Apr 2011
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/30/11 00:28 Filed in: links
- Greta goes to MSNBC, preps trip to North Korea.
- Video: Trump reacts to all those WHCD zingers.
- Video: Reliable Sources on Trump and the media.
- Wedding bells: CNN edges FNC, crushes MSNBC.
- Video: News Watch on the birth certificate; more.
- Swells gather at DC soirees. Gasparino’s ‘prom date’.
- Finally! Unequivocal proof that Fox News sucks!
- Huck denies Prez rumors. Beck’s bungalow bought.
- Larry King’s first special focuses on Alzheimer’s.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
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Boehlony Is His Stock in Trade
04/29/11 15:49 Filed in: slanders
Media Matters attacks Fox for its silence on a big news story. But it’s Eric Boehlert, so you know there’s a catch. ...read more
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/29/11 00:05 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Shep 1-2-3.
- Bret bumps Beck: two-hour Special Report tonight.
- It’s official: Burnett to CNN. More. Q&A: Liz Claman on Buffett.
- CNN, MSNBC, CNBC reject advertising for Atlas Shrugged movie?
- MacNicol: Lawrence O’Donnell is the Donald Trump of cable news.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
04/28/11 00:10 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Cablers cover storms: John Roberts to anchor Saturday.
- Gingrich not expected at FNC’s May 5 Prez debate.
- HLN dumps Showbiz for Vinnie Politan court show.
- Your Essential Viewers’ Guide for the monarchial nuptials.
- Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus. Laurie Dhue resurfaces.
- Video: Bias Bash on the birth certificate flap.
- VIdeo: John King’s turn to grill Trump part one, part two.
- Erin Burnett planning a jump to CNN? Party with Kiran.
- Video: O’Donnell blasts NBC, demands they reveal Trump plans.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
04/27/11 00:10 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Angle-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Who’s hyping birther flap? MSNBC: 92%, CNN: 100%, FNC: 8%.
- Profile: Harris Faulkner [jpg]. Q&A: Liz Claman, Spitzer.
- Bias Bash video: The National Security shake-up.
- Kurtz: FNC wants Huck to drive it or park it. Huck reacts?
- Video: Birther control: Coop vs Trump part three, part four.
A Matter of Decree
04/26/11 23:20 Filed in: slanders
The Hate Squad attacks Steve Doocy. But there’s a catch...or two. ...read more
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
04/26/11 00:36 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- April: FNC tops; MSNBC, CNN up; HLN down. Program ranker.
- Zurawik: Olbermann’s march to marginalization begins.
- Video: Frank Luntz tells Don Imus: Trump’s bluffing.
- Video: Bias Bash on Barbour bowing out and Gitmo.
- April spin: MSNBC tops CNN; CNN tops MSNBC.
- Will FNC’s Presidential debate air as scheduled?
- Video: Coop grills The Donald, nicks Hannity.
- Fareed Zakaria: It’s a post-American world. Q&A: Mika (via ICN).
- Historic announcement expected today: the Big News!
Monday Links and Open Thread
04/25/11 09:09 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Chris Wallace-Beck-Juan Williams 1-2-3.
- It’s official: Harris Faulkner gets weekend Fox Report.
- Video: Greg Gutfeld with Don Imus part one, part two.
- MSNBC debuts Lean Forward 2.0. Profile: Maddow.
- Video: Trump tells F&F DeNiro ‘is not the brightest bulb’.
- Q&A: Hannity. Bedbug suit booted. New FNC contributor.
- Zurawik: GOP Prez field is weak because of...Fox News!
April 24 2011
04/24/11 00:00 Filed in: addenda
'He's Being a Total Dingus'
04/23/11 13:10 Filed in: videos
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/22/11 00:49 Filed in: links
- Video: News Watch on the media’s Trump infatuation.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Soledad. Larry works the room. Elam exits.
- Beck/Huck ‘feud’ over-analyzed. Today’s developments.
- Video: Geraldo gets emotional in Libya discussion.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
04/21/11 01:10 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Charles Krauthammer’s phone call from Trump.
- Trump flusters Kiran Chetry and Ali Velshi: video.
- Red Eye video: Breitbart accuses MSNBC of collusion.
- New feud? Huck vs Beck. Joe makes Time.
- Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus. Excitement over incitement.
- Bias Bash videos: Media coverage of Libya, the birth certificate.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
04/20/11 00:53 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Piers plunges.
- Video: Breitbart and Bashir bicker on MSNBC.
- Video flashback: Shep interviews journalist killed in Libya.
- CNN sues Haiti Live Networks for calling themselves ‘HLN’.
- Exposed! The CNN-UFO-CIA-Obama conspiracy!
- Q&A: Andrea Mitchell, Lori Rothman (via TVN); Eric Bolling.
- Profile: Juan Williams. Matthews at Daemen. Kiran caught.
- Video: Sanjay Gupta with Conan. CNN releases android app.
