• Tuesday numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.  FNC growth.
• CNN schedules more reality shows.  Stelter wants a new beat?
• FTV: Al-Jaz America fails the Amtrak test.  Fox News...on CNN!
• F&F video: Amtrak passenger Jeremy Wladis tells survival story.
• Grenell: Kirsten Powers’s Silencing spurs ‘unhinged’ reactions.
• With strong Pew results, FNC online getting extreme makeover.
• Westhoven: Chris Hayes takes police training.  Q&A: Jim Morelli.
• Rothstein: Trial Judge smacks down Ed Schultz.  Seshadri to CNN.
• Wemple: Does the President watch Fox News ‘on a regular basis’?

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, hayes, schultz

• Friday’s numbers: O’Laura-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• FBN changes: Bartiromo to mornings, Cavuto to noon, more.
• In wake of Fox News blackout DishNet loses 134K subs; more.
• Video: Three GOP hopefuls brave the Sunday morning shows.
• Kurtz: Salon waging war against Fox News...but there’s a catch.
• Q&A: Kirsten Powers discusses The Silencing, more.  Q&A: Mika B.
• AJAm exec to ‘bring the team together’.  Ainsley: keeping the faith.
• Today’s ‘death of cable news’ harangue.   Thomas Roberts honored.
• Wallace zings The White House.  There’s no getting rid of Ali Velshi.

Tags: ratings 2015, mojo, friends

• Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Joyella: Bob Beckel in treatment for prescription drug addiction.
• Video: MSNBC host protects mayor from Fox News questions.
• TCG: MSNBC uses truther Touré as a breaking news reporter?!
• Fox ad chief: We already beat CNN, now on to USA and ESPN.
• Janice Dean, Shannon Bream at MS Women on the Move event.
• Joyella: FNC dominates online.  Wemple: CNN wants a recount.
• Amanpour to UNESCO.  Lara Baldesarra, Erin McPike exit CNN.
• F&F video: Judge Napolitano on new report Gray injured himself.
• CNNC: Cuomo explains himself, smears blogger who broke story.
• Cuomo responds: ‘It’s out of context BS’, then deletes response.
• CNN anchor says of police: ‘Be careful; you know how they are’.
• Wemple: Brooke Baldwin apology shows how its done.  Take two.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, judgenap

• Media Buzz videos: Clinton Cash, Bruce Jenner, Hillary silence.
• Reliable Sources: Brian Williams, Bruce Jenner, Brian Williams.
• Zurawik: CNN ignored news to air empty-headed narcissism.
• Videos: No dinner for Tucker Carlson; The Jamie Colby story.
• Celebrity chef to air backwards episode.  Lemon: Me, Meee!
• SPJ honors cablers.  Bartiromo goes to Milken.  Sunday talkers.
• Your Buzz videos: Britt, Hillary, Gyro, burrito, Mika, Hillary, Marco.

Tags: friends, oreilly, lemon, mojo

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Forget NatGeo, Killing Patton may be headed to theaters.
• Kissell: Legends & Lies gives FNC a Sunday night bump.
• Hogue: Elizabeth Prann is back...but still ‘unlisted’.
• Kelly File video: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
• Fox & Friends video: Road Trip...Anna goes to Clown College.
• Concha: Is there nothing Joe S & Mika B can’t get away with?
• Concha: MSNBC makes smart move in promoting Ari Melber.
• Another Dem opinionizer becomes an MSNBC ‘correspondent’.
• TCG: The lowdown on The Rundown.  CNN goes to pot...again.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, megyn, friends, mojo

• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Bret Baier-O’Bolling 1-2-3.
• Profiles: Steve and Peter Doocy’s roots in Bergen County.
• Video: Derangement syndrome in media coverage of Hillary?
• TCG: Roger rolls the dice; more.  CNNC: Zucker takes his time.
• MSNBCNN reporters attend Hillary camp’s off-the-record dinner.

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• Media Buzz videos: Hillary’s launch, Rand’s style, shots fired.
• Reliable Sources: Hillary vs media, more Hillary, and Hill’s Bill.
• Legends & Lies dispels myths, hyperbole about the Old West.
• Your Buzz videos: Stephanopoulos, Noah, Warren, Menendez.
• Q1 2015 ratings via the theory of relativity: MSNBC, CNN, FNC.
• Mr Independent.  The world leader in...emojis?  Sunday talkers.
• Pope Francis, the Church, and Carol Costello.  Hillary and The Rev.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Bolling-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• Fox News may move to the World Trade Center (v/TVN).
• Lean Forward: Scott family asks The Rev to stay away.
• Fox & Friends, Bret Baier beat NBC/CBS in major markets!
• Inside FNC’s Legends & Lies.  Chris Wallace, Mr Sunday.
• Greta: My questions for Hillary Clinton, and a disclosure.
• Brooke Baldwin bounce leads to prime time opportunity?
• Imus video: Bret Baier.  DC Journal video: Tucker Carlson.
• Gay: Ten reasons why Brian Williams should go to...MSNBC?!
• Q&A: Mika Brzezinski; Mike Rowe; Josh Lipton at CNBC’s SF digs.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, baier, oreilly, greta, mojo

• Friday’s numbers: Killing Jesus-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• New Day gets a new look.  Will DishNet dump Weather?
• Video: Is Rolling Stone UVa retraction too little, too late?
• MSNBC facing huge overhaul, with exec Griffin vulnerable.
• Q&A: Gerri Willis.  Video: Anna gets dunked on opening day.
• Timely: CNN puff piece about Iran.  Jim Boulden out at CNN.
• Greta: Good for Chris Wallace!  The Circuit does Formula One.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, greta

• Media Buzz videos: RFRA, Weinstein’s war, Gutfeld on Noah.
• Reliable Sources: Rolling Stone, anti-Christian bias, NY Times.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Summer may be short at HLN.  Chris Cuomo to primetime?
• Wemple: Deja vu from Joe S.  Judith Miller: Myths and fallacies.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on misreporting.  Today’s Tucker tirade.
• Judge Jeanine and Robert Durst.  She’s the true hero of The Jinx.
• Concha to Wallace: Apologize.  Video: Howard Kurtz.  Sunday talk.
• FNS tops Meet the Press in DC.  CNN reporter attacked by a ghost?
• Your Buzz videos: Cruz, Bergdahl, Juan Williams, Ferguson, attacks.

Tags: ratings 2015, mojo, oreilly, friends

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Tucker Carlson comments on Kaus flap (v/Mediaite).
• TCG: Impartial MSNBC journalist invokes ‘the name of God’.
• Video: Tammy Bruce on the rush to condemn people of faith.
• Video: The Maria Bartiromo story.  GMA video: Neil Cavuto.
• Q&A: Alisyn Camerota on her move from FNC to CNN.  More.
• Another skirmish in The War on Fox.  Shaffer: The paper tiger.
• Q1 cable news program rankers: Fox News holds top 14 slots.
• Weekend numbers.  Monday’s numbers.  Tuesday’s numbers.
• Q1 numbers: Fox News increases its lead; CNN, MSNBC, HLN.
• Forbes: Fox News dominance will boost subscription revenues.
• Strange Inheritance is a hit. Reliable gets a Frank Sesno bump.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, oreilly

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Bolling-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• TCG: Nostradamus wannabe still wrong about Bill O’Reilly.
• Carl Bernstein cheap-shots FNC; Childers rebuttal cheered.
• Wemple: Tucker Carlson still refuses to lambaste his brother.
• Bill’s Muslim Jesus.  Bob’s back surgery.  CNN’s hiring spree.
• Albeanu: CNN Digital’s ‘brave new world’ of online video.
• Lowry: O’Reilly avoiding opposing views? Ariens: Don’t be silly.
• Kelly File video: Bergdahl’s platoon mates.  Cause for concern.
• Fuller: CNN cartoon insults viewers’ intelligence.  Joy in Detroit.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, turks, friends, megyn

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Gregg Jarrett: I might not have survived without Roger Ailes.
• AJAm increases live newscast hours.  Drew Griffin awarded.
• Imus video: Bill O’Reilly.  Video: Gen Jack Keane in re Yemen.
• Zucker punch: Jeff’s New Day still losing to HLN’s Robin Meade.
• Q&A: Soledad O’Brien discusses race.  CNNGo a go for AppleTV.
• Wemple: Tucker sinks to a new low...he sticks up for his brother!
• Wemple: MSNBC walks back panelist’s ‘inappropriate’ comment.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on media treatment of Ted Cruz.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Bergdahl charges vindication for Bill O’Reilly.
• Zumberge: Neil Cavuto to anchor MS awareness events.
• Somerby: Lawrence O’Donnell on UVa...an ‘awful display’.
• New Day copyright claim?  CNN invites you to get wasted.
• TCG: Bill O’Reilly, Bernard Goldberg, and The Trust Factor.
• Concha: Cablenews talking heads scramble to lambaste Cruz.
• Wemple: Letterman rehabs Bill.  Worst week ever: Chris Hayes.
• Bill O’Reilly videos: The Late Show w/Letterman; Fox & Friends part one, part two; Outnumbered part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, o'donnell, hayes, friends

• Concha: Reliable Sources is now Countdown w/ Brian Stelter.
• Media Buzz videos: Media scaremongering, Robert Durst, UVa.
• Reliable Sources: Secret service, media fear of Fox, and Durst.
• Rothstein scorches Stelter’s ‘delusional’ Kaus/Carlson segment.
• Collapse of ‘Hands Up Don’t Shoot’ predicted by Megyn Kelly.
• Evangelist wonders: Is Megyn Kelly possessed by the Devil?!?
• BrainStormers debuts.  Zucker play: Reza Aslan and Believer.
• Weekend special on Scott Peterson.  Sunday talkers: preview.
• Bernard Goldberg: a ‘true professional’.  ‘Fair use’ suit update.
• Your Buzz videos: Ferguson, Bibi, who’s trusted, Hillary, druggies.

Tags: friends, megyn, oreilly

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Lewis: Unscripted authenticity key to FNC ensemble shows.
• Video: Netanyahu coverage.  Profile: Katherine Julia Harlow.
• Dr David Samadi launches health site.   HLN gets new digs.
• Adams: Does Fox News have too much influence on the right?
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on Fox vs mainstream media.
• FTV: Maddow furious with Todd; Griffin wants to re-hire Olby!
• FTV: MSNBC stuck between rock and hard place with The Rev.
• The murder suspect who worked for CNN.  Today’s conspiracy.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, maddow, olbermann, cooper, friends

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• Steinberg: Harris Faulkner’s growing presence at FNC.
• Roberts ‘newscast’ inches up but still far behind FNCNN.
• Megyn Kelly auction nets $20,000. Larry King resurfaces.
• Wemple: Hannity to do a sequel a la Where the Boys Are.
• Byers: MSNBC shake-up to target Schultz, Hayes, The Rev.
• Imus video: Carl Cameron talks 2016.  Sara Murray to CNN.
• GOPers to Hannity, Greta: I will follow you.  Bibi briefings.
• Where are they now: The Boys of Baghdad.  Quest for Cuba.
• Wemple: Tucker Carlson is in favor of ‘journalistic censorship’.

Tags: ratings 2015, megyn, king, hannity, hannity, schultz, greta, megyn, friends

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Somerby: O’Donnell’s ‘hideous’, ‘awful’ Ferguson coverage.
• Roberts: If nuclear war comes, it will be Wolf Blitzer’s fault!
• Reliable Sources sinks to 2015 low.  Weekend numbers. More.
• Megyn is up for auction.  F&F video: Batter up!  Cramer craters.
• Rita Cosby resurfaces.  Cupp craves credit.  Maddow cratering.
• Kelly File video: Judge Napolitano.  Imus video: Juan Williams.

Tags: ratings 2015, o'donnell, megyn, friends, maddow, judgenap

• Friday’s numbers: O’Bolling-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Somerby: As usual, Lawrence O’Donnell was wrong.
• Colby: No ‘staged shenanigans’ on Strange Inheritance.
• Concha: Another bright idea to save MSNBC...imitate HBO!
• Wemple: Paris Mayor says lawsuit’s a go, but where is it?
• Nolte: As CNN moves left, boring, predictable Wagner sinks.
• F&F video: Robert Durst to face justice.  Greta: water’s world.
• CNN cops Jobs doc.  Bourdain on wine.  CNN Philippines debuts.

