• Zurawik: CNN debt coverage fine except for their cheerleading.
• Video: Reliable Sources on debt debate and the tea party.
• Kiran says goodbye: video.  Juan’s victory lap.
• Video: News Watch on debt ceiling, hiring Al Sharpton.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Cablers’ big weekend: FNC, CNN, MSNBC.  Today’s outrage!

• Thursday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Bret 1-2-3.
• News Watch ‘behind the breaks’ online videos removed.
• Bill O’Reilly: murder suspect.  Mike Schneider resurfaces.
• Video: The Insider profiles Harris Faulkner.  Lou’s 100th.
• Sharpton: conflict of interest charges.  Piers’ pesky past.
• Video: Let’s get physical!  Current: Olbermann in, CEO out.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: Bias Bash on Ed Henry, Media Matters, and more.
• Zurawik: White House looking to pick a fight.  Greta: Give it a rest.
• Hiring Sharpton: payback for lobbying, or maybe affirmative action?
• Today’s cablenews lawsuit.  Rick Sanchez resurfaces. 
• MSNBC contributor: Corporate America literally rapes people.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Ed Henry suddenly the target of Jay Carney attacks.
• Breaking: Joe Scarborough now a ‘veteran journalist’! (via ICN)
• Video: Bias Bash on the debt ceiling.  In praise of Greg.
• Goode news at CNBC.  Craig Melvin to (MS)NBC.
• Q&A: Juan Williams. Video: Williams w/Imus part one, part two.
• Today’s slander suit, MSNBC response.  Today’s firing demand.
• Does a BBC audio clip implicate Piers in hacking...or not?
• FNC: no countdown clock for you!  The future of CNN speaks.

Tags: ratings 2011, redeye, piers, cooper, mojo

• Monday’s numbers: Speeches(FNC)-Hannity-O’Reilly 1-2-3.
• FNC tops for Obama address.  Weekend numbers.
• Uh oh! Will ‘smoking gun’ tape put Piers in a pickle?
• Megyn Kelly returns to America Live: August 8 (via ICN).
• Video: Juan Williams is no longer Muzzled.
• Q&A: CNN’s Mark Whitaker (via TVN).  Erin’s CNN debut.
• That didn’t last long: Gawker lawsuit to be dismissed?
• Zurawik: Instead of context and analysis, CNN gives us Piers Morgan.

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• Friday’s numbers: Harris-Laura-Wallace 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Ed Henry solid in Fox News debut.
• Athena Jones to CNN.  Another pointless list.
• Bias Bash video: Norway terror and debt ceilings.
• Stasi: Sharpton made to order for tv, Uygur not.
• Hot & Not: Uygur, News Corp, etc.  Gasparino replies.
• Hampp: Will CNN’s new primetime attract viewers?
• Q&A: Phil Griffin, Larry King.  Gawker’s selective curiosity.
• Juliet Huddy: Always a Fox, but is she still a Friend?

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• Zurawik: The sad, lost children of MSNBC.
• Video: Cenk Uygur on Reliable Sources.
• McWhorter: MSNBC is about to make a big mistake.
• Video: Fox News Watch on headaches and hacking.
• Catherine Herridge and yoga.  Kitty Pilgrim resurfaces.
• Rutten: Who’s a threat to the Republic? Nancy Grace!
• Uygur hints of ‘exciting news’ coming.  Piers embroiled?
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet.  CNBC’s green studio.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• First guest on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor: Bill O’Reilly!
• Impartial MSNBC anchor: Bachmann would extinguish gays.
• ICN: MSNBC’s ‘insider’ problem.  Tamron’s stalker.
• Greta: I’ve never seen anything at FNC like Uygur describes.
• Was Uygur his own worst enemy? Video: Cenk with Olby.
• Juan Williams’s story.  New Piers problems?  Q&A: Tony Maddox.

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• Show me the Huddy: J$P hears Juliet will co-host Sat/Sun F&F.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• MSNBC signs newest contributor: former Obama press aide.
• Greta: Politico revelation raises troublesome issues.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Imus on hacking, Bachmann pt one, pt two.
• TheDC: The ’N’ in MSNBC doesn’t stand for ‘news’.
• New line of attack: People on Fox News have ‘strange faces’!
• Uygur sez the White House got him fired.  WH denies.  ICN: What is MSNBC up to?  Uygur speaks, and raises more questions.  MSNBC: Uygur claims ‘baseless’.

