- Monday’s numbers: Maddow-America’s Newsroom–The Five 1-2-3.
- Harvey Levin’s Objectified sets a premiere date, first guest.
- Retracted CNN story leaves elite reporting team badly bruised.
- ‘They’re coming! They’re coming!’ Betsy watches on your behalf.
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz tops Reliable. Weekend numbers.
- Even in the fall, the days grow longer. Golodryga joins CNN/CBS.
- Somerby: Video on Hardball plainly contradicts host; host ignores.
- Videos: Jeffrey Lord Greg Gutfeld
- Late Night videos: Jake Tapper with Seth Meyers
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Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Wolf-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Barr: Cable news anchors abandon impartiality, because Trump.
- Zucker play: CNN rewrites headline after complaints from Antifa.
- Shepard Smith has a great time covering the eclipse, zings MSNBC.
- Trish Regan aims to ‘cut through the noise‘. Eclipse viewers’ guide.
- Swamp Watch video: The tax code is being used to
- Stelter Trump diagnosis: courageous; shameful. Betsy watches, for you.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Maddow-O’Donnell-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Impartial CNN anchor calls Trump ‘unpatriotic’ and ‘un-American‘.
- Sean Hannity and Guy Benson stick up for Eboni. Q&A: Eboni K.
- Jarrett: The high price of freedom. F&F video: Twitter
- Eboni K Williams Trump criticisms spur death threats; Kat Timpf too.
- Videos: to Bill Kristol; tech companies
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Cooper-Don Lemon 1-2-3.
- Out# videos: An for Melissa Francis;
- Fox News #1 on cable for 32 weeks, also tops MSNBCNN in key demo.
- O’Reilly: Media side with anti-Trumpers. FNC ‘most shared‘ on campus.
- Tucker videos: Political erasing where were
- Fox primetime sked may be Tucker-Sean-Laura. Jake Tapper moonlighting.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: Enter focus
- Reliable Sources videos: Stelter debates Kellyanne; cameras coming back?
- The remarkable turnaround of Trump enthusiast Joe Scarborough.
- CNN announces who they’re not hiring. CNN drone surveillance OK’d.
- Profile: Kat Timpf…libertarianism plus laughs. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Ant Man inspired Jake Tapper to lose weight. Melber tries to save 6pm.
- Video: Tucker and Prof Turley of the Trump White House.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Somerby: Cable news deploys ‘insipid shills‘ and ‘weird demagogues’.
- Monday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-O’Donnell-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Fox & Friends corrects report; will CNN’s Acosta do likewise for this?
- Mission accomplished: Mika Brzezinski signs three-book mega-deal.
- Steinberg: One year after Ailes, Fox News has persisted…at being #1.
- Gorka cites Nick-at-Nite cartoons in heated exchange with Camerota.
- Rothstein: Why did Jake Tapper accuse me of ‘reveling in anti-Semitism’?
- Q&A: Don Lemon talks to the NY Times about argan oil and brown shoes.
- Sunday showdown: Reliable Sources beats MediaBuzz. Weekend numbers.
- Video: Prof Jonathan Turley clears up the raging
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- MediaBuzz videos: The WH The
- Reliable Sources: Tweets; a new low; transparency; press freedoms at risk.
- F&F videos: Anna Kooiman with and
- Veterans? Schmeterans! CNN skips vets ceremony to revisit Nixon.
- The Five video: for the media. The long walk home.
- Flashback: Mika sneers at ‘long legs’ of Harris Faulkner, Sandra Smith.
- Zurawik: Mika and Joe ‘compelling;’ they speak with ‘moral authority‘.
- Greta: I’m not interested in going back to CNN, but Fox News…maybe.
- HuffPo: Greta’s past at FNC killed her chances for success at MSNBC.
- Steinberg: MSNBC to pre-empt Maddow on Fridays for Richard Engel.
- Jenna Lee admits to ‘mixed emotions’, and hope for the ‘next adventure’.
- Kellyanne reacts to CNNer who described her face as ‘hit with a shovel’.
- Coleman: ‘Panic’ hit CNN as Jake Tapper displayed fake magazine cover.
- Makers of CNN sting videos: MSM is ‘on notice’. Sunday talkers: preview.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Flood: How Specialists emerged as the potent youthful face of FNC.
- CNN producer caught on camera: voters are ‘stupid’, Trump ‘crazy’.
- McCall: Self-inflicted problems earned CNN its spot on the griddle.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg says both sides need to
- Videos: Tucker Carlson on The Five on
- New Tantaros conspiracy theory claims Nomiki Konst is in on the plot.
- Alex Pappas to FNC. Tapper honored. Will AT&T ‘neutralize‘ Zucker?
- Smith: Joe & Mika may delay vacay to sling more ‘bad blood’ at Trump.
- Stay classy MSNBC: Greta’s tweet that she’s fired is ‘liked’ by Joy Reid.
- Erik Wemple kicks Greta while she’s down, calls her firing ‘good news’.
- DePaolo: MSNBC’s silent dismissal of Greta van Susteren was insulting.
- Spargo: Greta fired while prepping to go live on air. Q&A: Bret Stephens.
- Concha: Regardless of what lies ahead, Greta leaves an impressive legacy.
- Flashback: Ari Melber, the opinionizer-anchor-opinionizer replacing Greta.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Maddow-Tucker Carlson-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
- Concha: NBC needs to pull Megyn’s interview with Alex Jones.
