• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Rothman: CNN’s disastrous attempts to Lean Forward.
• Monday premiere videos: Maria Bartiromo, Ronan Farrow.
• Checkbook journalism: Al-Jazeera offered $$ for cables.
• Somerby: Dubious, conflicting claims blur Maddow’s bio.
• Alec Baldwin rips MSNBC, calls Rachel Maddow ‘a phony’.
• FBN’s new chapter: Bartiromo seeks to define her network.
• MSNBC teams with Vocativ; objective: internet data-mining.
• Video Q&A: Geraldo Rivera in depth; Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
• Wemple: Why Piers Morgan’s failure at CNN was inevitable.
• Greta: Why did CNN derail its #1 show?  Who gets 9:00 pm?
• Steinberg: Dumping Piers all part of the Grand Zucker Plan.
• Piers show cancelled; Morgan may stay with CNN.  Flashback.
• Zurawik: Will the Obama WH ever stop intimidating the press?

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, friends, piers, greta