Feb 2014
Friday Links and Open Thread
02/28/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bream-Baier 1-2-3.
- Real Story video: Andy Levy joins the manel debate.
- Kurtz: Colbert smeared me and I won’t stand for it!
- Somerby: Nothing in Maddow’s latest is exactly legit.
- HuffPo: Mika’s dad finally on Morning Joe! Flashback.
- Insider video: Hannity at Del Frisco’s. CNN’s fish story.
- New Hasselbeck feature debuts with Darrell Wallace Jr.
- Video: Harris Faulkner profiles Virginia Gov Doug Wilder.
- Epstein: How to fix Ronan Farrow Daily. Page Six: proof!
- Tso: Do ‘native’ models threaten integrity of journalism?
- Factor video: Bill questions Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett.
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Thursday Links and Open Thread
02/27/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Things are looking Rosie at CNN...or are they? And more.
- Video Q&A: Greta with Janice Dean on living with MS, etc.
- Somerby: More Maddow false facts, and some from Greta?
- Maria Bartiromo recalls Joey Ramone. Fareed reconsidered.
- Olby fesses up. Brian Schweitzer joins MSNBC. Flashback.
- I’ll take Fox News for $200, Alex. Serious is as serious does.
- Friedman: This is going to end in tears. CNN app updates.
- Salon: Will you fall for his dreamy blue eyes? Mr Humility.
- Zucker play: CNN’s Chicagoland, a ‘paean to Rahm Emanuel’.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
02/26/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Uh-oh: Ronan ratings even lower than on day one.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Zucker play: CNN...going to pot, or going to seed?
- If reporters don’t sign, can’t cover Ronan event! More.
- February program ranker: Fox News holds top 13 slots.
- Profile: Joy-Ann Reid. Mika Brzezinski in Washington.
- Q&A: Maria Bartiromo, Hannity, Hasselbeck, Joy Reid.
- Wemple: Could it be Maddow really is calling the shots?
- Could the next Zucker punch knock out Erin’s OutFront?
- Kelner: America was bound to tire of Morgan’s big mouth.
- Grove: Guess who’s willing to take Piers’s spot? Larry King!
- Video: Dem candidate wants government control of Fox News.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
02/25/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Ronan debut: MSNBC’s smallest audience of the day!
- The Reid Report down 63%; Varney topped Bartiromo.
- February numbers: FNC ratings grow, CNN collapses.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Janice Dean: I have MS...my life with multiple sclerosis.
- Miles O’Brien resurfaces. Soledad teams with Cover Girl.
- Zucker play: CNN skeds Sundance reality show in prime.
- Wemple: Bill persistent with Panetta, CNN with Nugent.
- Somerby: Rachel Maddoworama part deux...tv or not tv?
- Faux Bieber protest hoaxes cablers. Weekend numbers.
- Red Eye video: Why did CNN cancel Piers Morgan Live?
- D’Addario: CNN, post-Piers. Ed Henry in Springfield, MA.
- Zucker punches: Secret Kaplan meeting; purging dissent?
- Rothstein: 20 people to replace Piers. Swift: Eight people.
- Morabito: CNN scrambling to fill Piers-less 9:00 pm block.
- Kurtz: Piers Morgan’s failure caused by self-inflicted wounds.
- La Roche: Bartiromo debut broke news. Lopez: A slow start.
- Crugnale: Farrow wonked it up. Starr: Low-key and generic.
- Franich: Baby’s First Talk Show debuts...all airbrush, no body.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on US disinterest in foreign news.
Monday Links and Open Thread
02/24/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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?
'This Is the Greatest Lie of My Lifetime'
02/23/14 21:25 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! The Political Insiders on jobs, Kiev, Susan Rice, and The Big Lie:
From The Fox Report, February 23 2014
Weekend Links and Open Thread
02/22/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Breaking...Report: Piers Morgan to quit CNN show!
- Media Buzz: Race, House of Cards, Maria Bartiromo.
- Reliable Sources: Ted Nugent, climate, Donald Trump.
- Grover: FBN seeks ratings boost with Maria Bartiromo.
- The travels of Anna. CNN’s Sandy Kenyon resurfaces.
