- Special Report video: return to the All-Star panel.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Debate II-debate I-postdebate 1-2-3.
- Megyn Kelly signs with high-profile talent agency CAA (v/CNNC).
- MSNBC sets skeds for Chuck Todd, Kate Snow. Is it “hard news?”
- Q&A: Dana Perino; video: Bill Hemmer compares CNN with FNC.
- Chicago Tribune: CNN moderators had us yearning for Megyn Kelly.
- CNN GOP debate snags 22.9 million, falls short of FNC’s 24 million.
- Joyella: Critics, campaigns pan debate. FTV: CNN did not top FNC.
- Greta: It’s time we stop treating debates like Dancing with the Stars.
- Questions: Awful (Griswold), solid (Nolte). CNN streaming strained.
- Zucker play: CNN exec defends channel’s obsessive political coverage.
- Zurawik: Jake Tapper didn’t have the authority Fox’s moderators had.
- Peters: Weak questions compared to the ‘lively and great’ Fox debate.
- Gold: The three-hour ‘debate from hell‘. Tucker: The fireworks fizzled.
- Factor video: rates the moderators and participants.
- Scarry: Chris Christie foils CNN ploy. Wemple: Fun with split screens.
- Journos blast Trump-centric questions. Hillary in Situation Room today.
- McNamara: From surly to surreal. Shock headline:
- Wemple: CNN’s red carpet exclusives. FTV: A case of mistaken identity.
- McClay: Can CNN match Fox’s quality journalism…and colossal ratings?
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Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Jenna Lee reacts to Conan bit. David Gregory remembers Tony Snow.
- TCG: Controversy lingers as Dylan Byers joins Fareed Zakaria at CNN.
- Somerby: Why All In with Hayes gave Donald Trump ‘oodles of time‘.
- Megyn Kelly’s media moment: she’s ‘not contained to set expectations’.
- Tapped out? Wemple says Coop, not Jake, set to moderate Dem debate.
- Video: with Jimmy Kimmel. Q&A: Dana Bash (via CNNC).
- Seriously, CNN? Quiet, please. Concha: Numbers. FNC live post-game.
- Flashback: CNN Political Director smears Mitt Romney as racist; more.
- Latino group demands CNN ban ‘illegal’; CNN agrees to ‘new guidelines’.
- CNN’s Trumpgasm: 2,159 reports, more than FNC or MSNBC (v/CNNC).
- F&F video: Anna helps Surfers Healing to
- Upset: Trump speech helps Lou Dobbs Tonight top all business news shows.
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Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Outnumbered video: Brad Thor and panel preview
- Parker: CNN’s Tapper looks to provoke a fight in part deux. More.
- Sunday showdown: Media Buzz tops Reliable. Weekend numbers.
- Fox Biz beats CNBC in after-market hours. Investors Club renewed.
- Greta to interview WDBJ shooting survivor. Laurie Dhue resurfaces.
- F&F video: on Trump’s voter appeal. Q&A: Trish Regan.
- Most Pretentious Job Title Contest entrant. Kilmeade in the naked city.
- Winslow: Andrew Morse ready to lead his CNN team into ‘the next war’.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: O’Bolling-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Zucker punch: CNN to be hit with another round of layoffs?
- FNC’s good samaritan. How do you solve a problem like Todd?
- Dugan: Turmoil at Bloomberg TV amidst nearly a dozen departures.
- O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly continue to rule. Felicia Taylor resurfaces.
- Woolf: Is Hugh Hewitt the wild card in a high-stakes GOP poker game?
- Zucker play: CNN ‘all in’ on round two of GOP ‘heavyweight bout’. More.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- CNN announces the line-up for its top-tier GOP debate.
- F&F video: Remembering FDNY chaplain.
- McCall: How CNN can do better than that ‘ugly’ FNC debate.
- Hunter: Tweet from impartial MSNBC reporter says everything.
- HLN runs an all-Trump hour with all-supporters audience. More.
- ICN: Secret CNBC survey concerns On the Money and Betty Quick.
- Soledad O’Brien at USM. Aashena: CNN out; Al-Jazeera America in!
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Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
- CNN staffers blast obsessive Trump coverage (v/CNNC).
- New impartial MSNBC journalist is from Huffington Post.
- Brian Williams will return to MSNBC on Sept 22. Flashback.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- CNN’s celebrity chef starts season six in Castro’s Cuba.
- Harris Faulkner raises $3 million for Navy SEAL Foundation.
- Has Coop’s quiz played its last lightning round? Fox’s five weeks.
- Wemple: Trump’s debate stunt is ‘compelling and inoffensive‘. More.
- Kelly File video: Judge Napolitano says six officers
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Greta-Shannon Bream 1-2-3.
- Megyn snags first joint interview with train terror attack heroes.
- Hamill: Tough-talker Joe Scarborough goes soft. Stormy Weather.
- CNN to live stream debate; Trump says donate the profits to vets.
- Factor video: First look: Tamera and Adam’s daughter Ariah.
- Wilstein: CNN is doing Trump’s job for him. Jorge Ramos: Half-true.
- Schreiber: Angelou: yes; Harris-Perry: no thanks. Weekend numbers.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- After two week hiatus, Trump booked on FNC…with O’Reilly.
- Updegrove: Bill O’Reilly is ‘killing it’ (Parade cover story v/TVN).
