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Friday Links and Open Thread
05/15/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Chris Wallace 1-2-3.
- The ‘long-lost stars’ of television news: where are they now?
- Greta posts photo, it connects parents of hero cop and victim.
- MSNBC has lowest day since 2005, while AJAm is even lower!
- Video: Ethical issues mushroom in Stephanopoulos controversy.
- Rothstein: Flap over juror at Schultz trial; the judge chills out.
- Q&A: Kirsten Powers. Today’s conspiracy. Question of the day.
- Tonight video: Bill O’Reilly with Jimmy Fallon part one, part two.
- Factor video: The President, Charles Blow, and Bernard Goldberg.
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Tuesday Links and Open Thread
05/12/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Greta: O’Donnell pulled one of the oldest tricks in cable news.
- Video: Lea Gabrielle tests fighter pilot helmet with X-ray vision.
- CNN’s very bad week: falls behind MSNBC in primetime; more.
- Today’s ‘death of cable news’ polemic. The Silencing excerpts.
- HLN fiddling with their afternoon schedule. Geraldo’s new crib.
- Video: Tom Brokaw clarifies his BriWi stance. Weekend numbers.
- Examiner reporter becomes an issue in Ed Schultz trial. Day one.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
05/06/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Profile: Harris Faulkner, multi-talented rising star (via TVN).
- Gahr: Wrangle over Jonathan Alter testimony in Schultz case.
- Wemple: Greta to make clarification; Cupp guilty of advocacy?
- Chris Cuomo tweets spur outrage. Viewers ditch pot for news.
- Al-Jazeera America is in turmoil. Christine Romans and SMART.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/17/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Shepard Smith on the OKC bombing 20 years later.
- Flood: FNC report triggers Purple Heart benefits change.
- Greta special: Marine Held in Iran. Hogue: Awkward?
- Antitrust attorneys leaning against Comcast merger deal?
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
- Schreier jumps back to Fox Biz. CNN Game Night redux?
- CNN discovers an ‘illegal settlement’ that is 32 years old.
- Cablenewsers named to distinguished list. O’Donnell: False.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on media coverage of Hillary.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/10/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Monday Links and Open Thread
04/06/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
03/19/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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’.
Monday Links and Open Thread
03/16/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
03/14/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Media Buzz videos: Hillary; Ferguson; treason; who’s trusted?
- Reliable Sources: Hillary; AP files suit; Ferguson; Scientology.
- Olsen: Chris Wallace has the best office in the building.
- TCG: Roger’s Catch-22. Glee zings Mr Bill? TVN: In profile.
- Kelly File video: Anti-Fox media snarl over ‘most trusted’ poll.
- OtR video: Putin investigates Fox News analyst. Sunday talkers.
- Your Buzz videos: Race cards, Hillary, Ben Carson, Walker, 2016.
Monday Links and Open Thread
03/02/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Monday Links and Open Thread
02/16/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Does coverage of ISIS violence inspire supporters?
- A ‘fun and informative’ presidential Strange Inheritance.
- Abrams: Media self-infatuation. Greta: Media arrogance.
- HLN has a winning formula...and a not-so-winning one too.
- FNC’s $18-million man. The no-pup zone. Audio: Mr President.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
02/14/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Media Buzz videos: Terror, Jon Stewart, bloodsport, Bob Simon.
- Reliable Sources: The week, NBC News, Jon Stewart, David Carr.
- A Healthy You no longer has a time slot? Sunday talkers.
- Weekend specials: Jon Stewart (CNN), Tara Grinstead (FNC).
- Kelly File video: Kurtz and Stirewalt on GOP, Jon Stewart, etc.
- Your Buzz videos: Brian Williams, ISIS, more BriWi, and Hillary.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
02/11/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Wemple: FNC rhetoric rises as Paris Council approves lawsuit.
- The Smoking Gun: So, when does The Rev’s suspension begin?
- Greta: NBC should try a debate format, anchored by Maddow.
- Chariton: TV newsers scramble to cover Brian Williams scandal.
- NBC refuses to appear on MSNBC. Will FNC be bugging out?
- Feldman: Brian Williams should accept that Megyn Kelly invite.
- Kelly File video: Brit Hume reacts to Brian Williams suspension.
- Ed Schultz tried to get a job at Fox News. Jim Murphy promoted.
- Wemple: Maddow segment exposes crisis PR. Social Life debut set.
Monday Links and Open Thread
01/26/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Q&A: FBN’s Kennedy ‘refuses to step into a familiar box’.
- Greta: ‘Deflate-gate’ is an important story. Kate returns.
- Ex employee of local station shoots self at News Corp bldg.
- Jamie Colby Q&As: TV Newser, Lloyd Grove, BizPac Review.
- Wemple: First coverage notes on snowmaggedon. More.
- Cablenewsers gear up for snowpocalypse. CNN at Sundance.
- Concha: Weather Channel exhibits the worst possible timing.
Friday Links and Open Thread
01/23/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Jenna Lee talks to a football expert...her Dad!
- Concha: ISIS mimics a favorite cable news gimmick.
- Sellers: Here’s why Megyn Kelly really is a ‘big deal’.
- Wemple: Bill O’Reilly’s ‘climate change nonsense’.
- Video: So how well did those youtube ‘journalists’ do?
- Gretchen Carlson makes book. Campbell Brown resurfaces.
- Greta’s not-so-excellent Hanoi adventure. Alan’s hate mail.
- CNN partners with Reagan Foundation. The ‘money center’.
- Q&A: Jamie Colby. Lauren Sivan at work. Liz Claman in Davos.
- The Rev goes back to school, under his rules. ET’s Diaz to HLN.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
01/21/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Glass house resident plagiarist denigrates Murdoch and FNC.
- Lean Forward: MSNBC’s tax deadbeat pushes Obama tax plan.
- Fox’s Megyn Kelly is appealing to a more diverse demographic.
- Concha: CNN should apologize for its ‘no-go zone’ reportage.
- Wemple: CNN displays hypocrisy ripping Fox; Mr Bill chimes in.
- Wemple: Will CNN apologize for Coop, Cuomo ‘no-go’ reports?
- Hookers, game shows, and celebrity chefs...this is CNN?!?
- Zucker play: CNN planning Coop-hosted game show. Flashback.
- Fox, CNN split SotU ratings honors as MSNBC slipped even more.
- Cost of Freedom block still packs a punch. Weekend numbers.
- The reality show award goes to CNN. Q&A: Yasmin Vossoughian.
- Greta: From here, this looks pretty stupid. More. A swell party.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on the Beyoncé flap and more.
- The War on Fox: Shep zings the White House. Je Suis Fox News?
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
01/13/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wemple: CNN bans cartoons, but airs Al-Qaeda propaganda.
- MSNBCNN won’t show Hebdo cover as FNC goes full-screen.
- Rogers: Fox News Sunday a ‘crucible’ for POTUS wannabes.
- Bret Baier cancels Legatus talk. Greta responds to Concha.
- Concha: Jake Tapper exhibits symptoms of ‘The Shep Effect’.
- Maria Bartiromo anchors from Frisco. Tapper tops Cavuto.
- Imus video: Geraldo Rivera on Paris snubs, Apprentice, etc.
- It’s a boy! Walsten: CNBC, back in the restaurant business.
- HLN’s not-so-extreme makeover debuts, now with new logos!
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on media’s Muslim sympathies.
Monday Links and Open Thread
01/12/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
01/06/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Concha: News execs need to control their talent on twitter.
- Imus video: Bret Baier. The wonders of One America News.
- Hussain: Chris Cuomo, man of integrity. CNNC: Flashback.
- CNBC looking for a bump from ‘Grindr’ app; will nix Nielsen.
- MSNBCNN stoke Selma controversy. Jennifer Agiesta to CNN.
- If CNN can just perfect an Ebert hologram... Under the big top.
- Out: coffee; In: burgers. So ‘President of Red Eye’ isn’t enough?
- Factor video: The progressives vs the police. AJAm goes to pot.
- Greta: Do husbands get these questions too? And another thing...
Monday Links and Open Thread
01/05/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
01/03/15 00:00 Filed in: links
- Media Buzz videos: Huckabee, Obama, Rep Scalise, punditry.
- Companies pay The Rev to not call them racist (v/Liberaland).
- Huckabee leaves Fox News show; CNNC: apt timing by FNC.
- Grimm resignation opens a door for The Rev? Sunday talkers.
- CNN layoffs hit Reza Sayah. Greta: Why management counts.
- CNN makeover (v/CNNC). Robin Meade promo gets zero stars.
- Jake Tapper backs special needs girl. It’s science! The fur flies.
Friday Links and Open Thread
12/26/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/23/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/18/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Charlton: Megyn Kelly tops The Wrap’s list of 2014’s best.
- Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Strange Inheritance gets 9pm FBN slot; Independents to 10pm.
- Outnumbered video: Why did Hollywood cave to cyber threats?
- Charlton: HLN extreme makeover aims to ‘blow up cable news’.
- Joscelyn: Was Fareed Zakaria taken in by the ‘Gitmo snitch’?
- Concha: Robin Meade hits all the right notes in Vegas gig.
- Judge denies CNN request for Steve Jobs video testimony.
- CNN schedule chaos renders 9:00 pm a shambles. Whoops!
- Wemple: Ed Schultz’s apology covered almost all the bases.
- Q&A: Stacey Dash. Video: Cavuto’s tribute to Annie Goodman.
- Charles Molineaux resurfaces. Shift’s Code Forward launches.
- Godfrey: Retired CNN director looks back on 34 years of history.
- NY Post: Send Greta to Havana. YTJD: The Carmen Kringle Matter.
- Late Night videos: Bill O’Reilly with Seth Meyers part one, part two.
- Jimmy Kimmel Live videos: Megyn Kelly w/Jimmy part one, part two.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/17/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Concha: Greta’s plea is noble, refreshing...and unrealstic.
- Killing Lincoln to air on FNC with a Factor special edition.
- Marianne Rafferty and her family’s battle with Valley Fever.
- Lea Gabrielle’s first year at FNC. Lou Dobbs goes high tech.
- Q&A: José Díaz-Balart. MJ Lee exits Politico for CNN Digital.
- CNN’s outdated, silly acronymn exposé. Newsroom workflow.
- Yet another year-end ‘best’ list names multiple cablenewsers.
- Video: Judge Napolitano rules on so-called executive ‘actions’.
- What has CNN and FNC working together? Mattingly exits CNN.
- Wemple: How MSNBC and Ed Schultz slimed the GOP Chairman.
- Who wins ‘most-annoying’? Ed Schultz research team at work.
- To Andrea Mitchell: Matrix Award; Sanjay Gupta: DuPont Award.
- Carol Alt saves Christmas. Lawrence O’Donnell raises millions.
- Scarry: FNC’s ‘shrewd’ video move. The Missing Mouse Matter.
- A veteran war reporter comes home to wrestle with old wounds.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/03/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five videos: Greta on grand jury; Gutfeld on media.
- November ratings: Megyn #1; CNN gains; MSNBC tanks.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Shep video: Wendell Goler retires. Ronan Farrow craters.
- Q&A: CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh. Profile: Fox’s Neil Cavuto.
- Weprin: Extreme makeover in the works for CNN online.
- Concha: CNN can fill a big void by hiring Charles Barkley.
- CNN challenged for airport eyeballs. Weekend numbers.
- Greta ‘obliterates’ The Rev, won’t watch MSNBC (via ICN).
- Unions, Glenn Beck part of ‘Stop Mega Comcast’ coalition.
- Balko: The great imposter? CNN to air Ebert documentary.
- Videos: Judge Napolitano with Jon Stewart part one, part two.
Friday Links and Open Thread
11/07/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Gasparino/Insana twitter spat spills over to tv: FBN video.
- Which MSNBC host is advising WH how to deal with the GOP?
- Keith Ablow: I stand by what I said. FNC drops Dr Ben Carson.
- Video: Are GOP complaints re midterms coverage ill-founded?
- Imus video: Chris Wallace on the midterms, Iran, and more.
- OtR videos: Sgt Tahmooressi’s story. Scarborough: Half-true.
- More ‘news’ from the ‘news leader’. Scarborough’s chagrin.
- CNN Heroes hype kicks off tonight. Zurawik Q&A: Mike Rowe.
- Website spills UBL shooter’s name; Megyn, Peter Doocy respond.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on crazy election night punditry.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
11/06/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
11/04/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
11/01/14 00:35 Filed in: links
- 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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
10/31/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
10/30/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Somerby: ‘Maddow took Media Matters bullsh!t and ran.’
- MSNBC election hosts: journalists Maddow and Matthews.
- Two-hour Daily Rundown to be hosted by José Diaz-Balart.
- FTV: Brian Stelter says missing plane ‘a bigger story today’.
- Q&A: Neil Cavuto, tv trailblazer. Unappreciative Weather.
- Factor video: Truth Serum. Greta begins her new podcast.
- Marsh: Did MSNBC’s Deutsch perpetrate a real estate scam?
- Arwa Damon honored; Robin Meade in Vegas. New CNN app.
- CNNi: Doubts about disclosure (v/CNNC). Profile: Ari Melber.
- CNN’s extreme website makeover appears in beta (via CNCC).
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
10/29/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Rosen: Holder comments scarcely address AG’s conduct.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
- FNC two-night special interviews SEAL who killed UBL.
- October program ranker: Fox News holds top 14 slots.
- Charlton: Al-Jaz America’s ratings...lower than Current!
- Q&A: Sean Hannity, matchmaker; Sally Kohn, part deux.
- CNN’s ‘angry black woman’. Anthony Bourdain moonlights.
- Kelly File video: Megyn zings McMurry, details Ebola memo.
- OtR video: Adam Housley. Factor video: Bernard Goldberg.
- Alisyn makes the team. Erin doesn’t. David won’t (v/CNNC).
- CNN special: The Iran Hostage Crisis. HLN Logo makeover.
- Melissa Harris-Perry speaks at KU; more. Brian Stelter at ASU.
Monday Links and Open Thread
10/27/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Shep, Bill, Martha, Megyn, Bret: FNC election team. FBN.
- Q&A: Shepard Smith on Ebola, politics, and ‘the monster’.
- Weprin: Behind-the-scenes on the Fox News Deck with Shep.
- Concha: An on-air apology is Carol Costello’s only option.
- Profile: Lea Gabrielle, from Navy pilot to Fox journo (v/TVN).
- Are the suits at CNBC looking to broom some of their talent?
- CNN partners with Radius on college sex crimes documentary.
- Q&A: Stuart Varney. Cavuto remembers Terry Keenan (v/TVN).
- Greta: Media are flying at 1,000 feet. Meyer: Roots ‘outstanding’.
- Fox Report videos: Political insiders part one, part two, part three.
Monday Links and Open Thread
10/20/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Wemple: Diversity spat...did CNN call the NABJ head a liar?
- Happening Now video: The Roof of Africa part one, part two.
- Greta: That’s cold. Somerby: Where are our gatekeepers?
- ICN: CNN/Stelter cutbacks spin disingenuous and silly. More.
- CNN adds Hannah Bae; plus Chris Moody and Alexandra Jaffe.
- Sound bite. PunditFact: George Will...rated false. Or not? More.
Friday Links and Open Thread
10/17/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
09/26/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Videos: Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfeld explain. Greta reacts.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- How celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain could save CNN.
- Wemple: Officialdom has spoken...Sean Hannity was right.
- Extreme makeover at CNN International? Live battle mode.
- O’Reilly Factor video: Bernard Golberg on internet madness.
- Kelly File video: State Dept’s Marie Harf. Q&A: Janice Dean.
- Deirdre Bolton’s fashions for Frisco. Kate Boulduan’s new girl.
- Profile: Lisa Ling. CNN’s split personalities. Crane bumps Weir.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
09/25/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-Megyn 1-2-3.
- Is MSNBC host working with WH in search for new AG?
- FTV Live: Send an email to Bill O’Reilly...and get fired!
- Factor video: Rosen & Cameron. Zucker punches back.
- Q&A: CNN’s Rachel Smolkin. Stephen Collinson to CNN.
- Byers: From his glass house, Chuck Todd zings Roger Ailes.
- Comcast cries ‘extortion’ as rivals ramp up opposition to deal.
- Maglio: Fox News insider claims shakedown by ‘copyright troll’.
- Cuomo’s pointless evening cameos. Greta zings two of The Five.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
09/18/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Shepard Smith grills Press Secretary Josh Earnest.
- Video: Tonight is throwback Thursday on Special Report.
- Video: Rupert Murdoch on Scotland, Time-Warner (v/TVN).
- Somerby: An Olbermann-style con targeting Mr Bill O’Reilly.
- Somerby: Could these cable stars get dumber and still live?
- Byers: The wrongs of Fareed Zakaria; ICN: Clear the air!
- OtR videos: Parents of Brendan Tevlin part one, part two.
- CNN buys another documentary. So what’s one more hour?
- MoJo hits Motown. Remember SkinnerVille? Lauren finds work.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
09/11/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
09/09/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Monday Links and Open Thread
09/08/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
09/06/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Media Buzz videos: Media war push?; Concha on Chuck Todd.