- CNN: There’s only one side to climate change story.
- MSNBC and FBN prep revamped dayside schedules.
- Q&A: Andrea Mitchell, Hasselbeck, Maria Bartiromo.
- Sunday talk: turn the table. Venezuela: CNN can stay.
- Comcast merger challenged on grounds of ‘monopsony’.
- Your Buzz videos: Covering Hillary, Obamacare, and more.
Friday Links and Open Thread
02/21/14 22:18 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Greta 1-2-3.
- Video: Howard Kurtz on an ‘insidious’ FCC proposal.
- CNN’s next obsession? Hannity in fund-raising flap.
- Video: Ronan Farrow with Jon Stewart (via HuffPost).
- Lean Forward hosts leaned on to oppose merger deal.
- Harris Faulker: Black history on Wall Street; the video.
- Venezuela threatens to expel CNN...and then they do it.
- On the Record video: Is the FCC chilling press freedom?
Thursday Links and Open Thread
02/20/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
- Kissell: In the end, will guns kill Piers Morgan Live?
- Zucker punched: CNN and Piers at near-record lows.
- Video Q&A: Kirsten Powers at Fox News (v/Mediaite).
- Zucker play: Can the Oscars save CNN? Blitzer: true.
- Grove: CNN the, straight news network? Not any more!
- Somerby: O’Donnell levels ugly, patently bogus charge.
- Judge Nap video: If the FCC shows up, throw them out!
- Dem candidate: Government should regulate Fox News!
- MSNBC’s signature series to focus on Bergen County, NJ.
- The cable news anchor who says: ‘I try not to lean’. Honors.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
02/19/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
- Meet Bill. Guess who’s coming to New Hampshire?
- Zucker play: HLN to sked game shows, viral videos!
- HLN’s Hecht wants a ‘Daily Show-esque’ program.
- CNN burned again by iReport. Ed Schultz: half-true.
- Ajam docs. Soledad from space. Weekend numbers.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on late-night tv politics.
- Greta: What I meant by that. Scott Brown exits FNC? Nope!
- Video: O’Reilly with Jimmy Kimmel pt one, pt two, pt three.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
02/18/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: A spill breaks up The Five in convo on ignorance.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-McKelway 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Greta ‘not sure’ she would’ve re-upped at 10pm.
- Geraldo finally reveals his ‘new show’. Morning weather.
- Moonlighting: Joe Kernan, Sean Hannity, Candy Crowley.
- Video: VW vote debate resorts to invoking Hitler and Nazis!
- Shareholder class action suit unlikely to derail Comcast deal.
'It Was Wrong and It Was Arrogant'
02/17/14 23:30 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Gregg Jarrett explains the Dunn verdict and his spat with Don Lemon:
From The Kelly File, February 17 2014
Monday Links and Open Thread
02/17/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: What House of Cards gets wrong.
- Gregg Jarrett: Don Lemon is ‘the Al Sharpton of CNN’.
- Somerby: New Kornacki report ‘darn close’ to a lie.
- Harris-Perry family adopts baby girl. Q&A: Soledad.
- Video: Controversy swirls around Bode Miller interview.
- CNN’s Cuomo interviews Zimmerman; backlash ensues.
- Hot & Not: Jarrett, Lemon, Smerconish, CNN, HLN, etc.
- Don Lemon responds to Jarrett zings; Gregg returns fire.
'They Will Not Stand Up on Anything'
02/16/14 20:59 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! The Political Insiders on IRS corruption, executive overreach, and more:
From The Fox Report, February 16 2014
Weekend Links and Open Thread
02/15/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Uh oh: Gregg Jarrett blasts Don Lemon over Dunn rant.
- Media Buzz videos: Hillary papers, Sochi, O’Care delays.
- Reliable Sources: Hillary, Christie, Comcast, Michael Sam.
- FBN’s Maria Bartiromo lining up some ‘big interviews’.
- Frivolous lawsuit over FNC suicide airing is dismissed.
- Claim: CNN ‘likely’ to suspend Piers Morgan? Or not?
- Juliet Huddy explains: ‘I scared him’. Sunday talkers.
