scandal du jour: Trump gave $75K to a veterans’ charity that Hannity likes.
  • ICN: Why CNN ignores irrelevant Couric flap; thoughts on MSNBC changes.