- Thursday’s numbers: DNC/CNN – DNC/MSNBC – Coop 1-2-3.
- Concha: Trump’s acceptance speech outrated Hillary’s. Flashback.
- The War on Fox: Cameraman blocked, assaulted; reporter forced to leave.
- Hogue: Nothing beats a great pair of legs. Fournier: Hey, let’s ban Trump!
- Video: Were the media in covering the two conventions?
- Flood: Why Megyn visiting the CNN Grill is no big deal. Dancing with Wolf.
- Sherman: Ex-FNC booker with troubled history claims 20 years harassment.
- Factor video: discusses DNC hacking, emails, and slavery.
- Another photo copyright lawsuit. The Great Sean Hannity Wawa Encounter.
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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.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: DNC/CNN – Coop – DNC/MSNBC 1-2-3.
- Chris Wallace meets Hillary. Orlando Salinas resurfaces…in handcuffs!
- A liberal pundit reveals ‘the truth’ about his appearances on Fox News.
- Interrupting MSNBC reporter bellyaches that Trump told her ‘be quiet’.
- Hate facts: Bill O’Reilly’s WH history lesson sparks social media outrage!
- Factor video: Kirsten Powers on Dems Geraldo is all wet.
- Zucker play: CNN reveals the true victims of the ISIS Catholic church raid.
- Q&A: Dana Bash on politics, parenting (via TVN). Audio Q&A: Steve Kornacki.
- Erik Wemple perturbed that Rupert Murdoch thanked his staff for ratings win.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: FNC/10pm-FNC/11pm-CNN/10pm 1-2-3.
- Fox News tops CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC both totals and demo.
- Factor video: on the media’s hysteria over Trump.
- Concha: Will Matthews rail against ‘exploitation’ in Philadelphia too?
- Matthews terrified of Trump delegates, wanted to relocate to a booth.
- Chris Cuomo: Hey, we are not anti-Trump. Wemple: Today’s O’Whine.
- As Ailes leaves Fox News, Rupert Murdoch steps in and staffers adjust.
- From high atop tv news Ailes stares into the abyss. Q&A: Chris Jansing.
- Ailes resignation reactions: Greta, Bret Baier, Brit Hume, Chris Wallace.
- Ailes changed politics, television. Wemple: Don’t hire a sexist paranoic.
- ICN: Ailes drama winners, losers; Murdoch made the best pick: himself.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Concha: Will Ailes exit trigger a Fox decline? Emphatically: no.
- Wednesday numbers: FNC/10pm-Megyn Kelly-CNN/10p 1-2-3.
- Ailes departing, but advertisers won’t. Fox News men shed tears.
- Ailes resigns as FNC CEO, Rupert is acting CEO. Letter from Ailes.
- Zurawik: The monstrous legacy of Ailes. Greta: Change can be hard.
- Collins: Megyn Kelly lambasted as a ‘flesh-baring escort‘. Flashback.
- O’Reilly tells Concha that Montel knew the topic ‘hours ahead of time’.
- Montel Williams walks off The O’Reilly Factor…before it even begins!
- Gold: At Fox News ‘the show must go on‘. Ailes leaving could help FNC.
- Wemple: Will the vaunted Fox News PR machine outlive Roger Ailes?
- Replacing Ailes is a tough task; four potential replacements identified.
- Ailes’s exit ‘unlikely to erode FNC citadel’; five possible repercussions.
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
- CNNC: Much ado about an unplugged cable. This is CNN.
- Steinberg: TV news placing its bets on splashy ‘town hall’ productions.
- Ariens: Innuendo-drenched Gretchen Carlson clip from 2007 surfaces.
- Grove: Fox News colleagues mad that Megyn hasn’t stuck up for Ailes yet?
- Ellefson: As a VP at FNC, Neil Cavuto had no business sticking up for Ailes.
- Wemple: Hannity’s plane ride makes FNC look like GOP; today’s O’Whine.
- Moses: CNN’s digital emphasis aims to ‘find new readers‘ wherever they are.
- Wemple: O’Reilly’s interview shows why Hillary should do more Fox News.
- Concha: O’Reilly gets first live post-attack interviews with and .
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- 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 to DL Hughley, who resists.