- Reliable Sources: Media panic over ISIS; Chuck Todd; it’s Rula!
- Factor video: ‘Sexist’ Bill leads to robust debate. Today’s oops.
- MSNBC signature show targets Fairfax. MSNBCer lawsuit settled.
- FNC skeds Geraldo special on Joan Rivers. Sunday talk: preview.
- Greta: Did admin plant criticism of Fox in the media? Video: More.
- Your Buzz vids: Beheadings, anchor attire, hacked celebs, thin skin.
Friday Links and Open Thread
09/05/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Has Obama made his ISIS strategy clear?
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
- Cablers cover another plane: Jon Scott trumps MSNBCNN.
- Zero Hedge: CNBC viewership nosedives to 21-year lows.
- Greta: NBC’s war on women? What about Mika Brzezinski?
- ET video: A day w/Sandra Smith. NBC’s new senior analyst.
- Wemple: Benghazi revelations and Fox News’s reporting.
- Friday special: 13 Hours at Benghazi...video preview. More.
- Wemple: Bill O’Reilly scoffs at State Dept charges. Today’s oops.
- Factor videos: Bernard Goldberg on Obama coverage; ‘Sexist’ Bill.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
08/30/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Behind the scenes photos: Greta with veterans in Alaksa.
- CNN’s debuts its graphics makeover. Arwa Damon returns.
- Media Buzz videos: ‘No strategy’, Burger King, credibility.
- Reliable Sources: Hannity’s Imam, ISIS threat, Joan Rivers.
- Obama family at MSNBC hosts’s wedding. Today’s outrage!
- Cashin’ In video: Debate on hostage ransoms turns rowdy.
- Request: denied. Chris Matthews: False. Sunday talkers.
- Your Buzz videos: Redskins, press arrests, Ferguson overkill?
Friday Links and Open Thread
08/29/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Time-Warner/Vice negotiations re HLN have collapsed.
- Chuck Todd’s Daily Rundown signoff didn’t make it to air.
- Video: Is ‘no strategy’ hubbub ‘much ado about nothing’?
- CNN’s DC cuts strike Lisa Desjardins. Megyn Kelly: True.
- Kelly File video: Tunnels to Towers aids two wounded vets.
- Greta: Ex-CNNer Kim Segal had a front row seat to history.
- Obama jetting to Pocantico Hills for MSNBC host’s wedding.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on the perils of partisanship.
Friday Links and Open Thread
08/22/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five videos: Are we at war with ISIS? Stay the course?
- Thursday’s numbers: Kelly-O’Gutfeld-Chris Wallace 1-2-3.
- Somerby: O’Donnell gets it right...and then horribly wrong.
- Reese’s piece: Concerns over the accountant running CNN.
- Despite past The Rev advises Obama as he hosts on MSNBC.
- Morgan: Why Al-Jazeera can’t spare the cash to pay Al Gore.
- Q&A: Ronan EP Kathy O’Hearn. Hendricks goes On the Case.
- Byers: Ferguson by the clock. Kurtz: Should we pull the plug?
- OtR video: It’s a phony gimmick. Factor video: Memo reactions.
Friday Links and Open Thread
08/15/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-MacCallum 1-2-3.
- Video: Ferguson coverage getting ahead of the facts?
- CNN tests new show...with a familiar format. Update.
- Uh oh: Al Gore and Joel Hyatt sue Al Jazeera for fraud.
- New Day, new scuttlebutt. Jamjoom jettisons CNN.
- Imus video: Martha MacCallum on Iraq, Ferguson, etc.
- ICN: Secret survey stirs questions re CNBC’s On the Money.
- Steinberg: Two execs to take greater leadership role at FBN.
- Specials: FNC Christians Under Attack; CNN Flight from Terror.
- Concha: NBC’s David Gregory debacle. No Ann Curry moment.
- Chuck Todd’s extreme makeover. Comcast: Sorry, dinner’s off!
Monday Links and Open Thread
08/11/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: The Five/8p-Bret Baier-Bream 1-2-3.
- Greta: NBC throws David Gregory under the bus...it’s brutal!
- Bauder: A year after its launch AJAm struggles for viewers.
- Campbell Brown targeted. Imus video: Mike Baker on Iraq.
- Allen: Chuck Todd likely Meet the Press host. Flashback.
- Claudia Milne to Bloomberg; FNC’s Cherie Grzech promoted.
- CNN’s lower-third makeover: ‘I like them’; ‘hideously huge’.
- HLN taking its time with the rebranding. Kosinski’s coupling.
- Zucker play: If one celebrity chef is good, two are even better!
- Fox Report videos: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
08/06/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Bret Baier-Bream 1-2-3.
- Steve Centanni is retiring; video: Greta’s thoughts.
- CNN standing by Damon. Kiran Chetry unresurfaces.
- Q&A: Maria Bartiromo. Greta: This is life in Washington.
- Video: UNRWA defender tries to corner Shannon Bream.
- Thomson: Is Rupert Murdoch really walking away? More.
- Parts Unknown: ‘Visually and compositionally adventurous’.
Friday Links and Open Thread
08/01/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
07/31/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Concha: Maybe Bill Weir should think before tweeting.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Zucker play: CNN changes its policy to fit John Walsh.
- Morning Express enlists stars of NASCAR and the NBA.
- Kevin Magee (Fox Biz/Fox News Radio) stepping down.
- Liz Claman: triathlete helping to build homes for heroes.
- Surprise! Five Fox News programs make dirty dozen list.
- Cumulus seals deal for CNN content. Soni Methu to CNN.
- Imus video: Bill Hemmer on Gaza etc. Maddow is all wet.
- Wemple: Fox News graphic accurate but could be clearer.
- Marshall: Carol Costello...‘smug, biased, ethically jumbled’.
- Video: Survivor of horrific Boko Harum attack tells her story.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
07/22/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: ISIS persecution and murder of Christians.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Greta to CJR: It’s Journalism 101...why didn’t you call me?
- Bordelon: Kerry aide didn’t tell the truth about Fox News?
- Book: Clintons pressured MSNBC to discipline David Shuster.
- Q&A: Bret Baier; Chris Cuomo, more. Weekend numbers.
- Lean Forward: Contributor zings MSNBC, MSNBC zings back.
- Out# OT video: Leadership, comedy, short skirts, and more.
- Time-Warner amends its by-laws in move to check Murdoch.
- Alisyn and Don, together (sort of) again. Today’s conspiracies.
- Fox Report video: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
07/17/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Zucker punch: CNN reporter calls group of Israelis ‘scum’.
- Video: John Huddy live from Gaza as the invasion begins.
- Israel/Gaza flare-up rewrites cable news schedules.
- What happens when political hacks do breaking news.
- Video: Charlie Gasparino goes ballistic in Putin debate.
- Family feud: Greta rips Starnes over ‘bad taste’ tweets.
- Cable newsers scramble to cover airplane shoot-down.
- Ed Schultz gets into a twitter spat, and quickly hits ‘delete’.
- Zurawik: Reporters in Gaza paid less than Chelsea Clinton.
- Lewis: How to become a cablenews pundit. Newsource cuts.
- ‘Growing pressure’ to fire Bob Beckel? Today’s conspiracy.
- Maddow has not mentioned Gaza conflict since last month!
- Imus video: Bret Baier on Gaza, US border chaos, and more.
- What CNN’s pilot tells us about Chris Cuomo and New Day.
- CNN pilot: Alisyn with two guys...is there also a curvy couch?
- Fox prepping a new offer as T-W shareholders signal interest.
- Murdoch’s Time-Warner bid shines a spotlight on CNN. More.
- Factor video: Kurtz and Ashburn on Jon Stewart, Sean Bergin.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
07/15/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: WH claims credit for ‘global tranquility’.
- Media Buzz triples audience for fading Reliable Sources.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Another cable name surfaces for The View: Tammy Bruce.
- Greta scoops Katie. Is the end near for Al-Jazeera America?
- CNN’s illegal immigrant documentarian taken into custody.
- CNN snags eleven Emmy nominations. Weekend numbers.
- Factor video: Beck’s border benevolence baffles belittlers.
- Nobody’s business: CNBC expands reality reruns to weeknights.
- Wemple: CNN captivated by Palin; Touré takes leave of twitter.
- Imus video: Charlie Gasparino details the Sun Valley showdown.
- Fox Report video: Political Insiders part one, part two, part three.
Friday Links and Open Thread
06/27/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Wallace 1-2-3.
- Zucker play: HLN to air more reality show reruns.
- Breaking: Mika Brzezinski not going to The View!1!
- Key CNN Atlanta studio being taken over by HLN?
- Friday special: Iraq and the Rise of a Terrorist State.
- Video: Why did Mexican copter fire at US border patrol?
- Video: WSJ’s Matt Bradley on why he decided to cover Iraq.
Monday Links and Open Thread
06/23/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
06/21/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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’.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
06/18/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Obama foreign policy approval craters.
- Wemple: Bill O’Reilly and Greta fight for jailed Marines.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Zucker play: CNN lying about their celebrity chef’s ratings?
- Video: Joe Concha analyzes Hillary’s Fox News interview.
- Zucker punch: Advertisers unhappy with CNN programming.
- Video: Erin Burnett’s ‘first big break’ (v/TVN). MSNBC2 (via).
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on media coverage of Iraq etc.
- CNN/Hillary: pt one, two; Fox/Hillary: pt one, two, three, four.
- Wemple: Bret Baier was ‘thoughtful, reasonable, well researched’.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
06/17/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: To Gitmo...or not to Gitmo?
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Video: Judge Napolitano on legal issues re Benghazi.
- Cable news found Khattala years ago. Weekend numbers.
- Video: Greg Palkot on his interview with Benghazi suspect.
- Hillarama: CNN Town Hall, then Baier/Greta: pre-analysis.
- Concha: OJ coverage set the table for cable news of today.
- Kelly File video: Controversy swirls around missing IRS emails.
Friday Links and Open Thread
06/13/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
06/12/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Monday Links and Open Thread
06/02/14 21:45 Filed in: links
- 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.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
05/31/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
05/30/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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?
Thursday Links and Open Thread
05/29/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Jon Hilsenrath joins FBN. Cristina Alesci to CNN.
- Engulf and Devour: TV Newser etc sold (via FTV).
- Bret Baier and Greta snag interview with Hillary.
- Red Eye video: Tom Shillue and his ‘coffee rules’.
- Zucker play: What is going on with CNN Tonight?
- Wemple: O’Reilly writes Killing Patton. Flashback.
- May 2014 program ranker: FNC holds top 14 slots.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
- Steinberg: At CNN they party like it’s The Sixties.
- Wemple: How did Greta end up on that Forbes list?
- Cable news declines in May. Alan still gets hate mail.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
05/24/14 22:17 Filed in: links
- 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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
05/08/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: International outrage over kidnappings.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Laura-Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- What accounts for Red Eye’s April ratings slump?
- Larry King resurfaces so Piers Morgan starts a twitter spat.
- Hannity reports spur new Panama City Beach regulations.
- Cable Association head: Comcast deal threatens consumers.
- Poniewozik: CNN, sometimes polls are pointless. Today’s oops.
- Imus video: Megapanel on Lewinsky, public prayer, and MA370.
- Greta: Does this email fit within ‘deliberative process’ privilege?
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
04/29/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Morning Joe hit by MSNBC ratings slump. Today’s oops.
- Outnumbered video: Does cheerleading qualify as a sport?
- Somerby: Everyone gets to kill the pig! Weekend numbers.
- Imus video: Mike Baker on Ukraine, Bundy, the Clippers, etc.
- Profiles: Harris Faulkner, Sandra Smith. Q&A: Maria Bartiromo.
- Green: CNN is its own disaster. Ariens: TV Newser turns ten.
- Videos: Bill O’Reilly Talking Points memo; Greta zings The Rev.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/26/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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?
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/18/14 22:29 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Rosenberg: Outnumbered is a stroke of genius...evil genius.
- Rothstein: Bill Weir’s weird joke. Daring, edgy must-miss tv.
- Friday special: Where is Jennifer Kesse? Dyson: Mostly false.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
04/17/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
04/16/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/11/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
- Wemple: An apology to Heather Childers and Fox News.
- They pounce when it’s Heather but with Ronan...never?
- Somerby: Matthews caught in typical scam. Isikoff exits.
- Hayden: Restructuring, cancellations, layoffs at AJAm.
- Eidelson: MSNBC stars reticent about union showdown.
- Q&A: ‘Inside man’ Morgan Spurlock; Jesse Watters.
- Verne Gay: Will Mike Rowe be CNN’s Bill O’Reilly?
- CNN: questions abound about branding, hosts, and more.
- ICN: CNN sked more ‘testing the waters’. Expectant Kate.
- CNNx: It’s ‘future-proof!’ Chicagoland a wet kiss for Rahm?
- On the Record video: Meet a foot soldier in The War on Fox.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
04/08/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/04/14 09:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Goldberg: Don Lemon is an embarrassment. More.
- Somerby: Fact-challenged Maddow jumps the snark.
- Video: Larry King talks CNN, Piers etc. Berg honored.
- Google+ Hangout: Bret Baier. Who is Elena Moussa?
- WH Correspondents surveyed. Media vie for Latinos.
- DirecTV adds FNC and FBN to ‘Everywhere’ streaming.
- Greta: You’ll look at the screen and poof! I’ll be gone.
Monday Links and Open Thread
03/31/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Friday Links and Open Thread
03/28/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Human rights and Saudi Arabia.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Tom Shillue in what used to be Gutfeld’s Factor slot.
- Bartiromo Q&A: CNBC no longer in tune with the times.
- Bartiromo Q&A: Three secrets to success, Joey Ramone.
- Piers Morgan’s new CNN show: like Joe’s radio show?
- Fox News data strategy: ‘the antithesis’ of Turner’s.
- Friday special: Surrendering America; video preview.
- Greta: An example of why the White House hates Fox.
- Bauder: CNN tried to rent a plane, settled for simulator.
- Larry King: CNN plane conjecture ‘abysmal’ (via Shaw).
- Revealed: Secret memo detailing CNN ratings strategy.
- Sanjay Gupta at UB. Soledad at MTSU. Profile: Joy Reid.
- Factor video: Laura Ingraham on children and internet perils.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
03/27/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
- Geraldo wins Morris suit. Mike Emanuel moonlights.
- Zucker punch: Layoffs at CNN. Q&A: Dan Springer.
- Willow Bay resurfaces. Kyra confused? Huck hints.
- Amara Walker to CNNi. Meg Tirell jumps to CNBC.
- Imus video: Laura Ingraham on Putin etc. Hayes Jr.
- Puzzler: Who spends the most on cable news? More.
- The seven stages of breaking news on CNN. Not cool.
- De Moraes: Critics carp but CNN happy to get eyeballs.
- Kogan: Chicagoland continues its adulation of Emanuel.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
03/26/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Shep and The Judge on college football unions.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- FNC Sundays: Bartiromo 10am; Housecall 12:30 pm.
- Troubling signs Erin Burnett may be on the way out.
- Moonlighting: CNN’s Ian Lee shows up on Al-Jazeera.
- Wemple: Bill O’Reilly ‘adores’ the term ‘race hustler’.
- New Pew: Cable news in decline, especially at MSNBC.
- Hayes: CNN and the crass commercialization of tragedy.
- Chemi: Why is CNN now the tragedy tv network? Money.
- Page: Plane-athon has turned MH370 into ‘news candy’.
- Chicagoland is a bust. Greta is sorry. What, this again?
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
03/19/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
02/27/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Things are looking Rosie at CNN...or are they? And more.
- Video Q&A: Greta with Janice Dean on living with MS, etc.
- Somerby: More Maddow false facts, and some from Greta?
- Maria Bartiromo recalls Joey Ramone. Fareed reconsidered.
- Olby fesses up. Brian Schweitzer joins MSNBC. Flashback.
- I’ll take Fox News for $200, Alex. Serious is as serious does.
- Friedman: This is going to end in tears. CNN app updates.
- Salon: Will you fall for his dreamy blue eyes? Mr Humility.
- Zucker play: CNN’s Chicagoland, a ‘paean to Rahm Emanuel’.
Monday Links and Open Thread
02/24/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
- Rothman: CNN’s disastrous attempts to Lean Forward.
- Monday premiere videos: Maria Bartiromo, Ronan Farrow.
- Checkbook journalism: Al-Jazeera offered $$ for cables.
- Somerby: Dubious, conflicting claims blur Maddow’s bio.
- Alec Baldwin rips MSNBC, calls Rachel Maddow ‘a phony’.
- FBN’s new chapter: Bartiromo seeks to define her network.
- MSNBC teams with Vocativ; objective: internet data-mining.
- Video Q&A: Geraldo Rivera in depth; Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
- Wemple: Why Piers Morgan’s failure at CNN was inevitable.
- Greta: Why did CNN derail its #1 show? Who gets 9:00 pm?