Tags: ratings 2015, o'donnell, oreilly, friends, greta

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Can Andy Lack save NBC News...and MSNBC?
• Lea Gabrielle: A pilot’s beauty routine.  Alveda King to FNC.
• Kathleen Matthews candidacy raises issues for hubby Chris.
• Clayton don’t know much about history.  Ashleigh’s hat trick.
• Video: Media coverage of Iran etc.  Imus video: Juan Williams.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on the decline of lefty media.
• Profile: Miles O’Brien. Jane Velez-Mitchell resurfaces (v/CNNC).

Tags: ratings 2015, matthews, friends, oreilly

• Friday’s numbers: O’Gutfeld-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• CNN’s reality programming tops Sunday night reruns.
• Media Life credibility poll: CNN 36%, FNC 32%, MSNBC 0%.
• Meet Jamie Colby: child genius, lawyer, media heir apparent.
• $1.8 million for Greta’s crib (via FTV).  Q&A: Thomas Roberts.
• Concha: Sharpton suer needs a better strategy.  Today’s oops.
• Martin Bashir resurfaces.  Ronan’s pedigree.  Mika’s power tour.
• New questions over O’Reilly incident from 1977.  Q&A: Bill Weir.
• F&F video: Jennifer Griffin on breast cancer and Annie Goodman.

Tags: ratings 2015, greta, mojo, oreilly, friends

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-MacCallum-Baier 1-2-3.
• February program ranker: Fox News holds top 14 slots.
• A simpler MSNBC.  Ground-breaking show set for Sundays.
• NY Times: O’Reilly/Fox News symbiosis.  Sherman: Backfire.
• Imus video: Bret Baier.  Farhi: No-spin zone crisis control.
• Q&A: Maria Bartiromo on building a career; Mika Brzezinski.
• Rachael Ray video: Elisabeth Hasselbeck.  A matter of time.
• Jamie Colby’s comics story (v/TVN).  Insider video: Megyn Kelly.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, baier, mojo, friends, olbermann, megyn

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.  More.
• Huge numbers for 2/23 Factor: triple MSNBCNN combined.
• February numbers: Fox News topped all cable channels.
• February numbers: CNN up; HLN up; MSNBC sinks further.
• Concha: MSNBC ‘denials’ offer little hope for Chris Hayes.
• Erica Garner et al suggest The Rev is ‘all about the money’.
• Q&A: Nancy Grace vs ‘haters’ (via CNNC); Maria Bartiromo.
• F&F video: Iwo Jima veterans reunite.  Weekend numbers.
• Garber: Why is MSNBC changing course? Blame ‘unbundling’.
• Playing games: We may see more of the Coop Quiz (v/CNCC).
• Uberti: Why O’Reilly can play hardball with the Falklands flap.
• Tobin: The real target is Fox News.  Wemple: In search of bodies.
• NYT: O’Reilly’s aggressive defense.  Disgraced ex-CNNer piles on.
• Factor videos: Concha, Browne talk Falklands; Bernard Goldberg.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, hayes, friends, cooper

• Media Buzz videos: Bill O’Reilly, James Rosen, Giuliani’s gaffe?
• Reliable Sources videos: O’Reilly part one, part two, part three.
• Concha: Hidden motives behind Corn/Engberg O’Reilly attacks.
• Flashback: 1982 New York Times story on rioting in Buenos Aires.
• Stelter: ‘Rampant uncertainty’ widespread at MSNBC.
• F&F video: Anna’s engagement story.  Laurie Dhue resurfaces.
• Weekend special: The Democrats...Coronation or Confrontation?
• Engberg challenges O’Reilly; FNC replies.  Who’s a far-left zealot?
• Factor video: O’Reilly, Goldberg, Rivera respond to Mother Jones.
• Fowler: MSNBC’s blunder.  Today’s petition drive.  Sunday talkers.
• Your Buzz videos: Walker, Chapel Hill, new media, Piers, contempt.
• Morning Joe at noon, for $75 a head.  Spurlock ‘relatively accurate’.

Tags: oreilly, friends, baier, mojo

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Ariens: Joy Reid, Ronan Farrow out; Thomas Roberts in.
• Kirell: Cancellation rumors swirl around MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
• Questions over O’Reilly combat exploits; O’Reilly responds.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Erin’s sub: Jim, Jake, Brooke, Brianna...?  Zucker punched.
• Q&A: Elisabeth Hasselbeck; Liz Claman and Sandra Smith.
• Wemple: James Rosen’s ‘asinine’ question to Pentagon spox.
• MSNBC’s Mika deal is just the beginning.  Q&A: Tom Colicchio.
• Kelly File video: Rep Luis Gutierrez. CNN gives Ukraine to Russia.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, friends, mojo, megyn

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• F&F video: Harris Faulkner on the legacy of Sammy Davis Jr.
• Does Brian Stelter lead a double life?  Identity crisis at HLN.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg.  9/11 lawsuit survives challenge.
• Andrea Tantaros leaves The Five, goes full-time on Outnumbered.
• Zucker play: Coop Quiz a ‘one-time thing’?  Q&A: Alisyn Camerota.
• Revamped CNNi Newsroom simulcasts on CNN; Harlow to weekends.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, oreilly, cooper

• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Wemple: ‘Huge conflicts of interest’ in MoJo discussions.
• Video: BriWi developments, the 9/11 report secret pages.
• Flattering Post profile of The Rev sparks online pushback.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC host asks AG to ‘quack like a duck’.
• Videos: F&F issues beast mode challenge, New Day accepts.
• Greenfield: Maybe BriWi should do a Q&A with Megyn Kelly.
• F&F video: Lea Gabrielle goes for a high jump.  HLN’s oops.
• Much ado about: Geraldo, Brian Stelter, a chyron, and a jersey.
• Wemple: Paris mayor plans to proceed with ‘ridiculous’ lawsuit.

Tags: ratings 2015, mojo, friends, megyn

• Media Buzz videos: BriWi in Iraq, reporting Katrina, vaccines.
• Reliable Sources: Iraq pilots, a trust problem, reporting Katrina.
• Obama family dines at home of CNN DC Deputy Bureau Chief.
• Gregg Jarrett: thanks for support.  Kelly File video: Travis Tritten.
• Did Tucker spill the beans? Yup!  Soledad at UMass.  Sunday talk.
• Kinsley: Another look at the Fareed Zakaria plagiarism charges.
• Profiles: Kennedy, Janet Mock (v/TVN).  TV newsers: red all over.
• Your Buzz videos: Palin, Romney, Trump, Brady, blizzards, Huck et al.

Tags: megyn, friends

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Megyn 1-2-3.
• FNC website sees huge surge in traffic.  Wemple: more.
• Morning Joe tinkers with closing block: ‘Mika’ segment.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC soft-pedals Brian Williams story.
• Q&A: Janice Dean; audio: Shepard Smith.  Megyn listed. 
• O’Connell: Is it too soon for a CNN victory lap? (via CNNC)
• MSNBC sets 10-year ratings record.  Ronan Farrow craters.
• Video: Jordan Chariton, Eric Deggans on turmoil at MSNBC.
• Lindsay Lohan lawsuit a likely loser. Soledad at Bucknell U.
• Zurawik: News channels take different paths with ISIS video.
• Fareed Zakaria producer exits.   F&F video: The rules of war.

Tags: ratings 2015, mojo, shep, megyn, friends

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Concha: Nameless CNN exec reveals motivation behind ad.
• CNN disses Kyra Phillips.  Cablenets gear up for Superbowl.
• Nightly videos: Jake Tapper, Sherrod Small part one, pt two.
• Horsey: Cable television can get snowed by breaking news.
• Factor videos: Bernard Golberg on Mohyeldin; Lea Gabrielle.
• Jamie Colby inheritance tips.  Greg Gutfeld in a twitter spat.
• The Rev pays himself six figures while owing millions in taxes.
• Imus video: Bill O’Reilly on Obama, Patton, etc.  Q&A: Kennedy.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, o'donnell, oreilly

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
• Concha: CNN shouldn’t crow over second place finish.
• CNN zings Morning Joe with Ailes-style full-page ad.
• Synergy: MSNBC all in on hype for NBC’s Super Bowl.
• Zara: As DishNet blackout ends, Fox News ratings roar.
• F&F video: How Sharia Law in Texas is like Judge Judy.
• Wemple: Palin zings O’Reilly; O’Reiilly zings Palin back.
• Kurtz: Al-Jazeera nets suffer a huge blow to credibility.
• Late Show video: Rachel Maddow with David Letterman.
• MSNBC: The place for corruption?  Alisyn moonlighting.
• Imus video: Mike Baker.  Match wits with the MSNBC stars!
• Samantha Schacher: demoted.  James Carville: not renewed.

Tags: ratings 2015, mojo, friends, judgenap, palin, oreilly, maddow

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• NY Times profile: Janice Dean, meteorologist and mom.
• Wemple: Bergdahl story reveals two facets of Fox News.
• Huck rips Think Progress et al for ‘outright lie’ about FNC.
• F&F video: FNC’s John Roberts and CNN’s Kyra Phillips.
• Woodman: Comcast ghost-writing letters for politicians?
• Profile: Dana Bash (v/CNNC).  CNN Digital: sex and drugs.
• The Camerota conundrum.  When Christine met Bradley.
• Al-Jazeera banned words: ‘terrorist’, ‘islamist’, ‘militant’.
• CNN wants back on Russian television.  Q&A: Wolf Blitzer.
• Factor video: What Kilmeade and Colmes have in common.
• January 2015 program ranker: Fox News holds top 14 slots.

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• Media Buzz videos: Cartoon caution, Romney, all-white Oscar?
• Reliable Sources videos: Cartoon caution, no-go apologies.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Shannon Bream-The Five 1-2-3.
• Jim Acosta gets into a twitter spat.  Audio Q&A: Jake Tapper.
• Wemple: A timeline of no-go zones and the apologies therefor.
• Q&A: Alex Wagner (via TVN); Dana Perino.  Last week’s oops.
• Sue Herera loses her Lunch.  Erin go international.  Sunday talk.
• Your Buzz: Hebdo, cowards, hypocrites, cartoons, Romney, lazy.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends

• Friday’s numbers: The Five-O’Reilly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Wemple: CNN is neutral...except when they’re not.
• Zucker play: CNN to experiment with news drones.
• CNN homepage shock: Where Was Obama?
• Fo&F video: Dana Perino on Obama’s Paris brush-off.
• Concha: Paris coverage taints Al Jazeera’s credibility.
• Al-Jazeera America guts daily schedule, cuts staff.
• Dish standoff escalates as Fox News deploys the C-word.
• Eric Holder snubs Chris Wallace.  Twitter pounces on FNC.
• Greta sticks up for Cuomo.  Brian bumped.  Bitcoin boom.

Tags: ratings 2015, friends, greta

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Concha: Aly’s ascension puts the pressure on Chris Cuomo.
• It’s official: Alisyn gets New Day (v/Stelter), Bolduan demoted.
• Mike Galanos boards the HLN Morning Express.  Hogue: Finally!
• Video: Dr Qanta Ahmed on the dangers of cowardly language.
• The Rev and The Prof in Essence.   Craig Melvin: Mostly false.
• Newsers scramble to cover attacks. FNC and CNN split ratings.
• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on coverage of Paris terrorism.

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• Wemple: Fear of terrorism drives CNN editorial decisions.
• The Five video: Right on cue... cries of ‘Islamophobia’.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• ICN: Stelter role at CNN a ‘massive conflict of interest’.
• Fox News shows Charlie Hebdo cartoon on air and online.
• Ehlert: I’ll take CNN.  Scandlen: I want my Fox News back.
• CNBC worried its new Squawk Box set shows FoxBiz signage.
• Today’s twitter spat: Jim Clancy.   Concha: I told you so. 
• Q&A: CNN’s Jim Sciutto (v/ TVNewser).  Weekend numbers.
• O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus on NatGeo will star Kelsey Grammer.
• Mike Rogers new CNN contributor; more.  Kimberly’s new crib.
• Video: Judge Napolitano says global media should be courageous.
• Imus video: Laura Ingraham.  Seitel: MSNBC should dump the Rev.