Keith Olbermann Lies About J$P
04/19/11 21:38 Filed in: slanders
And even as he does so, he confirms what we wrote. ...read more
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
04/19/11 00:44 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Olbermann: I don’t watch MSNBC.
- New algorithm makes Fox most search-visible cablenews site.
- MSNBC treatment of Trump raises questions.
- Video: What cablenewser reported this in 1991? The answer.
- Profile: Chris Wallace. Bret Baier’s top (and bottom) DC ten [pdf].
- MSNBC’s new studio. Contessa’s compost. Robin’s song.
- Larry King preps first CNN special, plans trip to Korea.
- Video: CNN staffer tries a little too hard to look busy.
Monday Links and Open Thread
04/18/11 00:07 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Video: S.E. Cupp delivers ‘special comment’ re Olbermann.
- Videos: Shep dissects the debt, erupts over government ‘lies’.
- Video: Trump swipes at Perino, Romney, Rove.
- CNBC cost cuts hit Media 3. NBC trims wedding plans?
- Beck failures to attribute stir controversy. Analysis.
- Hot & Not: Imus, Roberts, Soledad, John King etc.
- Yet another version of the Glenn Beck/Fox News split.
'The President Don't Really Run the Country'
04/16/11 12:53 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Eric Bolling faces off with 9/11 truther Jesse Ventura:
From Follow the Money, April 15 2011
From Follow the Money, April 15 2011
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/16/11 00:55 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on the Trump media storm.
- Video: FNS Panel Plus on Palin/Huck Prez possibilities.
- Beck talks Trump, comedy, leaving New York etc.
- Video: Fox News Watch on the budget battle.
- Strangers on a plane end up on Fox News.
- Q&A: Piers Morgan’s breakfast w/Financial Times.
- Huddy returns to The Factor. Video: Juliet’s twitterpic.
- Olbermann: I don’t watch Chris Matthews.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/15/11 00:02 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Hannity-Laura (for BO’R)-Greta 1-2-3.
- Turnabout: Brian Sullivan leaves FBN for CNBC.
- Do Judge Nap’s numbers mean he won’t replace Beck?
- Martin Bashir lets slip that Contessa Brewer is pregnant.
- Video: Red Eye rips Olby’s gutter attack on S.E. Cupp.
- Greta: Don’t worry about Cenk Uygur, he won’t be around long.
- Video: Geraldo enraged over pat down of 6-yr-old.
- Imus losing sidekick Charles McCord; McShane replaces. More.
- Video: Brian Kilmeade in the dunk tank. Q&A: Lou Dobbs.
- Beck stage show takes on emotions of a revival meeting.
- Jennifer Griffin’s This Burning Land. Lori Rothman: tax tips.
- Cooper’s syndie talk show to air from Lincoln Center room at CNN.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
04/14/11 00:44 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Natal news: Yardley Evans, seven pounds, 12 ounces.
- Bias Bash video: Media coverage of Obama budget plan.
- Juliet Huddy resurfaces, on Saturday’s Fox & Friends.
- Audio: When Wiehl met O’Reilly.
- CNN hires ‘special correspondent’ from Real Housewives.
- Video: Chris Wallace talks Trump, deficit w/Don Imus.
- MSNBCNBC, half-owned by GE, to promote ‘green week’.
- Maddow at Rutgers. Bolduan to Congress. Q&A: Hannity.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
04/13/11 00:01 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Schneider to FNC: Give Red Eye an earlier time slot.
- NY Observer Beck specularama foresees hubris, humiliation.
- Imus in the Morning sinks from #1 on FBN to #10. Analysis.
- Bias Bash video: How do the media differentiate big stories?
- CNN to replace John King w/Soledad? (via ICN) O’Brien’s pilot.
- Prez hopeful to announce candidacy on Greta’s show tonight?
- Show me the Huddy! Nancy Grace being sued for $15 million.
- Video: Judge Napolitano on the budget cut shell game.
- Video: Mike Emmanuel’s bad hair day?
- Scandal: New York police actually protecting people in New York!
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
04/12/11 00:32 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Video: Bias Bash on media laziness re budget, CIA.
- FNC debate rules separate contenders from pretenders.
- Video: Deadliest Catch brings spicy language to F&F.
- Q&A: Lou Dobbs. Tony Harris resurfaces, on Al-Jazeera.
- Howard Kurtz: Toxic Beck and polarized media.
- Video: Greta interviews...you guessed it...Donald Trump.
- Fox haters deluge O’Reilly poll on Glenn Beck, post bot script to rig results. Update: Poll and manipulated results pulled.
Monday Links and Open Thread
04/11/11 01:06 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Today’s Beck replacement specularama.
- Olby taking credit for ratings surge at CNN?!?
- Weekend in Vegas report gets Greta’s goat.
- As debates proliferate, FNC sets criteria for first showdown.
- Video: Bias Bash analyzes ‘thuggish’ NYT article.
- CNN skeds special on Waco. FNC wedding plans.
- VIdeo: No birther talk on Trump’s F&F segment.