- Steinberg: Dumping Piers all part of the Grand Zucker Plan.
- Piers show cancelled; Morgan may stay with CNN. Flashback.
- Zurawik: Will the Obama WH ever stop intimidating the press?
Friday Links and Open Thread
02/21/14 22:18 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Greta 1-2-3.
- Video: Howard Kurtz on an ‘insidious’ FCC proposal.
- CNN’s next obsession? Hannity in fund-raising flap.
- Video: Ronan Farrow with Jon Stewart (via HuffPost).
- Lean Forward hosts leaned on to oppose merger deal.
- Harris Faulker: Black history on Wall Street; the video.
- Venezuela threatens to expel CNN...and then they do it.
- On the Record video: Is the FCC chilling press freedom?
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
02/19/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Kelly 1-2-3.
- Meet Bill. Guess who’s coming to New Hampshire?
- Zucker play: HLN to sked game shows, viral videos!
- HLN’s Hecht wants a ‘Daily Show-esque’ program.
- CNN burned again by iReport. Ed Schultz: half-true.
- Ajam docs. Soledad from space. Weekend numbers.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on late-night tv politics.
- Greta: What I meant by that. Scott Brown exits FNC? Nope!
- Video: O’Reilly with Jimmy Kimmel pt one, pt two, pt three.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
02/18/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: A spill breaks up The Five in convo on ignorance.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-McKelway 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Greta ‘not sure’ she would’ve re-upped at 10pm.
- Geraldo finally reveals his ‘new show’. Morning weather.
- Moonlighting: Joe Kernan, Sean Hannity, Candy Crowley.
- Video: VW vote debate resorts to invoking Hitler and Nazis!
- Shareholder class action suit unlikely to derail Comcast deal.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
02/08/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- MediaBuzz videos: Obama vs Fox, misogyny, Leno.
- Reliable Sources: Rand Paul, Christie, Dylan Farrow.
- Joe Concha: MSNBC should hire...Ann Coulter?!
- The 2013 Gutty Awards. Sunday talkers: turn the table.
- Sunday specials: Greta in Iraq; Every Day in Cambodia.
- Video: Roy Eaton, the Jackie Robinson of the Mad Men era.
- Bauder: Loose lips give ammunition to MSNBC foes (v/ICN).
- Your Buzz videos: Christie, Lewinsky, Hillary, balcony brawl.
Friday Links and Open Thread
01/24/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Bridgegate vs Benghazi...bias or bogus?
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Baier 1-2-3.
- Greta: Media’s dirty secrets about Bieber coverage.
- CNBC VP Susan Krakower being shown the door.
- Audio: Huck says left trying to ‘knock me out early’.
- Wemple: Here’s a question O’Reilly could ask Obama.
- Q&A: Megyn Kelly (via TVN). Imus video: Neil Cavuto.
- Ronan Farrow moving to a deluxe apartment in the sky.
- Stickings: This is CNNN...the Cable Not News Network.
- CNN ordered to turn over footage. Today’s twitter flap.
- Economist: Don’t blame cable news for dividing America.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
01/23/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Red Eye video: 12 Years a Slave stirs controversy.
- Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- CNN twitter account hacked. Will Ripley to CNNi.
- Superbowl Pre-Game: O’Reilly interviews Obama live.
- Zucker play: CNN primetime special...on Justin Bieber!
- Bill Schulz hints he didn’t leave Red Eye voluntarily.
- Wemple: Wagner guest reciprocates with Vogue profile.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on taking responsibility.
- Greta moonlights. Ratigan resurfaces. CNN’s web herring.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
01/22/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Documents reveal insurance bankruptcy risk.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
- Zucker punched: Dismal ratings after one year at CNN.
- CNN’s primetime plummets; Zucker’s worst week ever.
- Newsers’ talent agency bought out. Sally then and now.
- Liz Claman files first Dispatch from Davos. CNBC at 25.
- Maria Bartiromo starts Feb 1, new shows set for March.
- Factor video: Mr Bill O’Reilly responds to Tom Brokaw.
- Q&A: Soledad. Video: Alarm bells in a crowded studio.
- ICN: Audacious Weather blitz a farce. Weekend numbers.
- ICN: Ailes bio skimps on Fox’s impact to retell known history.
Friday Links and Open Thread
01/17/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Kelly 1-2-3.
- Changes in store for Geraldo at Large?
- CNN revamps dayside, buys dino doc, signs Sally.
- CNN Friday special: Michelle Obama Turns 50.
- Lean Forward: Ronan Farrow show gets clever title.
- Revealed: Faux News at work! Tantaros: Pants on fire.
- Kelly File video: Obamacare, Megyn’s got your number.
- How I Work: Greta van Susteren. Inside WeatherNation.
- Greta: How the administration obstructed Fox News reporting.
Monday Links and Open Thread
01/13/14 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/16/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- 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.
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/02/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Obamacare and public/private standards.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Byers: Is Martin Bashir’s ‘vacation’ really a ‘suspension’?
- Zucker play: Bold new CNN concept...a roundtable show!
- Video: Media coverage of healthcare.gov tech troubles.
- Chris Cuomo interviews brother Andrew! Greta: no prob.
- Imus video: O’Reilly on O’care, Iran etc part one, part two.
- Will major booking for Megyn make Maddow miffed at NBC?
- Q&A: Sandra Smith (v/TVN), Lou Dobbs. Burnett’s baby boy.
- CNN’s ‘worst year ever’ brings a call for...hotter women?!
- Media Buzz videos: Media miscreants, Kirsten’s conversion.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
10/30/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Congress grills the HHS Secretary.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Somerby: Matthews and O’Donnell play the hate card.
- October program ranker: Fox News holds top 14 slots.
- Imus video: Mike Baker. The new msnbc.com debuts.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg sounds off on Jay Carney.
- Wemple: On Fox Greta cleans up CBS’s mess (via Mediaite).
Thursday Links and Open Thread
10/24/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Obamacare privacy concerns.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Baier 1-2-3.
- Thursday special: CNN films premieres Blackfish.
- Greta: Is Media Matters sloppy, inept, or vicious? More.
- Matt Flamm boasts: I was conned by Fox…I think.
- Tonight Show video: Piers Morgan with Jay Leno.
- Al Jazeera America and Time Warner seal the deal.
- Pollak: Controversy swirls around Chris Hayes graphic.
- Fox & Friends video: John McEnroe part one, part two.
- Q&A: Patricia Fili-Krushel; impartial MSNBC journalist (v/TVN).
Monday Links and Open Thread
10/21/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: O’care glitches spark tech surge.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Imus video: Bill Hemmer part one, part two.
- Audio Q&A: Greta van Susteren (via Tammy Bruce).
- The war on Fox: CNN sub-host pens attack on FNC.
- Bauder: The Shutdownarama benefitted cable news.
- ‘Powerful’ women cablers assemble. CNN skeds docs.
Friday Links and Open Thread
10/18/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Gutfeld zings Chris Matthews et al.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Megyn 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Jennifer Griffin wears her scars with pride.
- Fox News talk back on Sirius/XM + FBN. Today’s oops.
- Greta: Chris Matthews may be up for sale…but I’m not!
- Impartial MSNBC journalist to emcee Trump pageant.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly with Letterman part one, part two.
- Video Q&A: Chris Matthews. MSNBC to show some Joy?
- Factor video: Dennis Miller on Bill Ayers, Joe Biden, etc.
'One of the Hardest-Working People in Journalism'
10/06/13 19:58 Filed in: videos
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
10/02/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five: Is a shutdown breakthrough in the cards?
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Lean Forward: Mia Farrow’s son next MSNBC host?
- Zurawik: Obamacare coverage chaotic, confused.
- Q&A: Greta, who lobbied for 7pm; Richard Grenell.
- Wemple: MSNBC tries self-parody. CNN’s Emmys.
- Salon: Why are viewers addicted to FNC? Racism!
- The Real Story premiere tops MSNBCNN combined.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly on The View part one, part two.
- ICN: Oh noes! Hiring Will means Fox is now the MSM!
Friday Links and Open Thread
09/20/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Pat Sajak, Ainsley Earhardt, and more!
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Wallace 1-2-3.
- Video: Greta shows off new On the Record studio.
- Video: Media malfeasance in Navy Yard coverage?
- Q&A: Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Paul Baier update; more.
- Hogue: New Day’s stupid integrated BP commercial.
- New O’Reilly book a bestseller before it’s released?
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg rebuts Howard Kurtz.
- CNN’s New Day is up…or is it struggling like Crossfire?
- Zayid: The best show on cable news is…a celebrity chef?!
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
09/17/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five: Navy Yard shooter’s glowing evaluations.
- Fox tops shooting coverage; Friends gets bump.
- Monday’s numbers: The Five-Baier-Cavuto 1-2-3.
- New FNC prime: Greta 7pm-Bill-Megyn-Sean 10pm.
- FNC prime thru the years. Hasselbeck’s new view.
- Gotham Q&A: Liz Claman. Weekend numbers.
- CNN teams with Tom Hanks. Starbucks drops Joe.
- Raw Story makes up headline claim out of thin air!
- Carlos Watson resurfaces. Bret Baier boosts Bing.
- Zucker play: Bourdain, Crossfire bleed viewers; more.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
09/10/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Twists and turns on road to Damascus.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Greta: A website tip for cable news watchers.
- Controversy swirls around Maddow ethical conflict.
- Showdown: MediaBuzz vs Reliable a split decision.
- Twitter spat: truther vs birther. Weekend numbers.
- Imus video: Mike Baker surveys the Syria situation.
- Q&A: Liz Claman; Cutter and Cupp; Dr Sanjay Gupta.
- Poniewozik: Crossfire redux a catfight with stuffed cats.
- Martin: Premiere stumbles. Syria speech schedules.
- Lowry: Crossfire is more about showbiz than politics.
- Byers: Crossfire debut was uncomfortable and awkward.
- Pew: With Crossfire 2.0, opinion further displaces news.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on the Obama interviews.
Friday Links and Open Thread
08/30/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Factor pre-empted for live Greta special on Syria.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-TheFive 1-2-3.
- Rieder: A new Crossfire…just what we don’t need.
- F&F video: Kilmeade golfs for charity with Bush 43.
- Lisa Sylvester to WPXI. CNN strong on ‘Dream’ day.
- Q&A: Tamron Hall on Deadline. Today’s conspiracy.
- Hannity video: Debate on Voter I.D. laws turns rowdy.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
08/21/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Brian Lewis no #2 man, hasn’t attended meetings for years.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Judy Miller analyzes the media coverage of Egypt.
- Inside baseball: Fishbowl DC vs Fox News vs Politico.
- Al-Jazeera contributor Soledad prepping next CNN special.
- Lever: Al-Jazeera US goes live, but remains a tough sell.
- Zurawik: AJAm opens with solid reporting, fresh perspective.
- Video: Howard Kurtz on Al-Jazeera US…fair and balanced?
- Jake Tapper special: An Unlikely Hero. CNN’s summer: up.
- The Man speaks…Lewis implies Sherman story is ‘ludicrous’.
- Sanchez: Brian Lewis story is ‘BS’…I never heard of the guy!
- Greta: This is silly…I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup! (v/TVN)
- Sherman: With Lewis gone, Ailes is…all alone!!1! It’s the book?
Weekend Links and Open Thread
08/10/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Amazon, NBC, sports wars.
- News Watch video: Is Leno the venue to break news?
- Charlton: MSNBC hiring Alec Baldwin is a genius move.
- Zucker Play: Is CNN showing dead bodies for ratings?
- Will Fox TV produce controversial Hillary miniseries?
- Red Eye video: Andy Levy ombudses Amb John Bolton.
- Breitbart vs Greta. Sunday talk: turn the table, HP recap.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
08/06/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula speaks.
- Monday’s numbers: Laura-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- CNN adds daily legal show, hires Bloomberg’s Morse.
- Zucker play: Crossfire to 6:30pm, Coop at 10:00pm.
- Weekend numbers. Janice Dean, children’s author.
- Video: Is ‘testilying’ a common government practice?
- Erin Burnett previews The Truth about Benghazi.
- Rothman: CNN fears loss of access? Greta: Nonsense!
- Weigel: Dems’ boycott of Fox inspired RNC ultimatum.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
08/01/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Rick Folbaum says farewell to Fox. Q&A: Greta.
- Somerby: Chris Matthews still treating viewers as fools.
- Wemple: Fact-checking Fox News/Ted Nugent charges.
- CT newspaper makes non-apology apology to O’Reilly.
- Short fuse: Writer snippy on Fox even snippier on twitter.
- Imus video: Mensa panel...Beckel, Lloyd-Webber, McGuirk.
- CNN’s ‘first rate’ Our Nixon. Preview: Al-Jazeera studios.
- Video: Did the media go along with ‘phony scandals’ line?
- Steinberg: No news is bad news as MSNBC ratings nosedive.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
07/31/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: No justice for Benghazi victims?
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Greta-The Five 1-2-3.
- July program ranker: Fox News holds top 13 slots.
- Fox News sues content aggregator TV Eyes (via TVN).
- Somerby: Why Greta got upset with Jasmine Rand.
- Jill Dougherty exits CNN. (MS)NBC online makeovers.
- Video: Is there a media double standard on sexism?
- Did CNBC reporter refer to Mrs Murdoch with a racial slur?
Weekend Links and Open Thread
07/27/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Royals, Weiners, and more.
- Video: Jon Scott on his son deploying to Afghanistan.
- News Watch video: Media coverage of the economy.
- Hoax or truth? Sunday talk: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
- Video: Benghazi mom lost her son, wants the truth.
- CNN buys another documentary. McCain on MSNBC.
Friday Links and Open Thread
07/26/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Megyn Kelly’s new baby boy...Thatcher Bray.
- Jon Scott: Sending my soldier son off to Afghanistan.
- Video: Did the NY Times enable Weiner’s comeback?
- Somerby: On cablenews, fake facts simply never die.
- VIdeo: Maria Molina on Entertainment Tonight.
- World’s fastest flip-flop: Now Olby promises ‘no politics’!
- Is Gretchen Carlson Persecuted? CNN plans makeover.
- On the Record video: This Benghazi victim is not ‘phony’.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
07/23/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Zimmerman’s gift to Barack Obama.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Zucker play: CNN transitioning to ‘digital first’ future.
- Greta: Stelter has a conflict of interest. Stelter: I do?
- Bill Hemmer: Chic Sag Harbor anchor and gourmet.
- Chapman: Shallow CNN can’t top HBO’s Newsroom.
- Royal musing: Imogen Lloyd Webber, Peter Johnson.
- Dean v Maddow bogged down. Weekend numbers.
- Factor videos: Straight talk on race part one, two, three.
Friday Links and Open Thread
07/19/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Matthews apologizes for white people.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Powers and Miller analyze verdict coverage.
- Somerby: Is Cooper a journalist, or a potted plant?
- Greta: Ugly NewsHound smear is ‘seething with hate’.
- Red Eye video: Greg & Co celebrate the return of Olby.
- Former CNNer laments downward spiral of cable news.
- CNN Zimmerman bump was short-lived: FNC far ahead.
Monday Links and Open Thread
07/08/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Profile: Harris Faulkner, ‘recovering perfectionist’.
- Bauder: The Five has chemistry, personality, and ratings.
- Rothman: MSNBC is losing its core audience…Dems.
- Gallup: Americans prefer FNC for tv news. Analysis.
- Shafer: Non-stop trial coverage is a really a great thing.
- Imus video: Juan Williams on airlines, Egypt, and more.
- CNN takes heat from Egypt protesters (via TVN). Oops.
- Cohen: What MSNBC won’t tell you. Thursday’s numbers.
- Hogue: Careful what you wish for, Greta…you might get it.
- Reliable Sources: Egypt vs journalists, unreliable sources.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
07/03/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Obamacare debut put on hold.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bream 1-2-3.
- Video: Megyn Kelly signs off from America Live.
- America Live videos: Megyn’s favorite moments.
- Lean Forward: MSNBC interns sue. Flashback.
- Lean Forward: It’s a very MSNBC 4th of July!
- Zucker play: Testimony trumps rebellion. More.
- Q2 program ranker: Fox News holds top 13 slots.
- Impartial MSNBC journalist slams GOP. Flashback.
- Shield standoff causing hardship. Llenas joins FNC.
- Weprin: Does Megyn Kelly have to replace someone?
- Concha: Was Greta catalyst for surprise Megyn news?
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
07/02/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Did prosecutors shoot themselves in the foot?
- Breaking: Megyn Kelly moving to Fox News primetime!
- Greta: Ignore rumors; I’m not going anywhere (via TVN).
- Q2: FNC has 9 of the top 10; CNN, HLN, MSNBC. More.
- Somerby: FNC airs wider set of viewpoints than MSNBC.
- Lean Backward: MSNBC gets worst ratings since 2007.
- CNBC crash: their worst ratings slump since 1994.
- F&F videos: Glenn Greenwald, Peter Johnson analysis.
- Another MSNBC disclosure dispute. Weekend numbers.