- F&F video: Joanne Nosuchinsky on the Barbie brouhaha.
- Hogue: Fox & Friends goes where New Day fears to tread.
- Your Buzz videos: Media ADD, Bill O’Reilly, and Jay Leno.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on ginned-up controversies.
Friday Links and Open Thread
02/14/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Despite nasty eye condition, Shannon Bream carries on.
- Comcast hires attorneys in prep for antitrust actions.
- CNBC scoops Comcast merger story...or did they?
- Piers Morgan questioned and advised of his rights.
- Linkins: Don’t be fooled, Joe will not run for President.
- Video: Harris Faulkner profiles Olympian Claressa Shields.
- Friday special: A Bush Family Album. Stirewalt: half-true.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
02/13/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Somerby: Dishonest Maddow trumps pitiful Matthews.
- Live from the Fox News Deck, 10pm weather with Shep.
- Denial? What denial? Scarborough won’t rule out 2016 run.
- Zucker punch: Is CNN about to be bought out by CBS?
- Lori Rothman moving to Imus, will deliver biz updates.
- Imus video: Bret Baier talks Hillary, Rand, Christie etc.
- The doctor is in. Googling Soledad. What’s in a name?
- Kelly File video: Jonathan Turley on executive expansion.
- Comcast deal will face tough regulatory scrutiny. Or will it?
- Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable; oppo reax. King’s zings.
- Videos: Joe & Mika on The View; The Rev w/Wendy Williams.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
02/12/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: When does ‘crazy’ get a pass?
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
- Fox Business gets on board the documentary bandwagon.
- Somerby: ‘Weird reporting’ says Maddow...about Maddow?!
- An elaborate Ronan PR stunt?! Robin Meade: How I work.
- As CNN Latino closes down, Fox News Latino grows.
- Video: Scarborough denies he wants to run for President.
- Makeover at MSNBC. Melber: Half-true. Zucker’s night out
- Kelly File video: Andrew McCarthy on executive wiggle room.
- Coop’s oops: F-bomb drops on taped marathon trial coverage!
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
02/11/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Why the Obamacare delays?
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
- Sean Hannity: a big tipper. Weekend numbers.
- Imus video: Shepard Smith on Christie, Olympics, etc.
- NBC Insider: Joe Scarborough 2016 is not a joke. More.
- Video: Judge Napolitano on the limits to executive action.
- Carl Bernstein to CNN. Alino Cho resurfaces. Candy: true.
Monday Links and Open Thread
02/10/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: What do The Hillary Papers reveal?
- With Megyn partly absent, Maddow, Matthews score.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Wallace-The Five 1-2-3.
- CNBC has a hit...reruns! ICN: Unhealthy Zucker play.
- Is Joe Scarborough harboring delusions of adequacy?
- Mika B runs into O’Reilly, Joe decrees Bill was ‘rude’.
- Sean Hannity’s crib on the market. Soledad speaks.
- Zucker punched: Another new low for New Day.
- Q&A: Al Sharpton [pdf]. Q&A: Jake Tapper (via TVN).
- Smerconish to CNN weekends. HLN makeover; more.
- Imus video: Laura Ingraham talks Olympics, O’Reilly etc.
- Hot & Not: Keilar, Kosinski, Kneale, Bartiromo, Melber, etc.
'It Is Appeasement of the First Order'
02/09/14 20:44 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! The Political Insiders on Iran, Syria, Holder, jobs, and more:
From The Fox Report, February 9 2014
Weekend Links and Open Thread
02/08/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- MediaBuzz videos: Obama vs Fox, misogyny, Leno.
- Reliable Sources: Rand Paul, Christie, Dylan Farrow.
- Joe Concha: MSNBC should hire...Ann Coulter?!
- The 2013 Gutty Awards. Sunday talkers: turn the table.
- Sunday specials: Greta in Iraq; Every Day in Cambodia.
- Video: Roy Eaton, the Jackie Robinson of the Mad Men era.
- Bauder: Loose lips give ammunition to MSNBC foes (v/ICN).
- Your Buzz videos: Christie, Lewinsky, Hillary, balcony brawl.