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• New Years Eve numbers: The5-NYE/CNN-Ed Henry 1-2-3.
• Does Greta’s husband confer a conflict of interest on her?
• CNNC: Stelter anchors again as more lines are blurred.
• Rorke: A novel idea for The Rev.  Jenna Lee returns.
• Dianna Heitz to CNN. Q&A: Jim Scuitto. Yesterday’s oops!
• FTV Live: That Alisyn announcement is coming...honest!
• Byers: Ted Turner’s Doomsday video...for when it all ends.
• Congrats to Adam and Tamera.  Q&A: CNBC’s Harry Smith.
• F&F video: Geraldo w/The Donald.  Imus video: Mayor Bo?! 
• Geraldo’s debut on NBC’s Apprentice.   Flashback: Bygones.
• Hill: CNN’s extreme makeover is a bit disorganized. More. Oops.

Tags: ratings 2014, greta, friends

• The Five video: Activists protest...even at News Corp HQ.
• Throngs converge on NewsCorp HQ to ‘shut down Fox News’.
• Outnumbered video: Presidential politics already heating up.
• Q&A: Kimberly Guilfoyle, Abby Huntsman (via TV Newser).
• Bill O’Reilly web staff: The Fox hunters are shooting blanks.
• Wilstein: Is the Dish blackout taking a toll on Fox News ratings?
• When CNBC turned 25 it was a very bad year.  Cablers hoaxed.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Killing Lincoln 1-2-3.
• One way Katie Couric could end up at CNN after all (via CNCC).
• Concha: Predictions for Sherrod, The Rev, at al; CNNC disagrees.
• Meet the man who cried ‘Wolf’.  NBCU and CableOne reach deal.
• Hogue: Peter Doocy makes Fox & Friends debut; after-show video.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, friends

• JMan’s cable news predictions from 2014, and for 2015.
• Outnumbered video: Running for Prez...a family affair?
• Q&A: Anna Kooiman talks charity and Fox News.  More.
• Nobody’s business: CNBC plummets to record lows.
• Nancy Wilson: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
• When hashtags attack: CNN’s #AskACop, FNC’s #OverIt.
• Monday’s numbers; weekend numbers.  Alan’s hate mail.
• Fox New Year’s Eve; this is CNN; a very MSNBC New Year’s.
• Juan Williams to deliver UA lecture.  Q&A: Roland S Martin.
• Flashback: F&F kicks off 2014 with a few bumps in the road.
• Dish standoff update.  Your Hit Parade: New Year’s Eve 1955.
• The McCormack Matter pt one, pt two, pt three, pt four, part five.

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• Media Buzz videos: NYPD blame, Sony flip-flop, media mishaps.
• Occupy group targets Fox News...because ‘black lives matter’.
• Your Buzz videos: Cosby, Al Sharpton, Sony movie, Cosby again.
• Zara: Dish dangles credits to fend off cancellations.  Sunday talk.
• Littleton: DishNet cries ‘extortion’.  Hogue: Holiday hosts flounder.
• Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The McCormack Matter pt one, part two.

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• The Five video: Threats to police have NYPD on alert.
• Zucker play: Coop and Kath...what, together again?!?
• De Moraes: Fox News/DishNet war of words heats up.
• CNN executive asks Jewish girl: ‘Are you brain dead?’
• ICN: 2014 in review...the good, the bad, and the awful.
• The Robert de Cormier Singers: Mary’s Little Boy Child.
• Profile: Anna Kooiman and what she learned in Charlotte.
• Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Day After Christmas.
• F&F video: Home for Christmas with the Reichmuth family.
• Chariton: Greta’s twitter ‘tirade’?  Dennis Miller’s crib sale.
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The McCormack Matter  part one.

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• The Honeymooners: ’Twas the Night Before Christmas.
• Reynolds: Fox News tops rivals for 13th straight year!
• Farhi: Oh, those wacky cable news celebrity pundits.
• Mediaite readers pick the best and the worst of media.
• Concha: Al Sharpton, most powerful person in America?
• Have a very MSNBC Christmas!  Stan Freberg: Yulenet.
• Cable newsers named to distinguished list (via FTV Live).
• FTV: CNN ‘caught flatfooted’ by Camerota New Day scoop?
• Fox & Friends video: 2014 highlight reel.  Q&A: Brian Kilmeade.
• Criticism of The Rev intensifies in the wake of murdered officers.
• The Nick Shurn Matter: part one, pt two, pt three, pt four, part five.

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• The Five video: How the media create their own narrative.
• Monday’s numbers: The Five-O’Gutfeld-John Roberts 1-2-3.
• Phillips: This show is an insult to every police officer (vTVN).
• Report: Alisyn Camerota to replace Bolduan on New Day.
• Sherrod Small doing double FNC duty on New Year’s Eve.
• Rhetoric overdrive as Comcast deal comment period ends.
• Steve Doocy talks F&F Christmas.  TJ Holmes resurfaces.
• Charles Payne FBN special on Dec 24.  Weekend numbers.
• Meet MSNBC’s new trangender host...who’s now engaged.
• Greta says thanks to Roger Ailes and Fox News Channel.
• Kissell: More young viewers? Easy: air less news! (v/CNCC).
• Charlton: Dana Bash first rotating SotU anchor (via CNNC).
• GANT seals partnership with CNN.  Ebert film debuts Jan 9.
• McMurry: The wondrous José Díaz-Balart, Obama’s ‘conduit’.
• Videos: O’Reilly on NYPD, DeBlasio etc; F&F: Mr Bill elaborates.
• The Nick Shurn Matter: part one, part two, part three, part four.

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• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Bret Baier-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
• Cablenewers pick best/worst of MSNBC, CNN, Fox News.
• Zucker play: I am doing great!   Cuomo disses his award.
• Chris Matthews: Working with Ailes was ‘the best tv ever’.
• F&F video: When social media become ‘anti-social media’.
• David Gregory didn’t get along with MSNBC’s Phil Griffin.
• Candy Crowley signs off CNN.   Jill Daugherty resurfaces.
• Joyella: Fox fans make 32,000 calls re Dish...in one day!
• Dish vs Fox: Who will blink?  A 2015 prescription for CNNi. 
• YT,JD: The Nick Shurn Matter: part one, part two, part three.
• Fox & Friends video: Christmas with the Clayton Morris family.

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• Media Buzz videos: Sony caves, stolen goods, Cosby vs CNN.
• Reliable Sources: NK threats, The Interview, hacks, more hacks.
• Reynolds: Fox exec charges Dish is lying to its subscribers.
• Joyella: Thousands of Dish subscribers ask to cancel service.
• Steinberg: Dish dumps Fox News, Fox Biz in carriage spat.
• Vdeo: Peter Johnson Jr on free speech and the NYPD killings.
• Christmas flashback video: Julie Banderas and the ‘leg lamp’.
• FNC’s Christmas bash: Which person doesn’t belong and why?
• Today’s contract standoff: CableOne vs (MS)NBC/Universal.
• Charlton: Cable news reactions to White House presser vary.
• Oltsik: CNN fanning the cyberware hyperbole flames.  Whoops!
• Your Buzz videos: Torture, Sony execs, Rolling Stone, Snowden.
• Martha MacCallum hosts gala.  Soledad: What my mom left behind.
• Special Report video: The Bret Baier blooper reel.   Sunday talkers.
• Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part one, part two.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Somerby: Salon uses edited video to smear Bill O’Reilly.
• Zucker play: HLN considering a show based on...Facebook!
• Wemple: ‘Fox News’ rips questions asked at WH presser.
• New hire Patricia Stark makes debut on Fox & Friends First.
• Concha: Scarborough’s snark at Megyn ‘way out of bounds’.
• Weird Joe Scarborough putdown of Megyn Kelly.  Flashback.
• Imus video: Mike Baker.  Cablers named to distinguished list.
• Dillon: Shift set design aims to ‘connect with younger viewers’.
• Goldberg: CNN is a disgrace.  Today’s oops (hat-tip: Marty Davis).
• After 234 days, Clayton Morris makes Outnumbered debut: video.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg names the top ten stories of 2014.
• Lean Forward: The Rev will have ‘a say’ in how Sony makes movies!
• The Rev angers activists: DC march was like an MSNBC production.
• Fox News Radio adds correspondents.  Martha MacCallum honored.
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part one.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, friends, mojo, megyn

• Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• F&F video: Laura Ingraham.  FNC out-foxed Fox broadcast.
• Thomas Roberts moonlights...for Donald Trump!  Overpriced.
• Grove: CNN’s overnight Sydney star credits ‘luck’ (via CNCC).
• Shift: Lets ‘open the aperture’ to go ‘even more niche’.  More.
• Dave Navarro reveals his favorite newsman.  Weekend numbers.
• Zucker play: Broaden CNN ‘news coverage’ with...game shows?!?
• FNC announces All-American New Year...but something’s missing.
• Video: The man who interrogated KSM part one, two, three, four.
• CNN Tuesday 9pm: Extraordinary People.  Jana Winter resurfaces.

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• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Mediate’s list ‘top nine cablenews rising stars’ isn’t horrible.
• Julie Banderas’s confrontation with neighbors.  HLN bulletin.
• Zucker punched: Reliable Sources loses viewers in key demo.
• ‘Keep Fox News’ campaign launches, Dish Network responds.
• Zucker play: CNN twitter-zings MSNBC.  The color of cable news.
• Lean Forward: Books, sports, celebs...MSNBC tests ‘Shift’ shows.
• F&F videos: Family Christmas with The Kooimans and The Carlsons.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Anderson Cooper learns about his family’s ‘dark past’.
• CNN’s Drew Griffin honored.  Dominic Di-Natale remembered.
• Video: Feds get authority to seize your private communications.
• On MSNBC The Rev suggests Sony’s apology is not good enough.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on Obama, the press, and more.
• Concha: It’s time for Jesse to graduate from pointless ambushes.
• Security escorts Jesse Watters out of de Blasio press conference.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Heroes gala loses to FNC reruns.  Video: Independents day.
• Q&A: Chris Wallace on timelines; Sarah Palin; Erin Burnett.
• Kelly File video: Brit Hume on UVA Prez.  More Naked Justice.
• McMurry: Brian Stelter + Reliable Sources = the best show ever.
• Video: Peter Johnson Jr on implications of the ‘torture report’. 
• Piers zings Coop: ’A pretty big diva.’  Corgan zings Coop: ‘Jerk!’

Tags: ratings 2014, palin, megyn, friends, piers, cooper

• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Audio: Sherrod Small reveals his Dec 31 special assignment.
• Fox News hires former NBC WH correspondent Kevin Corke.
• Outnumbered video: Rolling Stone’s journalistic blunders.
• Charlton: Jake Tapper front-runner in SotU chase (v/CNNC).
• Clash: Laurie Dhue’s journey to sobriety.  Ainsley’s happy day.
• Atkinson: CNBC threatening to ban guests who appear on FBN.
• Video: MSNBC host says looting and arson ‘not necessarily violent’!
• Fox Report videos: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.

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• The Five video: The Rolling Stone rape scoop collapses.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Zucker wants a young blonde to compete with Fox News.
• Candy Crowley leaving CNN; who will take over SotU?
• Mendte: Don Lemon, America’s reality news star (v/FTV).
• Megyn, FNC bury the competition.  Gregg Jarrett reappears.
• Jim Angle is retiring.  F&F video: Rick Reichmuth rappelling.
• Guest walks out on Al-Jazeera America in disgust over bias.
• McGurn: Why is The Rev treated differently than Bill Cosby?
• CNN skeds Bill Cosby special.  Sham MSNBC site kills Axl Rose.
• Factor videos: Kurtz and Ashburn, Bernard Goldberg on media.
• Anchors recall CNN’s first day.  It’s a boy!  O’Reilly: Mostly false?

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• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• November program ranker: Fox News holds the top 14 slots.
• Wemple: Do atheists benefit from ‘war on Christmas’ exposés?
• Gillian Turner new FNC contributor. Profile: Liz Claman (vTVN).
• Concha: Grand jury findings prompt rare cablenews consensus.
• Imus video: Bret Baier.  F&F video: Peter Johnson Jr on justice.
• Complaints re Cramer getting ugly. Video: Cramergate heats up.
• Kelly File video: Is ‘hands up don’t shoot’ meme fact or fiction?
• Zucker: Nobody’s better in morning tv than Robin Meade. No sale.