- Lean Forward: MSNBC moving Sharpton hour to Chicago?
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on Trayvon trial coverage.
Monday Links and Open Thread
07/01/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Putin and Obama argue over Snowden.
- Friday’s numbers: The Five-Bret Baier-Laura 1-2-3.
- New Lean Forward ad: We want to write the laws!?!
- Slideshow: See Martha MacCallum’s Cape Cod retreat.
- Soledad named as Al-Jazeera ‘special correspondent’.
- Report: Greta met with Zucker looking to rejoin CNN?
- Zucker Play: Don Lemon N-Word special airs tonight.
- Zucker Play: CNN competing with sister channel HLN.
- Hogue: Is CNN’s New Day a new dawn…or a new dud?
- Video: Judge Napolitano vs John Stossel on NSA spying.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
06/29/13 23:12 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Deen, Zimmerman, and signoff.
- News Watch video: Journalists target Glenn Greenwald.
- Greta: Is Greenwald too educated? Kirsten’s twitter spat.
- Weekend anchor scramble at CNN. Q&A: Wolf (via TVN).
- Facebook bans Starnes; oops: another Facebook mistake.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet. CNN ticker hacked?
- Videos: Meet Kelly Wright, Arthur Aidala, Michael Tammero.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
06/27/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Video: Larry King interviews Greta van Susteren.
- Fox News #1 for coverage of SCOTUS/marriage news.
- Wednesday’s numbers: The Five-Laura-Baier 1-2-3.
- (MS)NBC signs ex-LAPD Chief Bill Bratton as analyst.
- Video: CNN previews Crossfire; ICN raises questions.
- Dana Perino joins Mercy Ships on mission to the Congo.
- Video: Clayton and Anna get dunked part one, part two.
Friday Links and Open Thread
06/21/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Wallace-The Five 1-2-3.
- Matthews raves about Newsroom without disclosure.
- Video: Fox panel slams Hannity panelist (v/Mediaite).
- Greta to Holder: explain the Rosen warrant in public.
- Zucker stunned: caught off-guard by Kurtz move.
- Brokaw zings Matthews. Profile: Morgan Spurlock.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg on Tony Soprano’s impact.
- Who has a crush on Kimberly G? Galanos advancing?
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
06/19/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bream 1-2-3.
- Newsroom consultants list: what’s missing? (v/TVN)
- Cyber-stalking author drags FNC exec into his tale.
- Video: The Judge vs Stuart Varney on NSA etc.
- Playboy uses outdated stats to make spurious point.
- Playboy Q&A: Sean Hannity (via BuzzFeed).
- Q&A: Bob Beckel, Maria Molina, Bill O’Reilly.
- Late Show video: Bill O’Reilly with Letterman.
- Tobin Smith’s apologia. New Day’s shaky start.
- She’s ‘polished, smart, and she’s hot’…who is she?
- Simon: New Day built to tv news consultants formula.
- Video: Rand Paul on NSA etc. Dan Abrams resurfaces.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
05/29/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Greta: Why meet with AG Holder for a photo op?
- Zucker play: CNN head slams rivals, defends ‘poop ship’.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
- Lean Backwards: MSNBC sinks, Maddow hits lows.
- May numbers: FNC tops; HLN up; CNN tops MSNBC.
- Mourning Joe does damage control. Weekend numbers.
- Which news net does partisan race-baiting in its promos?
- Cutter and Madden join CNN. Larry King diversifies.
- Video: Judge Napolitano on Holder’s potential perjury.
- Kelly Evans anchor debut is nothing to Squawk about.
- O’Reilly film gets Lowe; Ali Velshi resurfaces (via TVN).
- Videos: Juan Williams and Bernard Goldberg on Rosen etc.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
05/28/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Liz Claman, with Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway.
- Greta: DoJ claims starting to sound like a ‘big fat lie’.
- The Ailes manifesto: America rallies but for how long?
- Controversy swirls around disputed subpoena notice.
- Video: Judge Nap on bloggers’ 1st amendment rights.
- Eric Bolling discussion with Geraldo turns contentious.
- Zucker play: CNN teams with BuzzFeed and youtube.
- Vanity Fair list conspicuously omits unfavored names.
- Video: Have media covered Obama controversies fairly?
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
05/22/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
- Video: Panel of journalists on the Rosen inquisition.
- Editorials back Rosen. Video: It’s groundbreaking.
- Greta named to illustrious list. Piers pens new book.
- Video: Rosen’s only crime is reporting for Fox News.
- Zucker play: CNN dumps Oklahoma for Jodi. More.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on scandal coverage.
- Powers: First they came for Fox News. New Bee girl.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
05/11/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Cleveland, Benghazi, and more.
- News Watch video: Media memes at Benghazi hearings.
- Greta: While competitors sneered at Fox we did our job.
- Howard Kurtz goes missing. Sunday talkers: HuffPo recap.
- Zurawik: Cable news channels show true colors on huge night.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
05/09/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Maddow, Stewart etc laugh at dead Americans.
- Lean Backwards: MSNBC 25-54 demo craters in every slot.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Profile: Shannon Bream, reporter Supreme.
- Video: Big three networks shrug at Benghazi revelations?
- Genius Fox mole enters guilty plea. Greta at Georgetown.
- Yet another impartial MSNBC journalist. Lean Forward!
- Teaser: New Day. Q&A: Jake Tapper. Chris Cuomo, deviant?
- Special Report video: Online panel on Benghazi revelations.
- CNN anchors fake satellite interview. Moonlighter Piers praised.
Monday Links and Open Thread
05/06/13 00:38 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Bill Ayers compared to Boston bombers.
- Friday’s numbers: Laura-Gosnell Special-The Five 1-2-3.
- Concha: Lazy Stelter reporting enabled Fox hater smear.
- Kirell: Ailes didn’t cut Rivera’s mic. Geraldo: Didn’t happen.
- TJ Holmes resurfaces. Zucker play: tweak, tweak!
- Video: Media double standards? Those gullible French!
- Fox & Friends video: Turbo team workout on the FNC plaza.
- Grenell: Ten things we learned from the Howard Kurtz grilling.
- Greta: Enough is enough…time to stop slapping Howard Kurtz.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/27/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources: Boston vitriol, forgotten victims, and dinner.
- Justice video: Judge Jeanine unloads on bombers’ ‘jihad Mom’.
- News Watch videos: Media hesitant to use t-word; Boston vs Texas.
- Sunday: Up Close with 43. Was Matthews sexist to NJ candidate?
- Zurawik: Bill O’Reilly’s ‘gas-bag bluster’ is a sign he’s lost his edge.
- Why are MSNBC’s numbers in a slump? Greta fact-checks Politico.
- Factor rematch: Barney Frank vs Bill O’Reilly. Stossel in Sheboygan.
- Saturday’s dinner coverage. Sunday talkers: preview, HuffPo recap.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
04/11/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Dana Perino rap-responds to Jay-Z’s Cuba rap.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Zucker play: CNN to try The Lead (that’s the first story) at 10pm.
- Zucker: Celebrity chef show true measure of what I want at CNN.
- Report: Fox News and Nat Geo wanted Burnett’s Bible.
- Video: Progress KY admits to local Dem they taped McConnell.
- Videos: O’Reilly at HR party; Touré defends MSNBC whiteness.
- Q&A: Kirsten Powers, Rich Edson. Greta will pass. Swells party.
- Video: Rick Sanchez disagrees with Melissa Harris-Perry and Jay-Z.
- Wemple: Fox, don’t promote MSNBC; the ‘rivalry’ isn’t close. More.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
03/28/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: End military funeral honors for vets?
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Tapper tanks. Video: Paper’s roadmap to unprotected schools.
- ICN: How damaged is Erin Burnett? HLN reporter testifies.
- Video: Hang with Greg Palkot. Greta: My stalker has died; more.
- New CNN mornings: Cuomo and Boiduan…no Burnett. More.
- Stelter: The Lauer-Cooper connection. Fired CNNer honored.
- Q&A: Rich Edson; Chris Hayes, sans necktie. Ratigan resurfaces.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
03/23/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Ailes bio, New Pew, and more.
- Q&A: Shepard Smith, Rachel Maddow fan. Flashback.
- Video: Chris Hayes exits Up. Does three make a pattern?
- News Watch video: Media coverage of Middle East trip.
- GLAAD takes it all back, now welcomes Fox Newsers!
- ICN: Too much tinkering will make Jake a fish out of water.
- Zucker’s Folly? The Lead with Jake Tapper sinks like lead.
- On the Record video: Bob Beckel’s Amazing Race update.
- Fox Files: Operation Ghost Stories. Sunday talkers: preview.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
02/28/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Duncan slips with teachers’ pink slips.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
- Video: Dana Perino on the campaign against Bob Woodward.
- Study: Hannity generous to opposing views. ABC newser to CNN.
- Somerby: It doesn’t get any worse than Piers. Q&A: Rich Edson.
- Greta: My husband is undergoing radiation treatment for cancer.
- Video: Gretchen Carlson, Linda Evans honored part one, part two.
- Papal coverage: Fox News, CNN. Reese’s piece: Fox News fogies.
- Imus video: Megapanel debates randy teachers, NASCAR, and more.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
02/19/13 00:12 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Wrestling with the Tea Party.
- Friday’s numbers: Hannity-Juan Williams-Baier 1-2-3.
- Greta: the press caved. Tucker Carlson caves.
- RIght at home: the newest (MS)NBC contributor.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly reacts to huge viewership for Killing Lincoln.
- A Zucker play: hiring Steve Capus?!? Q&A: Ed Henry (via TVN).
- A tale of two audiences: Schultz vs O’Reilly. The end of cable?
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on David Gregory’s lack of curiosity.
Friday Links and Open Thread
02/08/13 00:20 Filed in: links
- The Five video: The truth about cyberloafers. Flashback.
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Siegel: My obsession with Megyn Kelly and the Fox blondes.
- Q&A: Gerri Willis. Cost of Freedom moved. Cuomo’s CNN debut.
- At large killer sent package to Cooper. CNN hires DC local for am.
- OtR video: Buchanan and McSally on killing US citizens with drones.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
01/30/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Lean Forward: MSNBC airs no explanation or apology; more.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Audio: Joe Trippi talks to Kilmeade about the War on Fox.
- Rothstein: Starting Point ‘too ethnic’? Staffers brace for worst.
- ICN: Latest doctored video flap threatens MSNBC’s credibility.
- Lean Forward: MSNBC in a new deceptive editing controversy.
- Q&A: Harris Faulkner. January cablenews program ranker.
- Imus video: Laura Ingraham. Super Bowl Q&A: Sandra Smith.
- Zurawik: Under Zucker, CNN is looking like a contender. More.
- Grove: Shock and awe at CNN…and more heads will roll.
- Video: Greta and Hillary Clinton. Shock photo: Andy Levy.
- Unedited Factor video: Bill’s feisty Q&A with Gen Colin Powell.
Monday Links and Open Thread
01/28/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Shooting from the lip?
- Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Tucker Carlson on CNN, MSNBC, Olby, and more.
- Greta: What I will do in my 12 minutes with Hillary Clinton.
- Lean Forward: Obama fundraisers target (MS)NBC.
- Today’s Palin specularama: hired by Zucker? Or maybe not?
- Colin Powell enters the no-spin zone. NBC snubs CNBC?
- Video: 60 MInutes Q&A like ‘state-run media’? Foul weather.
- Imus videos: Bill Hemmer; Juan Williams part one, part two.
- Tougher than 60 Minutes? Zoraida ringed. Curry clamp-down.
- Videos: Obama attacks Fox, Trump and Peter Johnson respond.
- Hot & Not: Coop, Curry, Cashin’ In, contracts, CNBC, and more.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
01/26/13 00:15 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Palin, polarization, and more.
- Greta: Democrats being pressured to stay off Fox News.
- Broadening the definition of news: CNN’s red carpet show.
- News Watch video: A media inauguration love connection?
- Zucker’s recipe to save CNN: opinion, drama, pizzazz.
- Mediaite: ‘Clash’ of the titles. Sunday talk: preview, recap.
- Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on still-slobbering media.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
01/24/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Race and Bloomberg’s soda pop ban.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Old patterns die hard: CNN ratings crash repeats itself.
- Rachel Nichols joins CNN. Josh Lipton moves to CNBC.
- Eric Bolling to host Cashin’ In. Q&A: Rich Edson, SNL to FBN.
- Videos: Judge Nap on Hillary, major media coverage debated.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
- Mickey Kaus: Is it time for a new Fox? Greta vs The Daily Caller.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
01/05/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- Videos: Greta on This Week part one, part two; web extra.
- Reliable Sources videos: Clinton, Christie, the cliff, and more.
- Who currently at Current will survive the cut? CNN on storms.
- News Watch video: How well did the press cover Congress?
- Briggs replacement: Tucker Carlson? J$P hears: temporary sub.
- 2012 cable ranker. Reese’s piece: good news…except for CNN.
- Factor video: Father of jailed Marine. Sunday talk: preview, recap.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
01/02/13 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Hollywood’s love-hate relationship with guns.
- Stelter: Current tv has finally found a buyer…it’s Al-Jazeera!
- Shock: Daily Beast attacks Fox, gets it wrong. More. Update.
- Apparently Ann Curry believes those Curry-to-CNN rumors.
- CNN’s embarrassing debasement tarnishes Cooper as well.
- Imus video: Mike Emanuel explains what happened at the cliff.
- Solin: CNBC, stop the madness! ICN: Wake up! This is rising above?
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/27/12 00:00 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Jamie Colby-O’Reilly-O’Reilly 1-2-3.
- Monday’s numbers: The Five-McElway-F&F Christmas 1-2-3.
- Wemple: Why Greta covered the case of a jailed US marine.
- Politico: Don Lemon’s Newtown reports ‘not journalism’.
- Lean Forward: Cable news host promotes his own anti-NRA rally.
- Spend New Year’s Eve with Megyn…or Kathy Griffin? Flashback.
- Griffin: Chris Matthews is ‘a statesman’! Weekend numbers.
- Zurawik: Exploitative media hot-doggers debase coverage.
- Video: Greg Gutfeld reviews the real scandals of 2012.
- YTJD: The Lorcoe Diamonds Matter part one, part two.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
12/26/12 01:15 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Do media trash privacy for advocacy?
- Gullible Fox haters fall for an obvious hoax.
- DC police ‘investigating’ Gregory gun stunt? Greta: So silly!
- Shocker: Impartial cable ‘journalists’ take sides on gun control.
- Friday’s numbers: Laura Ingraham-The Five-John Roberts 1-2-3.
- The Five video: Secret Santa surprises. Kiran’s Christmas wish?
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Lorcoe Diamonds Matter part one.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/22/12 01:15 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Tragedies, 2012 gaffes, and more.
- ’Tis the season: FNC contributor promotes MSNBC series.
- News Watch video: Media missing the Benghazi boat?
- Dave Briggs leaving Fox & Friends…for NBC Sports Network?
- Newlywed Erin Burnett’s dress code for staff. Greta: why not?
- Video: Mother of freed marine credits Fox News and O’Reilly.
- The Great Gildersleeve: Why the Chimes Rang.
- The Donna Reed Show: A Very Merry Christmas.
- Grand Central Station: Miracle for Christmas.
- Newhart video: No Room at the Inn. Sunday talkers: preview.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/15/12 00:00 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources video: The media and the massacre.
- Video: Huckabee responds to critics as Geraldo takes his side.
- Changing of the guard? Gretchen on Studio-B while Aly’s on F&F.
- Greta Home and Academy opens in Haiti; a great day.
- Sunday coverage: Baier anchors memorial at 6:00 pm.
- Today’s boycott. Hugged by Don Lemon. Crowley honored.
- Zurawik: What, you expected responsible journalism from MSNBC?
- Saturday special coverage. Sunday talkers: preview, HP recap.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/08/12 00:20 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Bob Costas, Roger Ailes, and more.
- Greta: Not partisan or showbiz, he is the best interviewer on tv.
- Fox & Friends video: The first-ever freshman Heisman winner.
- News Watch video: Media memes mingle at the fiscal cliff.
- More ideas to ‘save CNN’. Sunday talkers: preview, HP recap.
- Video: Andy Levy ombudses Psy, curricula, wiring, and more.
- Sunday: Fly Me to the Moon, preview; Who Is Black in America?
Thursday Links and Open Thread
11/29/12 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Celebrities behaving badly.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
- Reruns of The Mole? Zucker plan: ‘broaden the definition’ of news!
- November program rankers. Q&A: Gerri Willis on the fiscal cliff.
- Imus video: McGuirk vs Imogen Lloyd Webber on Benghazi etc.
- Greta: Bruce Bartlett flatters himself. Huddy’s new hubby?
- Video: Factor debate over religion turns rowdy. Today’s oops.
- Zurawik: Zucker may be just the ticket for CNN. The big question.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
11/27/12 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: The amazing technicolor fiscal cliff roadshow.
- Three in a row: Lou Dobbs on FBN beats CNBC for the month.
- Video: TV’s Andy Levy ombudses drones, twitter, and more.
