Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: up; furor; Bret
  • Reliable Sources: Trump lies; lying Trump; lying Hannity; Pruitt.
  • The Story video: Charlie LeDuff tells why
  • Joyella: One year post-O’Reilly/Ailes, Fox News still dominates.
  • See ya in the funny papers.  War on Fox update.  Sunday talkers.
  • Q&A: Martha MacCallum.  As CNN played along, Kornacki didn’t.
  • Video: Leland Vittert helps out in a
  • Somerby: Like Pravda, Maddow omits facts contrary to party line.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: at the Naval Academy.
  • Thursday’s numbers: Judge Jeanine-Tucker-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Keith Olbermann resurfaces, on ESPN.  CNN lowers the bar.
  • Don Lemon: I am underappreciated, undervalued every day.
  • Former FNC execs prep launch of LaCorte News.  Spy vs spy.
  • Video: Did hatch the Russia investigation?
  • CNN: Trump wants to deport kneelers…’You heard that right!’

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Trump and the
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Hannity-Laura-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Somerby: The ‘informant’ secrets MSNBCNN won’t tell you.
  • Gerri Willis: The Fox News secret no gossip column will tell.
  • Q&A: Melissa Francis on #MeToo, ‘fake news’, and Facebook.
  • Out# video: spy placed in Trump camp.
  • Stelter mocks Trump ‘conspiracy theory’…but there’s a catch.
  • Avlon, editor of leftist Daily Beast, named CNN senior analyst.
  • Video: Joe Concha on selective outrage
  • CNN bets on ‘playfully combative’ Cuomo; his bizarre send-off.
  • Video: CNN’s liar-for-pay, James Clapper.
  • Don Lemon to graduates: You’re the ‘new black power movement’.
  • Lis Wiehl finds work.  Kilmeade’s Trump exclusive: border, NFL, etc.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: FBI smearing
  • Reliable Sources: Kellyanne 1, Kellyanne 2, Kellyanne 3; ‘animals‘.
  • Justice video: Judge Jeanine calls Sessions
  • Hilton: ‘Increasingly dogmatic’ left led to exit from Crowdpac.
  • Your royal wedding coverage guide.  Tiffany buys time on CNN.
  • Tucker video: Strassel doubts spying on Trump was
  • CNN: Obama admin spying on Trump campaign was a good thing.
  • CNN’s fuzzy math; even fuzzier math.  Tucker’s pic.  Sunday talkers.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: MSM ‘journalists’ take Trump
  • Wednesday numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • CNN et al misreport Trump quote; Stelter newsletter ignores.
  • Videos: on The View;  on Jimmy Kimmel.
  • Q&A: Cable’s top female business anchor on philanthropy, etc.
  • Suzanne Scott new FNC CEO; Janice Dean: ‘This is a great day‘.
  • CNN regular Avenatti parties at home of impartial CNN anchor.
  • Ingraham videos: Laura talks to Rudy Giuliani
  • Doolittle: Cable news as soap opera.  Bedard: So which is it, CNN?
  • Audio Q&A: Mary Katherine loves Waffle House more than twitter.
  • Wemple: Seth Rich defamation case against Fox News is collapsing.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: The panel reacts to
  • Friday’s numbers: Tucker-Chaffetz (for Hannity)-Laura 1-2-3.
  • Harris anchors OT from Israel.  Brian Stelter in a twitter spat.
  • Bret makes book: ‘hyperbole‘…an ‘epic’ approach. NPR Q&A.
  • When Wolf met Martha.  Krystal, Concha, Sexton get new gigs.
  • Swamp Watch videos: Michael Cohen at al 
  • Castellanos: MoJo players now ‘predictable bobble-head dolls‘.
  • Nuzzi: Staffers help Trump avoid MSNBCNN ‘crazy train bullsh!it‘.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • Harris Faulkner: How a news anchor spends 24 hours in Israel.
  • MediaBuzz videos:
  • Reliable Sources: Trump ‘threat‘; Amanpour; Rezaian; Trevor Noah.
  • Ingraham video: at Korea hostage return.
  • Concha: Avenatti tops 100.  CNN shuffles EPs.  Sunday talkers.
  • Goldberg: Can Brian at least pretend to be an impartial journalist?
  • Sensitive Jake: Tapper tells UMass students ‘be nice to each other‘.
  • Nicolle Wallace sorry for suggesting someone choke Sarah Sanders.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: Kelly’s
  • Reliable Sources: Trump lies; more Trump lies; White House lies.
  • F&F video: Alan Dershowitz says the ACLU is
  • Impartial CNN anchor: It’s my obligation to call Trump a racist.
  • Profile: Harris Faulkner walks the talk every day.  Sunday talkers.
  • Ingraham video: The the anti-Trump resistance.
  • Lily Claffee to FNC.  NBC bungles Brokaw.  CNN misquotes Sarah.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Trump at NRA convention.
  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • Cable news swells gather for Richard Grenell’s farewell soiree.
  • Somerby: MSNBCNN Stormy fixation is ‘so stupid it squeaks‘.
  • Steinberg: Nicolle Wallace is a ‘seeker of the truth‘.  Flashback.
  • Sinclair prepping to challenge FNC; Greta, Rosen possible hires.
  • The ‘unavoidable’ Brian Stelter not satisfied with ‘just the facts’.
  • Stelter says Kanye acting like ‘a gift to racists‘, but opinions vary.
  • Has the UN enlisted in The War on Fox?  A MoJo low: Trump’s STD?
  • Scarry: She’s a liberal media sacred cow…she’s not going anywhere.
  • Hannity video: Mark Levin explains legal precedent

