- MediaBuzz videos: skies; again.
- Reliable Sources: Dan Rather; Jen Psaki pspeaks; O’Reilly on vacation.
- Somerby: Hateful Maddow revives long debunked smear of Sessions.
- Tornoe: How CNN created a controversy that filled hours of airtime.
- Zucker play: CNN considers unsealing Bill O’Reilly’s divorce records.
- O’Connell: The ‘geniuses’ behind FNC’s graphics. The Megyn factor.
- Q&A: (MS)NBC’s Hallie Jackson; CNN Politics editor Rachel Smolkin.
- Shafran: Aslan’s ludicrous portrayal of Israel. Sunday talkers: preview.
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Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Smith: Megyn Kelly’s first NBC interview could be with Vlad Putin.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Janice Dean, recently absent from Fox News, says all is well, ‘back soon’.
- What could go wrong? Google puts CNN et al in charge of fact-checking.
- Explaining how tv news really works. Video: on Syria.
- New season of Parts Unknown premieres with exotic, faraway Los Angeles.
- Q&A: Bret Baier, Jake Tapper, et al discuss ‘fake news’, fairness, and more.
- Q&A: Melissa Francis on Roger Ailes, corporate culture, and her new book.
- Wolff: No evidence, no trials…it doesn’t matter if allegations are true or not.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- 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’.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Watters asks Trump whom he’d fire: Schumer, Baldwin, or Zucker?
- Wednesday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Smith keeps Judge Nap at arm’s length; TCG: Shep’s strange disclaimer.
- Perino: How I reset my heart after the election…my visit to Mercy Ships.
- Videos: on the tax leak; Tucker vs
- CNN ‘pointed gun’ story rebutted by both Hannity and Juan. Sean erupts.
- Terms of Megyn Kelly’s Fox exit still unsettled. Hibbs: Megyn comes home.
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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Wemple: John Roberts suggests the media should stop whining.
- Katz: Andy Lack looks ahead to Megyn Kelly’s role at NBC News.
- Judge Jeannine Pirro moonlighting: You the Jury premieres in April.
- Videos: Tucker Carlson cross-examines Jorge Ramos
- Q&A: How Erin Burnett became a news anchor. Fox settles with Holder.
- Somerby: Lawrence and Al’s moral stampede. Vossoughian is out at HLN.
- Ang: What did Dana Perino do on ‘women’s day’? Regrets? Bob has a few.
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.
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.
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?’
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Zurawik: MSNBCNN’s ‘over the top’ Trump coverage is just plain biased.
- January program ranker: Fox has 14 of top 15; Tucker, Martha 1-2 in demo.
- Fox News, FBN women take part in Wear Red Day. Arwa Damon honored.
- Video: Tucker and Milo contend CNN responsible for
- Q&A: Tucker Carlson on Fox vs CNN, moving on up to primetime, and more.
- Sean Hannity: 25 things you don’t know about me. Q&A: Bret Baier at WKU.
- Katz: TV newsers make their Super Bowl picks. Carol Costello signs off CNN.
- Don Lemon sells his deluxe apartment in the sky, walks his first runway show.
- Today’s Megyn specularama: Kelly might replace Savannah Guthrie at 7:00 am.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Zucker play: CNN’s fair and balanced town hall…Van Jones and Bill Maher!
- Video: Tucker talks to as riots erupt over his speech.
- Schackford: Meet MSNBC’s legal eagle who wants to destroy the free press.
- Somerby: Kayleigh McEnany, CNN’s ‘Trumpkin’ who trounces liberal pundits.
- Q&A: Brian Kilmeade‘s 20 years of F&F; Bret Baier; Barbara Starr, Tim Lister.
- Berg: Tucker Carlson’s success gives Fox News another primetime ‘tentpole’.
- Bill O’Reilly’s Super Bowl challenge, the ‘most important interview of my life’.
- Irate Tamron fans play the race card. CNN ratings unharmed by Trump zings.
- ICN: With any potential Tamron/(MS)NBC deal busted, both sides are losers.
- Inside the Today shake-up. Tamron left over Megyn, is unlikely to land at CNN.
- Anderson Cooper in Lewisburg; Marc Lamont Hill at the University of Florida.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Trump/O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
- De Moraes: Make room for Megyn, Tamron Hall is leaving (MS)NBC.
- Impartial MSNBC anchor warns Senate not to adopt ‘nuclear option’.
- Q&A: Bill Hemmer discusses Fox’s ratings bonanza, Trump, and more.
- Zucker play: Some people wrote ‘resist’ in the sand, and CNN is on it!
- Flood: What’s in store for the most watched female in all cable news?
- Videos: Tucker talks to has with Rep Swallwell.
- Zucker punch: CNN’s ‘constant BS’ makes them their own worst enemy.
- White House not providing surrogates for CNN shows. Flashback. Update.
- Zurawik: Why Poppy’s a primo pick. Farhi: How Katy Tur became a ‘star’.
- CNN producer subjected to additional screening, sues Homeland Security.
- In ‘sea of opinion’, Shep stands out. Q&A: Janice Dean. FNC corrects tweet.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Eric O’Bolling-Tucker Carlson-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Lean Forward: Eight is not enough, for MSNBC’s protest coverage.
- Flood: Fox Biz clobbers longtime rival CNBC on historic Dow 20K day.
- Video: Carol Costello leaves CNN Newsroom for show on HLN. Flashback.
- Media insiders say Andy Lack wants to make (MS)NBC ‘the next Fox News‘.
- Harris Faulkner video: Gerri Willis’s Big news for Katy Tur.
- Zucker plays: CNN deploys DC investigators, skeds another Dem town hall.