- Boyle: Evolution of female anchor fashions (via TVN). Analysis.
- Thursday’s numbers; Friday’s numbers. Q&A: Adam Housley.
- Video: Bret Baier with Imus on Susan Rice, the fiscal cliff, etc.
- Berr: Why MSNBC won’t ‘catch up’ to Fox. Ricks tricks; more.
- Greta: MSNBC should apologize to John McCain and his daughter.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
11/21/12 00:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Is the American dream going out of style?
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Tucker-The Five 1-2-3.
- FNC Doomsday special. Kiran still Chetrylicious? CNN honored.
- Video: Is media coverage of Gaza conflict fair and balanced?
- Calderone: MSNBC leans forward…’progressive’ or pro-Obama?
- Beckel set to address controversial comments on today’s Five.
- Greta to Obama administration: Grow up! Stop punishing Fox.
- Audio: Paul Mecurio talks race and politics with Brian Kilmeade.
- WaPo’s Wemple: Feeble O’Reilly defense of ‘vile’ comments.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg on media fairness to Israel. Related.
- Chances are you won’t read this on Fox hater sites. Flashback.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
11/15/12 00:15 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Obama defends Ambassador…but it’s not Stevens.
- Simpson-Bowles segment torpedoed, leaving empty chairs.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Swells gather for Ailes Apprentice commencement ceremony.
- Video: Leland Vittert takes cover as rocket strikes hit Israel.
- Video: Greg Gutfeld explains The Joy of Hate to Imus. Q&A: Greg.
- The Five’s seven-second delay saves the day. MSNBC promotions.
- Gullible Fox haters fall for hoax Rahm Emanuel/Sean Hannity story.
- Video: Facebook removes photo of Arab woman without head scarf.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
11/13/12 00:40 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Fordham, Coulter, tolerance, and Greg’s book.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
- MSNBC streak ends, loses to FNC prime & total day, all demos.
- Video: Is the FBI running amok? Weekend numbers.
- Adam’s a new Dad! Julie’s a new Mom! Sara Ganim to CNN.
- Video: Mike Huckabee with Jon Stewart part one, part two.
- Imus video: Mike Baker on implications of the Petraeus scandal.
- Somerby: Maddow, master of biased BS and fabricated ‘facts’.
- VIdeos: Greg Gutfeld and Melissa Francis on their new books.
- Videos: Bernard Goldberg and Catherine Herridge on Petraeus.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
11/10/12 00:22 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Chris Matthews, David Petraeaus.
- Greta smacks down Fox hater. Full video: part one, part two.
- News Watch videos: Media on election night and next four years.
- Videos: Anderson Cooper with Letterman; The real James Bond.
- Steve Capus for CNN Prez? ICN: That won’t solve their problems.
- Swells swarm Melissa Francis bash. Sunday talk: preview, HP recap.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
11/06/12 00:00 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly (5M!)-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Ed Henry on Fox haters who actually don’t watch Fox.
- Video: The Judge on election legal tangles. Weekend numbers.
- Peters: NBC Newsers try to distance themselves from MSNBC.
- Imus videos: Adventures in voting; problematic pundit predictions.
- Greta: Clearly Obama admin is punishing Fox for Benghazi reporting.
- Q&A: Melissa Francis on Florida’s vote; Charles Gasparino on twitter.
- Election coverage: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, FBN, CNBC, Bloomberg.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
11/03/12 00:08 Filed in: links
- Video: Negative campaign could impact second Obama term.
- Reliable Sources videos: MSNBC, campaign coverage, more.
- Behind the scenes at Fox News and FBN: Election night prep.
- WaPo: FNC breaks news but they’re scurrilous. Greta: Pathetic.
- News Watch video: The media storm over the monster storm.
- October program ranker: Fox News holds nine of top ten slots.
- Arthel Neville argues with Bill O’Reilly, then sticks up for him.
- Profile: Bret Baier, less than met the eye. Q&A: Neil Cavuto.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg says MSNBC is not a news channel.
- The Five video: Should Romney have skipped campaign fluff?
- Saturday: Weekday crew anchors Fox & Friends; Live Cost of Freedom; special Huckabee, Geraldo; MSNBC schedule; CNN schedule.
- Sunday: FNC special schedule; CNN schedule; MSNBC schedule. Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
- Election night coverage: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, FBN, CNBC.
Friday Links and Open Thread
11/02/12 00:59 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly (4M)-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Justo y Equilibrado: Sanchez anchors returns on Fox News Latino.
- WaPo’s Wemple attempts a pseudo-apology to Janice Dean.
- Profile: Megyn Kelly, from the courtroom to the anchor desk.
- ICN: MSNBC election night plans reveal a curious discrepancy.
- Video: Ed Henry previews the election w/Imus part one, part two.
- Q&A and profile: Shannon Bream. Larry unimpressed with Piers.
- Video: Geraldo Rivera calls Eric Bolling a liar over Benghazi.
- New Pew: Positive about the negative…MSNBC worse than Fox.
- Greta: Why are the press suddenly being fed info by the CIA?
- ICN: Changes at NBC leave Tamron Hall on a fast track to nowhere.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
10/25/12 00:10 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Is Weinstein Obama’s Hollywood helper?
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Lean Forward: MSNBC’s Benghazi blackout continues.
- Video: Hillary’s Benghazi promise: we’ll arrest…video maker!
- DePaolo: How Joe Trippi found happiness at Fox News.
- Krystal is having a Ball. CNN manning up in swing states.
- Halloween Resurrection? Ex-’journalist’ wants another show!
- Red Eye video: Andy ombudses Trump, NatGeo, and more.
- Videos: Bill O’Reilly vs David Letterman; Greta cross-examines Donald Trump; Rachel Maddow schmoozes with Wendy Williams.
- ITV’s Keir Simmons to (MS)NBC. Big Ed does some GOTV.
- CNN gets cold feet over hormones, stays mum regarding Piers.
Monday Links and Open Thread
10/22/12 01:00 Filed in: links
- The Five video: The 107 counties that could decide the election.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Special Report Invest 1-2-3.
- Video: Pinkerton and Colmes assess Bob Schieffer’s debate role.
- Debate coverage: FNC, CNN. Video: O’Reilly et al on helium.
- Q&A: Lou Dobbs. Profiles: Soledad (via TVN); Melissa Francis.
- Video: Lori Rothman with Imus on her career and tonight’s debate.
- Greta: If the President can go from Letterman to Jay Leno...
- The Five video: Why the oddly-timed leak about talks with Iran?
- Hiltbrand: Fox News mightier…and mellower? Advice for Heather.
- Wrong, in many ways. Morning Joe misogyny: almost as bad as Fox!
Weekend Links and Open Thread
10/20/12 00:00 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Candy Crowley, Roger Ailes, and more.
- Nightline co-anchor exposes self as Fox hater. Greta on This Week.
- News Watch videos: Schieffer preview; media miss warning signs?
- Bercovici: Murdoch needs Ailes. Sunday talk: preview, HP recap.
- Spencer: Howard Beale, meet Lawrence O’Donnell.
- Lean Forward: Laughable MSNBC whips up rhetorical fury over piffle.
- Sunday specials: GPS: Powering America; The Five: Debate Preview.
Monday Links and Open Thread
10/15/12 00:02 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Previewing the Great Debate part deux.
- Friday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Baier-The Five 1-2-3-4.
- Video: Pinkerton vs Colmes on Crowley vs the debate rules.
- Greta: It makes me wish that Crowley ask all the questions!
- Controversy swirls around Candy Crowley debate role.
- MSNBC’s extreme makeover, web edition: unimpressive.
- Video: Geraldo tells Imus Libya has ‘stench of Watergate’.
- Hot & Not: Debate, Geist, MoJo, etc. ICN: Ed’s being sarcastic.
- Wolff: Can a change at the top save CNN? Robertson honored.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
10/04/12 00:15 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Civilian trial by jury for Usama Bin Laden?
- Wednesday’s numbers: Debate(FNC)-Greta-Debate(CNN) 1-2-3.
- Kelly’s Court video: Does Zimmerman have a case against NBC?
- Debate numbers: FNC tops cable, broadcast, sets new record!
- Video: Juan Williams and Imus debate the debate pt one, pt two.
- Greta: Stop blaming Lehrer! Q&A: Ed Henry; Liz Claman in Ohio.
- Matthews to Obama: Watch more MSNBC to get your talking points!
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
09/26/12 00:05 Filed in: links
- Christopher’s claims about MSNBC programs: ‘faux fantasy’?
- The Five video: Can we trust the mainstream media?
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Evans’s Me and My Heroes: Jennifer Griffin. Greta places.
- Adam Carolla audio [R-rated]: Why I look so bad on The Factor.
- Whoops! MSNBC’s O’Donnell reports satirical piece as fact! More.
- Video: The Judge rules on Elizabeth Warren’s license to practice.
- Reese’s piece: New boss last chance to salvage CNN’s reputation.
- Video: Sununu vs Trippi…another calm, reasoned Hannity debate.
Friday Links and Open Thread
09/21/12 00:05 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Fox News Watch, Journal Editorial Report expand.
- Video: S.E. Cupp loses her patience with fellow Cyclists.
- Q&A: Maria Molina, Alex Wagner, Melissa Francis, Touré & Ball.
- VIdeo: Juan Williams with Imus on O’Reilly, Libya, and more.
- Greta: Koppel delusional to say network anchors aren’t biased.
- Videos: Ted Koppel with Bill O’Reilly, O’Reilly with Ted Koppel.
- Surprise! NY Times exults over MSNBC blip that’s already gone.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
09/16/12 01:30 Filed in: links
- News Watch video: Biased coverage of embassy attacks?
- Reliable Sources videos: Movie muddle, media blame game.
- The ‘best political team on tv’ soliciting Obama contributions!?
- Sunday talkers: preview, guest list, HuffPo recap.
- Greta a finalist in distinguished journalistic competition.
- FBN’s graphics overhaul and social media. Cnbc.com slippage.
- Saturday: Journal Editorial and News Watch air for one hour each.
Monday Links and Open Thread
08/27/12 00:10 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Does the extremist label fit Mitt?
- Friday’s numbers: Hannity-Crowley-Baier-The Five 1-2-3-4.
- VIdeos: Tours of FNC's Tampa hub via Kilmeade and MacCallum.
- Q&A: Chris Wallace, Shannon Bream, Neil Cavuto, The Rev.
- Profile: Megyn Kelly. Heather Nauert goes back to WNYW.
- Isaac sends cablnewsers away from Tampa to New Orleans.
- Greta: Why did CNN push their number one host off the air?
- Chozik: CNN has a new ratings ploy...airing reruns of HBO shows!
- Collins: Is CNN desperate for its own ‘game change’? (via ATCNN)
Monday Links and Open Thread
08/13/12 00:05 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Is Ryan getting a fair shake from the media?
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
- Somerby: Rachel Maddow crops, cuts, and serves up the stupid.
- Detrich: CNBC ratings doldrums. Kanaval: Too much bratty Cramer.
- Video: Dana Perino and Imus re The Five etc. Hume snags Ryan.
- The cure for a floundering CNN? How about reality shows?! (via ICN)
- New FNC 2012 election iPad app. Hot & Not: CNN, FNC, Zakaria, etc.
- Byrnes: Zakaria stole from me too! Greta: DId someone steal from ICN?
Thursday Links and Open Thread
08/09/12 00:15 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta-The Five 1-2-3-4.
- Greta posts an offer to lawyer behind frivolous lawsuit.
- Q&A: Shannon Bream on covering the conventions (via TVN).
- Lean Forward: MSNBC to air Obama, Romney docs.
- MSNBCers perform in ‘cheap, fatuous’ Ferrell flick.
- Video: John Stossel, Juan Williams with Don Imus.
- Today’s outrage; more. Alan still gets hate mail.
- CNN not up on its heavy metal. O’Donnell tops Greta...sort of.
Friday Links and Open Thread
06/29/12 00:01 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Is Obamacare really free?
- Thursday’s numbers: SCOTUS-Laura-Hannity 1-2-3.
- SCOTUS: FNC’s 3 million tops CNN+MSNBC combined.
- Ten cablenews shows that shouldn’t have been cancelled.
- Greta: People are going overboard about a harmless error.
- Profile: Melissa Francis. Video: John King abdicates.
- Willie Geist, broadcast network news anchor?!?
- The Hill: Fox News legal analysts ‘the most professionally accurate’.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
06/06/12 00:29 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Lessons of the Wisconsin recall.
- New roles for Michael Clemente, John Moody at FNC.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Zurawik: The biggest loser in the recall was cable news.
- Greta has some clarifications for David Zurawik.
- You won’t believe who wants to host a show on Fox News.
- CNBC duped. Q&A: Ed Schultz (via TVN), Roland Martin.
- Video: Juan Williams with Imus on politics, Newt, and more.
- Video: Chris Wallace on GMA. CNN’s Bourdain moonlights.
- Byers: The worst night ever on cable news. ICN: However...
- Schultz bummed over recall. Top Big Ed election-night tweets.
Monday Links and Open Thread
06/04/12 00:42 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Sarah Jessica Parker is on the Obama train.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
- Bashir browbeats Russert, and an ICN prediction comes true.
- Greta: If you can’t beat him, smear him.
- Q&A: Janice Dean, Melissa Francis (more), Steve Krakauer.
- Profile: Chris Jansing. Melissa Harris-Perry at Wellesley.
- Video: Imus with Melissa Francis about her new show and more.
- Times op-ed calls out O’Donnell for anti-Mormon bias. More.
- MSNBC ‘clarifies’ Big Ed’s role at the WI Democratic convention.
- Behind the Juan Williams/Newt Gingrich debate confrontation.
- The Times is all atwitter over CNN’s celebrity chef weekend show.
- Hot & Not: Blitzer, Banfield, Berman, Bourdain, Hayes, Ailes, etc.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
05/12/12 00:01 Filed in: links
- Reliable Sources videos: Gay marriage, Mitt, and more.
- News Watch video: The media on Obama’s ‘evolution’.
- Friday pinheads & patriots: guess which one MSNBC is.
- Videos: Surprises for Clayton Morris and Uma Pemmaraju.
- Honors to Mike Emmanuel (via TVN), John Stossel.
- Audio Q&A: Candy Crowley. CNN special: Vets Wanted.
- Greta ‘honored’? Sunday talk: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
05/05/12 00:01 Filed in: links
- Video: Greta with Jake Tapper et al part one, part two.
- Reliable Sources videos: Afghanistan, UBL, and more.
- Fox News Watch video: Obama’s UBL anniversary.
- Current proves they can go lower than Olby (via NB).
- Video: Coop with Letterman. Alan still gets hate mail.
- Why CNN is terrible. CNN reporter ‘soliciting bribes’?
- Sunday talk: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap. Greta accepts.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/28/12 00:02 Filed in: links
- Panic at CNBC: Biggest stars become biggest losers.
- Reliable Sources videos: Obama, Fallon, and more.
- Video: Alisyn Camerota at the Correspondents’ Dinner.
- News Watch video: Has Trayvon coverage been fair?
- Video Q&A: Wolf Blitzer. Rita Cosby resurfaces.
- Greta: Does Politico support ridiculing retarded children?
- White House Correspondents’ Dinner: FNC, MSNBC, CNN.
- News makes way for non-news? Sunday talk: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/27/12 00:05 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Take me out to the bawl game.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3-4.
- Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan signs off...to join CBS News?
- Greta explains hate speech to Kimmel and Meghan McCain.
- Fox & Friends giving CBS broadcast a run for its money.
- VIdeo: Cavuto spars with Don Imus part one, part two.
- Six cablenewsers named to ‘out’ list. Q&A: Suze Orman (via ICN).
- VIdeos: FNC College Challenge winners; Laura & Bill rip MSNBC.
- VIdeo: Buchanan on leaving MSNBC. Cavuto’s producer to CNBC.
- ICN: O’Reilly 2007 comments impeach his Mitchell critique. However...
Thursday Links and Open Thread
04/19/12 00:55 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Silver spoons and class warfare.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Bream jumps for Special Olympics. Salinas jumps to WDBJ.
- Jordan Sparks, CNN, and Jennifer Griffin’s children. More.
- Shocking Salon exposé: Sean Hannity is conservative!
- Liz Claman talks 1000 episodes, gives financial advice.
- HLN moves further from ‘headline news’. Q&A: Maddow.
- Contract violations by the ‘mole’ expose him to civil liability.
- Video: A salute to Dick Clark from Larry King...on Fox News!
Monday Links and Open Thread
04/09/12 01:19 Filed in: links
- The Five video: Is the problem with fracking that it works?
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
- Cable beats broadcast: Fox & Friends tops CBS mornings.
- Mika Brzezinski: another conflict of interest at MSNBC?
- MSNBC exhaustive investigation stuns the world this week.
- Status symbol: your own home studio. Harlow to CNN/NYC.
- CNN anchor quotes the f-word. Greta: Why shouldn’t she?
- Hot & Not: (MS)NBC, Olbermann, CNN, Heather, Taxmasters.