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• The Five video: The Prez just can’t quit The Rev.
• Wednesday numbers: The Five-Bream-O’Williams 1-2-3.
• Shock poll: people attack Fox News without watching it!
• Video: Have mainstream media been fair with Ferguson?
• Lean Forward: MoJo joins the ‘sustainability’ bandwagon.
• Imus video: Juan Williams.  FTV: Has Larry King ‘lost it’?
• Wemple: Bill O’Reilly website post has a ‘peculiar byline’.
• The only winning move is not to play.  Kiran Chetry resurfaces.
• Fox Report videos: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.

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• Thursday numbers: Obama/FNC-O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
• Nobody’s business: CNBC viewership falls to a 20-year low.
• F&F video: Geraldo vs Tucker immigration debate turns rowdy.
• White House exec quits, signs up with...MSNBC!   Today’s oops.
• Video: Howard Kurtz on broadcast nets skipping Obama speech.
• Dish/Turner flap may escalate further...or not!  It’s Live! (on tape).

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• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• FNC to air Killing Kennedy + a special Factor Sunday Nov 30.
• Somerby: Rachel tells a story, gets it wrong.  Brown to return.
• Cable ‘Nostalgia’ Network’s The 70s.  Bill Weir’s Last Chance.
• Numb3rs: CNBC and Kensho team for ‘stat box’.  Zucker play.
• ICN: Lemon’s apology was ‘bull---- and double bull----!’  More.
• F&F video: Harris and Hemmer co-host Ailes Apprentice gala.
• Alan Dershowitz: CNN is ‘more dangerous’ than The Guardian!
• Kelly File videos: Ted Cruz vs Jennice Fuentes on executive action.
• Rebound: F&F with Hasselbeck co-hosting up 33% vs previous week.

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• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• As ‘likes’ top one million, Kelly File to hold online Q&A.
• FBN sets live pipeline vote coverage.   Q&A: Mike Rowe.
• Wemple: Sharpton’s role a jumble of conflicts of interest.
• Wemple: No wonder Gruber gave Ronan the exclusive!
• Latest MediaBuzz more than doubles MSNBCNN combined.
• Profile: Jo Nosuchinsky.  Today’s oops.  Weekend numbers.
• Bill O’Reilly hangs up on ESPN when interview turns nasty.
• Is Ty Pennington show DOA?  Veronica de la Cruz resurfaces.
• Hasselbeck F&F homecoming lost viewers vs previous week.
• Black in America special: Black and Blue.  Soledad in Texas.
• Kelly File video: Judge Napolitano warns of ‘constitutional fire’.
• Fox Report video: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, hannity, redeye, oreilly, friends, judgenap

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: CNBC silenced Melissa Francis Obamacare exposés.
• Somerby: Rachel Maddow’s weirdly poisonous ‘faux news’.
• F&F video: Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s emotional homecoming.
• Erik Wemple appeals to FNC to investigate Gruber remarks.
• Swells gather for Ailes Apprentice Program graduation gala.
• Conan videos: Chuck Todd part one, part two (via Mediaite).
• Exodus from The Situation Room (v/CNNC).  Anthem alarm!
• Full Factor video: Rob O’Neill.  Bret Baier unwelcome here.
• Profile: CNN’s Meredith Artley.  Today’s Zakaria update (v/ICN).
• Husain: CAIR wants time on FNC; response.  Hume: Mostly false.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: ShotUBL-O’Reilly-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Ailes Apprentice program marks ten years of success.
• Bartiromo in Palm Springs.  UBL special 2 sets records.
• Outnumbered video: Kirsten stunned at Gruber blackout.
• Hasselbeck returns Friday. Today’s Huckabee specularama.
• Somerby: Maddow’s propaganda treats viewers like fools.
• 70% of Fox stock value is from the cable channels.  More.
• CNNi simulcasts to continue?  Maeve Reston to CNN; Q&A.
• Dish/Turner dispute turns on the value of CNN.  This is CNN.
• ICN: Fareed Zakaria controversy escalates as Zucker dithers.
• CNN renews Bourdain, Rowe, Ling.  Rafael Romo teargassed.
• Mr Bill rescues student paper; The Conch Potato approves.
• Report: Griffin’s MSNBC job ‘precarious’.  Diaz-Balart: Half-true.
• Video: Howard Kurtz rips Gruber non-coverage, zings Ronan; more.

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• The Five video: Peter Doocy discusses UBL special.
• Fox News UBL special tops MSNBCNNHLN combined.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-ShotUBL-Megyn 1-2-3.
• Kurtz: FNC taking ‘serious look’ at Huckabee status.
• Somerby: Maddow ‘one of the most dishonest’ ever.
• Back to the Future: MSNBC to meld cable and online.
• He’s got a Kate Upton crush.  F&F video: Peter Doocy.
• Easley: MSNBC’s decline began when Olbermann left.
• Rothstein: CNNer embroiled in conflict of interest flap.
• Zucker play: Road trip!  Non-news, brought to you by VW.
• Q&A: Melissa Francis, Charles Payne.  CNN execs upped.

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• Zucker punched: Anderson Cooper 360 hits all-time low.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Shep video: Peter Doocy talks about the man who shot UBL.
• FNC tops all cable nets.  Elisabeth Hasselbeck resurfaces.
• Grace under fire.  Bernardini promoted.  Weekend numbers.
• Koffler: Now I respect Brit Hume even more.   Today’s oops.
• Weprin: The inside story on Fox’s UBL-shooter special.  More.
• UBL-shooter Q&A is a big get for Peter Doocy.  Five questions.
• Kelly File video: Judge Napolitano’s questions for the next AG.
• Bourdain moonlights.  Kimberly’s crib.  Scarborough hearts WaPo.

Tags: ratings 2014, cooper, shep, friends, megyn, judgenap, mojo

• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Bret Baier-O’Bolling 1-2-3.
• Peter Doocy on ‘Gatewood’, and who shot UBL.  More.
• Ailes Apprenticeship Program grad describes its impact.
• Reporting on Fareed is punished, Fareed isn’t! (v/CNNC)
• Byers: High anxiety and low morale at CNN’s DC bureau.
• New Day ratings declined with Alisyn!  Russkies dump CNN.
• Painted into a corner, MSNBC loses the election.  Flashback.
• Remix video: Obama, Dr Dre, and...Megyn Kelly! (via DShaw)
• Full F&F video: Condoleeza Rice.  Greg Palkot recalls The Wall.
• The Fox Report videos: The Political Insiders part one, part two.

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• Today Jesse Watters really got under Bob Beckel’s skin.
• On Big Wednesday a dozen Fox News programs set records.
• Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• Sharyl Attkisson scorches ‘proven unreliable’ Media Matters.
• Bauder: Dr Keith Ablow’s political ‘diagnoses’ (via Stelter).
• Steinberg: Biznets pin hopes on revised ratings procedures.
• MSNBC goes to pot.  Phil Griffin touts a year of msnbc.com.
• Fox & Friends video: Condoleeza Rice.  Facebook favors FNC.
• Greta special tonight: Marine Freed: Sgt Tahmooressi’s Story.
• Turner/DishNet war of words escalates.  Erin given token role?
• Collins: Do we really need cable news?  Richard Quest honored.
• Video: A depressing night for MSNBC.  Fancy digs, few holograms.

Tags: ratings 2014, mediamatters, friends, greta

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-BretBaier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Somerby: Maddow smears Fox with...another edited clip!
• Karen Finney finis at MSNBC; is she just the first of many?
• Charlton: Insiders spill the beans on MSNBC’s ‘evolution’.
• Imus video: Ed Henry.  Colbert video: Chuck Todd (v/TVN).
• Dishnet’s Ergen: Losing CNN is no big deal.  HLN makeover.
• Videos: Sharyl Attkisson on The Factor, F&F, Imus, Kilmeade.
• OtR video: Tahmooressi coverage recap.  Weekend numbers.
• Election night rundown: Capitol NY; Variety.  Strategy Room.
• Election Q&A: Bret Baier; Gerri Willis, Neil Cavuto, Rich Edson.

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• Media Buzz videos: Hillary, pundit predictions, Chris Christie.
• Reliable Sources: Global warming, Fox on Ebola, political ads.
• Sgt Tahmooressi’s only interview is with Greta van Susteren.
• F&F videos: Greta and Bill Richardson on marine’s release.
• MSNBC: We beat CNN!...but there’s a catch.  Dashing Dash.
• Facebook fans favor Fox first.  Andrea Tantaros in Newberry.
• When religious news breaks, cablers turn to priestly pundits.
• FNC will air UBL-killer interview despite Pentagon objections.
• Um, did Anthony Bourdain go somewhere...like, maybe, Iran?
• Your Buzz videos: Woodward, the Palins, Ferguson, midterms.
• Q&A: John Roberts in NOLA, Carl Cameron in KY.  Sunday talk.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Megyn 1-2-3.
• Video: Stuart Varney exposes Maddow’s dishonesty.
• Somerby: Maddow rips Fox over nonexistent report!?
• Pentagon objects to Fox UBL special; Greta responds.
• Q&A: Chris Wallace (via FDC); FBN’s Jo Ling Kent.
• Joe Concha zings Alex Wagner, nails LZ Granderson.
• Audio: Howard Stern news tracks down Anna Kooiman.
• Audio: Jake Tapper w/Laura.  Today’s oops; bonus oops.
• Video: Leaks, prosecutions, and the WH media strategy.
• Ailes advice given to Megyn Kelly.  Flashback: Terry Keenan.

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• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Vindication for Andrea Tantaros...from CNN!
• Somerby: Chris Hayes’s pandering...dishonest and vile.
• Fox News special: American Payday: The Big Squeeze.
• Greta: In defense of Fox News...and MSNBCNN as well.
• Video: Czar stirs controversy.  Wemple: Levittown truth?
• Fox News Latino readership grows.  Sandra Smith news.
• Charlton: After deep cuts, will CNN have the last laugh?
• Maglio: Double-digit ratings drops spurred CNN layoffs.
• Unguarded to return...as occasional primetime specials?
• A proud member of the ‘10% club’: fired CNNer speaks out.
• As CNN targets online news, the head of digital gets the axe.
• Imus video: Mike Baker.  F&F video: Kilmeade scolds Gohmert.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on media skepticism and Ebola.

Tags: ratings 2014, hayes, greta, oreilly, friends

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Somerby: Could this be the reason for MSNBC’s ratings ennui?
• Wemple: Greg Gutfeld should be the Fox Ablow Ombudsman.
• Concha: Stewart staff exemplifies ‘white privilege’ hypocrisy.
• Daily Show extended video: Mr Bill O’Reilly with Jon Stewart.
• Wallenstein: Does CNNGo represent the future of television?
• Borowitz: CNN defends its new slogan.  TJ Holmes resurfaces.
• Owens: Don’t judge CNN solely by ratings.  Who is best-known?
• CNN betting on a ‘hunger for politics’.  Don Lemon’s other crib.
• Geraldo: Thanks but no thanks.  Flashback: Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
• Q&A: Liz McDonald; Liz Clayman; Clayman on Ebola market impact.

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, lemon, friends

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Concha: Is Ebola media overkill approaching O.J. levels?
• Q&A: Sean Hannity (v/TVN).  Grace under fire? (v/CNNC)
• Richard Grenell re-ups at FNC.  Hasselbeck out for surgery.
• Adams: Lisa Ling show focuses on ‘subculture’.  This is CNN.
• Zucker punched: Unguarded; Sanjay Gupta, Money; Crossfire.
• Bloodbath: Deep, wide cuts deliver Zucker punch to CNN/HLN.
• Factor video: Drs Alvarez and Adalja react to O’Reilly comments.

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• Media Buzz videos: Ebola, Bill O’Reilly, midterm apathy.
• Reliable Sources: ISIS rules, Islamophobia, Jeremy Renner.
• Patti Ann Browne: A bad spill ‘rocked my whole body’.
• Patton tops the charts at NY Times, Wall Street Journal.
• F&F video: The Caped Crusader turns 75.  F&F reunion.
• Together: Roger Ailes and...Rosie O’Donnell?!  Today’s oops.
• Your Buzz videos: Ebola, briefings, more Ebola, CBS, Obama.
• ICN: Is Jeff Zucker telling tales out of school?  Sunday talkers.

Tags: oreilly, friends, icn

• The Five video: Trying to keep Secret Service scandal secret?
• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Ed Schultz recording his MSNBC program from his home studio.
• New layoffs hit CNN/HLN.  F&F video: X-Files star returns to sci-fi.
• Late Show videos: Anderson Cooper part one, part two, part three.
• Factor video: Eric Shawn, Molly Line on witch doctors and cartoons.
• Before CNN reality, there was CNBC. Zucker punch: CNN zings Piers.