- Friday Fox News Reporting special: The Hidden Harvest.
- Byers hire: CNN building a strong media team. Q&A: Josh Levs.
- Trump starts insult war with Hewitt to gin up debate viewership.
- ICN: Floundering MSNBC running out of ideas. Concha: Update.
- CNN cuts deal with Samsung. Fiorina likely to be the 11th wheel.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
- Christie refuses to sign pledge on CNN but signs on FNC.
- Concha: Morning Joe expands, Kate Snow to afternoons.
- Video: of email legal intricacies.
- She’ll throw the pamphlet at her: Andrea to interview Hillary.
- Mixed reaction to Axelrod jump from MSNBC to CNN.
- Fox News v TV Eyes: You win some and you lose some.
- Zurawik: Scant national coverage of Freddie Gray hearings.
- Left-leaning PPP poll asks about
- Factor video: Bill O’Reilly and Jorge Ramos, unedited interview.
- Spotted: Geraldo at Dershowitz brunch. Spiffy debate graphics.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Rothstein: Stelter’s egotism led to CNN exec’s departure (v/CNNC)?
- Outnumbered video: on restoring law and order.
- Griswold: Don’t let Fiorina bully her way into debate. Big money.
- Budowsky: Megyn Kelly is the 21st century’s Edward R Murrow.
- August program ranker: FNC holds top ten (25-54), top 14 (total).
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Weather weather everywhere…but it will be without Al Roker.
- Hasbro hatches Harris Faulkner hamster; Fox anchor files lawsuit.
- Stelter and King lose a producer; CNN gains Politico’s Dylan Byers.
- Factor video: rips coverage of Black Lives Matter.
- Profile: Navy fighter pilot, now Fox News correspondent Lea Gabrielle.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Zucker punched: CNN gives in, will ‘re-evaluate’ its debate criteria.
- August upset: Even with 10-day vacation Megyn tops all cablenews.
- August numbers: Fox News surges higher; CNN, MSNBC, HLN, FBN.
- Somerby: Self-contradictions beset Maddow’s payola-style pimping.
- Lowry: Perverse CNN debate criteria make no sense. Q&A: Coop.
- Why Tyler Hardin spent mornings with Maria. Weekend numbers.
- FNC addresses controversy over debate times. Colby’s crib for sale.
- Wemple: Joe Scarborough would deprive his viewers of information.
- Fox Biz claims fraudulent reality proposal from Pawn Stars producers.
- Somerby: Cable news inanity. Amanda Carpenter: new CNN contributor.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: O’Bolling Factor-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Concha: Fox, CNN cover BLM kill-cops chant; others not so much.
- Zucker play: More games. CNBC’s Kudlow to make Senate run?
- FTV: CNN and MSNBC in a competition to out-Trump each other.
- Rowland: CNN debate criteria hurt Fiorina, may help John Kasich.
- F&F video: Marine to the Marine Corps Ball.
- Pro-Sanders rapper does segments on MSNBC up to ‘five times a week‘.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Megyn Kelly #1 in key cable news demo Tues-Weds-Thurs.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Turmoil at MSNBC: High-profile anchors oppose news pivot.
- Wemple: Hillary response shows distaste for accountability.
- Profile: Ed Henry, the tough, but fair, thorn in Hillary’s side.
- Sanchez: I was there; CNN’s Katrina coverage ‘sucked’. More.
- Don Lemon dings CNN for ‘homophobic’ coverage of shooter.
- MSNBC downplaying Katrina anniversary…because of BriWi!
- CNN ‘brands’ its ‘smothering’ coverage of the WDBJ shooting.
- Q&A: Charlie Gasparino. Video: Shep’s
- Wemple: The Rev gets moved to a time ‘when everybody’s sleeping‘.
- Go back to the island? Elisabeth Hasselbeck has ‘said no many times‘.
- Tameez: The real reason for Donald’s trumped-up ‘feud’ with Fox News?
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Rather, Maddow, Chip Reid promote Fox conspiracy theories.
- Oops: CNN changes Hillary poll finding to ‘trustworthy’.
- Snow job? Joe Concha says MSNBC has big plans for Kate Snow.
- Leibovich: Larry King prepping invites for his ultimate farewell act.
- Videos: on Jorge Ramos; on The Kelly File.
- Linkins: Fiorina is upset with CNN’s debate criteria…and she’s right.
- Throwback Thursday video: about working in ‘a dump’.
- Wemple: Another truce? Megyn doesn’t need your protectorship, Roger!
- Controversy swirls around CNN airing, and not airing, full shooting video.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Report: The Rev is being shunted to 8am Sunday mornings.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Concha: In the Fox/Trump battle royale…who’s the winner?
- Rothman: Fox News ‘took the first step in a noble direction’.
- Wemple: Why does Roger Ailes keep sticking up for Megyn Kelly?
- Zurawik: Trump will get his comeuppance from Fox News and Ailes.
- TCG: Has Gabriel Sherman made common cause with Team Trump?
- CNN spends most time on Trump speech, bumps its Katrina special.
- Former Aussie PM and Labor Party leader gets anchoring gig on CNN.
- Fox & Friends video: with the New York Fire Dept.
- Chris Hayes on the challenge of holding an audience (via Brian Stelter).
- Hennessey: The ‘alternative universe’ focus group that stunned Frank Luntz.