Wednesday Links and Open Thread

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Monday Links and Open Thread

  • Freaky Friday numbers: Perino-Hemmer-Coop 1-2-3.
  • Fourth Watch: Blame Europe; Acosta helps Trump; etc.
  • Kurtz on Trump vs the press.  Touré does the time warp.
  • Trump blasts Chris Wallace and FNC; revenge of the Jedi.
  • Q&A: Greg Gutfeld talks Red Eye, Scott Adams, and more.
  • Cruz to Stelter: Is your job ‘Chief of rapid response, DNC’?
  • How tv newsers decompress during the age of coronavirus.
  • Altschuler: How reporters should handle the virus briefings.
  • Dierdre Bolton quits Fox Biz for ABC.  F&F video:
  • Next Rev videos: How to re-open America

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: The panel at CPAC.
  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • Camerota: I would never do that.  Rutz: Let’s go to the tape.
  • Rush to judgment: Everyone working at CNN is ‘mentally ill‘.
  • Politico scorches Blitzer: flat, bleak, robotic, irksome, gutless.
  • Video: Dana Loesch to exit town hall.
  • Video: Eric Bolling speaks at CPAC.  Jo Nosuchinsky finds work.
  • Q&A: How Stuart Varney keeps his cool.  Fareed Zakaria at UCLA.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

Thursday Links and Open Thread

Monday Links and Open Thread

  • Friday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-America’s Newsroom-The Five 1-2-3.
  • Video: Gregg Jarrett says to collude or meet with Russians.
  • Jim Acosta: Blowhard or crusader?   Krakauer: Acosta’s quest for virality.
  • Hasson: CNN’s very bad—no, awful—week.  Charen: Vindictive and petty.
  • Concha: Kellyanne Conway and Chris Cuomo’s contentious confrontation.
  • Fox News signs Ari Fleischer as a contributor.   CNN makes deal with Hulu.
  • Latest ratings are good news for FNC.   Bolling makes book, book makes #3.
  • F&F videos: Tom Shillue on and his

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • After less than six months, Greta is out at MSNBC.
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-The Five 1-2-3.
  • Somerby: Remember Olbermann/Musto’s unvarnished misogyny?
  • Out# video: Panel reacts to about Joe and Mika.
  • Concha: Joe, Mika, and Trump seem incapable of acting like adults.
  • Kim Guilfoyle says it’s not her last week at Fox: signs new contract.
  • Audio: Andy Levy announces that this is his last week at Fox News.
  • Video: Julie Roginsky announces this is at Fox News.
  • Barr: MSNBC giving Hugh Hewitt minimal promotion for new show.
  • CNN is making Cillizza a ‘brand’.  Conservative activists target CNN.
  • F&F video: on how he dealt with CNN’s hit piece.
  • Q&A: Scarborough expounds on his musical genius, Trump, and more.
  • The Five video: Does new undercover video deepen the
  • Impartial CNN anchor: Trump is putting journalists in physical danger.
  • Impartial CNN journo mad that WH takes questions from conservatives.
  • Budowsky: CNN Russian Connection like journalism of Edward R Murrow.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-The Five-Rachel Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Q2 cable news program ranker: Fox News holds 14 of top 20 slots.
  • Q2 biznet shake-up: CNBC dips to 20-year low as FBN surges 47%.
  • Q2 numbers: FNC dominates cable news for 62nd month in a row.
  • Q2: Fox News tops all cable nets; MSNBCCNN show improvement.
  • MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle snags a $7.5 million Upper East Side crib.
  • Kansas man arrested for stalking Joanne Nosuchinsky at her NYC pad.
  • CNN producer caught on tape: the Russia coverage is ‘mostly bullish!t‘.
  • Turley: Travel ban ruling should force the media to examine themselves.
  • The Late Show video:  talks Mean Dads with Stephen Colbert.
  • Jim Acosta: I’m ‘blackballed‘.   Soldier’s mom rips CNN’s ‘twisted’ reality.
  • Videos: Sharyl Attkisson on the origins of
  • Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz beats Reliable Sources.  Weekend numbers.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Fox radio drops Sullivan, Gibson, adds Starnes and Tom Shillue.
  • Somerby: 14 minutes that broke the cablenews dishonesty record.
  • Salvadori: CNN fake Paris attack photo is a reminder to be wary.
  • Barr: Is Bill O’Reilly plotting his future online, or on tv?  Or…both?
  • One America News pulls back O’Reilly offer, will pursue ‘other talent’.
  • CNN plans to turn Great Big Story into a Great Big streaming channel.
  • Video: says Iran, not Russia, is the problem in Syria.
  • With EP release, Scarborough’s grassroots fanbase ‘poised to explode‘!
  • Report: ‘Betrayed’ Matt Lauer ready to quit Today over Megyn Kelly hire.