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• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Megyn 1-2-3.
• On CNN’s version of Roots, the stars are the news.
• Piers Morgan resurfaces.  Larry King re-resurfaces.
• Tapper and Blitzer moonlighting.  Megyn and Sheryl.
• Fox & Friends video: Ron Fournier.  Maria’s big news.
• Jeff Zucker cutting costs, rebooting CNN.  More.  Layoffs.
• Wolff: Jeff Bewkes has to clean up CNN, as Murdoch waits.

Tags: ratings 2014, piers, king, megyn, friends

• The Five video: Debate on the threat of ISIS turns rowdy.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• José Diaz-Balart marks MSNBC move toward ‘new voices’.
• Somerby: Maddow wipes Latinos off the face of the earth.
• Q&A: Gretchen Carlson on Real Story’s first year; video.
• Q3: FNC most watched cabler.  Q3 spin: CNN MSNBC HLN.
• Closing Bell rings sour sans Bartiromo. Weekend numbers.
• Surprise! Vets outraged at Bolling had hidden connections.
• Profile: Sonny Hostin (v/CNNC).   Piers Morgan finds work.
• Kaufman: Stelter’s strange defense of Zakaria (via CNNC).
• This Week video: Bill O’Reilly w/ George Stephanopoulos.
• Wemple: An ‘idiotic idea’ makes cable news waves. More.
• Q&A: James Rosen on coffee rituals; Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
• MSNBC’s best night over a dismal two weeks: Lockup marathon!
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on 60 Minutes Obama interview.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five- Megyn 1-2-3.
• Shepard Smith Reporting video: State Dept’s Jen Psaki.
• Video: Katie Couric meets Bill O’Reilly.  Today’s lawsuit.
• Fox & Friends videos: Mr Bill O’Reilly part one, part two.
• Imus videos: Bill O’Reilly and Mike Baker.  Q&A: Lisa Ling.
• Jimmy Kimmel videos: Anthony Bourdain part one, part two.
• Steinberg: ‘Original series’ to supplant news on CNN prime.
• The Zakaria Plagiarismapalooza: A few more logs on the fire.
• Zucker: We have ‘complete confidence’ in Zakaria (v/CNNC).
• Wemple: Panama City preps Hannity-inspired spring break regs.
• Wemple: it’s ‘insane’ to take O’Reilly’s mercenary army seriously.
• Fox Report videos: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, shep, friends, hannity

• The Five video: Ed Henry examines the question of timing.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Fox News airstrike coverage tops MSNBCNN combined.
• Fox News contributor placed on terrorism watch list. More.
• Zucker play: CNN chief explains move away from live news.
• Imus in the Morning videos: FNC’s Bret Baier, Ed Henry.
• Cablers scramble to cover bombing after FNC breaks story.
• Fox & Friends videos: Judge Andrew Napolitano, Tony Blair.
• Eric Bolling and Weiner in a twitter spat.  Weekend numbers.
• CBS This Morning videos: Bill O’Reilly on killing ISIS and Patton.
• Somerby: If CNN valued journalism they’d fire Coop and Nichols.
• ICN: CNN’s water torture over Zakaria flap continues; it’s horrid.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, baier, megyn, friends, cooper, icn

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Q&A: Harris Faulkner, Anthony Bourdain (via TVN).
• Hogue: Why Heather Nauert excels in her new milieu.
• Molly Henneberg takes a dive...with American heroes.
• Tapper’s hot DC spots.  HLN teasing Share.  Vasel to CNN.
• Political ad buyers eyeing cable news.  George Will: True.
• Imus video: Judge Napolitano on ISIS, Rand Paul, and more.
• Byers: Esquire raises the temperature in the Zakaria debate.
• Stelter ‘trying to get an interview with Zakaria’.  CNN snippets.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, judgenap

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Somerby: Does Cooper have the brain cells to do his job?
• Reese’s piece: ‘Cratering News Network’; response (v/TVN).
• AJAm countersues Al Gore.   Mika Brzezinski: Pants on fire!
• Video: Are drumbeats from media pushing POTUS into war?
• An Apprentice program with no boardroom or Trump: video.
• Bye-bye, Boulduan.   Alibaba ballyhoo.   Q&A: Gary Schreier.
• Hologram lawsuit thrown out of court.  Today’s oops (via ICN).

Tags: ratings 2014, cooper, mojo, friends

• The Five video: What are these boots made for, anyway?
• Bart: MSNBC’s boring line-up needs an extreme makeover.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• FBN pre-empting Imus to cover Scotland independence vote.
• The Kelly File breaks into the top five programs on all cable.
• Factor video: James Rosen and Sharyl Attkisson on Benghazi.
• Somerby: A Cable Outrage Spectacular turns amazingly dumb.
• Linda Vester resurfaces;  flashback.  Deborah Feyerick re-ups.
• Fareed Zakaria is still plagiarizing...on CNN!  Q&A: Jay Carney.
• Hasselbeck thriving, as is Fox & Friends.  Bartiromo’s road trip.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, oreilly, hayes, friends

• The Five video: Benghazi has spinners working overtime.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: A critical look at Benghazi, Fox, and 13 Hours.
• Somerby: How O’Donnell and Hayes treat you like fools.
• Zucker punch: Crossfire on ‘extended hiatus’...for good?
• At 100 episodes, Outnumbered sees big ratings rise.  More.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on NFL’s mounting troubles.
• Lauren Ashburn’s contract not renewed.  Weekend numbers.
• NLRB ruling could cost CNN millions.  Nischelle Turner exits CNN.
• Out: CNNx...in: CNNgo.  Coop censored.  Matthews: Mostly false.
• Q&A: Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s first F&F year; Bill O’Reilly and Killing Patton; Maria Bartiromo’s info stream; Jake Tapper’s meals (via FDC).

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, friends, baier, o'donnell, hayes, cooper, matthews

• Fox dominated during speech, beat MSNBCNN combined.
• Wednesday numbers: Kelly/Obama-O’Reilly-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Scarry: In defense of Fox’s Brian Kilmeade.
• Anna Kooiman running Marathon to aid heroes’ families.
• Griffith: Bill O’Reilly helps children of 9/11 victims.
• David Gregory, Dana Bash moderate ‘no labels’ session.
• Concha: A curious new skirmish in the NYT War on Fox.
• Greta: NY Times ‘dimwit’ smears Fox News.  Wemple.
• Wemple: Does Fox News really ‘tend not to apologize’?
• Kelly File video: All-star panel reacts to POTUS ISIS plan.
• Video: Carney/McCain battle royale.  CNN hearts Politico.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, oreilly, greta, megyn

• The Five video: NFL responsibility in Ray Rice matter.
• Gold: TV Eyes wins first round in Fox News lawsuit.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Cashin’ In tops Saturday daytime.  Weekend numbers.
• Zucker punched: Media Buzz tops Reliable’s Todd exclusive.
• Greta: I was pressured.  Profile: Melissa Harris-Perry. More.
• Kelly File video: Terror pipeline exclusive part one, part two.
• Brian Stelter: Fox News ‘tends not to apologize’?!?  Flashback!
• CNN wants Arwa Damon lawsuit dismissed.  Kilmeade comments.
• Fox Report video: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.

Tags: ratings 2014, greta, megyn, friends

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-13 Hours/Benghazi 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Kilmeade quip a ‘new low’ for F&F? (Um, no.) More.
• Megyn Kelly to co-host B&C Hall of Fame with Costas (v/TVN).
• Bloomberg previews With All Due Respect.  Case adjourned.
• CNN’s future may be brightest on the internet.  CNN snippets.
• Video: Are media to blame for unsuitable Presidential ‘optics’?
• Official launch of FNC/FBN everywhere streaming. Twitter spat!
• ANHQ video: Greta van Susteren on the case of Sgt Tahmooressi.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, megyn, greta

• Reese’s piece: Time-Warner and CNN are running scared.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• HealthBeautyLife video: Melissa Francis on her tv career.
• Zucker punch: Cuts at Turner may grow to 1,500. But why?
• Hudson: Don Lemon bemoans media spectacle he’s part of.
• Somerby: In Nerdland our elites are high-paid tribal clowns.
• Wemple: Video message service verifies time of CNN audio.
• Wemple: Attorney wants redress from CNN for ‘hoax’ claim.
• Hannity video: Train-wreck interview with Anjem Choudary.
• Video: The truthy database.  Frost and Mody go ‘worldwide’.

Tags: ratings 2014, lemon, hannity, friends

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Red Eye mocks Joe Scarborough over BK boycott.
• Exclusive interviews clarify 13 Hours in Benghazi, Sept 5.
• Video: Rachel Maddow with Letterman part one, part two.
• Concha: CNN should have verified the audio before airing it.
• Unreliable sources? Wemple: CNN audio scoop may be fake.
• F&F video: Lea Gabrielle trains with Newark PD SWAT team.
• Concha: There is no upside to NBC’s employment of The Rev.
• Daryn Kagan’s advice to CNNers about to get Zucker punched.
• WeatherNation opposes Comcast/TW deal.  Don Lemon: False.

Tags: ratings 2014, redeye, baier, maddow, friends, lemon

• The Five video: Debate over ISIS and golfing turns rowdy.
• CNN demo streak over: Fox News tops MSNBCNN combined.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Al-Jazeera contributor leaves Ferguson ‘in disgust’ (via FTV).
• New Day’s new high; the overnight problem; Out Front of what?
• Kimberly’s crib: a cool two mill.  Marvel-ous: the Cooper comics.
• Imus video: Bret Baier.  F&F video: Foley friend Matthew VanDyke.
• Factor vids: Ferguson, the truth; The Rev’s role; Bernard Goldberg.

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• Media Buzz videos: Ferguson, Robin Williams, Hillary’s hug.
• Reliable Sources: Ferguson, The Rev, Chuck Todd, Dr Ablow.
• Profile: Dierdre Bolton discusses making a career shift.
• The War on Fox: Coverage of executed Christians mocked.
• Video: Shepard Smith on ESPN.  Sunday talkers: preview.
• Video: Peter Johnson Jr on the import of the robbery video.
• Your Buzz videos: Challenging Frank Luntz, Fox and the GOP.

Tags: shep, friends

• The Five video: Is US action a match for the ISIS threat?
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-MacCallum-The Five 1-2-3.
• Q&A: Dr Keith Ablow; Dr Drew Pinsky. Tapper’s twitter.
• NAHJ co-founder blasts group’s award to...guess who?
• Fox & Friends video: Depression...questions and answers.
• Stelter: ‘Riot’ is an incendiary word CNN has avoided.  More.
• Somerby: Hannity viewers got ‘fuller picture’ than Maddow’s.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on wall-to-wall Williams.  Lone Wolf.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, hannity, maddow, oreilly

• Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-MacCallum-Greta 1-2-3.
• Somerby: ‘One of the strangest segments ever seen on tv.’
• Jo Ling Kent on Alibaba.  Dry heaves.  Weekend numbers.
• Controversy swirls around Qatar-sponsored content on CNN.
• The New Day that never dawned.  Mr Bill meets Mr Baldwin.
• CNN Special: The War Comes Home.  Q&A: Soledad O’Brien.
• Concha: Hillary’s allies at MSNBC are busily rewriting history.
• Fox & Friends video: Kevin McCarthy remembers Robin Williams.
• Video: Shep talks to Larry King about Williams. Today’s apologies.
• Byers: Gregory’s flight to nowhere.  Guthrie: The clock is ticking.

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, oreilly, friends, shep, king

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• Media Buzz videos: Airstrikes, Chris Wallace, Frank Luntz.
• Reliable Sources videos: Gaza bias, Glenn Beck, Rupert.
• Zucker play: Catering to the cume?  The Rev backs down.
• MSNBC still doing damage control over Cinco de Mayo flap.
• Your Buzz videos: MSNBC vs Fox, Syria, internet addiction.
• Atkinson: AJAm pats itself on the back.  Sunday talk: preview.
• Video: Rick Reichmuth hospitalized after race mishap. Flashback.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bream-The Five 1-2-3.
• Ariens: Hannity’s tunnel vision. Zurawik: Silly and shameless.
• Gates: O’Donnell disses Hasselbeck, vetoes S.E. Cupp?!?
• Hogue: ‘Saucier, more vivacious...’  Special: Live Free or Die.
• Q&A: Thomas Roberts (v/TVN); Maria Bartiromo; CNN’s Susie Xu.
• NYC mayor ‘furious’ with The Rev.  Robyn Curnow to anchor desk.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on media, Hamas, and Hollywood.

