Dec 2010
'CNN: They're Such Geniuses Over There!'
12/31/10 18:40 Filed in: videos
J$P Audio! John Gibson talks about the cable news business, reacts to David Shuster’s latest comments, and does phone battle with Fox haters:
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From The John Gibson Show, December 31 2010
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From The John Gibson Show, December 31 2010
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New Year's Eve Links and Open Thread
12/31/10 00:59 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on 2010 media controversies.
- Video: Red Eye New Year’s Special .
- Video: Fox News Watch on top stories of 2010.
- Zurawik: praise for C-SPAN, but not ‘partisan psycho’ MSNBC.
- Sunday talkers: tip sheet: HuffPo recap.
- Courtney heads to the maternity ward: it’s a boy!
- 2011 predictions: Park & Spit, FNC’s Stirewalt, ICN.
- New Years skeds: FNC Sat; CNN; and MSNBC.
- FNCers make New Years resolutions.
- CNN’s New Years Eve: must-miss tv.
- Part five: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter .
'The Punishment Fits the Size'
12/30/10 17:02 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Brett Favre and other hot topics on Megyn’s Power Panel with Ainsley Earhardt, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Greg Gutfeld:
From America Live, December 30 2010
From America Live, December 30 2010
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/30/10 00:00 Filed in: links
- Schonfeld: A Happy New Year message for CNN.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Bream-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Joe makes running-for-office noises again; the Q&A.
- It’s a Maddow-Mediaite-Martel miff.
- Audio: Shuster resurfaces, slams Fox and Beck .
- Video: Fox & Friends Weekend 2010 highlight reel.
- Piers Morgan has a thin twitter skin?
- Q&A: Bill Hemmer talks Fox, fairness, and New Year’s.
- Video: Hemmer and Kelly preview New Year’s Eve.
- Part four: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter .
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/29/10 00:34 Filed in: links
- Ultimate Fox hater resorts to vulgarity.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bream-Bolling-Beck 1-2-3.
- Today’s firing demand.
- FNC adds extra hour, starts New Years special at 10pm.
- ICN’s New Years resolutions for cablenewsers.
- Fox News: #1 for nine years and counting.
- Despite losses, Olbermann’s job is safe...for now.
- Q&A: CNNI’s Ellana Lee. Engel on anchoring.
- Part three: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/28/10 00:06 Filed in: links
- 2010 program ranker. FNC dominates. Olby, Maddow, Coop all down double digits. One newser in top ten cable channels.
- Monday’s numbers: Bolling-Bream-Beck 1-2-3. Friday’s numbers: F&F Christmas-Special Report-Fox Report 1-2-3.
- Mickey Sherman (Mr Lis Wiehl) headed for the pokey.
- Greta responds to TV Newser.
- Chris Knowles (Mr Kiran Chetry) turns up on CNN.
- Video: Fox & Friends 2010 highlight reel.
- David Shuster resurfaces; Q&A.
- Piers gets support from Jack Bauer.
- Part two: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter.
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/27/10 01:25 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bret-Bill-Jon 1-2-3.
- Greta questions Juan Williams Palin comments.
- Yowzah! Courtney Friel Christmas pics resurface.
- Video: Dr Marc Siegel on end-of-life regulations.
- 2010 a big bucks year for biz nets.
- Tonight’s Factor sub-host: Eric Bolling.
- Big Ed explains his booking policies.
- Video: ‘Misinformed’ study itself misinformed.
- ICN 2010 wrap-up: what’s hot and what’s not.
- Part one: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter.
Green Chri$tma$
12/25/10 00:34 Filed in: addenda
This post has been updated: here.
Stan Freberg's timeless Christmas masterpiece. If you don't have it on CD you can download it here. Or take this opportunity to listen now.
Classic Christmas radio broadcasts:
Classic Christmas television episodes:
Classic Christmas movies:
Merry Christmas from johnny dollar's place.
Stan Freberg's timeless Christmas masterpiece. If you don't have it on CD you can download it here. Or take this opportunity to listen now.
