- Ziegler: Hannity, Scarborough should pay the price for hyping Trump.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Libertarian Town Hall-O’Reilly-Hannity 1-2-3.
- This is CNN: ‘Bullsh!t artist‘…’loud-mouthed d!ck‘…then back for more!
- How Bret Baier sheds pounds…in an election year! Q&A: Jeffrey Toobin.
- Flood: Why betting against Fox News is risky business. Megyn zings Joe.
- Battaglio: Murdochs will not change Fox News’s ‘position in the market’.
- Factor video: offers the perfect ‘Trump should have said’.
- CNN’s boozy DNC afterparty; CNN’s Corey problem; CNN’s Green town hall.
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Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- The Five video: Jedediah Bila to Fox News.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Real Story title for 2:00 pm (formerly Gretchen’s hour).
- ICN: CNN ignoring major world events harming its long-term relevance.
- O’Connor: Why isn’t CNN doing town halls for the Green Party ticket?
- Concha: Media coverage of election race is ignoring important stories.
- Rupert Murdoch memo salutes the ‘talent and drive‘ of Fox News staff.
- Somerby: Joe and Mika faking it, a game they’ve been playing a long time.
- Kelly File video: Controvery over shotgun-wielding woman
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: DNC/CNN – DNC/MSNBC – Coop 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Gretchen Carlson reacts to the ouster of Roger Ailes and more.
- Wemple: One thing you can be sure of…on CNN speeches are ‘powerful’.
- Out# video: Is Hillary best qualified ever? square off.
- Concha: Suspension lifted…Newt Gingrich returns to Fox News August 1.
- Factor video: Bill O’Reilly and guests address slavery and
- Q&A: Jake Tapper; Chris Matthews; Joe and Mika on politics, romance, etc.
- Greta: Let’s get this straight…what I said was true then, and is still true now.
- Report: A ‘stony silence‘ at FNC as staffers take sides. Peaceful co-existence.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- Media Buzz videos: it’s
- Reliable Sources: Ailes bails part one, part two, part three, part four.
- Fox & Friends video: in leaked DNC emails.
- Jake Tapper responds to criticism re DNC emails referencing him.
- Q&A: Meghan McCain says ‘I no longer recognize my party’.
- Harris Faulkner lawsuit clears first hurdle. Sunday talkers: preview.
- The ‘Political Insiders’ one-hour special Saturday. Governor Gretch?
- Wasserman-Schultz complained about Mika, Chuck Todd intervened.
- Abrams: Running MSNBC I didn’t compete with Ailes, I emulated him.
- NYT exposé on Fox News ‘culture’ cites
- Concha: If timing is everything, Fox scored a bullseye with Ailes exit.
- Guthrie: Behind the scenes on day one at Fox News sans Roger Ailes.
- Bauder: Rupert Murdoch vows Fox News without Ailes is still Fox News.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- 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: playing race
- 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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Somerby: While Wolf was unprepared, Megyn performed journalism.
- Kelly File video: Controversy swirls around Bill Clinton
- 12 facts about Stacey Dash from her new memoir. Ali funeral coverage.
- Wemple: Scarborough deflects his own Trump record on CNN’s Zucker.
- Curiosities and technical glitches bedeviled Fox News’s Thursday prime.
- CNN resorts to analyzing Obama and Sanders’ backslaps. Q&A: Soledad.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Wemple: Ed Henry is officially off the Hillary beat, future role unclear.
- F&F video: against ‘major conflict of interest’.
- Kelly File video: another media double standard.
- Q&A: James Rosen, on being in the Obama administration’s crosshairs.
- Outrage over ‘biased’ CNN terror headline as Greta sticks up for Israel.
- Q&A: Scarborough says Trump calls Zucker ‘my personal booker’. More.
- Q&A: Jesse Watters previews his next special. FNC spiffs up its graphics.
- The hills are alive with the sound of election themes. Ali Velshi resurfaces.
- Back for ‘seconds’: Coop called back to Live to guest-host for two more days.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: O’Bolling Factor–The Five-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Fareed will front Why They Hate Us tonight. Hinckley cast in O’Reilly flick.
- Scarborough: CNN has been ‘kissing up’ to Trump for ‘months and months’.
- Cable Game: Missing persons update. Steve Kornacki: making politics ‘cool’.
- Anthony Bourdain in the Philippines; in VietNam with a special dinner guest.
- Jake Tapper: back to the drawing board. Smerconish: From Philly radio to CNN.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Greta to receive Excellence in Journalism award. RIP Norma Leonard.
- Megyn zings Trevor Noah. Video: Laurie Dhue, Suzanne Sena
- Joyella: Cablers scramble to cover disappearance of Egyptian airliner.
- Kelly File video: Megyn and Howard Kurtz of her special.
- Bernie Sanders to Hillary: I’m in for the Fox News debate…how about you?
