- 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.
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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.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: DNC/CNN – DNC/MSNBC – Coop 1-2-3.
- Concha: Conventions serving up the best political drama in decades.
- CNN tops rivals and broadcast on first night of DNC. Today’s oops.
- Showdown: Media Buzz tops Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- Murdoch memo congratulates FNC staff on convention week victory.
- F&F video: his RNC speech, Dem unity, and more.
- Concha: Michael Clemente leaving Fox News (unrelated to Ailes drama).
- Schlichter: Don’t let liberals destroy Fox News. Profile: Jacob Soboroff.
- Wolff: Roger Ailes’s next moves may determine the future of Fox News.
- Ad at CNN ‘blurs lines‘ between ads, editorial. Q&A: CNN exec Otto Bell.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Concha: Kurtz deserves credit for honest coverage of Ailes exit.
- Wemple: What’s wrong (and right) with media; + Tucker; Soledad.
- Concha: Wikileaks warns MSNBC host about her ‘conspiracy theory’.
- FTV Live: When did Meet the Press become Meet the Left?
- Flood: Fox Business thrives with RNC convention coverage.
- CNN suspends Brazile for going from Vice-Chair to interim Chair.
- Garrahan: Big stories, election coverage have Jeff Zucker on a roll.
- Margolin: Megyn Kelly’s silence ‘signaled the worst‘ for Roger Ailes.
- Joyella: Today’s ‘Who will replace Ailes‘ specularama. Roger makes book.
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.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: FNC/10pm-Megyn Kelly-CNN/10p 1-2-3.
- On night two Fox News tops all, beats broadcast nets at 10pm.
- Q&A: Greta on anchoring conventions, and what’s in her trunk.
- Concha: Carl Bernstein credits Drudge, not FNC, for Trump win.
- Concha: Day two RNC winners and losers include FNC, MSNBC.
- Impartial CNN reporter declares first two days of RNC ‘a disaster‘.
- F&F video: Brian Kilmeade goes of Special Report.
- Rutenberg: Will news nets be a truth squad or a Trump infomercial?
- Profile: Maria Bartiromo is getting into politics. Weekend numbers.
- CNN joins the Kik Bot Shop, is adding solicitations to Great Big Story.
- Drudge tweet triggers media scramble. Q&A: Greta. The 13-day war.
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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Shep Smith/11pm-Megyn Kelly/10pm-O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Video: Is rhetoric on social media
- Brian Williams ridiculed for repeated JFK references in Dallas coverage.
- Snoozing: CNN 30+ minutes behind FNC with coverage of Dallas shootings.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Attorneys for Roger Ailes cite breaches of contract by Gretchen Carlson.
- FTV Live: Gretchen Carlson’s personal, handwritten letters to Roger Ailes.
- Kiran Chetry: Despite an ‘ugly’ parting, Ailes always treated me with respect.
- Concha: The five key questions in Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment suit.
- Greta: ‘I’ve been in Ailes’s office a million times…he just doesn’t do this stuff‘.
- Wemple: Gretchen Carlson ‘gets real‘. Rutenberg: FNC faces ‘changing mores‘.
- Judge Pirro scorches ‘absurd’ Carlson lawsuit: she ‘never filed a complaint to HR’.
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.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bourdain-CNN Newsroom-Bourdain 1-2-3.
- Roger Ailes responds to Carlson allegations: false and defamatory.
- Video flashback: on leaving Fox & Friends.
- Carlson attorneys to explore claims about Ailes in Sherman book.
- Fields: Gretchen not the first Ailes victim, says anonymous source.
- Gretchen Carlson fired by Fox, files harassment suit vs Ailes. More.
- Is CNN’s Declassified telling the truth? MSNBC investigates…clip art!
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly/Dennis Miller-Sean Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz tops Reliable Sources. Weekend numbers.
- Kelly File video: Hillary’s email claims fact-checked
- Wemple: Latest hire shows CNN suits determined to torture their anchors.
- Hollywood director wants Andrea Tantaros for move role, but can’t find her?!
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Fox Business Mornings with Maria producer caught in cocaine bust.
- Videos: Judge Napolitano and the
- Abramovitch: Nancy Grace is leaving HLN in Oct, plans digital project.
- MSNBC cancels Lockup, announces a bundle of ‘new’ Dateline reruns.
- Tyrell: CNN’s ‘fact-checkers’ should be fired. Sally Kohn makes book.
- CNN schedules Paul Ryan Town Hall. WNBC’s Rob Schmitt to Fox News.
- FEC Dems vote in secret to punish Fox News for sponsoring GOP debate.
- Corey aims to make Trump great again. Coop doesn’t want Corey on 360.