Classic Christmas radio broadcasts:
- Amos 'n' Andy: Christmas show listen
- Dragnet: A .22 Rifle for Christmas listen
- Jack Benny: Last Moment Christmas Shopping listen
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter listen
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Missing Mouse Matter listen
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Carmen Kringle Matter listen
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Red Mystery Matter listen
Classic Christmas television episodes:
- Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: Busy Christmas [dvd] watch
- Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: Lost Christmas Gift [dvd]
- Dragnet: A .22 Rifle for Christmas watch
- The Honeymooners: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas [dvd] watch
- The Jack Benny Program: Christmas Shopping watch
- The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek [dvd] watch
- Dragnet 1968: The Christmas Story [dvd] watch
- JAG: All Ye Faithful [dvd]
- Lois & Clark: 'Twas the Night Before Myxmas [dvd] watch
- Night Gallery: The Messiah on Mott Street [dvd] watch
- Roswell: A Roswell Christmas Carol [dvd] watch
- Space: Above and Beyond: River of Stars [dvd]
Classic Christmas movies:
- Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers) [dvd] watch
- A Christmas Story [dvd] watch
- It’s a Wonderful Life [dvd] watch
- The Lemon Drop Kid [dvd] watch
- Home Alone [dvd] watch
- Miracle on 34th Street [dvd] watch
Merry Christmas from johnny dollar's place.
Christmas Eve Links and Open Thread
12/24/10 00:01 Filed in: links
- Video: Christmas is about the journey.
- Video: The Louie Zamperini story. More.
- John Roberts signs off American Morning, TJ takes over.
- Video: Inspirational Americans.
- Sunday talkers: tip sheet.
- A very MSNBC Christmas! Skeds: FNC Sat, Sun; CNN.
- The year’s top ten Countdown moments.
- Cenk Uygur attacks Fox, misses the target.
- FNC videos: holiday reflections, Megyn’s most memorable Christmas, funniest Yuletide memories, Christmas songs, holiday gifts.
- Part one: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
- Part two: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
- Part three: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
- Part four: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
- Part five: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
'Don't Toy With Me!'
12/23/10 12:53 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Brian Kilmeade finally gets his Christmas wish: Colossus Rex!
From Fox & Friends, December 23 2010
From Fox & Friends, December 23 2010
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/23/10 01:29 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Laura-Bret-Greta 1-2-3.
- Greta’s Haiti special airs tonight.
- Spend New Year’s Eve with Rick Sanchez!
- Video: Leventhal in Afghanistan w/David Asman’s son.
- Shep interview stirs Mediaite controversy.
- Part four: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
'I Don't Know Where He Was; I Was There'
12/22/10 12:03 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Peter Johnson Jr on 9/11 responders, and Jon Stewart:
From Fox & Friends, December 22 2010
From Fox & Friends, December 22 2010
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/22/10 00:10 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.
- Again? Olbermann tweets false information.
- Brian Wilson resurfaces.
- Olbermann mocks hair of cancer survivor.
- Maddow thinks Jewish center is a YMCA.
- Breaking: chyron blooper at F&F.
- Video: Maddow and Michael Moore.
- Part three: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/21/10 00:04 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.
- Mediaite reads Big Journalism but not J$P?
- Video: Kelly’s Court on honor killings.
- FNC adds weekend program w/Jeanine Pirro.
- CNN/Tea Party debate stirs controversy.
- Howard Kurtz profile: Big Ed Schultz.
- Weekend numbers.
- Video: Larry King w/Leno part one, two, three.
- As Coop craters, CNN plans to get in your face.
- Part two: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
'It's Ridiculous, It's Silly'
12/20/10 16:38 Filed in: videos
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/20/10 00:41 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Bill-Stossel-Baier 1-2-3.
- Olbermann throws gasoline on twitter fire.
- Benzinga Q&A: Charlie Gasparino.
- Tennis mag profile: Sean Hannity.
- CNBC goes off the tracks, defends insider trading?
- The Presidential primary debates keep coming.
- 2010 spin: MSNBC tops CNN prime.
- Media Afghanistan focus fades.
- Hot & Not: Baier, John Roberts, Olbermann, more.
- Olbermann’s twitter ‘suspension’ short-lived.
- Part one: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
Fox Haters Week in Review!
12/19/10 19:40 Filed in: slanders
Deck the halls with trowels of folly: it’s a Yuletide edition of Fox Haters Week in Review! ...read more
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/18/10 00:52 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources, liberal revolt, pundits out of touch.
- Greta: Guess who’s #1 again?
- Zurawik: So who defines ‘misinformed’?
- Video: News Watch on Obama media narrative; more.
- Video: Alisyn models the Hoodie-Footie.
- Olby week in review: conspiracy time.