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Wednesday numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-Tucker 1-2-3.
  • Eric Bolling finds work.  Donny Deutsch in a drunken brawl?
  • Impartial CNN journalist opines: ‘This country is so broken…’
  • CNN: It’s not fair…advertisers don’t want to advertise with us.
  • ‘Slightly awkward’: CNN talks Stormy…at the WH prayer event!
  • Stelter silent on Brokaw letter.  Navarette: Journalists, be honest.
  • Are CNN and NBC paying off government leakers with on-air jobs?
  • After 59 hits on CNN, Stormy lawyer asks MSNBC for his own show.
  • Videos: Hannity with Rudy Giuliani

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Restraining orders to clueless comic.
  • Monday’s numbers: Maddow-Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Sarah Westwood to CNN.  No crawl at all.  CNBC in Abu Dhabi.
  • Pig out: Activist’s boycott backfires as Laura’s ratings soar 20%.
  • Athey: CNN airs mythical ‘pee tape’ claim 77 times over five days.
  • Is the Hannity/Cohen flap baaaaad…or less than meets the eye?
  • The Five video: The  Dershowitz chides Sean.
  • Ed Schultz resurfaces.  Lemon impugns honesty of pro-Trumpers.
  • Friday’s numbers: Laura-Lemon-Hannity 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
  • Somerby: When an attorney sent Brian Stelter ‘to the fainting couch‘.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • The Five video: Comey/Trump Laura books Libby.
  • Video: Judy Miller on the ‘long overdue’
  • Q&A:  Maria Bartiromo on tech, glass ceilings.  Ace is the place.
  • Brian Stelter at Molloy; Katy Tur at Tufts. Q&A: Brooke Baldwin.
  • Cable newsers named to distinguished list.  Disney deal: by 2019.
  • Deténte? CNN commentator pens an opinion piece for Fox News.
  • Adams: Tucker’s shameful Rothman interview a waste of his talent.
  • John Walsh finds work at ID;  Adam Housley moonlighting at HGTV.
  • Ingraham video: Ari Fleischer, Philip Reines on

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • Video: Sinclair promo directly targets
  • Radio days are not over: Benson & Harf to premiere in May.
  • F&F video: Anna Kooiman and Brooks visit
  • Fox News giving a bigger role to ‘honest broker’ Dana Perino.
  • Ingraham Angle video: Bullies who
  • Laura returns to Fox News, boycott continues: ‘the new normal‘.
  • Nielsen partners with CNN Español.  Colley: Coop is not an idiot.
  • Concha: Hannity vows ‘no name-calling‘ if Kimmel accepts invite.
  • Hannity: Kimmel statement a ‘forced corporate Disney apology‘.
  • Today’s lawsuit update.  Zuckerberg coverage.  Weekend numbers.
  • The Russians are coming…bot are they?  Gregg Jarrett makes book.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: WH Correspondents’ Dinner.
  • CNN honcho: We don’t pay attention to gender pay issues.
  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-O’Donnell-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Hasson: Stelter’s reporting was ‘more Hannity than Cronkite’.
  • Ruhle: I root for Trump.  Video: Dana queries
  • Elder: If Laura goes down for ‘bullying’, then who will be next?
  • Kellyanne zings CNN.  Ace is not the place.  Q&A: Paul Goodloe.
  • Hannity in a twitter spat with Kimmel.  Judge Pirro makes book.
  • Is another Zucker play in the works?  Melissa Knowles’s big news.

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