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• MSNBC dumps Cenk Uygur. Flashback.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Household coverage: CNN 87%, FNC 86%, MSNBC 83%.
• Q&A: Charlie Gasparino and the Cowboys [pdf].
• Video: Bias Bash critiques Murdoch testimony coverage.
• Exposed! News Corp’s secret political agenda.
• Singer Urungus claims he’s been banned from Red Eye.

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• Geraldo: It was painful seeing Rupert Murdoch assaulted.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• The latest from CNN’s premier journalist.  Weekend numbers.
• FNC aired more of the hearing, MSNBC least.  FNC tops poll.
• Video: Bias Bash on media treatment of GOP tactics.
• Assault interrupts testimony.  Piers breaks his silence.
• Sharpton speculation continues to swirl.  CNBC’s baby boom.

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• Friday’s numbers: Laura-Luntz-Baier 1-2-3.  Jenna’s back.
• Dershowitz denounces Cramer.  Cablers sked testimony.
• Audio: White House aide apologizes to Bret Baier.
• CNN streams simulcast.  Chris Wallace a ‘school marm’?
• Famous woman-beater responds to Factor ’hate’ segment.
• Hot & Not: Kiran, Bashir, Sorkin, Gutfeld, The Five, etc.

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• Video: Reliable Sources on debt, NotW. Greta takes issue.
• Video: Fox News Watch on the NotW hacking scandal.
• A ‘change’ at MSNBC: replace Uygur with Sharpton? More.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet.  Casey released.
• CNN pounding one hacking scandal, ignoring the other.

Tags: greta, turks, piers

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Shuster: ready for his close-up.  NYT’s Sorkin new CNBC anchor.
• CNN covers massive grassroots protest.  Feist’s 2012 strategy.
• Zurawik: Emails about FNC show White House willingness to lie.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on WH emails, bias, and politicians’ lies.
• Q&A: Phil Griffin (v/ICN).  FNC covers hack, but CNN mum on Morgan.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3. Five rebounds.
• Documents expose WH anti-FNC policy; more.  Soledad’s foundation.
• FBI investigation of News Corp immediately leaks to press.
• Video: Chris Wallace talks Bachmann, debt ceiling with Don Imus.
• Wedeman caught in the crossfire.  Q&A: Olbermann in the NY Post!
• CNN escorts Kiran Chetry out the door.  But who’s next?  Analysis.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Reuters retracts story promoted by Fox haters. ‘Whopper’.
• VIdeo: Bias Bash on media non-coverage of Syria.
• Water breaks at CNBC.  Piers vs Piers.
• Video Q&A: Shep in AZ.  Another very Casey weekend.
• CNN cheap shots Fox, but what about Piers Morgan?
• Video: Laura Ingraham with Don Imus part one, part two.

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• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. The Five: 1.2M.
• CNBC sticks up for...Rupert Murdoch?!? Weekend numbers.
• Video: Bias Bash on trouble in Afghanistan, etc.
• VIdeo Q&A: Margaret Brennan of Bloomberg.  D-Rat: What I read.
• Axelrod praises Juan Williams book.  Alan still gets hate mail.
• The Five reax... Mobius: fun; Fox Files: scattered; Hayride: has potential.

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• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Bias Bash on Pakistan, Iraq, leaks, etc.
• Profile: Greg Gutfeld previews The Five.  Q&A: Jenna Lee.
• Roger Ailes pulls a fast one on Juan Williams.
• Obama pollster to double as CNN contributor.
• Hot & Not: CNN, Quintanilla, Casey Anthony, etc.
• Greta: How to cover a criminal trial, and how to watch one.

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• VIdeo: Reliable Sources on Casey Anthony, debt coverage.
• The most polarizing cable news host?  CNN’s premier journalist?
• Video: Fox News Watch on Casey coverage, CNN woes.
• Updated video: Geraldo offers Bernard Goldberg a bloody nose.
• Media Matters, HuffPo party with MSNBC.  Changes at CNBC.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.  3000 homers!