- Financial Times profile: Rachel Maddow.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet., HuffPo recap.
- The Missing Mouse Matter.
Friday Links and Open Thread
12/17/10 00:15 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Larry-Bret 1-2-3.
- Christopher: Olby faces his ‘Shoeless Joe’ moment?
- Sady Doyle: Olbermann quit Twitter because of me.
- FNC’s Nancy Harmeyer promoted to West Coast.
- DGA/FNC complaint tossed out by unanimous vote.
- Another debate set: CNN/Tea Party Express.
- Q&A: Adam Shapiro on Madoff matters.
- WPO study of ‘misinformed’ viewers fingers FNC, MSNBC.
- When in doubt...blame Beck!
- Larry King signs off: Buckman, de Moraes, Cromwell, Poniewozik, Bauder. After-party. Filling the gap.
- The Carmen Kringle Matter.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/16/10 01:12 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: At the Fox News DC holiday party.
- Fox News announces more 2011 debates.
- Feature and Q&A: Connell McShane in Ireland [pdf].
- Olbermann/Moore rape comments stir outrage. Keith stonewalls, then suspends his Twitter account!
- Video: The Insider behind the scenes at Fox & Friends.
- Audio: Trump calls Ailes ‘a phenomenal guy’.
- Video: Chris Wallace with Imus part one, part two.
- MSNBC sending D-Rat up the river.
- CNN promises surprises for Larry King finale. More.
- Who is Zach Wamp and who wants to hire him? Not Fox.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/15/10 01:05 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- CNN boasts of its reach as viewership sinks to record lows.
- Already? GOP Prez primary debates set on CNN, FNC.
- Cablers dominate biz news most powerful list.
- Video: The Judge on wheat farming, health care, and freedom.
- Who has the long knives out for Bill Sammon? Flashback.
- As King’s career winds down, Piers Morgan flexes his ego.
- Video: Sean Hannity vs Rep Anthony Weiner.
- Feminists mad at Morning Joe don’t understand television?
- Q&A: Bloomberg’s Manus Cranny, CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/14/10 00:27 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Zurawik: FNC signs Bret Baier to new multi-year contract.
- Juan Williams signs book deal with Random House.
- Olbermann tries to wriggle out of latest Nazi comparison.
- Video: Geraldo on sleeping nude etc part one, part two.
- Video: Greta and Sarah Palin in Haiti.
- American Morning makeover: more upbeat, fast-paced.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly w/Don Imus part one, part two.
- Larry’s sign-off has people talking.
- CNN on the iPad. Amid changes, CNBC launches Pro.
- Talkative Joe vs Ice Princess Mika.
- ‘No Labels’ rally attracts a host of MSNBC hosts.
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/13/10 09:40 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Video: Neil Cavuto slams Chris Matthews.
- Morning Joe: a hotbed of sexism? (via ICN)
- Kelly and Hemmer together again on New Year’s.
- Nancy Grace helps find abducted girl.
- Piers Morgan in Brit twit snit.
- Video: Peter Johnson Jr on 9/11 health bill defeat.
- Branding D-Rat. Q&A: Spitzer, Adam Shapiro.
- Hot & Not: MSNBC primetime, John Roberts, and more.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/11/10 00:32 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on tax deal coverage.
- Without Larry, who will personify CNN? More.
- Video: Fox News Watch on tax deal coverage.
- Zurawik: Bret Baier revisits Florida 2000.
- Video: Red Eye rips Olby’s Nazi comparison.
- Non-eye-contact Q&A: Chris Matthews.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Friday Links and Open Thread
12/10/10 00:29 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Potter: CNN has gone off the rails.
- Why is CNBC dumping Matt Nesto?
- Video: O’Reilly w/Letterman pt one, pt two.
- Olby week in review: peaches and doorbell.
- Maddow ‘verifies’ Fox rumor that isn’t true?
- Kathy Griffin set for CNN New Year’s Eve again.
- CNN: America’s Most Wanted? Coop faces the Taliban.
- Video: Beck talks boycotts and ‘the revolution’.
'This May Be the Worst Yet'
12/10/10 00:13 Filed in: videos
'You People Keep Deluding Yourselves'
12/09/10 23:22 Filed in: videos
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/09/10 00:47 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Wendy Walker’s 30 years in cable news.
- Q&A: ‘nonpartisan’ host Chris Matthews (via NB).
- Blue blogs erupt at O’Donnell, want him off the air.
