Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • Video: and Bill Hemmer examine media scrutiny of Trump.
  • Concha: The Hannity/Megyn spat is a good thing.  ICN does not concur.
  • Sean Hannity takes a pot shot at Megyn Kelly: ‘Clearly you support her.’
  • Kelly File video: Perino and Stirewalt examine the
  • Why CNN hired BuzzFeeders.  CNN Student News recycling ‘shovelware’.
  • Profile: Rosa Flores.   Wemple: Today’s O’Whine; today’s O’Whine part deux.
  • Rothstein: CNN reporter doesn’t understand why Fox News won’t bash itself.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday numbers: Debate/CNN-Debate/FNC-Post-Debate/FNC 1-2-3.
  • Acrimonious squabbles erupt between CNN, ABC over Sunday debate.
  • Concha: Quijano’s bias of omission conforms to Lester Holt’s playbook.
  • CNBC icon loses the week to Fox Biz.   How CNN beat MSNBC and Fox.
  • Kelly File video: Panel and moderator Elaine Quijano.
  • No Live with Kelly: Coop signs long-term CNN deal, allows for 60 Minutes.
  • Wemple: CNN should hire Pence.  Harris, Hasbro settle.  Today’s outrage!
  • Confessions of an MSNBC intern.  Ass-iest Chris Matthews tv moment ever.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly – Bill O’Reilly/Maddow (tie) 1-2-3.
  • Rothstein: So what exactly happened between Brit Hume and Kucinich?
  • Concha: Pence-Kaine VP showdown unlikely to be a ratings blockbuster.
  • Sunday showdown: Reliable Sources tops Media Buzz.   Weekend numbers.
  • Joyella: Andrea Tantaros resurfaces…on GMA.  Today’s Wemple O’Whine.
  • Kelly File video: Media launch on White House candidates.
  • Blue Lives Matter claims CNN deceptively edited Charlotte shooting video.
  • Howard Stern says CNN made up a headline out of something  he didn’t say.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: Bill’s
  • Reliable Sources videos: Trump’s whoppers; Trump’s taxes; Trump’s polls; critics.
  • Concha: Fox & Friends interrupted with cries of ‘Bill Clinton is a rapist!’
  • The house that Ailes bought: $36 million Palm Beach oceanfront mansion.
  • Railey: CNN’s shoddy non-coverage of flooding in NC.  Profile: Jeffrey Lord.
  • YourBuzz videos: the
  • Wemple claims Megyn ‘an island‘ of Trump scrutiny at FNC.  Sunday talkers.
  • Who’s ‘in the tank’? FNC Trump coverage fairer than CNN, NBC, CBS.

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Rachel Maddow-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • Say What?! Brian Williams thinks he coined the phrase ‘runaway train’.
  • Wemple takes shot at James Rosen, gets a doozy of a rebuttal in return.
  • Megyn to Hillary: You keep using my name, it’s time to come on my show.
  • Sept numbers: Hannity-Megyn-Bill 1-2-3; Brit lifts On the Record; ranker.
  • More than mere media? Brian Stelter given title: ‘senior correspondent‘.
  • Factor video: Bernard Goldberg to smear Brit Hume.
  • Intramural battle royale: MSNBC analyst calls CNBC colleague a ‘jackass’.
  • Concha: Trump targets Lemon and Joe S; snarky CNN chyrons spare Hillary.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday numbers: Debate/FNC, PostDebate/FNC, Debate/CNN 1-2-3.
  • Q3 numbers: Fox #1, viewership sets records; CNN, MSNBC improve.
  • Out# videos: Bret Baier et al size up the debate
  • Megyn Kelly salutes Don Lemon, as Judge Judy pays tribute to Megyn.
  • Klein: Fox, the ‘Never-Trump Network‘.  ICN: Fox, the Trump Network.
  • Ariens: FNC, CNN share honors for debate night.  Q&A: Chris Stirewalt.
  • Concha: Holt emerges from debate ‘bruised and partisan‘; record ratings.
  • HuffPo: See, moderators can fact-check.  Politico: Holt kept out of the way.
  • Kelly File videos: Kurtz says pundit panel
  • Greta honored for ‘fairness and honesty‘.  Martin Bashir resurfaces. Flashback.