- F&F video: 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 about AG Lynch’s testimony.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Concha: Rush to judgment…can Roger Ailes get a fair trial in the press?
- CNN producer scolds people for not having backed Black Lives Matter.
- Joe Biden in two places at once! Wemple: Today’s O’Whine.
- After Evan Bayh, Fox News releases contributor Newt Gingrich.
- The Five video: The about five years of The Five.
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz tops CNN’s Reliable. Weekend numbers.
- Lean Forward: Maddow, Matthews to lead MSNBC convention coverage.
- Steinberg: How will Fox News move forward post-Roger Ailes lawsuit?
- Hasselbeck: Roger, Steve, Brian always treated me with enormous respect.
- Cavuto: Take it from a guy with an illness…these accusations are just sick.
- Guilfoyle: I’ve talked to 30 female colleagues at Fox; they all support Ailes.
- Faulkner, Earhardt, MacCallum speak out: ‘He changed the arc of my career’.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-O’Reilly/Jake Tapper (tie) 1-2-3.
- Concha: Experts say past Ailes allegations may not be admissible.
- Out# video: protestors misled by some networks.
- The Cable Game: CNN is basically declaring war on Fox News.
- Greg Burke resurfaces…as the new chief of the Vatican press office.
- Q&A: Bill O’Reilly on Obama, Trump, and expanding his own empire.
- CNN hopes Pereira can bring HLN ‘back to its roots‘; a ‘chillaxed‘ vibe.
- Concha: Multiple missteps beset Dallas coverage. Harris-Perry to BET.
- Sub-hosts getting better ratings than Gretchen. 21C hires investigators.
- Hogue: F&F’s empowered Carlson flirted and twerked with the best of them.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Throwback Thursday video from 2008: on Fox & Friends.
- Oddsmakers’ favorite for new Kelly Ripa co-host: Anderson Cooper.
- Big news for Brianna Keilar. CNN hires yet another Trump surrogate.
- Katz: Struggling ratings and fudged numbers won’t help Carlson’s case.
- FTV Live: The likelihood of Carlson’s case ever going to trial is ‘remote’.
- Ziegler: Coverage of Carlson suit already becoming tribal and partisan.
- Wemple: Don’t settle, Gretchen, so you can force Roger Ailes to testify.
- Collins: In 2015 book Gretchen Carlson lavishes praise on ‘brilliant’ Ailes.
- ICN: Carlson has been poorly advised; her broadcast career is likely over.
- Carlson lawyers say lawsuit about ‘more than money‘, but expect ‘millions’.
- Factor video: on media coverage of Hillary email news.
- Tucker: NBC and CNN have put Trump a step away from the White House.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Controversy swirls around Brian Williams’s ‘Richard Pryor’ crack.
- CNN hires another Trump supporter, who posts celebratory video.
- Video: with FBI’s Hillary recommendation.
- Somerby: Manifestly, the ‘smartest person on tv’ is a corporate clown.
- Rivera in talks for book...Geraldo of Arabia: From Tora Bora to Trump.
- Tillison: The Rev declares Harris Faulkner and Kennedy ‘anti-woman‘.
- Hogue: F&F producers torture viewers. Who will O’Reilly be killing next?
- Mt Pleasant’s Sara Murray has come a long way. Katie Welnhofer sacked.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos:
- Reliable Sources videos: Coverage challenges; Green Party; millennials.
- Q&A: Bill O’Reilly talks politics, history, etc with with Mo Rocca; video.
- ‘Florida’s friendliest home town’ welcomes Eric Bolling.
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly/Sean Hannity (tie)-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Larry King, now reigning in the cyber realms. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Martha MacCallum delivers Meals on Wheels. Tamron Hall feathers her nest.
- Kelly File videos: Terrorism town hall with and
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Video: NY Times still reporting a Benghazi!
- Audio Q&A: Harris Faulkner examines ISIS recruitment in Minnesota.
- What will become of HLN without its biggest star? Leno’s crash a flop.
- Nolte: Is Jake Tapper fair and balanced? CNN into ‘human augmentation‘.
- Borchers: Lewandowski’s first week was just as bad as everyone expected.
- Wemple: How Fox News structures a debate is none of the feds’ business.
- Videos: on smears, on Loretta Lynch.