- Olbermann’s top ten Nazi comparisons.
- Fonzie hearts Maddow, Matthews, MSNBC.
- Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus part one, part two.
- Option lingo called ’spin’ in Fox flap. But is it really? More.
- Diversity (of a sort) emerges at MSNBC.
- CNN’s Dana Bash wins Dirksen Award.
- Video: Luntz focus group on the tax deal.
- Media buyers rate Fox & Friends over GMA, CBS Morning.
'Do Something an Adult Can Be Proud Of'
12/08/10 07:54 Filed in: videos
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/08/10 00:15 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- News Corp again seeks higher FNC sub fees.
- Video: Anthony Weiner gets feisty with Megyn Kelly.
- Will CNN dump Kathy Griffin from New Year’s Eve?
- Video: Juan WIlliams w/Don Imus part one, part two.
- Which cablenewser is the #1 charity giver?
- Fox News a hit...in Saudi Arabia!
- Tensions roil at floundering Park & Spit.
- Zurawik: Olbermann steps up to the plate.
- Video: Glenn Beck explains the Assange ‘rape’ case.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/07/10 00:25 Filed in: links
- Olbermann promotes writings of Holocaust denier.
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity.
- MSNBC hires Jeff Johnson; CNBC adds two.
- VIdeo: O’Reilly with Don Imus part one, part two.
- John Roberts to leave AM, as Tony Harris exits CNN.
- Weekend numbers.
- Kurtz Q&A: Luke Russert.
- Olbermann ‘called on the carpet’ over Bristol bashing?
- Rachel Maddow to spend three days at the Y.
'A Dead Man Can't Leak Stuff'
12/07/10 00:12 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Bob Beckel wants the ultimate solution for Julian Assange:
From Follow the Money, December 6 2010
From Follow the Money, December 6 2010
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/06/10 00:45 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Larry lines up Snipes, Pacino, Jolie, Dion.
- Video: Glenn Beck pans media (FNC included).
- CNN viewer participation doesn’t facilitate corrections.
- Not & Not: Dr Drew, Park & Spit, Thomas Roberts, Robin Meade.
Fox Haters Week in Review
12/05/10 19:31 Filed in: slanders
An invisible man, the plot to poison us all, Lenin, the TSA, and Jay Leno. They all figure into an eclectic edition of Fox Haters Week in Review! ...read more
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/04/10 01:31 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on Wikileaks.
- Video: Fox News Sunday panel re Wikileaks.
- Adam and Tamera: the official announcement.
- Video: Fox News Watch re Wikileaks.
- Video: Newt Gingrich vs The Judge re Wikileaks.
- An offer Olbermann can (and will) refuse.
- The biggest cable news Palin promoter: MSNBC!
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Friday Links and Open Thread
12/03/10 00:34 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Rangel 1-2-3.
- Lennon flashbacks: FNC Friday, CNN Saturday.
- Media Matters mystery: why did they call Greta’s husband?
- Men’s Journal profile: Bill Hemmer [pdf].
- Needed: fewer race cards, more journalism.
- Olby week in review: crusader for truth.
- Video: Piers Morgan makes debut on CNN.
- Beck fans line up in Pittsburgh.
- So who’s a sexist now? Joe Scarborough!
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/02/10 00:09 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- MSNBC ignores extraterrestrial news event.
- Savannah Guthrie rebels at ‘dirty’ writing by MSNBC staff.
- Will HLN’s Morning Express find its way to CNN?
- Fed secret bail out of GE, unreported by MSNBCNBC.
- Video: Chris Wallace w/Imus re Wikileaks.
- Time is running out for Park & Spit.
- Q&A: Jenna Lee. Rachel Maddow at Harvard.
- Video: John Bolton vs The Judge re Wikileaks.
- November program ranker: FNC holds top 11 slots.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/01/10 00:10 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3. Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Wikileaks to break new info on Freedom Watch?
- CNN hire looks to restructure programming.
- Preview: Bret Baier World Aids Day with Bono.
- November numbers: FNC, CNN, HLN, MSNBC. CNBC’s slide.
- Audio: Bill Hemmer previews John Lennon special.
- Parker incensed at Spitzer, threatens to bolt.
- Video: Follow the Money looks at the Volt.
- Larry King at Wendy Walker’s book party.
- Video: Judge Nap vs O’Reilly on entrapment.
- MSNBC’s Abrams goes on CNN and defends Fox.