- Steinberg: The unprecedented cable news wars in the Trump era.
- Former FNC employee: Workplace harassment suit is ‘meritless’.
- Sunday showdown: Reliable beats MediaBuzz. Weekend numbers.
- Tucker Carlson video: Joe Concha sees a at CNN.
- Back to the 90s. CNN’s new ‘travel vertical‘. Tapper at Dartmouth.
- HuffPo: The problem with Greta is that she’s too fair and balanced.
- The Five video: Debate over terrorism and its enablers
- Hall: Stop the madness… before advertising boycotts destroy us all.
- You can leave Fox News, but the boycotts will follow you everywhere.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: At This Hour-Inside Politics-Maddow 1-2-3.
- Concha: White House rips ‘lazy’ MSNBC report on Trump/Qatar.
- CNN drops Reza Aslan series after host’s vulgar anti-Trump tweets.
- Outnumbered video: Comey’s leaking shows
- O’Reilly: ‘Hannity fought back. I should have.’ Jake Tapper in Toronto.
- Matthews: MSNBCers are well informed; Mika: Is Trump mentally ill?”
- CNN schedules Champions for Change. DC’s ‘Badass women’ assemble.
- Tucker videos: on Comeyrama; serves up a scoop.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Coop-CNN Town Hall 1-2-3.
- Hill: Plans and renderings for Fox News’ second-floor super studio.
- FNC plans centralized newsroom, expanded studio, more journalists.
- CNN upfronts target Trump, Spicer; five new doc series announced.
- Nolte: FNC ratings are down because firing O’Reilly broke ‘the first rule‘.
- Somerby: How Maddow rewrote one of her heroes to make him a villain.
- Tapper spreads fake news. Comey wave lifts all boats. Weekend numbers.
- FNC pours cold water on Kimberley rumors. Rupert addresses the troops.
- Video: The Five to analyze political fallout of Comey firing.
- Friedman: MSNBC will cancel O’Donnell’s The Last Word...unless they don’t.
- Grove: With MSNBC ratings surging, will O’Donnell’s Last Word get the axe?
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: The Five-Tucker Carlson-Rachel Maddow 1-2-3.
- Outnumbered video: over Obama health care remarks.
- Steinberg: Fox News hires NBC’s Marianne Gambelli to lead ad sales.
- Olbermann: CNN was going to hire me but didn’t…because of Trump!
- Video: Julie Banderas with the NYPD Security team.
- CNN reporter who hyped O’Reilly boycotts opposes them with Colbert.
- Sketch by impartial CNN anchor draws fire. W Kamau Bell makes book.
- MSNBC signs ex-Republican George Will, refurbishes graphics package.
- Kornacki named (MS)NBC National Political Correspondent. Flashback.
- CNN is ‘fake news’, says Netanyahu! Larry King: I never saw bias at CNN.
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Monday Links and Open Thread
- Show of support? Rupert has lunch with Bill Shine, Jack Abernathy
- Freaky Friday numbers: Rachel Maddow-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Concha: Tucker Carlson benefits from chaos; Heather Nauert‘s new job.
- Video: on her unplanned time off; Today’s lawsuit.
- Sara Murray’s big news. Michael Weiss to CNN; Deborah Feyerick exits.
- Gutfeld video: in monologue on Dems’ election grief.
- Bill O’Reilly is gone, but his influence lives on. Jake Tapper moonlighting.
- Doctor: Don’t expect a new Fox News. Rogers: FNC will not be the same.
- Koblin: With O’Reilly out, Fox rivals see a chance to take over cable news.
- Stockman: Schlussel changes story, says she wasn’t harassed by Hannity!
- Hannity to deploy country’s ‘toughest lawyers‘ against nemesis Schlussel.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Pompeo: Dem fundraiser, Media Matters led effort to oust O’Reilly.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Dana Perino-Maddow-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
- Outnumbered video: McCain and Harf spark over Iran.
- ICN: FNC will be fine without Bill. Wolff: James Murdoch takes over.
- Concha: Bill + Beck = a whole new ballgame; video: Concha with Briggs.
- Video: Dana Perino’s about the absent Bill O’Reilly.
- The blossoming year of Ainsley Earhardt: newscaster, mother, and author.
- Audio Q&A: Chris Hayes w/ Brian Lehrer. Today’s (non-O’Reilly) lawsuit.
- O’Connell: What is Bill’s next move? Hoover suddenly reveals ‘bad vibes‘.
- Flood: Can Fox News thrive without Mr Bill? Beck: It’s the end of Fox News!
- O’Reilly critics: ‘This isn’t over!’ Demands to scrap agreed-to contract terms.
- Newly combative Jake Tapper is TV’s essential truth-teller. Gretchen honored.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- Smith: Megyn Kelly’s first NBC interview could be with Vlad Putin.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Janice Dean, recently absent from Fox News, says all is well, ‘back soon’.
- What could go wrong? Google puts CNN et al in charge of fact-checking.
- Explaining how tv news really works. Video: on Syria.
- New season of Parts Unknown premieres with exotic, faraway Los Angeles.
- Q&A: Bret Baier, Jake Tapper, et al discuss ‘fake news’, fairness, and more.
- Q&A: Melissa Francis on Roger Ailes, corporate culture, and her new book.
- Wolff: No evidence, no trials…it doesn’t matter if allegations are true or not.