Friday Links and Open Thread
02/07/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Wemple: The news value of O’Reilly’s Obama Q&A.
- Rosen’s leaker pleads; DoJ wiretapper unpunished.
- Berman & Pereira show’s twittery name: @ThisHour.
- Michelle Kosinski to CNN. AC360 Later Zuckered.
- Fox & Friends video: John Harbaugh in Afghanistan.
- Hollywood to film Tapper’s Outpost. FBN departures.
- Video: Media shift narrative on CBO Obamacare report.
- Russian media claim CNN insulted World War II veterans.
- Imus video: Mike Baker on Sochi security. Q&A: Joy Reid.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
02/06/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Which Five co-host has keys to Hannity’s house?
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bream 1-2-3.
- James Carville joins Fox News. Pelosi ducking O’Reilly.
- Hannity makes good on losing bet, will pay off in person.
- Somerby: Maddow’s disgrace. Rothstein: Why I like Piers.
- Q&A: Joy Reid. CNN wins first round in caption court case.
- Laurie Dhue resurfaces: How God and faith saved my life.
- Factor videos: O’Reilly responds to Jon Stewart, Chris Hayes.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
02/05/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Is Obamacare a disincentive to work?
- Profile: Greg Gutfeld on Red Eye, The Daily Show, etc
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Shannon Bream 1-2-3.
- Zucker punch: CNN Latino closing up shop.
- Video: Out...The Ronan Show. In...Ronan Farrow Daily.
- Opening Bell 2/24 alters FBN sked; Bartiromo on tonight.
- Jones: Can Zucker save New Day? Gretch: Mostly false.
- Q&A: Richard Grenell. CNN beats Fox...in poundage.
- MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart has something on his mind.
- Woolf rips Ronan Farrow. Brianna Keilar to cover Hillary.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
02/04/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Greta 1-2-3.
- O’Reilly Factor snags 4.2 million; MSNBC strong in demos.
- Somerby: MSNBC stages worst night ever. Andrea: Half-true.
- Video: Maria Bartiromo’s first FBN appearance (v/TVNewser).
- Fox News Channel #1 in all basic cable. Weekend numbers.
- Zucker play: CNN unveils its exciting new overnight line-up.
- A regular Jo: Nosuchinsky named Red Eye panelist: video.
- Simpson: Is Ronan Farrow hyping his own intellectualism?
- Fox & Friends video: Bill O’Reilly responds to attacks on Fox.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg on Q&A coverage. Wemple: Aces!
- Rothstein: MSNBC and Joe still stonewalling ethics questions.
Monday Links and Open Thread
02/03/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Catherine Herridge on a new Benghazi twist.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Somerby: Ignorant MoJo team doesn’t know basic facts.
- Zucker punch: Showbiz Tonight cancelled; A.J. stays.
- Video: What did the O’Reilly/Obama Q&A accomplish?
- Tomasky: O&O clash a ‘super snore’. Hillary zings Fox.
- Video: O’Reilly on his Obama Q&A, previews Round Two.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly’s ten minutes with President Obama.
- Hot & Not: Reid, Costello, King, O’Reilly, Kurtz, Carlson, etc.
'The President Was Not Telling the Truth'
02/02/14 21:12 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! The Political Insiders on O’Reilly’s POTUS interview, the Keystone pipeline, and more:
From The Fox Report, February 2 2014
Weekend Links and Open Thread
02/01/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Media Buzz videos: Christie, Erin Andrews, Michael Strahan.
- Reliable Sources: Christie, MSNBC tweet flap, Dylan Farrow.
- Media Buzz video: Howard Kurtz quotes obscure blogger.
- CNN’s Leno special omits Zucker role in Conan debacle.
- Steinberg: A ratings challenge looms for Ronan Farrow.
- Sunday talkers: turn the table. Two weeks and waiting.
- John Carney leaves CNBC. Bolton bolts Bloomberg for FBN.
- Did tinkering with the format give Red Eye a ratings bump?
- Your Buzz videos: Christie, the race card, Richard Sherman.
- Kelly File video: Slippery verbiage blurs Christie allegations.