Tags: ratings 2014, hannity, friends, baier, oreilly

• Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-Bream 1-2-3.
• CNN hires Alexandra Field, drops Oren, amidst more layoffs.
• Byers: Bloomberg cancels Politics Capitol, lays off staffers.
• Q&A: Sean Hannity, back from Israel; journalist Nina Terrero.
• Morrisey joins The War on Fox.  Africonfusion: Niger, Kenya.
• Factor video: Truth Serum.  Maddow exec to The View (v/ICN).
• F&F video: Lea Gabrielle flies cross-country part one, part two.

Tags: ratings 2014, hannity, oreilly, maddow, friends

• Zucker punch? David Gregory spied meeting with CNN.
• Sunday Housecall videos: Ebola in the USA part one, part two.
• Media Buzz videos: Impeachapalooza, Israel, Stephen A Smith.
• Reliable Sources videos: Glenn Beck, Israel, social media.
• Ex-Time Warner honcho pooh-poohs Murdoch overtures.
• Today’s apology.  Twitter spat: Piers vs Larry.  Sunday talkers.
• Clayton Morris comments on his exclusion from Outnumbered.
• Your Buzz videos: Gaza casualties, fairness at Fox, Bob Beckel.

Tags: piers, king, friends

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Fitzgerald: July winner: Megyn Kelly; losers: Maddow, AJAm.
• F&F video: Shouting match erupts over Clinton/UBL charges.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on Jesse Ventura, Rand Paul.
• Late Night video: Megyn with Seth Meyers part one, part two.
• Engulf and Devour: How far will he go to acquire Time-Warner? 
• Scarry: CNN’s dog that didn’t bark.  Tracey: MSNBC has one too.
• OtR video: Why Greta says ‘I smell a rat!’  ICN: Read the fine print.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, maddow, friends, oreilly, greta, icn

• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Walsh gets his man: Wanted child molester shot by police.
• Fareed Zakaria, Sarah Palin: moonlighting strangers.  More.
• Screened questions at Zucker confab.  Laura eyeing politics?
• Wolff: The worst option for CNN? If nobody buys Time-Warner.
• F&F videos: Fox Fan Day festivities; ‘Remember, lean forward!’
• Fox Report video: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.

Tags: ratings 2014, palin, friends

• The Five video: Debate over world events turns ultra-rowdy.
• Friday’s numbers: The Five/5pm-The Five/8pm-Baier 1-2-3.
• Patten: As FNCNN ratings spike, MSNBC viewership flatlines.
• Impartial MSNBC anchor to receive an award from La Raza.
• MSNBC contributor zings...MSNBC!  More.  Today’s outrage.
• Fox will take its time forging a ‘compelling offer’ for T-W.
• F&F video: Janice Dean hit with an ice-cream malfunction.
• Q&A: Rosa Flores.  Rita Cosby resurfaces.  Today’s conspiracy.

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• Media Buzz: Shoot-down, José Vargas, Murdoch’s bid.
• Reliable Sources: Ayman Mohyeldin, Murdoch’s bid.
• F&F vIdeo: ISIS commands Christians...convert or die.
• Zucker punch: CNN ‘crossed a new low in cable news’.
• First reactions to Alisyn Camerota’s CNN debut.  More.
• Cablers’ cribs: Mika B, Sam Champion (via TVN); Coop.
• Let’s rehash the ‘Chinamen’ kerfuffle.  Sunday talkers.
• Murdoch lining up one of the largest takeover loans ever.
• Video: Gaza firefight breaks out across from FNC location.
• Your Buzz videos: Immigrant children, judging Israel, Glenn Beck.

Tags: friends, icn, cooper, lemon

• Friday’s numbers: Kelly-The Five-Special Report 1-2-3.
• Today’s firing demand prompts an on-air response.
• The Hunt opens strong.  MSNBC exec kicked upstairs.
• CNN snags Alisyn Camerota. Let the specularama begin.
• Charlie Gasparino ejected from Sun Valley soirée. More.
• Sorry, wrong Avenger.  Why HLN is not a ‘news network’.
• Q&A: José Díaz-Balart on his MSNBC debut.  Today’s oops.
• Gloomy weather gets gloomier.  Heathers.  United they stand.

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• Media Buzz: Border bias, anti-Israel slant, sexism gets a pass?
• Reliable Sources: Josh Earnest, ladies’ day, anti-Hillary book.
• Flying high.  Luke Russert’s very bad day.  Sunday talkers.
• CNN developing series with ‘religious scholar’ Reza Aslan.
• Politifact sides with Megyn Kelly.  Kiran Chetry resurfaces.
• Your Buzz videos: Border chaos, Matt Lauer, musical mayhem.
• F&F videos: Running the BattleFrog part one, pt two, pt three.

Tags: megyn, friends

• Red Eye video: Should Sirius have fired Anthony Cumia?
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Will a Rosie/Elisabeth cross-channel feud erupt?
• Factor video: Border debate turns rowdy.  Weekend numbers.
• AJAm President predicts ratings will rise. Shafer: You think so?
• Comcast deal mantra: do it for the children!  Yesterday’s oops.

Tags: redeye, ratings 2014, friends, oreilly, mojo

• Profile: Stacey Dash.  Tapper segments target DC dysfunction.
• Weprin: John Walsh talked with FNC before signing with CNN.
• Lean Forward: José Díaz-Balart to premiere Monday 10:00 am.
• Friday’s numbers: Shannon Bream-Bill O’Reilly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Did CNN’s calamitous warnings scare people needlessly?
• Fox & Friends video: What is the Office of Refugee Resettlement?
• Zuckered: Did Sanjay Gupta fall for an overhyped marketing ploy?
• Kelly File video: Will one tough judge break open the IRS scandal?
• Fox Report videos: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, megyn

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bream 1-2-3.
• Concha: A good Jay Carney show option for MSNBC.
• Q&A: Elisabeth Hasselbeck; Sarah Palin eyes The View.
• Outnumbered adds after-show (v/Weprin); debut video.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC to air immigration ‘documentary’.
• Joan Rivers slams CNN: ‘Every question was accusatory’.

Tags: friends, palin, ratings 2014

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Covering Arthur, from reason to stormy frothing.
• Somerby: Chris Matthews ‘one of us’? A remarkable ploy!
• Cable news truth: Mediaite 27-second claim proves false.
• Alums gather for America’s Talking reunion.  Design dispute.
• Kelly File video: Bill Ayers and Dinesh D’Souza debate values.
• Wemple: O’Reilly and patriotism; Russell Brand’s Fox bashing.
• July 4 specials: Proud to Be American; Kelly File; CNN; MSNBC.

Tags: ratings 2014, matthews, friends, megyn, oreilly

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Rosenberg: The hidden agendas of Outnumbered.
• Zucker’s plan to save Crossfire: turn it into The Four?
• When 11pm is calling, why does Anderson fly the Coop?
• Vladimir Duthiers exits CNN. Today’s Comcast grumblings.
• Patterico: Did Mediate and Gawker lie about Gregg Jarrett?
• F&F video: The Amazing Kreskin amazes part one, part two.
• Videos: Bernard Goldberg, Howard Kurtz on bias, humor etc.

Tags: ratings 2014, cooper, friends, oreilly

• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC helps stage White House event.
• Video: A Glenn Greenwald bombshell is ‘imminent’.
• Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to jail.  Flashback.
• Wemple: Benghazi is ‘essential’ in Hillary interviews.
• Video: Jonathan Karl treason question raises eyebrows.
• Droning news?  Hammer time no longer.  Vice eyes HLN.
• Coop cops costly Connecticut crib.  Q&A: Charles Payne.
• F&F video: Dr Nina Radcliff on disease risks at the border.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, baier, greta, cooper, friends

• Media Buzz videos: Hillary Q&As, Bret+Greta, Redskins.
• Reliable Sources: Islamophobia, soccer, LeVar Burton.
• Unguarded unscheduled: Begins a one-month hiatus.
• Golub: Cable news women named to distinguished list.
• Video: Obstacle course honors medal of honor recipients.
• Lean Forward: Chuck Todd crack stirs controversy.
• Charles Payne: He’d give you the shirt off his back.
• Your Buzz videos: Hillary, Chelsea, and Jon Stewart.
• CNNMoney on the move...again!  Cupp’s boy.  Sunday talk.
• Kurtz: Megyn Kelly’s Cheney interview was ‘accountability’.

Tags: baier, greta, friends, megyn

• The Five video: On Hillary’s defense of a child rapist.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: On CNN, copious coached applause for Hillary.
• Video: Maria Molina rescued by USAF.  Today’s apology.
• Kate Bolduan and Mika B snag POTUS Q&As.  Flashback.
• Good news for Smerconish is bad news for CNN viewers.
• CNNi skeds The World Right Now.  Grace gets results (via).
• O’Donnell returns Monday; Q&A: ‘What a stupid way to die’.

Tags: friends, mojo, o'donnell

• Video: The Five squabble over the best course in Iraq.
• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Q&A: Chris Wallace on 50 years in news...and his Dad.
• Politan exits HLN (via); Juliana Goldman exits Bloomb.
• Cablenews third-degree: Dana Bash and Joe Kernan.
• Imus video: Ed Henry on Iraq.  Luke remembers Dad.
• Charges of bias erupt at CNN’s shareholders meeting.
• F&F video: The War on Fox? Just ‘a misunderstanding’?!
• Coop in Baghdad.  Peripatetic anchors play musical studios.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, cooper

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Profile: Steve and Peter Doocy...like father, like son.
• Outnumbered video: Ed Henry on Obama’s Iraq plans.
• Today’s oops.  CNN’s X Factor.  Another CNN crash.
• Jansing & Co signs off.  ’30 Rock’ out, ‘Comcast Bldg’ in?
• Salon: Why Ronan’s show is a bust.  Today’s OJ special.
• Kelly File videos: Crisis at the border part one, part two.
• Zakaria: We’re not a public charity here!  CNNi awarded.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, greta, megyn

• The Five: Discussion turns hot over the chaos in Iraq.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• ‘Don’t bet against Bartiromo’: video.  Greta zings CNN.
• Can HLN draw millennials fast enough to stave off Vice?
• Byers: Cable news is in trouble...especially MSNBC.  More.
• Zurawik: CNN ethics compromised by airing of Bush profile.
• Moore: Can CNN specials substitute for news?  Under fire.
• CNN defends OJ special on election night.  ICN: They blew it.
• F&F video: Using children as political pawns?  Q&A: Bret Baier.
• How Megyn Kelly balances a nightly show and raising a family.
• More crystal-ball gazing into the future of HLN.  Today’s oops.

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• The Five video: Your get out of jail free card...yoga?!
• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Megyn Kelly tops cable news (25-54) for the week.
• Carl Quintanilla moonlights.  Rita Cosby resurfaces.
• Video: Are the media taking sides in Bergdahl flap?
• Today’s bright ideas to ‘save CNN’.   Today’s oops.
• AJAm is keeping secrets.  F&F video: Is he still here?
• James Rosen in a twitter spat (v/TVN).  Breakfast with Jeff.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, friends

• Media Buzz videos: Bergdahl; Bret Baier pt one, pt two.
• Reliable Sources videos: Bergdahl, Rolling Stone, Netflix.
• Factor videos: POWs vs war criminals; James Rosen.
• Your Buzz videos: Brian Williams, Scarborough, MSNBC.
• Q&A: Bret Baier.  Give Mel Robbins a show?  Sunday talk.
• F&F video: Daughtry nixes encore, walks off. Update: apology.

Tags: baier, oreilly, mojo, friends

• Thursday’s numbers: Kelly File-O’Reilly-Baier 1-2-3.
• CNN names David Chalian Political Director.  More.
• Bill O’Reilly videos: Today on NBC, Fox & Friends.
• TJ Holmes to take Finney’s timeslot?  Maddow: False.
• O’Reilly zings Carol Costello; Chris Hayes zings O’Reilly.
• Today’s firing demand.  D-Day video: Operation Overlord.
• Kelly File video: Bergdahl platoon mates part one, part two.

