• Video: Guy Lombardo’s 1957 New Year’s Eve Party.
• The Five video: The 2013 highlights reel.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Laura-The Five-John Roberts 1-2-3.
• Ella Fitzgerald: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
• Video: Dubai sets off the world’s largest fireworks display.
• Zucker punched: Reliable Sources plummets to new low.
• Bill O’Reilly at the Kennedy Center.  Weekend numbers.
• Lean Forward: Prof Harris-Perry offers apology...on twitter.
• Factor video: Howard Kurtz on Dyson, ducks, and more.
• Fox New Year’s Eve; this is CNN; a very MSNBC New Year’s.
• The Silent Queen Matter: part one, two, three, four, part five.

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• The Five video: Top news stories of 2013 revisited.
• Friday’s numbers: The Five-O’Williams-Bream 1-2-3.
• CNN anchors offered weed on live tv (via dorseyshaw).
• Stand up, speak out, whatever...but don’t Lean Forward.
• Lean Forward panel mocks adopted child for being black!
• Video: Adam Housley’s sources contradict the NY Times.
• Biggest media shake-ups of 2013.  Q&A: Jake Tapper.
• Video: Fox & Friends Weekend 2013 highlight reel.
• The Silent Queen Matter: pt one, pt two, pt three, part four.

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• Media Buzz videos: Obama’s year, duck reversal, Politico.
• Reliable Sources videos: Politics, privacy, Coop ’n’ Kathy.
• Today’s firing demand, petition. Sunday talk: HuffPo recap.
• The Jack Benny Program: Last Moment Christmas Shopping.
• YTJD The Silent Queen Matter: part one, part two, part three.

• Ozzie and Harriet: The Day After Christmas.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Williams-The5-Bream 1-2-3.
• Video: The biggest media blunders of 2013.
• Lisa Ono: Winter Wonderland   album
• Wednesday’s numbers.  Bowler batters Piers.
• Friday Bill Hemmer anchors Fox News: Our Story.
• YTJD The Silent Queen Matter: part one, part two.

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• Oscar Peterson: The Christmas Waltz.
• Tuesday’s numbers.  Monday’s numbers.
• 2013 numbers: Fox News tops MSNBCNN combined.
• Weprin: What memos mean.  2013: MSNBC tops CNN.
• Newhart: No Room at the Inn.  Ten to watch (via TVN).
• Top 2013 media stories include blunders, CNN struggles.
• The Silent Queen Matter: part one.  Spitzer ditched her.

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• Stan Freberg: Green Chri$tma$   listen   album

• Amos 'n' Andy: Christmas show  listen
• Dragnet: A .22 Rifle for Christmas  listen
• Jack Benny: Last Moment Christmas Shopping  listen
• Quiet, Please: Berlin, 1945  listen
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter
   listen part one, part two, part three, part four, part five

• Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: Busy Christmas  watch
• The Honeymooners: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas  watch
• Dragnet 1968: The Christmas Story  watch
• JAG: All Ye Faithful  dvd
• Night Gallery: The Messiah on Mott Street  watch
• Roswell: A Roswell Christmas Carol  amazon  hulu+  netflix

• Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers)  watch
• A Christmas Story  amazon
• It’s a Wonderful Life  watch
• The Lemon Drop Kid  amazon
• Home Alone  amazon
• Miracle on 34th Street  amazon

• Lisa Ono: White Christmas  listen   album
• Ella Fitzgerald: Jingle Bells  listen   album
• George Shearing: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen  listen   album
• Dean Martin: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer  listen   album
• Crystal Lewis: O Holy Night  listen  album

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• David Ian: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas  album
• Father Knows Best: The Christmas Story.
• FNC schedule.  Have a very MSNBC Christmas.
• Ellis and Jason Marsalis: Silent Night   album
• Profile: Zoraida Sambolin resurfaces. Today’s oops.
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Red Mystery Matter.

• Happy Days: Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Shaw: Replace Candy Crowley with Jake Tapper.
• Wemple: A day of MSNBC...lefty blather and fluff.
• Rothman: Cablers compete for culture war ratings.
• Zucker punched: Pink slips fly at CNN.  More.
• Theresa and Mike Levy: The First Noel    album
• Gail Shister: The biggest tv news stories of 2013.
• Byers & Gold: 2013’s biggest media developments.
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Carmen Kringle Matter.

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• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Long Live the King.
• Media Buzz videos: Ducks, Tom Friedman, Katie Couric.
• Reliable Sources videos: Ducks, 60 Minutes, twitterstorms.
• Eddie Higgins Trio: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town  album
• Did Rachel skewer Alec?  Zurawik: CNN has no standards.
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet: turn the table, HuffPo recap.
• The Great Gildersleeve: Why the Chimes Rang.
• Factor video: Definitive Duck debate part one, part two.
• Your Buzz videos: Handshakes, South Africa, and twitter.
• David Ian and Acacia: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing   album

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Q&A: Guilfoyle and Beckel set their sites on Coop.
• Lean Forward: Wagner to 4pm.  The revolving door.
• Video: Red Eye wades into the Duck Dynasty debate.
• FNC New Year’s Eve expands from 90 min to 3.5 hours.
• Ross: 2013 was not a very good year for MSNBC.
• The Bob Newhart Show: His Busiest Season.
• Wilstein: Why Katie Couric is not going to CNN.
• Factor video: War on Christmas debate turns rowdy.
• The Nick Shurn Matter: part one, two, three, four, part five.