- Hot & Not: Beck, Trump, The Judge, Roberts, CNN etc.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/09/11 00:10 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources discusses Glenn Beck.
- Zurawik: Beck and Olbermann two noxious tv toxins.
- VIdeo: Sarah Palin talks Trump and budget.
- The burden of being Erin Burnett (via TVN).
- Video: Fox News Watch on budget battle coverage.
- Black Agenda: Sharpton/Schultz special airs Sunday.
- Tick tock, who had the best clock?
- Sunday talkers: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
- Video: Beck talks to O’Reilly about his future plans.
- Who should replace Glenn Beck? J$P Poll: final results.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/08/11 00:41 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Baier bumps Beck for breaking budget battle (h/t cubachi).
- Greta: Media silliness re Beck, Palin. Show me the Huddy!
- Insider mini-video: Charles Gasparino.
- As news fades, so does CNN. Soledad in Greenwich.
- O’Donnell wants his bosses to tell Trump: you’re fired!
- Audio: Alan Colmes grills Donald Trump on birtherism.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
04/07/11 00:07 Filed in: links
- NPR’s Folkenflik profiles Bret Baier (via ICN).
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Do PIers Morgan’s thousands of tweets help his ratings?
- Video: CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux clashes with The Donald.
- Video: Huck w/Jon Stewart part one, part two, part three.
- Bias Bash video: the media foreign/domestic divide.
- VIdeo: Don Imus asks Major Garrett about budget, and Beck.
- CNN/LA building locked down over threats; suspect in custody.
- NY Times: Gripes, grumbling foreshadowed Beck/FNC split.
- B&C: A Beck show unlikely to excite interest of syndicators.
- Video: Judge Nap on the virtues of a government shutdown.
'I'm Saying: Look Out, Look Out'
04/06/11 21:45 Filed in: videos
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
04/06/11 00:40 Filed in: links
- Video: Beck speaks.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Glenn Beck to ‘transition off’ daily FNC program. More: NY Times, Mediaite. Kurtz: Split a ‘near-total divorce’. MacNicol: Why now? Ailes reacts.
- Video: Howard Kurtz with Don Imus.
- Insider mini-video: Behind the scenes at Red Eye.
- Soledad at WU. Profile: Nick Charles (via ICN).
- HLN: A good beat, and you can dance to it.
- Bias Bash video: Eric Holder’s about-face.
- MSNBC.com honcho at Murrow Symposium. Today’s oops.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
04/05/11 00:39 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly w/Don Imus part one, part two.
- Why is Thomas Roberts doing a bit on 30 Rock?
- Q&A: CNN’s Jim Walton (via TVN).
- Juan Williams to receive Freedom of Speech award.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg w/O’Reilly on Trump’s run.
- Couric replacement specularama: John Roberts, Coop, Shep?
The Return of Civil Discourse
04/04/11 20:08 Filed in: slanders
There’s a newfound interest in civil debate over at HuffPo, but it has its limits. ...read more
Monday Links and Open Thread
04/04/11 01:28 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Chris Wallace-Hannity 1-2-3.
- New technologies changing the future of news.
- Preview: Dr Drew Pinsky HLN premiere tonight.
- Newman: O’Donnell Rand Paul attack a series of ‘lies’?
- CNN ratings predictions run counter to history; more.
- And the Cielo Latino 2011 award goes to...Coop!
- Bias Bash video: Obama re-election announcement.
- Q&A: Bob Pisani (via ICN). CNN hires Peter Bale.
- Hot & Not: Libya, Morning Express, FBN.
'Tell Them Not to Shoot Us!'
04/03/11 23:17 Filed in: videos
'This Man Saved Our Lives'
04/03/11 23:15 Filed in: videos
'A Violent, Treacherous, Perilous, Dangerous Scene'
04/03/11 09:35 Filed in: videos
'It's Just Apologizing for the Administration'
04/02/11 17:29 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Michael Scheuer explains why he got a little snippy with CNN’s Christine Romans (h/t Carpe Diem):
From Fox & Friends, April 2 2011
From Fox & Friends, April 2 2011
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/02/11 00:10 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on Trump, Bachmann coverage.
- Greta: Just what is it with Howard Dean?
- Video: Due to factual error, Fox News Watch stops, then starts over segment on media coverage of GE; more.
- Q&A: Larry King.
- Video: Donald Trump on The Factor part five; Beck’s take.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/01/11 00:11 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Chris Wallace-Hannity 1-2-3.
- F&F video: Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre part one, part two. Audio: Griffin and Myre with Geraldo (in Libya).
- Life under Comcast: tech glitches bedevil MSNBC, CNBC.
- Another conflict of interest rap against CNBC.
- Q&A: D-Rat at OSU. Video: Fareed Zakaria w/Leno.
- HLN changes extend Morning Express to six hours!
- Advice for CNN. CNN and Google trade accusations.
- Video: Donald Trump on The Factor part three, part four.