- TCG: No news is good news. New BriWi promo emphasizes ‘the good stuff’.
- Levin: Why I love Mika Brzezinski; Somerby: No one could really be so dumb.
- Castillo: CNN’s big bet on Great Big Story. CNN anchors hawk Turner wares.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Somerby: O’Donnell takes a dive. Weekend numbers. FNC tops week.
- Audio Q&A: Autonomous podcasts with Van Jones and Guy P Benson.
- Wemple: Fox News makes new appeal to host the last Democratic debate.
- Joe & Mika inducted into Cable Hall of Fame, edging out Maury & Connie.
- The Late Show videos: Megyn Kelly with Stephen Colbert
- WWHL videos: Megyn on taking her and
- No plans for more Megyn specials…unless there are. Q&A: Megyn Kelly.
- Shafer: Will Megyn/Trump measure up? Is Megyn the new Barbara Walters?
- CNN media team gets spanking from Politico over claim of Trump media win.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- Media Buzz videos: Trump’s Trump; blame
- Reliable Sources videos: Media civil war; it’s time to choose; Nancy Gibbs.
- F&F video: how to take care of a Derby horse.
- Factor video: previews 60 Minutes report on genocide by ISIS.
- Is With All Due Respect about to lose its hosts? Scarborough in a twitter spat.
- Geraldo special: When Kate Met Chapo; Q&A; Geraldo: I can’t vote for Trump.
- Your Buzz videos:
- Late Show video: with Stephen Colbert. Sunday talkers: preview.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Goldberg: Morning Joe is like the mean-girls table in high school.
- Megyn hits the red carpet at NY Met Gala. Champagne from Chuck.
- The Late Show video: talks politics with Stephen Colbert.
- Kurtz: Media concern over ‘creating Trump’ utterly misses the mark.
- Flood: How Peter Bergen landed interviews with Obama, and UBL.
- Anchor’s ‘finger’ gets thumbs up from his co-workers. Wolf honored.
- Ted Cruz enlists in the War on Fox. Greta: What Ted isn’t telling you.
- Wemple: Jesse Watters is Bill O’Reilly’s lamentable cable news legacy.
- Factor videos: Bill O’Reilly at WHCD;
- TCG: Andrea Tantaros breaks her silence, hints impasse is over ‘free speech’.
- Byers: Hannity is not unbiased, even favors Republicans. Weekend numbers.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Fox News benching Andrea Tantaros over ‘contract issues’.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Election/cnn-Hannity-Election/fnc 1-2-3.
- O’Reilly’s Legends & Lies returns with focus on founding fathers.
- Scarborough boasts: ‘We were right…everybody else was stupid.’
- Thompson: Zucker is full of it…CNN led the pack in hyping Trump.
- Zuckered: CNN issues false report on Hastert, Tapper deletes tweet.
- Concha: Cable news pivoting to a Trump/Hillary three-step program.
- Video: Chris Wallace w/Stephen Colbert Shocking MSNBC omission.
- Audio Q&A: Bret Baier; Maddow. Q&A: Sandra Smith; Chris Wallace.
- CNN exec admits: ‘We are no longer a news network‘ (via CNNC).
- CNN claims huge audience using new metric from a partner company.
- Hinckley: Trump and Kelly have both already won. Megyn makes book.
- Wemple: Duplicity at Hillary Town Hall. Adam Housley: the Kupcake King.
- Coop’s mom flick set for Friday. CNN beats privacy lawsuit over phone app.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Weprin: FNC shuffles execs, creates new longform specials unit.
- Video: about going to high school with Prince.
- Who is ‘the Carrot Top of cable news‘? More. Dr Drew quits radio.
- Beck advice to Megyn really a virtuoso skewering of Scarborough.
- Q&A: Anthony Bourdain talks travel, Viceland, bondage, and more.
- Audio Q&A: Ali Velshi on his career and what went wrong at AJAM.
- Weigand: CNN brings a comic point of view to conversation on race.
- Rothstein: Tamron Hall’s balloon string chic. Rena Ninan resurfaces.
- Kelly File video: on the search for a ‘white knight’.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Nicosia: Megyn Kelly doesn’t need advice from Joe Scarborough.
- Q&A: Howard Kurtz talks Trump, Ailes, etc. Weekend numbers.
- Audio: Jesse Watters tells Joe Concha one of his biggest regrets.
- Somerby: Steve Kornacki made to read silly, inaccurate cablecrap.
- Factor video: Bill O’Reilly exposes of the 2016 campaign.
- Wemple: Scarborough comparison of Megyn and Beck rings hollow.
- Bizarro Planet: Joe Scarborough gives career advice to Megyn Kelly.
- Melissa Harris-Perry resurfaces. Q&A: Clarissa Ward. Bad hair day.
- Gerri Willis makes book. Audio Q&A: Juan Williams on We the People.
- Jacobus files libel suit against Lewandowski, cites his claims about FNC..