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• Only one cablenewser makes Variety influentials list.
• The Five video: Debating the Duck Dynasty dispute.
• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Somerby: Maddow and O’Donnell create a scandal.
• Video: Media repercussions of the Duck Dynasty flap.
• Union: MSNBCers afraid to address NBC ‘hypocrisy’.
• New Day sinking.  Crystal Lewis: The Christmas Song.
• Social media survey: fictional anchor bests real people.
• Video: Federal judge slaps down Obama’s ‘secret law’.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly on The View.  ICN: 2013 best/worst.
• The Nick Shurn Matter: pt one, pt two, pt three, part four.

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• Somerby: Maddow is playing her viewers for fools.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Saving Grace: Zucker renews Nancy, cancels others.
• Broadening the definition: Zucker wants Leno at CNN?
• F&F video: Obscure blogger guy gets another shout-out.
• Media Buzz has twice the viewers of Reliable Sources.
• Cablers dominate list of promising tv newsers [pdf].
• Wendy Williams video: Rachel Maddow (v/dorseyshaw).
• A turbulent cable news year.  Reese’s piece: Fox fogies.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg unsure of the war on Christmas.
• Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Christmas Tree Lot.
• YTJD The Nick Shurn Matter: part one, part two, part three.

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• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Megyn 1-2-3.
• Progressive blogger has praise for...Megyn Kelly!
• Every knock is a boost: Fox News dominated in 2013.
• Video: Maria Molina reveals her tat!  Weekend numbers.
• Imus video: Bret Baier on NSA spying, the budget, etc.
• CNN moves further from news.  CNBC bumper blunder.
• Factor video: Howard Kurtz on Ed Schultz’s union dollars.
• The Nick Shurn Matter: part one, part two.  Murdoch to HoF.

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• Fox News tops MSNBCNNHLN combined in 2013.
• The Five video: The biggest Pinocchios of 2013.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Bolling-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• CNBC hits 20-year low...and 2014 looks to be worse.
• Somerby: Rachel Maddow, the official party-line hack.
• Q&A: Jake Tapper. HLN new hires. Students’ snow job.
• What are you doing New Year’s Eve? Lis in, Megyn out.
• Video: Fox & Friends shout-out to some obscure blogger.
• Greta at Syrian refugee camp: part one, pt two, pt three.
• The Nick Shurn Matter: part one.  Stan Freberg: Yulenet.

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• Media Buzz videos: Mandela, John Boehner, Jana Winter.
• Reliable Sources videos: WH access, Santa, Jana Winter.
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet, turn the table.
• Barney Miller: The Christmas Story.  Taking the Hill.
• Kelly File videos: The Great Santa Hubbub pt one, pt two.
• Your Buzz videos: Glenn Greenwald, Bashir, and Snapchat.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• ‘Living Good’: Ed Schultz accuses critics of ‘class envy’.
• Video: Howard Kurtz on media fascination with Boehner.
• MSNBC claims first ever national show anchored by a vet?!
• Video: Emotions flow as Zoraida Sambolin signs off CNN.
• ICN: Chris Hayes’s shenanigans could cost him his job.
• Media Matters claims credit for Megyn’s primetime slot!
• 2013’s least substantive recap of cable news highlights.
• The Duke Red Matter part one, two, three, four, part five.
• Megyn update; more.  Friday: Behind the Obama Breakdown.

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• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: MSNBC’s ‘unhealthy obsession’ with FNC.
• Lea Gabrielle to FNC. Union turmoil engulfs MSNBC.
• Big money flows to Big Ed: Look for the union label.
• Video: O’Reilly exposes MSNBC part one, part two.
• WaPo profile: Megyn Kelly, ‘a good, decent person’.
• Red Eye video: Does Santa have to be a white man?
• Schwarz: Life was hell for Fox reporter Jana Winter.
• The Duke Red Matter pt one, pt two, pt three, part four.

Tags: ratings 2013, hayes, oreilly, megyn, redeye

• Your World video: Cheap shots over snap shots.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Lean Ageist? Cameraman sues NBC for discrimination.
• Is Weather on the move (via ICN)? Maddow moonlights.
• Video: O’Reilly rips dishonest Sharpton/MSNBC editing.
• How Juan Williams ended up as Mandela’s letter writer.
• Imus video: Juan Williams on handshake hype and more.
• Zucker punched: Don Lemon struggling; Upwave is down.
• YTJD: The Duke Red Matter part one, part two, part three.