- Maddow exposé looks shady, but swells attend fete anyhow.
- Zurawik: even if Olbermann wins lawsuit vs Gore, he still loses.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
04/04/12 00:01 Filed in: links
- The Five video: ‘Social Darwinism’ is the new talking point.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg says NBC’s apology is not enough.
- Fox News hires a new contributor: Santita Jackson. Flashback.
- Emails: Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos. TaxMasters stiffs cablenewsers.
- Profile: Robin Meade (v/ ICN). Q&A: Willie Geist. CNN’s Peabodies.
- Olbermann compares himself to $10 million dollar chandelier: video.
- Video: Debbie Wasserman Schultz w/Greta. NBC’s evasive apology.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
03/15/12 00:03 Filed in: links
- O’Reilly again tops BriWi on NBC. Soledad’s road trip flops.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-TheFive 1-2-3.
- Politico snarks at Fox but gets facts wrong. CNN, King of Twitter (via ICN).
- Adventures in cryptic backtracking: A rat is a rat...except when it’s not?
- Mika mauls Megyn; Todd adds his two cents. ICN: Cablenews mob wars.
- Kiran Chetry resurfaces...on Glenn Beck TV! Some fans not pleased.
- Q&A: Chris Matthews, Meghan McCain. Silenced Soledad speaks again.
- Videos: O’Reilly rips Media Matters, MSNBC; Bernard Goldberg analyzes.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
03/14/12 00:53 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- The Five video: When politics and Facebook intersect.
- ICN: Will controversy force MSNBC to address The Sharpton Tapes?
- Lou Dobbs Q&A: Boca Raton magazine, Inside Jersey. Q&A: Megyn.
- Greta clarifies her suspicions about the F&F item. ICN: Analysis.
- Fox & Friends 1st tops at 5:00 am, even beats Erin Burnett at 7:00 pm!
- Friedman: Ken Jautz is not just a suit, he’s a journalist. New Imus flap?
- MSNBC election analysis: Santorum uncomfortable ‘being in a three-way’.
Friday Links and Open Thread
03/09/12 00:20 Filed in: links
- Video: The Five discuss the new 17-minute Obama promo.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- MSNBC Einstein Donnie Deutsch to substitute host...on CNN?!
- Q&A: Sally Kohn on working w/Hannity at Fox; Melissa Harris-Perry.
- Chris Wallace thanks ‘three giants of broadcasting’.
- Video: Eric Cantor confuses Neil Cavuto with Bret Baier.
- Kirsten Powers returns fire at Olbermann. VIdeo: Powers with Greta.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
03/03/12 00:18 Filed in: links
- Video: Anna and Ainsley preview Fox & Friends First.
- Video: Reliable Sources targets Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
- Hot & Not: Fox & Friends, Breitbart, MSNBC, Andrea Tantaros.
- News Watch video: Did media fan the Koran-burning flames?
- Mediaite speaks, Greta replies. Ailes plugs Maddow (via TVN).
- Sunday talk: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap. De La Cruz charity fete.
- Specials: Washington caucuses; HuckForum 3; Super Tuesday Preview.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
02/04/12 01:02 Filed in: links
- Video: Brian Kilmeade takes the field for the Beach Bowl.
- Reliable Sources videos: The media’s Trump blunder and more.
- ‘The Place for Politics’ skips Newt presser for Lock-Up rerun.
- Q&A: Bill O’Reilly, Harris Faulkner, Greta, Chris Wallace.
- News Watch video: Media pounce on Romney ‘poor’ comments.
- Sunday talk: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap. Swells fete Bonnie.
- NV primary coverage: FNC, CNN, MSNBC. John King’s oops!
- Lean forward: Martin Bashir echoes the deep thoughts of Bill Maher.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
01/05/12 00:02 Filed in: links
- Video: The Five talk taxes and Kim Kardashian.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Christopher: Olbermann stonewalling Current re NH primary.
- Greta: The people of Fox News have big hearts.
- Video: MSNBC blurred line between news and opinion in Iowa?
- MSNBC exposes their hand with mind-boggling caucus coverage.
- MSNBC downplays news for more lefty talk. Profile: D-Rat (v/ICN).
- Tuesday’s numbers: FNC 1-2-3-4-5-6-7. Video: Liz Claman.
- Mediaite: Emails suggest Olby lied about what he knew and when.
- Bercovici: Olbermann’s days at Current are numbered. More.
- Olbermann attorney in negotiations with Current over future role.
- Stelter: Olbermann and Current locked in a struggle for control.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/20/11 00:16 Filed in: links
- Video: Why wouldn’t Ed Schultz buy Eric Bolling a drink?
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Shep-TheFive 1-2-3-4.
- Limited commercials on the FNC New Year’s Eve bash.
- Greta: And they complain about me? Weekend numbers.
- MSNBC’s pilgrimage to the White House. Q&A: Kristen Welker.
- Celebrity Parents: Janice Dean. What I read: Stuart Varney.
- Politico’s romcom MSNBC suck-up. It’s hard to argue with this.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg on MSNBC’s KKK attack on Romney.
- The Nick Shurn Matter, part two: listen
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/12/11 00:05 Filed in: links
- Video: Neil Cavuto’s battle royale with OWS port saboteur.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Mediaite responds to ‘insecure’ Greta’s smackdown.
- Ailes book rumors spur response. Housley is thankful.
- Tommy Christopher gushes over ‘diverse’ Up with Hayes.
- Video: Geraldo discusses his new radio show with Don Imus.
- Hot & Not: Trump, Todd, TJ, Muppets, etc. Christie zings MoJo.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/10/11 00:14 Filed in: links
- It’s official: Geraldo gets WABC radio talk show.
- Reliable Sources video: campaigning via television.
- Stanley: Too many Iowans watch Fox News.
- News Watch video: Trump’s debate debacle.
- Greta: Is Mediaite on CNN’s payroll? Al’s unpaid bills.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly w/Jay Leno. Cain: cable contributor?
- Megyn Kelly, star of a new generation of female anchors.
- CNN promises an all-star line-up for annual Heroes fest.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/05/11 00:01 Filed in: links
- What do you get when you’ve been grilled by Bret Baier?
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-MonicaCrowley 1-2-3.
- Video: The Donald blasts Chuck Todd on MSNBC.
- Sherman: That crafty Ailes is up to something again.
- Hot & Not: Olbermann, Imus, Mr Herman Cain, Greta etc.
- Ron Christie: Chris Matthews’s ignorance of facts is shocking.
- Behind the scenes at Huck’s forum. Catherine Crier resurfaces.
- CNN’s Eason Jordan resurfaces...to produce the Trump debate!
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/01/11 00:11 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Greg Palkot thanks the man who saved his life.
- Q&A: Chuck Todd, Cenk, Erin Burnett. Chris Hayes: it’s a girl!
- Knaub: NewsCorp ‘never a terrorist target’. Flashback. More.
- Greta’s husband suddenly an issue again. Flashback. More.
- Six candidates to participate in Huck’s Presidential forum.
- Big Ed attacks Coop over GQ article! Three Eppies for CNN.
- Meghan attacks Bachmann, then interviews her on MSNBC. But why?
Monday Links and Open Thread
11/14/11 00:33 Filed in: links
- ICN: Now w/Alex Wagner shafts news for talk, is unlikely to survive.
- Friday’s numbers: JuanWilliams-Baier-TheFive 1-2-3.
- Mediaite tries to instigate an O’Reilly/Greta spat. TheFive tops demo.
- Goldberg: The dumbest question ever. Jenna Lee: What I read.
- Politicozy with MSNBC; more. Impartial journalist hired (via ICN).
- Pew: Fox News #1 in twitter engagement too (via The Cable Game).
- Kurtz: CBS ready to sign Joe and Mika but NBC put the kaibosh on it.
- Hot & Not: Murray, Penn State, CNN layoffs, etc. Lemon book review.
- MSNBC: The place for reruns. Hertzberg gushes over
five-vs-zeroUp.
Friday Links and Open Thread
11/11/11 00:13 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Major cuts at CNN hit scores of employees nationwide.
- Big Ed deposed in lawsuit. MSNBC sued over Murray doc.
- Monday: MSNBC kills an hour of news for HuffPo’s Alex Wagner.
- Cancelled Greta Q&A with Mrs Herman Cain to tape this weekend.
- CNN.com goal: to dominate the web. Q&A: Gasparino, Soledad.
- CNBC’s twicker debate among the least-watched.
- Video: The Five on debate gaffes by Perry, Cain. Spitzer resurfaces.
- MSNBC accused of checkbook journalism, gives LaToya the brush-off.
- Specials: Bret Baier’s Fight for Iowa; Robin Meade’s Salute to Troops.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
11/05/11 00:02 Filed in: links
- Newest MSNBC anchor: Repeal the second amendment!
- Reliable Sources video: The Herman Cain frenzy.
- Greta: The story Roger Ailes told me not to report.
- News Watch video: Media treatment of Herman Cain.
- Video: Chris Wallace remembers Andy Rooney.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
- Lowry: It’s time for CNN to rethink Soledad’s Black series.
- Specials: Cavuto live FNC/FBN simulcast; Zakaria: Fixing Education.
Friday Links and Open Thread
11/04/11 00:42 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- They call me Mr Herman Cain. Profile: Dana Perino.
- Video: MSNBC’s O’Donnell calls for assault on the NRA.
- Cablers gear up for Greece; Asman special. Hardball hijinks.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
11/03/11 00:16 Filed in: links
- Mrs Herman Cain cancels interview with Greta.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
- FNC exec smacks down Chris Matthews.
- Q&A: Erin Burnett, Gerri Willis, Soledad O’Brien, Scot Safon.
- VIdeo: Chris Wallace w/Imus. Candy Crowley honored.
- High to helm CNN earlybird hours. Ali Velshi’s new roles.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
11/02/11 00:33 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
- October: FBN natings slump, Imus numbers ‘miserable’.
- Newest MSNBC contributor: Meghan McCain.
- Zurawik: Piers and Burnett are sinking CNN primetime.
- Swells party with Matthews. CNN launches Espanol website.
- Who’s landed Mrs Cain’s first national interview? Video: Gerri’s jig.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
10/27/11 00:35 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Video: Judith Miller on media coverage of OWS.
- Congressman demands an apology from Greta.
- Q&A: Dennis Miller. O’Reilly’s trademark. MoJo in Westport.
- Video: Martha MacCallum talks to Don Imus about working at FNC.
- Shepard Smith engages the news. Burnett numbers hit bottom.
- Zurawik: Best coverage of Wall Street protests is from...Olbermann!
Friday Links and Open Thread
10/21/11 00:05 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-ChrisWallace 1-2-3.
- Qaddafi killed: FNC beat MSNBC and CNN combined.
- Q&A: Judge Napolitano. Zakaria snags A-Jad. Sanford to FNC.
- Video: On the Record 15-yr highlight reel. CNN skeds Black IV.
- Surprise: Up w/Chris Hayes gets rave review from...HuffPo!
- Fox haters welcome book-burning, calling it funny, awesome.
- ICN: MSNBC continues to erode live news for talking head politics.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
10/20/11 00:02 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- MSNBC loses another hour of news to leftist opinionizing.
- Two more GOP debates added to FNC schedule.
- Hall: Freedom Watch slump means Fox will fire Judge Nap?!
- Claim: US troops ordered to burn O’Reilly books.
- Video: The Rev w/Stewart. Q&A: D-Rat. Juan Williams on CNN.
- Video: Dennis Miller ridicules Bill Burton. Today’s firing demand.
- FNC’s 15th: Greta airs live from Phoenix. Adam’s squib, Andy’s rib.
Monday Links and Open Thread
10/10/11 00:02 Filed in: links
- Fox News Studio 12H gets extreme makeover.
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Occupiers use doctored video to claim Geraldo chased off.
- Occupier wants to break Geraldo’s hands: the crowd cheers!
- Q&A: Bill O’Reilly, Chris Wallace, Lori Rothman. More Squawk.
- Hank Williams Jr: payback. Debates shape the race.
- Victory lap for Fox and Hannity. Greta: Loyalty matters.
- Piers Morgan isn’t sleeping well? CNN goes European?
- Hot & Not: Erin Burnett, Wall Street, Fox News, HLN, Steve Jobs.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
10/08/11 00:05 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on coverage of Sarah Palin.
- Video: News Watch analyzes White House scandal coverage.
- FNC takes aim at the Big Three. Profile: Neil Cavuto.
- Palin, Greta make ‘powerful’ list. Hannity in Atlanta.
- Erin Burnett’s last pot shot at Apple. Olby visits occupiers.
- Profile: Coop. Special: Bullying: It Stops Here.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
'CBS News Is Very Nervous'
10/07/11 17:53 Filed in: videos
J$P Video! Insights on 15 years of Fox News from Bret Baier, Bill O’Reilly, Greta van Susteren, and Shepard Smith:
From Fox & Friends, October 7 2011
From Fox & Friends, October 7 2011
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
10/05/11 00:12 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-AmandaKnox(CNN)-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Palin opts out of 2012 race; does she re-up with Fox, or go rogue?
- Greta debunks another purported Fox News ‘controversy’.
- H’wood Reporter Q&A: Maddow. Caruso-Cabrera goes international.
- Lean Forward: Impartial MSNBC journalist anchors from protests!
- Ten cablers from MSNBCNN make Root 100; not on list: Juan Williams, Harris Faulkner, Lauren Green, Wendell Goler, Kelly Wright, anyone on FNC.
- CNN signs Maria Cardona, David Frum. Coop targets bullying.
- Video: Andy Levy fact-checks the Hank Williams Jr controversy.
- Roger Ailes and Shep Smith look back at 15 years of Fox News.
- Neil Cavuto talks FNC, MS, and more. Bloomberg’s economic debate.
Monday Links and Open Thread
10/03/11 00:06 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Greta addresses latest purported FNC ‘controversy’.
- Temporary no longer: The Five officially on FNC schedule.
- Neil Cavuto at the River Walk. Profile: Erin Burnett.
- Hagey: CNN has a ‘woman problem’; can Erin Burnett fix it?
- VIdeos: George Lopez with Trump on Cain, Wall St protests etc.
- Gretchen distances herself from Hank Williams Jr.
- Wolff: What Ailes can teach us. Profile: Sean Hannity.
- Roger and Megyn reflect on 15 years of FNC. Ailes honored.
- Levine: How the Fox News Channel captured cable.
- The Rev has his big Monday topic all picked out.
- Hot & Not: CNN, MSNBC, Craig Crawford, Bob Beckel.
- FNC 15th celebration: Cavuto airs from Trump Intl in Chicago.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
09/20/11 00:15 Filed in: links
- Goetzl: O’Reilly couldn’t fill a Boston bus shelter. Today: tickets to O’Reilly 15th anniversary show sell out in under 36 hours.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Shep 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Stuart Varney, Adam Shapiro. Weekend numbers.
- Video: Neil Cavuto talks to Don Imus part one, part two.
- Slideshow: Fox & Friends celebrate FNC 15th in Orlando.
- Surprise! Ignorant serial liar gets Current TV show!
- Is Joe Scarborough’s Politico piece plagiarism?
- CNN signs Ari Fleischer. Candy Crowley in Marquette.
- Video: Greta vs Tucker. Fallout: part one, part two.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg on Attack Watch and Jeff Immelt.
Monday Links and Open Thread
09/19/11 00:28 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Poll: Best news channel? FNC-CNN-MSNBC 1-2-3. Analysis.
- Point: Greta. Counterpoint: Tucker. Response: Greta. More.
- Newsweek profile: Bill O’Reilly. Olbermann ratings at all-time low.
- Video: Fox & Friends 15-year highlight reel. Q&A: Steve Doocy.
- MSNBC goes all out to promote ‘marriage equality’ presentation.
- FNC 15th celebration kicks off with Fox & Friends live in Orlando.
- Hot & Not: WSJ, CNBC, American Morning, Chris Hayes, Alex Witt.
Friday Links and Open Thread
09/16/11 00:57 Filed in: links
- Zurawik: Critics of CNN debate want to enforce a liberal othodoxy.
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Bream 1-2-3.
- Greta: What some bloggers don’t understand about journalism.
- Biznet boom backslides (via ICN). McGinnis ducking Fox News.
- Bashir: Romney not a Christian; media mum. Flashback: Ainsley Earhardt.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
08/24/11 00:24 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Larry Kudlow’s CNBC show in jeopardy?
- Freed journos speak: Tadek Markowski (video), Matthew Chance.
- What cablenews host made 100 most powerful women list?
- Video: Penguins vs Kilmeade’s new shoes (h/t Carpe Diem).
- Q&A: Janice Dean. Video: Phantom hands pin Ben’s Stein’s mic.
- Controversy swirls over Sharpton hire. The Rev compares self to Huck. Did this op-ed seal the deal? Watkins: Al Sharpton opens doors for black journalists?!?
Friday Links and Open Thread
08/05/11 00:03 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3. The Five rises.
- Fox Nation headline flap elicits response from FNC exec.