Monday Links and Open Thread

  • Concha: MSNBC catches flak over on-screen graphics mishaps.
  • Friday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Videos: Bill O’Reilly talks with and
  • Maria Molina at CMU.  Coop at Stambaugh.  Carlos Watson resurfaces.
  • Gahr: Why does Dylan Byers think perjury by Phil Griffin is ‘not a story‘?
  • Steinberg: Ad on CNN looks like real newscast; Lester Holt’s difficult task.
  • Kelly File video: Panel explores how for the debate.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Wednesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Don Lemon-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
  • Krinsky: Fox News on target to make 2016 the ‘biggest sales year ever’.
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live videos: Mr Bill O’Reilly
  • Discovery CEO: News channels are ‘eating cable tv‘.  Today’s conspiracy.
  • Battaglio: More reasons why ‘Trump TV’ is little more than a pipe dream.
  • Ellison: Roger Ailes final days, from the suit and the strategy to the lockout.
  • Kelly File video: Charlotte clash to the West Bank.
  • Warren: Is Brian Williams’s 11th Hour his path back to respectability?  More.
  • Dana Perino, a ‘thoughtful optimist‘ who eschews Sunday show talking points.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: The panel erupts over issues of
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Out# videos: Bill O’Reilly on and
  • Impartial MSNBC anchor: Hillary ‘faces a double standard every day’.
  • Chris Wallace snags Clooney for FNS; how Clooney and Kristol agree.
  • Cavuto details grueling recovery from heart surgery: ‘This was a bitch.’
  • No hard feelings: Greta says watch Fox News…’many great journalists‘.
  • Lachlan Murdoch disses MSNBCNN.  Swartz: Chris Hayes moonlighting.
  • Time-Warner honcho promises CNN will earn ‘record profits‘ next year.
  • Kelly File video: on the impact of Colin Powell’s emails.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • New Fox News leaders Shine, Abernathy signed to multi-year deals.
  • Lachlan Murdoch: ‘It would be foolish‘ to change Fox News’s ‘voice’.
  • Concha: Evidence, facts rebut ‘laughable’ Amanpour sexism sermon.
  • Out# video: Powell emails reveal ‘smack talk’ re Hillary
  • Grinapol: Gloria Borger previews her CNN special Almost President.
  • Concha: Despite MS, cancer, heart surgery, Neil Cavuto perseveres.
  • Kelly File video: on Clinton’s emails, and his new book.
  • Fox News lawyers vs Fox News lawyers.  Two Ailes houses go on the market.
  • Darcy: Anti-Trumpers have Hannity ‘backed into a corner‘.  Q&A: Chuck Todd.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Perino/Stirewalt podcast leads to a Sunday 5pm election-themed show.
  • Baier, Hume helped lead crushing FNC win; Cavuto sets records on FBN.
  • Concha: How a smartphone video changed cable news’ Clinton coverage.
  • Q&A: Greta talks about Hillary, the media, her future.  Weekend numbers.
  • Wemple calls O’Reilly historical book series ‘moribund’: #1
  • Videos: Bill O’Reilly talks politics, Ailes, and more on Today;  on F&F.
  • Echoing Brian Stelter, another CNN host paints Hillary as a victim of sexism.
  • Kelly File video: What impact will have on the campaign?
  • What WebMD learned from CNN.com.  HuffPo: There are no journalists on tv.
  • Wemple: University to de-Ailes its newsroom, but the scholarship he funds stays.

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Griswold: Why Chris Wallace is right about fact-checking debaters.
  • Lean Lean: MSNBC cuts over a dozen producers in ‘restructuring’.
  • Outnumbered video: in email flap.  Q&A: Bret Baier.
  • Gray: Sean Hannity hasn’t changed, ridicules rumors of ‘Trump TV’.
  • Today’s firing demand: Drop Chris Wallace from third Prez debate.
  • Today’s CNN Lauer piece.  Video: with Charlie Rose.
  • Today’s NY Times Matt Lauer piece.  Today’s bonus NYT Lauer piece.
  • Flood: CNN’s 9/11 remembers the day, the dust, and the ‘legacy kids’.
  • Turner wants to sell its channels directly to consumers via streaming.
  • Pamela Brown, Eugene Scott on distinguished list.  Q&A: Robin Meade.
  • Videos: on nitpicking; did Brian Stelter?
  • Geraldo book deal axed because he defended Ailes.  Greta blames execs.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Wednesday’s numbers: MSNBC forum-Megyn Kelly-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Brit boom: On the Record ratings jump, topping MSNBCNN combined.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Outnumbered video: Kids on bikes elderly Chicago man.
  • Concha: Matt Lauer bullied and shamed for not ‘taking down’ Trump.
  • Grynbaum: Lauer performance panned by ‘critics of all political stripes’.
  • Hannity tells Wemple: ‘The difference between me and you is, I’m honest.’
  • Greta to FNC: Can I have my pictures back?  Maryanne Rafferty resurfaces.
  • Grove: The only person who needs Brian Williams’s show is Brian Williams.
  • Flood: Without Ailes, FNC scores five weekly primetime cable wins in a row.
  • Kelly File videos: Analysis of ‘Commander-in-Chief Forum’
  • Guthrie: Gretchen Carlson settlement could launch ‘repositioning’ of Fox News.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: O’Bolling-The Five-Anderson Cooper 1-2-3.
  • Univision exec to debate commission: Sorry, that’s not good enough.
  • Video: to being chosen Prez debate moderator.
  • Wemple: How long can Brian Williams continue to shelter himself?
  • F&F zings Tim Kaine for doing every morning show but theirs; video.
  • The Kelly File video: Is DHS formulating a
  • Q&A: Don Lemon talks about The Donald.   Post-speech Hannity: Yuge!
  • Debate moderators include Cooper, Chris Wallace.   Concha: Slam-dunk.
  • Sherman’s Ailes rehash suggests some of Megyn Kelly’s reporting is ‘racist’.