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• The Five video: Shake hands with the devil?
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Reliable Sources ratings down; Media Buzz up.
• Mirror Q&A: David Shuster.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Megyn with Jay Leno part one, part two.
• Video: Judge Napolitano hails Jana Winter ruling.
• Shield standoff: Top NY court rules in Fox’s favor.
• Is Melissa Harris-Perry stonewallling Politico?
• ICN: Is it live, or is it...an embarrassing CNN oops?
• YTJD: The Duke Red Matter part one, part two.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on bias left and right.

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• Zucker Punched: Piers plummets, Coop hits new low.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Zucker Play: Natasha Curry, Carlos Diazare out at HLN.
• Cooke: The bizarro alternate universe of MSNBC. More.
• Trotter: Brian Lewis gets millions in FNC severance deal.
• Imus video: FBN’s Kennedy previews The Independents.
• Lean Forward: Cycle host calls Don Lemon a ‘white leader’.
• Video: Ten years of Fox News Sunday.  Spurlock awarded.
• Q&A: Brian Kilmeade. YTJD: The Duke Red Matter part one.
• Grinberg: MSNBC flouts journalistic standards...and Fox bad.

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• Media Buzz videos: Bashir, Greenwald, and drones.
• Reliable Sources: Bashir, the blame game, and more.
• Your Buzz videos: Twitter fakes; a surfeit of selfies.
• Sunday talk: HuffPo recap.  Global Lessons on Guns.
• Video: Dec 7 1941...the first casualties were Japanese.

Tags: audio

• The Five video: Bob’s last Christmas light show.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: How come Martin Bashir got so little coverage?
• Joe Concha: MSNBC is not the place for breaking news.
• Kurtz: How Chris Matthews rolled over for Barack Obama.
• Towery: Don’t blame Zucker for CNN’s precarious position.
• Kelly File video: Juan Williams reflects on Nelson Mandela.
• Q&A: Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday; CNN’s Brian Stelter.
• Walker: Princess Diana made him, Sarah Palin destroyed him.
• Carter: Does corporate silence signify settlement in the works?

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• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
• Somerby: The larger meaning of MSNBC and Bashir.
• Robins: Zucker walks a tightrope to transform CNN.
• Ross: Blurring fact and fiction regarding Jeff Zucker.
• Some CNN talent resist relocation to The Big Apple?
• Greenfield: Hello CNN reality shows; goodbye news.
• Chris Wallace: Ten years of Fox News Sunday (v/ICN).
• Today’s non-sequitur.  Another credentials controversy.
• Fox & Friends video: Sarah Palin.  Imus video: Mike Baker.
• Wemple: Good riddance to Bashir’s tendentious mediocrity.

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• Video: Neil Cavuto takes issue with The War on Fox.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Megyn 1-2-3.
• Bashir is not a first offender, was suspended by ABC!
• Zurawik: Griffin responsible for MSNBC’s hateful talk.
• MSNBC’s Bashir ‘resigns’.  More.  Shuster wonders...
• Wemple: Networks pounced on Rush, ignored Bashir.
• Claim: FBN’s Maria Bartiromo hire is ruffling feathers.
• Extreme makeover HLN edition; Zoraida exits CNN.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
• Q&A: Sally Kohn on leaving FNC for free agentville.
• A 21st Century Wonder Woman?  Weekend numbers.
• Somerby: Rachel Maddow’s long, strange monologue.
• Atkinson: Ad buyers eager for Zucker to shake up CNN.
• Kelly File video: Feds to pay millions based on guesstimates.

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• Video: Cavuto debate over gas taxes turns rowdy.
• Friday’s numbers: The Five-O’Reilly-McKelway 1-2-3.
• From MTV to FBN: Kennedy to host economics series.
• Steinberg: Megyn Kelly juggernaut buries Maddow, Piers.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on pending legal challenges.
• Zucker: CNN to get ‘attitude’, its own ‘take’ on the news.
• FTV: CNN becoming ‘Food Network with tattoos’.  More.
• Thursday’s numbers: Fox & Friends-Bill O-McKelway 1-2-3.
• A house is not a home in the Hamptons.  Biznets slump.
• Chris Matthews snags interview with Obama. Flashback.
• Imus video: Martha MacCallum gets personal.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on sensitivity run amok.
• ICN: The Chris Cuomo controversy didn’t need to happen.

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• The Five video: Obamacare and public/private standards.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Byers: Is Martin Bashir’s ‘vacation’ really a ‘suspension’?
• Zucker play: Bold new CNN concept...a roundtable show!
• Video: Media coverage of healthcare.gov tech troubles.
• Chris Cuomo interviews brother Andrew!  Greta: no prob.
• Imus video: O’Reilly on O’care, Iran etc part one, part two.
• Will major booking for Megyn make Maddow miffed at NBC?
• Q&A: Sandra Smith (v/TVN), Lou Dobbs. Burnett’s baby boy.
• CNN’s ‘worst year ever’ brings a call for...hotter women?!
• Media Buzz videos: Media miscreants, Kirsten’s conversion.

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