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Ed Henry (for Tuck)-Hannity 1-2-3
  • Out# video: Tom Shillue about the baseball game.
  • Somerby: Maddow’s tale was false…but it felt so good going down!
  • Drudge: Competitive stress is causing cable hosts’ spate of illnesses.
  • Tucker Carlson hospitalized for appendicitis; Perino will sub tonight.
  • Hall: O’Reilly is assembling a production team to launch new project.
  • Video: Bill O’Reilly resurfaces, on One America News.  More to come?
  • In new audio Megyn tells ‘fascinating’ Jones he has ‘a very good point’.
  • Megyn ‘completely overhauls‘ Alex Jones segment; Jones leaks audio.
  • Turley:  CNN’s lawsuit could vindicate Comey…or trigger his downfall.
  • Ainsley Earthardt’s pants.  Katy Tur’s father.  Rachel Maddow’s A-block.

Monday Links and Open Thread

  • Freaky Friday numbers: Maddow-O’Donnell-Tucker/Hayes 1-2-3.
  • Tani: Specialists hints at a new FNC formula for the post-Ailes era.
  • Concha: NYT cowed into rewriting headline of glowing Tur profile.
  • Ariens: Fox News promotes six execs to new roles in programming.
  • Impartial CNN host raves: Trump assassination play ‘a masterpiece‘.
  • Coop on Kathy Griffin: ‘I wish her well and I hope she bounces back’.
  • Goldberg: Donald Trump is good for business…Trump bashing business.
  • Q&A: Tom Shillue on meaner Dads. GQ: Shillue’s Trumpian book is ‘awful’.
  • Fox & Friends video:  by ‘viciousness’ of her father’s critics.

Monday Links and Open Thread

  • Friday’s numbers: Maddow-Coop-Burnett 1-2-3. MSNBC hits #1.
  • Impartial MSNBC anchor zings Trump in commencement speech.
  • Zucker play: CNN uses faked statistics to make Fox News look bad.
  • Video: Marisa Guthrie and Joe Concha on the
  • Rivals see opportunity in FNC slump, eye hiring O’Reilly.  A bad week.
  • It’s a girl!  It’s Tom’s party.  Anchors away.  Sandstorms clog live shots.
  • Gutfeld video: Trump  Megyn has a Sunday premiere date.
  • Harris Faulkner honored.  Melissa Harris-Perry resurfaces, rips MSNBC.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Video: on why 30 sources don’t guarantee truth.
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Media critic Trump: ‘dumb’ Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo a ‘chained lunatic’.
  • Tucker Carlson video: on manic media going to DefCon One.
  • Ariens: Soledad and Grace set to resurface.  Somerby: Coop goes 7 on 1.
  • Rothstein: Sara Murray has uneasy reaction to Spicer wedding comment.
  • Legal woes complicate FNC CEO search.  21C earnings top expectations.
  • Parties mum on dismissal of lawsuit against CNN.  Cooper: Save MSNBC!
  • Bahamas flap involves Shillue, Levy, Evan Siegfried.  Q&A: Shepard Smith.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: Fox why Tucker
  • Reliable Sources videos: Culture of harassment; Alisyn; Fox post-O’Reilly.
  • Monday: The return of Bill O’Reilly…where to find The No Spin News.
  • WUSA’s Ellison Barber jumps to Fox News; video: her
  • Sandra Smith targeted by fake news sites.  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Levine: Expect Rachel Maddow to clobber FNC’s The Five at 9:00 pm.
  • The Murdochs’ extreme makeover.  Hannity a Trump advisor…or is he?
  • O’Reilly exit lifts auto parts stock.   Video: the final Factor.
  • Kilmeade video: on the end of Red Eye.   Selective cable outrage.
  • Spin Stops Here Tour is not stopping…but there is a petition.  It’s his world.

Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos:  generals covering
  • Reliable Sources: O’Reilly; more O’Reilly; Zurawik; media too pro-Trump.
  • Red Eye series finale videos: looks back; the together again; the
  • Videos: Tucker takes on debates
  • 25 things you don’t know about Judge Pirro.  Sunday talkers: preview.
  • Maslin snarks about Old School.  Morning Joe lovebirds at Johns Hopkins.
  • What O’Reilly means to his viewers.   What O’Reilly means to Fox News.
  • Canto: It’s amazing how much time CNN spends talking about Bill O’Reilly.
  • CNN covertly shoots off-camera briefing.   CNN’s apps seeking new users.
  • Chris Wallace on journalism, Trump, and more.   Cramer’s Street struggling.