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Grace 1-2-3.
• Q&A: Piers, Jessica Yellin, John Zarella.  Profile: Charlie Gasparino.
• Berr: CNN needs a partner.  Emmy-winner Larry King’s Potter show.
• O’Reilly gets bold and fresh with Carville.  HLN’s very Casey weekend.

Tags: ratings 2011, piers, king, oreilly

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Dr Drew-Grace 1-2-3.
• Nancy Grace fires back at her critics.
• Bias Bash video: Cameras in court, Bachmann, etc.
• Six theories on why CNN sacked Spitzer.
• Greta: Should TVNewser sell ads to media it covers? More.
• Video: Martha MacCallum w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Hagey: All the reasons FNC is wrong and Brock is right.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Grace-HLNSpecRpt 1-2-3.
• MSNBC nixes Matthews cameo in Sorkin pilot.
• Zurawik: Spitzer sign-off evokes shades of Richard Nixon.
• Found: person who will miss ‘intelligent, prescient’ Spitzer.

Tags: ratings 2011, spitzer, greta, mediamatters, matthews

• Monday’s numbers: HLNSpecRpt-HLNNews-Grace 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Revised CNN lineup impressive.  ICN: A losing gamble?
• CNN dumps Spitzer, adds Burnett, moves Coop to 8:00 pm.
• Reese’s piece: HLN surge is the triumph of sleaze.
• VIdeo: A horrified Shep reacts to the tragedy of Caylee Anthony.
• Video: Bias Bash on media malpractice covering legal cases.
• Video: Peter Johnson Jr rips ‘vigilante host’ Nancy Grace.
• Grace snags 2.8M, HLN peaks at 5.2M viewers.  CNBC’s scoop.
• Q&A: Velez-Mitchell, Nancy Grace, Ken Jautz.  Weekend numbers.
• What took Twitter so long to deal with the Fox account hack?
• Friedman: Another portrait to hang on MSNBC’s Wall of Shame.
• Jamie Colby to go on jury duty...with Jackie Mason!
• Video: Bernard Goldberg excoriates the media’s Anthony frenzy.

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• Say what? MSNBC issues a ‘DNC press release’?!?
• Friday’s numbers: HLNSpecRpt-Grace-Baier 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Nancy Grace’s phony indignation a ratings ploy.
• Flint: HLN about to undergo withdrawal symptoms.
• Hemmer and MacCallum fill Beck 5:00 pm slot today.
• In second week, Countdown 2.0 sinks below 100k.
• Goldberg: Double standards at MSNBC?
• Rosen: CNN to forgo ‘nonpartisan’ coverage? (via TVN)
• Video: Bob Beckel talks w/Don Imus about The Five.
• Video: Juan Williams on Media Matters ‘ruining lives’.
• F-bombs fly in cable trial coverage.  Jenna and groom.
• The Secret Service joins the twitter hunt.  CNN in NOLA.

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• Symbiotic schoolyard reporting?  Fox twitter hack resolved.
• Hot & Not: Bolling, Yellin, The Five, Halperin, etc.
• Video: Reliable Sources on DSK and Halperin/Bachmann.
• Schoen & Miller: (MS)NBC too easily intimidated by White House.
• CNN rejects ‘fair and balanced’.  Q&A: Robin Meade.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• HLN can’t quit Casey.  Cost of Freedom pre-empted for non-trial.
• Freedom Watch video: Things to ponder on the fourth of July.

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• Thursday’s numbers: Ingraham-Beck-Grace 1-2-3.
• Juan Williams: Despicable Media Matters has targeted me.
• Q&A: Liz Claman on a few of her favorite places [pdf].
• Joe & Mika boast that their guest list is 10-1 Democrats.
• Folkenflik: CNN’s Whitaker seeks winning formula.
• Stasi: MSNBC’s high-school ‘suspensions’ rarely last long.
• Pareene: This would be a great time for MSNBC to fire Halperin!
• Zurawik: Beck finale empty and pathetic.  CNN preps coal special.

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