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• The Five video: Ramifications of the Bergdahl swap.
• CNN celebrity chef rips MSNBC’s ‘pointless shrieking’.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly File 1-2-3.
• Zucker punched: On Friday CNN 10pm hit 14-year low.
• Q&A: Charles Payne.  CNBC scraps daytime Nielsens.
• Could Gen Shinseki’s replacement be an MSNBC host?
• Extreme makeover: New CNNMoney connects to CNN tv.
• CNN acquires 41ON41.  Greta: Our plans for Hillary Q&A.
• Video: Glenn Greenwald on his upcoming NSA bombshell.
• Don’t let Randi Kaye take over CNN Newsroom!  Today’s oops.

Tags: greta, friends

• Media Buzz videos: Shinseki, Snowden, food fight.
• Reliable Sources: Shinseki, reparations, Ellsberg.
• Special Heart tells Bret Baier’s courageous story.
• CNN’s The Sixties disrespects the footage it features.
• Greta: I’m disappointed in myself. Q&A: Drew Griffin.
• Video: Dana Perino reacts to Jay Carney resignation.
• Profile: Willie Geist (v/TVN).  Turkey detains CNNer.
• Your World video: Montel Williams.  Sunday talkers.
• ICN: Newsmax and One News fight over table scraps.
• Your Buzz videos: The kiss, VA, MA370, CNN vs Benghazi.

Tags: baier, greta, friends, icn

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• CNN premiere down from previous Sixties outings.
• Zucker punch: CNN gloats after strong Sixties debut.
• Greta: ‘It’s in my DNA as a former defense lawyer’.
• Tenenbaum: America’s best cable news channel?
• Outnumbered video: Why didn’t Obama fire Shinseki?
• Where’s Weir? Clearly, he’s not hosting CNN Tonight.
• FNC College Challenge winner.  TVN: Levy, Barbieri, Joe.
• Wemple: Can Bret+Greta trump Congress? Concha: Why Fox?

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• War Stories video: The women of World War II.
• Media Buzz videos: VA scandal, bad Mom, the sting.
• Reliable Sources: VA scandal, smearing HIllary, AT&T.
• Driscoll: CNN should steal from Fox, not MSNBC.
• Your Buzz videos: Privacy, sexism, Hillary, Beyoncé.
• Zurawik: Coverage of VA scandal was classic CNN.
• Jake Tapper receives Patriot award.  Sunday talkers.
• Ed Schultz: Mostly false; Kim Guilfoyle: Pants on fire.
• Videos: Fleet Week part one, part two, part three, bonus.
• Special Weekend Programming: D-Day + 70: Secrets Revealed;  O.J. Simpson Murders at 20 Years;  War Stories Marathon;  MSNBC.

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• Media Buzz videos: Abramson, Rove vs Hill, Sterling.
• Reliable Sources videos: Abramson, Auletta, Sterling.
• Behind the CNN plagiarism scandal.  Mika’s night out.
• Zucker play: Next on CNN...the inside scoop on UFOs!
• Your Buzz videos: Lara Logan, May 5, Gilbert Gottfried.
• Fox & Friends videos: The Spartan Race part one, part two, part three, part four, bonus one, bonus two, about the race.

Tags: mojo, friends

• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Bret Baier-O’Bolling 1-2-3.
• Zucker punch: CNN Tonight hits a four-year low; more.
• Howerton: An MSNBC mistake that could prove costly.
• Gregg Jarrett taking time off ‘for personal reasons’.
• Video: Controversy swirls around George Will #remarks.
• Outnumbered tops rivals in 25-54 and P2+ (per Nielsen).
• Leno and Lemon beget levity.  Today’s oops.  Will: false.
• Bill Schulz: ‘I have nothing but good thoughts about FNC.’
• Hogue: The bear necessities.  Friday’s other numbers.
• Fox & Friends video: A surprise for Anna part one, part two.

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• Video: Shep and Judge Napolitano rail about drone policies.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Laura-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: Thomas Roberts says he’s sorry. More.  Clockwork.
• Audio: A Fox surprise...‘It’s fun to be back in the building.’
• Q&A: Harris Faulkner; Megyn Kelly on success, sexism, Shep.
• Video: Howard Kurtz discusses Red Eye rules of debate.
• Zurawik: MSNBC sneers, but Fox is right to pursue Benghazi.
• Michael Smerconish makes book...and the parallels are clear.
• Imus video: Juan Williams talks Benghazi, Lewinsky, and more.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, audio, judgenap, friends, megyn, redeye

• Friday’s numbers: O’Laura-WH CoverUp-Baier 1-2-3.
• Whom will CNN find to replace Kate?  Flashback.
• Can a celebrity chef save CNN?  Chris Matthews at OSU.
• On eve of Comcast merger, MSNBC throws blowout party.
• Video: Sharyl Attkisson part one, part two.  Today’s oops.
• Hot & Not: Gawker, Jansing, Outnumbered, Benghazi etc.
• Heilemannn and Halperin jump to Bloomberg.  Teasing Ed.

Tags: ratings 2014, matthews, friends, icn

• The Five video: Carney ensnared in Benghazi web.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-Bream 1-2-3.
• Politico: Gawker report ‘full of holes’; Shep: ‘100% false’.
• ICN: Ailes, Shep, and a multi-million-dollar elephant.
• Wemple: Scarborough zings CNN.  Q&A: Deirdre Bolton.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on Sterling’s legal issues.
• CNN Tonight on hiatus...or is it?  Spurlock cuts a deal. 
• Video: Tall Fall. It’s the war on Fox!  Yesterday’s oops.
• Moving day: Gorani to London, John Huddy to Jerusalem.
• April numbers: Fox holds top 14 slots; CNN trumps MSNBC.
• Colmes: Some liberals wary of me because of my employers.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, friends, mojo

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Who will wear the pants on Outnumbered?
• Rosenberg: Outnumbered’s well-calibrated juicy debut.
• Wemple: Howard Kurtz proves the naysayers wrong.
• Rothman: Stelter’s claim about Fox News is ‘absurd’.
• Joe Klein: The only 6:00 pm newscast is on Fox News.
• Video: Tucker is Outnumbered in the debut broadcast.
• Outnumbered is ‘news first and foremost’...plus sparks.
• F&F vIdeo: Anna’s excuses.  Alisyn Camerota resurfaces.
• CNN changes spur fan site closing. Cablers cover canonization.

Tags: ratings 2014, baier, friends

• Media Buzz videos: Bundy, David Gregory, and Colbert.
• Reliable Sources: Bundy, David Gregory, and tornadoes.
• Video: Wrigley Field.  Guests of Greta.  Sunday talkers.
• Greta: The drama of tv news...and what’s really going on.
• Your Buzz videos: East coast bias, ‘royal’ baby, race cards.
• Chicagoland plays by Rahm’s rules.  Tall tales about tuition?
• Elder: The media whip up a firestorm, and Hannity falls for it!
• Lorenzo: Hannity should have stayed away from Cliven Bundy.
• Bias Bash video: Why the sudden media obsession with Bundy?

Tags: friends, greta, hannity

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• From the ‘nothing succeeds like failure’ department...
• More honors: Megyn, Maria, Maddow make ‘impact list’.
• Q&A: Maria Bartiromo, one of ’50 women who run NY’.
• Video: Megyn Kelly named to Time 100 influentials list.
• The Mole, part deux.  Wemple: What now, Mr Hannity?
• Coop’s crib is up for bids.  Keith Olbermann resurfaces.
• Video: Juan Williams questions Media Matters’ tax status.
• Roller: Scarborough takes a page from Trump’s playbook.
• Hannity video: Judge Napolitano on eminent domain abuse.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, maddow, olbermann, hannity, friends, judgenap, mojo

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: CNN releases its hostage.  Reliable edges Buzz.
• Audio: Brit Hume on David Gregory (v/Gibson). Flashback.
• New Comcast opponent surfaces.  It’s MSNBC’s ‘big fail’.
• Bennett: AJAm’s stumbling blocks may be insurmountable.
• Video: After Anna’s run.  Bad weather.  Weekend numbers.

Tags: ratings 2014, audio, friends

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Again? This deceptive MSNBC edit misrepresents Megyn.
• Wemple: Freed from CBS Attkisson makes PR hay on cable.
• Q&A: Bill O’Reilly reflects on the Boston Marathon (v/TVN).
• Anna’s run; video: one year later.  Profile: Morgan Spurlock.
• Zucker play: CNN offers ways the KKK can improve its image.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, oreilly, friends

• Media Buzz: Race card, Snowden, Attkisson, bad tweets.
• Reliable Sources: Greenwald; Attkisson part one, part two.
• Your Buzz videos: Attkisson, Pelosi, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
• Sunday talk. Popes & Presidents. Profile: James Peterson.
• Zurawik: Fox & Friends not very friendly to Rep Cummings.

Tags: friends

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Don Lemon: model citizen.  MSNBC’s primetime plummet.
• Greta: WH Fox obsession is getting delusional.  Q&A: Greta.
• Megyn loves Ellen & Jimmy, but who is it she doesn’t watch?
• Zara: Outnumbered targets female viewers.  Wallace re-ups.
• Videos: Bundy analysis from Judge Napolitano and Bob Massi.
• Kogan: As its end nears, unanswered questions dog Chicagoland.
• CNN flight instructor fired by uFly.  Get your own CNN news desk.

Tags: ratings 2014, greta, megyn, judgenap, friends, lemon

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Outnumbered: FNC noon program premieres April 28.
• Bill O’Reilly on The View. Don Lemon w/Laura Ingraham.
• Zucker play: It’s Breaking News!   Bartiromo honored.
• Kohn: What I learned as a liberal on Fox News (via NB).
• Greta: Exerting influence.  Cablers on distinguished list.
• Profile: Steve Kornacki.  Zurawik: ‘Full-tilt boogie mode’.
• Col North moonlights.  Hannity video: Bundy tactics argued.
• Felsenthal: Waiting for The Rev to keep his word to Chicago.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, greta, friends, hannity, lemon

• Media Buzz: Sebelius, Attkisson part one, part two.
• Reliable Sources: Colbert, Cavett, China, MSNBC.
• They pick on Heather, but Ronan never: part deux.
• Q&A: Morgan Spurlock.  Profile: Anthony Bourdain.
• Rosario: Drug trafficker contradicts Sharpton story.
• Your Buzz videos: Mika, Jeb, Dave.  Sunday talkers.
• Ratigan and Bashir resurface.  Zain Verjee exits CNN.
• Clayton’s family secrets: video.  Remembering Boston.
• Bret Baier teams with UAE ambassador to save children.

Tags: friends, baier, mojo

• The Five video: The Brandeis brouhaha.
• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-TheFive-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Will Rachel Maddow devote a segment to this too?
• Zucker punch: Interview shows ‘no longer viable’.
• New CNN primetime to feature docs, rotating hosts.
• Fox Biz going commercial free for last hour of trading.
• Special: Terror Strikes Boston, Boston Strikes Back.
• O’Reilly videos: w/Matt Lauer; on F&F pt one, pt two.
• Lean Forward: The Smoking Gun calls Sharpton a liar.
• Joe gets to speak.  A rough start to Comcast hearings.
• Bishara: Fact-based fiction...the mystery of CNN 2014.
• Lizzie O’Leary resurfaces.   Ed Henry in a twitter spat.
• Kelly File: Brandeis debate turns rowdy part one, part two.

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, oreilly, friends, mojo, megyn

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
• CNN digital plans include a news show for twitter.
• Lean Forward: (MS)NBC accused of ‘union-busting’.
• Somerby: Maddow misrepresents O’Reilly and Kelly.
• Somerby: ‘Propaganda for gullible liberals’.  More.
• MSNBC stonewalls questions on Scarborough speech.
• Lean Forward: The Cycle plummets to an all-time low.
• Punjab, Vegas first stops for celebrity chef’s saison deux.
• CNBC stocks up on reality shows.  Echo chamber at work.
• Making the Case didn’t.  Crossfire watch: soon.  Get lost!