- Q&A: Tamron Hall (via ICN); Liz Claman, unlikely triathlete.
- E-Mac’s Bottom Line on Media Matters: part one, two, three.
- MSNBC and Big Ed to rally Wisconsin Dem voters. Flashback.
- Greta to John Kerry: Stop trying to intimidate the press!
- USA Today profile: Megyn Kelly. CNN’s Bohrman: out.
- Video: Bias Bash on Somalia, Piers Morgan, and more.
- Controversy swirls around rumored Al Sharpton hire.
- Piers pressure. Jautz defends. How did Media Matters miss this?
- FBN dumps Friday Imus for Webster-Smith-McDowell market coverage.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
08/02/11 00:22 Filed in: links
- Video: Bias Bash on the new tea partiers are terrorists meme.
- Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- MSNBC anchor panel shocker: unanimous electoral prediction.
- Don Lemon doesn’t watch CNN much. FNC dominates July.
- Griffin: If you’re not on MSNBC you’re stupid (or at least not smart).
- Greta: How to do away with countdown clocks. Q&A: Liz Claman.
- Mark Halperin suspension is over. July spin: MSNBC, HLN, CNN.
- FNC programs get makeovers. Janice Dean’s summer regalia.
- Videos: Ed Henry w/Don Imus, Lou Dobbs w/Jimmy Fallon.
- Q&A: Chris Hayes, new MSNBC star. Maddow contract extended.
- ICN: MSNBC favors prisons, predators over news. iReport at five.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg analyzes media coverage of debt debate.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
07/28/11 00:00 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Video: Bias Bash on Ed Henry, Media Matters, and more.
- Zurawik: White House looking to pick a fight. Greta: Give it a rest.
- Hiring Sharpton: payback for lobbying, or maybe affirmative action?
- Today’s cablenews lawsuit. Rick Sanchez resurfaces.
- MSNBC contributor: Corporate America literally rapes people.
Friday Links and Open Thread
07/22/11 00:15 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- First guest on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor: Bill O’Reilly!
- Impartial MSNBC anchor: Bachmann would extinguish gays.
- ICN: MSNBC’s ‘insider’ problem. Tamron’s stalker.
- Greta: I’ve never seen anything at FNC like Uygur describes.
- Was Uygur his own worst enemy? Video: Cenk with Olby.
- Juan Williams’s story. New Piers problems? Q&A: Tony Maddox.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
07/21/11 05:02 Filed in: links
- Show me the Huddy: J$P hears Juliet will co-host Sat/Sun F&F.
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- MSNBC signs newest contributor: former Obama press aide.
- Greta: Politico revelation raises troublesome issues.
- Video: Chris Wallace w/Imus on hacking, Bachmann pt one, pt two.
- TheDC: The ’N’ in MSNBC doesn’t stand for ‘news’.
- New line of attack: People on Fox News have ‘strange faces’!
- Uygur sez the White House got him fired. WH denies. ICN: What is MSNBC up to? Uygur speaks, and raises more questions. MSNBC: Uygur claims ‘baseless’.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
07/16/11 00:05 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on debt, NotW. Greta takes issue.
- Video: Fox News Watch on the NotW hacking scandal.
- A ‘change’ at MSNBC: replace Uygur with Sharpton? More.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet. Casey released.
- CNN pounding one hacking scandal, ignoring the other.
Monday Links and Open Thread
07/11/11 01:02 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Video: Bias Bash on Pakistan, Iraq, leaks, etc.
- Profile: Greg Gutfeld previews The Five. Q&A: Jenna Lee.
- Roger Ailes pulls a fast one on Juan Williams.
- Obama pollster to double as CNN contributor.
- Hot & Not: CNN, Quintanilla, Casey Anthony, etc.
- Greta: How to cover a criminal trial, and how to watch one.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
07/07/11 00:17 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Dr Drew-Grace 1-2-3.
- Nancy Grace fires back at her critics.
- Bias Bash video: Cameras in court, Bachmann, etc.
- Six theories on why CNN sacked Spitzer.
- Greta: Should TVNewser sell ads to media it covers? More.
- Video: Martha MacCallum w/Don Imus part one, part two.
- Hagey: All the reasons FNC is wrong and Brock is right.
- Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Grace-HLNSpecRpt 1-2-3.
- MSNBC nixes Matthews cameo in Sorkin pilot.
- Zurawik: Spitzer sign-off evokes shades of Richard Nixon.
- Found: person who will miss ‘intelligent, prescient’ Spitzer.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
06/11/11 00:18 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources talks Weiner w/Kirsten Powers.
- Joe & Mika angling for CNN slot? Olbermann’s eloquence.
- Video: News Watch on Weiner’s confession and ‘treatment’.
- Video: CNN debate preview. Greta: journo or talker?
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
- Tracton: How a one-hour CNN interview shrunk to five minutes.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
05/28/11 00:12 Filed in: links
- Video: News Watch on Obama/Israel coverage; more.
- Video: Reliable Sources on the end of Oprah’s run.
- Greta rips Rolling Stone ‘slime’, dings NY Times FNC coverage.
- The Ed Schultz ‘apology’ you didn’t see. Jansing honored.
- Mika book review. Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet.
- TV Week: ‘Horrid’ Media Matters campaign has crossed the line.
Monday Links and Open Thead
05/16/11 00:10 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Baier 1-2-3.
- Where was Juliet? She sez: laid up. Back to School, with Shep.
- Zurawik: Trump, Huck bought and sold for walking around money.
- New book recounts Olbermann’s stormy ESPN exit.
- VIdeo: Juan Williams with Don Imus part one, part two.
- Greta jabs at Abrams; Dan returns fire; Greta apologizes.
- Kurtz: Why Huck said no. Adam and Tamera tie the knot.
- Is Don Lemon’s book revelation a career risk?
- Hot & Not: Huck, Olby, Schultz, S-bombs, etc.
- Olby/Schultz flap fallout: KO gets HuffPo to delete tweet about him!
- Un-Common debate: Stewart accepts O’Reilly challenge tonight.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/30/11 00:28 Filed in: links
- Greta goes to MSNBC, preps trip to North Korea.
- Video: Trump reacts to all those WHCD zingers.
- Video: Reliable Sources on Trump and the media.
- Wedding bells: CNN edges FNC, crushes MSNBC.
- Video: News Watch on the birth certificate; more.
- Swells gather at DC soirees. Gasparino’s ‘prom date’.
- Finally! Unequivocal proof that Fox News sucks!
- Huck denies Prez rumors. Beck’s bungalow bought.
- Larry King’s first special focuses on Alzheimer’s.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/15/11 00:02 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Hannity-Laura (for BO’R)-Greta 1-2-3.
- Turnabout: Brian Sullivan leaves FBN for CNBC.
- Do Judge Nap’s numbers mean he won’t replace Beck?
- Martin Bashir lets slip that Contessa Brewer is pregnant.
- Video: Red Eye rips Olby’s gutter attack on S.E. Cupp.
- Greta: Don’t worry about Cenk Uygur, he won’t be around long.
- Video: Geraldo enraged over pat down of 6-yr-old.
- Imus losing sidekick Charles McCord; McShane replaces. More.
- Video: Brian Kilmeade in the dunk tank. Q&A: Lou Dobbs.
- Beck stage show takes on emotions of a revival meeting.
- Jennifer Griffin’s This Burning Land. Lori Rothman: tax tips.
- Cooper’s syndie talk show to air from Lincoln Center room at CNN.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
04/13/11 00:01 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Schneider to FNC: Give Red Eye an earlier time slot.
- NY Observer Beck specularama foresees hubris, humiliation.
- Imus in the Morning sinks from #1 on FBN to #10. Analysis.
- Bias Bash video: How do the media differentiate big stories?
- CNN to replace John King w/Soledad? (via ICN) O’Brien’s pilot.
- Prez hopeful to announce candidacy on Greta’s show tonight?
- Show me the Huddy! Nancy Grace being sued for $15 million.
- Video: Judge Napolitano on the budget cut shell game.
- Video: Mike Emmanuel’s bad hair day?
- Scandal: New York police actually protecting people in New York!
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
04/12/11 00:32 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Video: Bias Bash on media laziness re budget, CIA.
- FNC debate rules separate contenders from pretenders.
- Video: Deadliest Catch brings spicy language to F&F.
- Q&A: Lou Dobbs. Tony Harris resurfaces, on Al-Jazeera.
- Howard Kurtz: Toxic Beck and polarized media.
- Video: Greta interviews...you guessed it...Donald Trump.
- Fox haters deluge O’Reilly poll on Glenn Beck, post bot script to rig results. Update: Poll and manipulated results pulled.
Monday Links and Open Thread
04/11/11 01:06 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Today’s Beck replacement specularama.
- Olby taking credit for ratings surge at CNN?!?
- Weekend in Vegas report gets Greta’s goat.
- As debates proliferate, FNC sets criteria for first showdown.
- Video: Bias Bash analyzes ‘thuggish’ NYT article.
- CNN skeds special on Waco. FNC wedding plans.
- VIdeo: No birther talk on Trump’s F&F segment.
- Hot & Not: Beck, Trump, The Judge, Roberts, CNN etc.
Friday Links and Open Thread
04/08/11 00:41 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Baier bumps Beck for breaking budget battle (h/t cubachi).
- Greta: Media silliness re Beck, Palin. Show me the Huddy!
- Insider mini-video: Charles Gasparino.
- As news fades, so does CNN. Soledad in Greenwich.
- O’Donnell wants his bosses to tell Trump: you’re fired!
- Audio: Alan Colmes grills Donald Trump on birtherism.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
04/02/11 00:10 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources on Trump, Bachmann coverage.
- Greta: Just what is it with Howard Dean?
- Video: Due to factual error, Fox News Watch stops, then starts over segment on media coverage of GE; more.
- Q&A: Larry King.
- Video: Donald Trump on The Factor part five; Beck’s take.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
03/26/11 00:45 Filed in: links
- MSNBC under Comcast: don’t empty the stadium.
- Chris Wallace gives an elbow to the White House.
- Video: Ted Koppel longs for the days of MSM dominance.
- Sunday specials: FNC Ferraro, CNN Muslims next door.
- Video: News Watch on Libya coverage part one, pt two.
- Q&A: Martin Bashir, news anchor and reggae master.
- Rick Sanchez resurfaces, plays Latino card.
- Ferraro remembered: Estrich, Palin, Beckel, Greta.
- R.I.P.: FNC’s Geraldine Ferraro. Flashback.
- Brock admits goal: sabotage Fox via all-out war.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
03/24/11 00:04 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- An early peek at FBN’s numbers.
- Q&A: John McCann on FBN’s Nielsen move.
- Aaron Brown resurfaces, slams Bill, Beck, Coop.
- Zurawik: Sarah Palin, Bill Maher, and Greta.
- Cablers gather for Roberts-hosted NLGJA soiree.
- Olbermann web ‘worst persons’ smears Billy Graham.
- Shumate: Cable news short shrifts Liz Taylor passing.
- Video: Sean Hannity talks to Larry King part one, part two.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
03/23/11 00:09 Filed in: links
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Greta: Scared kittens need training to defend their beliefs?
- Video: Judge Nap on why they won’t call Libya a ‘war’.
- CNN comes to FNC: On Hannity tonight, Larry King!
- Q&A: CNN’s Kyung Lah in Japan.
- FBN signs on for full Neilsen ratings services.
- Today’s NY Times specularama: The Beck Channel?
- Juliet Huddy: I’ll be back very soon.
- Impartial journalist David Shuster resurfaces.
- David Bauder: CNN seeks to leverage its advantages.
- Yes, Alan Colmes still gets hate mail.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
03/22/11 00:04 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Steve Harrigan accuses Nic Robertson of not telling the truth, blasts CNNer as a dull, b-s reporter who has ‘a screw loose’.
- Jennifer Griffin rips CNN’s ‘petulant, indefensible’ comments.
- Video: John Roberts w/Imus, on joining the Fox News team.
- Video: Juan and MK Ham react to Heldman attack.
- Jennifer Griffin audio: CNN should stop personal attacks.
- Video: Jennifer Griffin explains ‘human shields’ story. Daily Mail confirms. Did FNC cross the line? Was CNN outburst payback for Harrigan comments? Did Nic Robertson change his tune?
- Greta remembers Susan Bunda.
- Today’s Glenn Beck advertisers specularama.
- Weekend numbers. Weekly ranker: FNC tops CNN, MSNBC.
- Video: Judge Napolitano on wars of intervention.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
03/12/11 00:08 Filed in: links
- Greta: Is CNN being tasteless and crass?
- Video: Reliable Sources w/O’Keefe, analyzes NPR sting.
- Shep to Japan, FNC expanded Sunday programming.
- VIdeo: Greg Palkot’s return to the air after Egypt attack.
- Kudlow ‘grateful’ human toll worse than economic toll.
- CNN gets bump, skeds Sunday Coop 360, sets web record.
- Video: Saturday pre-empted News Watch covers NPR, NYT etc.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
03/10/11 00:03 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Larry King tweaks Coop...with a gay joke!
- Greta on Couric, contracts, and bad journalism.
- Bloomberg covers Silicon Valley, with a twist.
- Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus part one, part two.
- Blitzer, Leventhal et al honored at RTDNF dinner.
- Cablers hustle to cover surprise Wisconsin vote.
- Was CNBC Fast Money story on welfare misleading?
- Ronald S Martin at SSU. Q&A: HLN’s Scot Safon.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
03/09/11 00:12 Filed in: links
- Greta responds to ‘pathetic’ Keller and other Fox haters.
- Reese’s piece: CNN should’ve hired Clinton, not Spitzer.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
- MSNBC airs fake news story it already debunked?
- Kurtz: Can the NY Times be fair to Fox News? More.
- Martin Savidge returns to CNN.
- Q&A: Tucker part tres, John Roberts, CNN’s Tony Maddox.
- Conflict of interest at Morning Joe?
- Put away the torches: Big Ed gets his very own promo.
- Westlake profile: FBN’s Lori Rothman [pdf].
- Video: Bias Bash on the NPR hidden camera video.
- Video: Juan Williams reacts to NPR video pt one, pt two.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
03/08/11 00:19 Filed in: links
- MK Ham’s Factor appearance triggers obscene repsonse.
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Greta defends her questioning of Newt.
- Q&A: Tucker Carlson part deux.
- Megyn Kelly only tv newser on 2011 people to watch list.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg on NY Times attacking FNC.
- Scarborough denies Page Six ’shopping show’ story.
- CNN’s Keilar to WH beat. Kiran in Larchmont (via ICN).
- FNC to be aggressive in seeking increased carriage fees.
- Video: Judith Miller on the treatment of Bradley Manning.
Friday Links and Open Thread
02/25/11 00:48 Filed in: links
- Greta: Snakes were out to get Parker; does anyone believe CNN’s memo? TCG: CNN’s real problem is still there. Zurawik: Park & Spit was always DOA.
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
- Park & Spit is over. Revamp features E.D. Hill, elevates Spitzer.
- Joe courageously speaks out against...Glenn Beck.
- Video: Red Eye rips Lawrence O’Donnell.
- Q&A: John Roberts on his move to FNC.
- Park & Spit to split? Luis Carlos Velez to CNN.
- ICN’s most thoughtful, perspicacious post ever.
- MSNBC gives positive PR to partner company.
- Juan Williams in Jacksonville discusses NPR and FNC.
- Video: Wolf Blitzer with Craig Ferguson.
Monday Links and Open Thread
02/21/11 00:29 Filed in: links
- Surprise! ‘Juliete’ Huddy suddenly gets a bio page.
- Piers’s secret, ‘must-watch’ guest is...Larry King! ICN scoffs.
- Soros, Fox News, and Nazis: today’s question (via TCG).
- Shep ‘bear alerts’ continue to stir controversy.
- Video: Bias Bash on Al-Jazeera fomenting revolution.
- Profile: Lori Rothman. Q&A: Kiran Chetry.
- The ‘brains’ behind MSNBC’s brand.
- Piers: a cold dish of toad-in-the-hole? (via ICN)
- Greta tapped for Civility Institute board.
- Stuever: Matthews Clinton hour a superficial mash-note.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
02/15/11 00:31 Filed in: links
- Zurawik: Hot-dog poseur O’Donnell’s desperate ploy.
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Bret 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Q&A: Major Garrett on Olby’s exit, Velez-Mitchell pt deux.
- New Pew: Egypt coverage analyzed.
- Video: Ashley Webster w/Imus part one, part two.
- Morning Joe’s music mavens, CNN’s iReport awards.
- O’Donnell adopts Olbermann’s shtick, rips O’Reilly.
- Chris Jansing joins Jack Jacobs in VietNam.
- Video: Greta’s unedited interview with Donald Trump.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
02/10/11 00:33 Filed in: links
- Zurawik: Cablenewsers jump the gun.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
- Reese’s piece: Egypt and the Olbermann effect.
- Cenk at six hemorrhaging Schultz’s audience.
- CNN signs contributors: Belcher, Loesch, Cain.
- New weather intern arrives: Theodore Patrick.
- Greta fisks Politico article on Palin/Santorum.
- Egypt triggers breaking news mode on cable.
- Audio: Cavuto to O’Reilly--move on already!
- PolitiFact dings Maddow over false Fox attack.
- Egyptian crisis continues as newsers depart.
- Coop tells Letterman about being pummeled.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
01/25/11 00:44 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Rumor: MSNBC interested in hiring Alec Baldwin? Or not?
- Arend: Olby’s exit will consume humanity in a new Dark Age!
- Greta: Let’s stop the hand-wringing over Olbermann.
- Intramural feud: Roger Ailes vs the junior Murdochs?
- Video: Red Eye salutes Keith Olbermann.
- Rick Sanchez resurfaces, comments on Olbermann.
- Video: Bernard Goldberg on the MSNBC goings-on.
- Who really fired Olbermann? The military-industrial complex!
- Zurawik: Ed Rendell signs w/MSNBC; Q&A. AJ Hammer re-ups.
- Q&A: Neil Cavuto on SotU coverage, Big Ed part two, Cenk.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
01/15/11 00:35 Filed in: links
- Greta: Don’t charge Eric Fuller.
- Video: Reliable Sources on the AZ media aftermath.
- Paper publishes praise from Piers’s peers.
- Video: Fox News Watch on the media blame game.
- Julie Banderas loses weekend anchor slots; fans react.
- CNN adds Isha Sesay to Coop 360.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
01/12/11 01:15 Filed in: links
- A new idea: keep Park, dump Spit!
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Greta: Posh Piers launch party not what Fox would do. Analysis.
- Cincinnati Mag: Bill Hemmer remembers Haiti [pdf].
- How FNC/NYT reported dubious shooter-supremacist tie.
- Piers plan to pick fights kicks off with O’Reilly jab.
- Coop gathers AIDS activists for special hour.
- Video: Judge Napolitano on threats to your rights.
- Larry King finds work, as ‘Morgan mania’ sweeps the planet!
Weekend Links and Open Thread
01/08/11 00:45 Filed in: links
- CNN considers replacing Park, keeping Spit.
- Video: Megyn Kelly interviews Sheriff Dupnik.
- Video: Hero intern who saved Rep Giffords’s life.
- Video: Mother of Roxanna Green, 9-yr-old victim.
- Video: Reliable Sources on media finger-pointing.
- Video: Olby blames Beck, Palin, Bill etc. Kurtz responds.
- Cablers cover Giffords shooting. Special coverage skeds. FNC brings in weekday talent for Sunday coverage.
- Video: Bill Hemmer talks to Rep Giffords [Jan 7 2011].
- The Olbermann/Gabrielle Giffords connection.
- Fired CNNer escorted out of building. Greta comments.
- Cablers set to cover Haiti anniversary.
- Olby week in review: starting the new year right.
- Video: The most fascinating Park & Spit moment yet.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/28/10 00:06 Filed in: links
- 2010 program ranker. FNC dominates. Olby, Maddow, Coop all down double digits. One newser in top ten cable channels.
- Monday’s numbers: Bolling-Bream-Beck 1-2-3. Friday’s numbers: F&F Christmas-Special Report-Fox Report 1-2-3.
- Mickey Sherman (Mr Lis Wiehl) headed for the pokey.
- Greta responds to TV Newser.
- Chris Knowles (Mr Kiran Chetry) turns up on CNN.
- Video: Fox & Friends 2010 highlight reel.
- David Shuster resurfaces; Q&A.
- Piers gets support from Jack Bauer.
- Part two: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter.
Monday Links and Open Thread
12/27/10 01:25 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bret-Bill-Jon 1-2-3.
- Greta questions Juan Williams Palin comments.
- Yowzah! Courtney Friel Christmas pics resurface.
- Video: Dr Marc Siegel on end-of-life regulations.
- 2010 a big bucks year for biz nets.
- Tonight’s Factor sub-host: Eric Bolling.
- Big Ed explains his booking policies.
- Video: ‘Misinformed’ study itself misinformed.
- ICN 2010 wrap-up: what’s hot and what’s not.
- Part one: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
12/23/10 01:29 Filed in: links
- Wednesday’s numbers: Laura-Bret-Greta 1-2-3.
- Greta’s Haiti special airs tonight.
- Spend New Year’s Eve with Rick Sanchez!
- Video: Leventhal in Afghanistan w/David Asman’s son.
- Shep interview stirs Mediaite controversy.
- Part four: The Nick Shurn Matter listen.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
12/18/10 00:52 Filed in: links
- Video: Reliable Sources, liberal revolt, pundits out of touch.
- Greta: Guess who’s #1 again?
- Zurawik: So who defines ‘misinformed’?
- Video: News Watch on Obama media narrative; more.
- Video: Alisyn models the Hoodie-Footie.
- Olby week in review: conspiracy time.
- Financial Times profile: Rachel Maddow.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet., HuffPo recap.
- The Missing Mouse Matter.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
12/14/10 00:27 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Zurawik: FNC signs Bret Baier to new multi-year contract.
- Juan Williams signs book deal with Random House.
- Olbermann tries to wriggle out of latest Nazi comparison.
- Video: Geraldo on sleeping nude etc part one, part two.
- Video: Greta and Sarah Palin in Haiti.
- American Morning makeover: more upbeat, fast-paced.
- Video: Bill O’Reilly w/Don Imus part one, part two.
- Larry’s sign-off has people talking.
- CNN on the iPad. Amid changes, CNBC launches Pro.
- Talkative Joe vs Ice Princess Mika.
- ‘No Labels’ rally attracts a host of MSNBC hosts.
Friday Links and Open Thread
12/03/10 00:34 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Rangel 1-2-3.
- Lennon flashbacks: FNC Friday, CNN Saturday.
- Media Matters mystery: why did they call Greta’s husband?
- Men’s Journal profile: Bill Hemmer [pdf].
- Needed: fewer race cards, more journalism.
- Olby week in review: crusader for truth.
- Video: Piers Morgan makes debut on CNN.
- Beck fans line up in Pittsburgh.
- So who’s a sexist now? Joe Scarborough!
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
11/16/10 00:41 Filed in: links
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
- Ted Koppel responds to Olbermann (via TVN).
- TCG: Rolling Stone planning an FNC hit piece?
- Chris Wallace re-ups with Fox News.
- Bashir’s MSNBC debut: royals get engaged.
- Video: Eric Bolling’s ‘junk’ gets touched.
- Greta to HuffPo: get your facts straight!
- Video: Lou Dobbs on Imus in the Morning.
- Garvin: Why did Olbermann get spanked?
- Poniewozik: The battle of high horses.
Monday Links and Open Thread
11/01/10 00:45 Filed in: links
- Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- FNC dominated terror scare coverage.
- Kelly’s Court video: Alaska radio host suspended.
- Greta has some questions for Politico.
- Video: Bill Hemmer demonstrates the Bill Board.
- Pix: Swells gather to Lean Forward.
- Video: Major Garrett on the coming power shift.
- Wald to produce Piers Morgan Tonight; Q&A (via TVN), Q&A.
- Six questions with Neil Cavuto; seven more. Kneale’s back.
- American Morning staffers snipe as shake-up looms (via CB).
- MSNBC seeks to spread its tentacles worldwide.
- Today’s Fox controversy: proposition 24.
- Hot & Not: Shep, Brooke, Shuster, the matrix, the rally, etc.
- Video: Great moments in broadcast journalism, #735.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
10/30/10 00:46 Filed in: links
- Video: Jimmy Carter, Arianna bash Fox on Reliable Sources.
- Video: Fox News Watch on Obama/Stewart etc; more.
- Stewart restores civility: how did he do?
- Profile: Neil Cavuto.
- Shills: MSNBC to air Sunday Ed Show from Dem campaign rally!
- Video: Greta cross-examines Kendrick Meek.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
- Shuster finished at MSNBC? He says: maybe not.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
10/24/10 00:15 Filed in: links
- Zurawik: MSNBC fundraising crosses the line. ICN: Boomerang PR.
- Juan Williams/NPR video reax: Reliable Sources; Fox News Sunday; Fox News Watch part one, part two.
- Cable news; the mother’s milk of politics?
- Maria Molina makes her Fox News debut.
- Video: Red Eye rips Media Matters; more.
- Wikileaks guy walks out on CNN interview.
- Pow! Wham! It’s the Bill O’Reilly comic book!
- Video: Juan Williams Talking Points Memo.
- NPR board to examine firing. Schiller: public backlash an ‘overreaction’.
- Greta: Does NPR listen to NPR? LibTKO: Williams deserved to be fired.
- Video: Follow the Money follows Soros, Media Matters.
- Q&A: Jane Velez-Mitchell, Neil Cavuto.
- Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
Friday Links and Open Thread
10/22/10 12:05 Filed in: links
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill (4+ mill)-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Peter Johnson: media ‘watchdogs’ create new McCarthyism?
- Olby week in review: who’s the un-American bastard?
- Alan Colmes has an open-mic moment; more.
- Video: Red Eye riffs on Rachel Maddow’s apology.
- Juan Williams on GMA, Imus, America’s Newsroom, Ingraham. Q&A: WaPo.
- Joe: Obama should weigh in on Juan/NPR dispute.
- WaPo: NPR didn’t learn from Sherrod affair. Zurawik: Juan Williams and the culture wars. Estrich: NPR will pay the price. Rainey: Shirley Sherrod, meet Juan Williams. Holland: good riddance to a stupid bigot. Iftikhar: NPR was right. Battle: fire Schiller. Hutchinson: Juan Williams is a fraud.
- Videos: Beckel and Perino on NPR’s bad move; Chris Wallace.
- Q&A: Gerri Willis, Willie Geist. Profile: Donny Deutsch.
- Soledad: Survival of the fittest (via ATCNN); injury report.
- Greta: Why didn’t CNN say something?
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- Video: Juan Williams on The O’Reilly Factor.
- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- FNC gives Juan $2M contract, expanded role; hosts Friday Factor.
- Videos: Megyn vs CAIR’s Hooper; Kelly’s Court: can Juan sue?
- Juan Williams: I was fired for telling the truth.
- Greta: NPR was really stupid. Kristol: unfair, unbalanced, afraid. Beck: it’s a message to Fox. Huck to boycott NPR. Chris Wallace w/Imus: NPR was out to get him. Colmes backs Williams. Bernard Goldberg: killing liberalism.
- Echoes of Shirley Sherrod. Did NPR act on 45-second clip? Zurawik: a shame. Morning Joe discussion. NPR should rehire Williams? Kurtz: fired not for what he said, but where he said it? Yglesias: glad he’s gone.
- Breaking: NPR fires Juan Williams over O’Reilly appearance: update. NPR internal memo. NPR CEO: Juan should talk to his psychiatrist. Next target: Mara Liasson.
- Clayton Morris and Natali del Conte tie the knot.
- Cenk’s Countdown ratings sink, MSNBC gives him a promotion!
- Maddow apologizes for Stockman slur, blames editing error.
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- FNC dominated ratings of mine rescue finale: over 7 million viewers! Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly/Chile-Hannity/Chile-Shep 1-2-3.
- Video: Judge Nap on health care ruling and DADT.
- New Pew: Most-admired cable newser is...O’Reilly.
- O’Reilly on The View part one (Whoopi/Joy walk off), part two.
- FNC’s dominance includes breaking news.
- Greta: Are the rumors true?
- Swells gather for FNC apprentices, Latino launch.
- Imus Video: Chris Wallace part one, two; Adam Housley.
- Q&A: Wayne Rogers.
- MSNBC blows off rescue finale, stirs anger.
- Reviewed: Norah O’Donnell’s Baby Love.
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- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Video: Glenn Beck unloads on Lawrence O’Donnell.
- Profile of the ‘worst person in the world’: Steve Doocy.
- Q&A: Greta van Susteren, Willie Geist.
- Videos: Greta vs Allred round two; ICE addresses Diaz.
- FNC: then and now.
- New feud? Breitbart vs Shepard Smith.
- Park & Spit: thin gruel. Changes coming soon?
- This Apprentice wasn’t fired (via ICN).
- Murdoch on contribution flaps. DGA withdraws complaint.
- O’Donnell apologizes for Michael Steele intro.
- Larry King: CNN was right to fire Sanchez. More. Was firing connected with Park & Spit (via ICN)?
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- Revealed: More details of failed O’Keefe/CNN sting.
- Q&A: CNN’s Gergen w/CNN’s Spitzer.
- The Fox News baby boom.
- Sanchez canned! Zurawik deconstructs his lies. MSNBC exults. Rubin: CNN blew it! Levin: He can recover. Jamie McIntyre: Sanchez ‘delusional’ (via Chickaboomer). The fallout for Cuban-Americans. Video: Reliable Sources.
- Video: Greta cross-examines Gloria Allred; fireworks ensue.
- Fox spox on Obama/FNC spat: ‘We are so in his head.’
- Sunday talkers: tip sheet, preview.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
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- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
- Catherine Herridge complaints fuel Fed lawsuit against FNC.
- CNN: The world leader in smarm?
- Reese: All cablenews channels decline, but still hope for CNN?
- Mudoch testimony stirs Congressional controversy.
- Q&A: Park and Spit, Chris Wallace previews KY debate.
- CNBC, Cramer sink to multi-year lows.
- Greta: Vanity Fair is ‘delusional’. Beck responds.
- Coop gets daytime talk show. Analysis: ICN, LA Times.
- EW: Lawrence O’Donnell is ‘a natural’.
- John King calls out Obama/WH FNC/MSNBC remarks.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
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- Beck launches preemptive strike against Ed Schultz rally.
- Q3: FNC dominates, has top 11 programs. Program ranker. CNN AM, Coop: worst ever. MSNBC tops CNN. HLN’s Express beats MSNBC’s Joe.
- Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3. O’Donnell tops Maddow, Olbermann. Weekend numbers.
- Beckel, Geller erupt in raucous mosque debate.
- Obama revives war, says Fox News ‘destructive’ to USA. White House praises MSNBC. Zurawik: Obama comments show contempt for the press.
- Q&A: Bill Hemmer, Liz Claman.
- Greta explains her booking policies.
- CNN founder: Klein timing is ‘beyond strange’.
- Again? Scarborough needling Olbermann?
- Video: O’Reilly goes on The Daily Show.
- Alan is still getting hate mail.
- Larry O’Donnell won’t be drinking Greta’s wine. 1st review.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
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- Steve Burke to be named NBCU CEO.
- News Watch on Woodward book, Colbert.
- Don Lemon’s on-air revelation.
- Greta: HuffPo is ‘delusional’, NYT’s Stelter is biased.
- Profiles: Lawrence O’Donnell.
- Joe and Mika at DePauw: more.
- Q&A: Major Garrett, Dick Morris, Joe.
- Sunday talkers: preview. HuffPo recap.
- Olby week in review.
- Studio audience member profiles Glenn Beck.
- CNN dumps Klein: an unusual move; odd timing; Ailes praises Jon; Jamie McIntyre doesn’t (via Chickaboomer).
Friday Links and Open Thread
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- State Dept panic when MSNBC channel shows FNC.
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Bret 1-2-3. Site stats.
- Bob Woodward intervenes, Greta Q&A back on.
- Geraldo: Colbert ‘brilliant’. Wallace: not a shining moment.
- A-jad cancels on Shep, talks to Eric Shawn: video.
- Zucker leaves NBC. Biznets cover. Gasparino: it’s all-out war? ICN: Just the tip of the iceberg. Don’t cry for Jeff.
- CNN fires Jon Klein; Jautz takes over. Analysis: Zurawik, Friedman, Greta. ICN: Why now? Klein: I got shot! (via ICN). CNN seeks new editor.
- Larry King wants to appear on SNL.
- CNN announces Jiabao interview, ten Heroes finalists.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
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- Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3. A Stewart bump?
- Video: Kilmeade moves with the NY Jets Flight Crew.
- Reading is fundamental: Greta cancels Bob Woodward; more.
- Must-see tv? Shep to interview Ahmadinejad.
- Ex-Bloomberger Lori Rothman debuts on FBN.
- Fox News Sunday holds Conway/Paul debate.
- Surprise: VP Biden on premiere of MSNBC show.
- Video: Chris Wallace with Don Imus.
- Latest filing in Carnahan ad flap.
- Uncut: O’Reilly/Stewart part one, two. Behind the scenes.
- John King: Celebrity Chef.
Friday Links and Open Thread
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- Greta has a fan at the Washington Post.
- Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
- Megyn Kelly interviews Bill O’Reilly.
- Rick Sanchez book not selling like hotcakes.
- Olby week in review.
- Jennifer Griffin and Isaiah Mustafa on self-esteem.
- Chris Matthews becomes a campaign issue.
- Convicted felon blames MSNBC’s ‘recycled news’.
- Q&A: Lawrence O’Donnell, Geraldo, Soledad.
- Beck top cablenewser on list of media influentials.
- Carnahan flouts lawsuit over ad footage. Madoff flap settled.
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Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
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