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, oreilly, megyn, o'donnell, matthews, friends, mojo

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Weather Channel agrees to demands, returns to DirecTV.
• Continetti: Comcast deal creates a political powerhouse.
• Survivor Diaries revisits Boston bombing.  Brand news.
• The Rev: I’m no snitch.  Paula Zahn feet first.  Joe ’16.
• Today’s outrage!  Flashback.  Wemple. Video flashback.
• FBN sponsors golfer Jason Dufner.  Somerby: Which Chris?
• Video profile: John Siegenthaler.  Q&A: Morgan Spurlock.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on the Mozilla megillah.
• Greta: I still support CNN’s coverage.  Weekend numbers.
• Chavez: The Ft Hood shooting, Megyn Kelly, and ethnicity.
• Wemple: On CNN Crossfire still M.I.A.  Amanpour honored.
• Smerconish struggles for viewers, is unlikely to get 9:00 pm.

Tags: ratings 2014, cooper, friends, matthews, oreilly, greta, mojo, megyn

• The Five video: The Mozilla megillah.
• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
• Somerby: How honest should Rachel Maddow be?
• What MSNBC host was a secret FBI informant (v/Alan)?
• Bloomberg’s Rachel Crane jumps to CNN.  Crashin’ In.
• Fox News anchor target of misogynist smear, gets apology.
• Carr: As Comcast merger approaches, questions proliferate.

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, friends

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• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Special Report 1-2-3.
• CNN signs new contributor: Politico’s Maggie Haberman.
• Wemple: MSNBC’s daytime malaise, typified in one video.
• The drums say Alisyn’s going to CNN.  More.  Still more.
• Ronan about to be cancelled...or not? More. Today’s oops.
• Greta: One reason why there is so much MA370 coverage.
• Imus video: Bill O’Reilly on Ukraine etc.  Topping the charts.
• Deirdre Bolton: Profile, Q&A.  Futures debut ‘well-paced’.
• The other search CNN is conducting.  Fund: Blurry lines.
• CNN touts record digital views.  What’s next, a game show?
• F&F videos: Batter’s box battle; Tucker can sleep anywhere.

Tags: ratings 2014, greta, oreilly, friends

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Shaw: Plane-orama boosts CNN, FNC as MSNBC dips.
• CNN scraps regular programing for breaking non-news.
• Concha: What will cable do if the plane is never found?
• Video: Maria Molina throws up, passes out...and flies.
• White House conscripts mice to fight their War on Fox.
• O’Reilly movie project expands to four-hour miniseries.
• Imus video: Greg Gutfeld on media, Fox, Not Cool, etc.
• CNN’s Dana Bash named to list of ‘powerful’ DC women.
• Report: Anonymous CNN staffers question plane coverage.
• Disney shareholder: why are ABC anchors jumping to CNN?
• Kurtz: Media embroiled in perpetual plane hysteria.  Ouch.
• Greta: Note to hand-wringing armchair critics...get over it!
• Zorn: Surprise! CNN’s media critic demands more speculation!
• Backlash to the backlash? Wemple: It’s explanatory journalism.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, oreilly, greta

• Media Buzz vids: Da plane, Lena Dunham, Costas, panic.
• Reliable Sources: Da plane, da plane, da plane, Ukraine.
• FNC update: four hours of Harris and Pirro.  CNN update.
• Late Show video: Bill O’Reilly with David Letterman.
• Joe not closing the 2016 door.  Sunday talkers: tip sheet.
• Bordelon: The Cycle has become unfunny sketch comedy.
• Hogue: Aly’s bland send-off.  Somerby: Explaining Maddow?
• CNN signs Mel Robbins.  Salazar: Chicagoland’s stereotypes.
• Your Buzz videos: Bob Costas, avoiding Palin, and Rob Ford.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, friends, maddow, palin, mojo

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Seer Schultz slips up. Bernie Shaw resurfaces.
• Wolff and Roberts at SxSW.  The Judge spills the beans.
• Will cable news reports help save a boy’s life?   Update.
• Wallenstein: He’s awesome on twitter...and awful on tv.
• Video: Ronan Farrow w/ Colbert.  Cablers cover explosion.
• Video: Judge Nap w/ Jon Stewart pt one, pt two, pt three.
• Video: Rachel Maddow with Seth Meyers part one, part two.

Tags: ratings 2014, schultz, judgenap, friends, maddow

• The Five video: CPAC and media mockery.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Laura-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Simon: Ronan does not speak for my generation.
• Alisyn Camerota is leaving Fox News.  Coincidence?
• John Kerry zings CNN (via Greta).  Grace under fire.
• Cable news journalism ala Robert Redford (via FTV).
• Imus video: Juan Williams on Ukraine, missing flight, etc.
• Redford/Sarandon CNN series debut: solid.  Today’s oops.
• Video Q&A: Clayton Morris.  Michaela MIA?  Sarah sought?
• Hot & Not: CPAC, Kudlow, Newsmax, courtroom capers, etc

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, palin, icn

• The Five video: Shepard Smith reports from Ukraine.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• CNN’s 10pm hour will mainly be canned documentaries.
• Concha: What cable news really needs...more bubbles!
• Al-Jazeera America only pulls in 5,000 demo viewers.
• CNN unloads Zite app.  Q&A: Jeff Zucker, Arwa Damon. 
• Video: Hasselbeck feature debuts with Darrell Wallace Jr.
• Weather Channel morning show to feature Sam Champion.
• Special Report video: All-star panel on the crisis in Ukraine.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, baier

• The Five video: Russia tightens its grip on Crimea.
• Lean Backward: Week one Farrow and Reid lose ground.
• Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• CJR: Fox News progressives...feisty and prominent (v/NB).
• Q&A: ‘True gentleman’ Bret Baier on career, politics, etc.
• Jake Tapper ‘adopts’ a US soldier via ‘Homefront Hugs’.
• Piers sticking with CNN.  Coop’s off to Ukraine.  Priorities.
• Hogue: Fox & Friends...weakened.  Hannity’s ‘secret life’.
• Fox & Friends videos: Janice Dean steps up; hitting the ice.
• ICN: Ronan tries to be everything...and succeeds at nothing.
• Hot & Not: Bartiromo, Ukraine, Piers, Hannity, New Day, etc.

Tags: ratings 2014, baier, piers, cooper, friends, hannity, icn

• Bigelow: Reliable Sources edits out criticism of its host.
• Media Buzz videos: Piers, the age issue, Ronan Farrow.
• Reliable Sources: Bridgegate, Justice Thomas, Fox News.
• Piers: CNN was just holding me back!  Growing pains.
• Geraldo’s Scandalous premieres Saturday...or does it?
• Somerby: The three faces of Nunziato.  Today’s apology.
• Your Buzz videos: Trial by media, Zimmerman, FCC bias?
• Thank you for being a friend.  Sunday talk: turn the table.
• Factor video: ‘Harmful entertainment’ debate gets personal.

Tags: piers, maddow, friends, oreilly

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, hannity, friends, oreilly, mojo

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, hannity, friends, maddow, piers, king, mojo

• 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?

Tags: ratings 2014, maddow, friends, piers, greta

• 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.

Tags: piers, friends

• 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?

Tags: ratings 2014, hannity, friends, greta

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, piers, o'donnell, judgenap, friends, baier

• 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.

Tags: piers, friends, oreilly, lemon

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, piers, friends, mojo

• 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.

Tags: redeye, greta, friends, oreilly

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, cooper, friends

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, redeye, friends, oreilly, mojo

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Bill O’Reilly, please interrupt Barack Obama, says...HuffPo!
• Who got nominated to CNBC influential business leaders list?
• ICN: Bad day at 30 Rock.  Video: Ronan Farrow with Fallon.
• Factor video: Laura Ingraham; Hannity video: Reince Priebus.
• Wemple: Does nasty MSNBC tweet exemplify their prejudices?
• Video: Football for a cause...wounded warriors and NFL greats.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, hannity, friends

• The Five video: Oblivious MSNBC’s imagined hatred.
• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly File-The Five 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Phil Griffin furious, rips staff’s ‘stupid actions’.
• RNC 1, MSNBC 0: Griffin issues an apology, fires staffer.
• GOP chairman bans staff from MSNBC. Q&A: Phil Griffin.
• Official msnbc twitter: conservatives are racists! More.
• Shaw: Behind the scenes with CNN at the SotU address.
• PPP Poll: Fox News most (and least) trusted news source.
• CNN revives John King’s Inside Politics.  Burnett’s back.
• Fox & Friends video: The Clydesdales star in Puppy Love.
• Wemple: Maddow/Koch feud escalates.  Q&A: Peter Hamby.

Tags: ratings 2014, friends, maddow

• Your World video: Gone too soon.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly File-The Five 1-2-3.
• Uh oh...Fox News host hammers Fox News contributor.
• Q&A: Bill O’Reilly talks politics, media, and (MS)NBC.
• ICN: New MSNBC dayside sked is redundant monotony.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC sets Ronan, Reid daytime hours.
• Zucker is ‘incredibly comfortable’ with Bieberapalooza.
• Video: Steve Doocy is Kansan of the Year.  Today’s oops.
• Hotless Not Hot: Weather, Bieber, tape, Andrea Mitchell.
• Kaplan: CNN’s ratings collapse.   Rich: Fox News is dead!
• Mushnick: A media bridge too far.  Lowry: Toothless Buzz?
• Imus video: Martha MacCallum on Christie, Grammies, etc.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, friends

• The Five video: Controversy over post-NFL-game rant.
• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Biznets frolic in Davos.  Stuart Varney re-ups with FBN.
• Elle profile: Megyn Kelly...at the top and ‘there to stay’.
• Q&A: Harris Faulkner on the rise of ‘social network’ tv.
• Video: Judge Napolitano scoffs at alleged NSA ‘reforms’.
• Byers: There are actually three MSNBCs...or maybe four.
• Wemple: Christie rejoinders to MSNBC rated weak, lame.

Tags: ratings 2014, megyn, judgenap, friends

• Media Buzz videos: Christie, snark, Michelle turns 50.
• Reliable Sources videos: Christie, docs, doc directors.
• HuffPo: ‘How Great Is Ronan Farrow?’  Geraldo teases.
• The Scarborough stonewall.  Q&A: Soledad resurfaces.
• Video: Lauren Green’s command performance for the Pope.
• Zurawik: Ailes bio ruined by innuendo, lack of perspective.
• Your Buzz videos: Christie, obesity, tv tech, Hillary on Time.
• Kelly File video: Anthony Weiner.  Sunday talk: turn the table.

Tags: friends, megyn, mojo

• Escalation: Geraldo fires back at ‘phony’ David Folkenflik.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly File-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Adam Housley reacts to ‘bigoted’ attacks on his marriage.
• Reliable Sources near four-year low.  Weekend numbers.
• Super Bowl synergy at Fox News.  New Kurtz kontroversy.
• Video: Bret Baier on Fox News’s relationship with the WH.
• Another reason O’Reilly refers to MSNBC as ‘NBC News’.
• Somerby: MSNBC hypes flawed, dishonest Maddow theory.
• Video: Howard Kurtz on editorial backlash to Lone Survivor.
• Today’s twitter spat: Geraldo vs Folkenflik.  You don’t say!
• Launch date moved up for the new Accuweather Channel.
• TWC dropped by DTV (that loses signal in storms anyhow).
• Zucker play: ‘High’ standards at CNN.  Q&A: Jeff Zucker.
• Rothstein: MSNBC, Joe stonewall ‘stunning’ ethics uproar.
• Kelly File video: Gitmo lawyers smuggle jihad propaganda?!

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• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• MSNBC to air instant 11pm special.  Maddow milestone.
• Narrative negated.  Gretchen and Doocy.  Today’s oops.
• Bill Schulz resurfaces. Imus video: Bill Hemmer and Ford.
• Coop trumps Piers in sculpture bidding war (via MartyD).
• Wemple: Anti-Ailes author makes an unconvincing case.
• NY Times contributes two more articles to Ailes bio hype.
• Hot & Not: PR wars, CNN a.m., Ailes, Maddow, weather etc.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: NewYears/CNN-NY/FNC-The5 1-2-3.
• The 2013 program ranker: Fox News holds top 14 slots.
• Report: Impartial MSNBC journalist to anchor Too Early.
• Video: Is a twitter apology from Harris-Perry sufficient?
• Don Lemon and Bob Beckel named to distinguished list.
• 2013 numbers: Fox News beats CNN, MSNBC combined.
• Christopher: CNN targeting Harris-Perry to get her fired!?
• Zain Verjee’s heartbreak of psoriasis. Q&A: Cavuto (v/TVN).
• NBC teams with Revere.  Hogue: A ‘blondelicious’ a.m. jolt.

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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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• 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.