• Siskind: Did sexism fell Kathleen Parker?
• Video: Reliable Sources on WI converage, Maddow/Politifact.
• Video: News Watch on media coverage of Libya: more.
• Ziegler: Why Katherine Parker was doomed.
• Politifact to Maddow: we’re right, you’re wrong!
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• MSNBC: five days, seven primetime Beck segments.
• Videos: Chris Jansing Q&A (via ICN), Bashir w/Fallon.
• ICN scrutinizes the Judith Regan letter.

Tags: parker, maddow, beck, icn

• 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.

Tags: greta, ratings 2011, parker, spitzer, beck, redeye, mojo, o'donnell, icn

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Video: Imus & Colmes discuss Fox haters pt one, pt two.
• Video: Judge Napolitano vs Charles Rangel.
• Will Phil Griffin be the next to go at MSNBC? Analysis.
• How to fix Park & Spit: dump Park, keep Spit?
• Videos: Coop w/Stewart; Maddow w/Leno pt one, pt two.
• Last comic standing? Larry King preps stand-up tour.

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• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Leland Vittert in Tahrir Square.
• Even CNN doesn’t watch Park & Spit?
• Q&A: Piers wants to interview Palin.
• Video: Shep Smith w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• A night with Piers Morgan and The Donald.
• While FNC dominates, Egypt an opportunity for CNN.
• Video: Freedom Fighters on Egypt, wifi, and more.

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• Beck bumped! Shep covers Egypt at 5:00 pm.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Hannity 1-2-3. Piers plummets!
• Salon: Al Jazeera embarrasses US cable news.
• Video: Greg Palkot in Egypt.
• MSNBC tells Big Ed: no more ‘Psycho Talk’.
• ‘Colorful’ Ed Schultz emails surface.
• Tobin: Beck vs the rabbis...they’re both wrong.
• The Wrap: Comcast can’t escape Olbermann blame.
• Friedman: Will Olby replace Park & Spit?
• New hires at CNN.com, CNN.  Soledad at Emory U; Q&A.

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• Zurawik: We’re better off without Olbermann and his smears.
• Video: Reliable Sources on Olbermann etc.
• ICN: It’s time for CNN to deal with Park & Spit.
• Telegraph: Piers should drop the Brit shtick.
• Video: Fox News Watch on Tucson coverage.
• TMZ: Olby’s secret deal.  NYT: Weeks of negotiations. More.
• ICN: What it means for MSNBC.  Deadline H’wood: A right turn?  Big Ed cut to four days; Larry O gets five.  OlbyWatch: Keith is the winner.
• Salon: Goodnight and good riddance.  Olby week in review.
• H’wood Reporter: KO’s ten options.  EW: Next stop Hollywood?  Forbes: Should CNN hire him?  Poniewozik: Opportunities.  Salon: A victim of his own success?
• Mediaite: Why Olby is out.  TMZ: He was fired.  Bercovici: Was it Comcast’s doing?  NY Post: Olby was paid to leave.  Video: AC360 on Olbermann’s exit.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet, HuffPo recap.

Tags: olbermann, icn, parker, spitzer, schultz, o'donnell

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Wallace-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Finally, Countdown hits #1...online.
• Piers grills Condi: cooking, dating, and marriage! (via CB)
• Video: Gretchen Carlson’s ear gets licked.  More.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Wallace 1-2-3.
• Michael Steele looking for cable gig.
• Poll: FNC most trusted (and distrusted) cablenewser.
• FEC complaint against Hannity dismissed.
• Q&A: Eric Bolling, from baseball to business.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/ Don Imus part one, part two.
• Five ideas to improve Piers Morgan Tonight.
• Paper drops Parker column until she’s off CNN.

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• Wolf to go in-depth on today’s most momentous news story.
• Park & Spit: last place, but a stronger last place.
• Biznets ignore breaking Apple news, except for one.
• Civility through ignorance? A Donny Deutsch embarrassment.
• Video: Piers Morgan on Good Morning America and The View.
• Will Piers continue Larry’s celebrity voyeurism?  Inside PM Tonight.
• Morganmania: Piers is the anti-King; he’s peerless and fearless, cheeky, a brilliant interviewer and a boy wonder!

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• 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!

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• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.
• Weekend numbers. Saturday shooting: FNC-CNN-MSNBC 1-2-3.  Glenn Garvin: Why MSNBC got clobbered on Saturday.
• Reese Schonfeld: Who killed Gabrielle Giffords?
• Ad buyers skeptical of Piers Morgan buys.
• Video: News Watch Skype Gripe on media finger-pointing.
• New Pew overview of 2011 paints CNN as outlier (via TVN).
• Parker fighting for her job as dismissal looms.
• Howard Kurtz profile: Joe Scarborough (via ICN).
• MSNBC debuts iPad app featuring Rachel Maddow.
• Thank cable news for a climate of hate?
• Video: Jake Tapper talks to Don Imus, part one, part two.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on media irresponsibility.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on freedom and an American tragedy.
• Olbermann ‘reforms’ Worst Persons, by calling it something else.

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• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Shep 1-2-3.
• Profile: Eric Bolling is on a roll.
• John Roberts makes FNC debut on Studio-B.
• Janice Dean has pictures of Courtney’s baby.
• Happy, happy! Joy, joy! Rick Sanchez resurfaces.
• Howard Kurtz on media finger-pointing.
• FNC’s Dr Coomer has successful cancer surgery.
• CNN revamps graphics, adds CNNi, names Piers guests.
• Leading candidate to replace Parker: E.D. Hill?
• Olby to drop Worst Persons shtick again? Or not?
• Things for CNN to consider re Park & Spit. More.
• Q&A: Ailes & Simmons (via ICN), Eric Bolling, Gerri Willis.
• Hot & Not: Parker, John Roberts, O’Reilly, and more.

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• 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.

Tags: parker, spitzer, megyn, olbermann, greta

• Video: Reliable Sources on 2010 media controversies.
• Video: Red Eye New Year’s Special .
• Video: Fox News Watch on top stories of 2010.
• Zurawik: praise for C-SPAN, but not ‘partisan psycho’ MSNBC.
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet: HuffPo recap.
• Courtney heads to the maternity ward: it’s a boy!
• 2011 predictions: Park & Spit, FNC’s Stirewalt, ICN.
• New Years skeds: FNC Sat; CNN; and MSNBC.
• FNCers make New Years resolutions.
• CNN’s New Years Eve: must-miss tv.
• Part five: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter .

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• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• News Corp again seeks higher FNC sub fees.
• Video: Anthony Weiner gets feisty with Megyn Kelly.
• Will CNN dump Kathy Griffin from New Year’s Eve?
• Video: Juan WIlliams w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Which cablenewser is the #1 charity giver?
• Fox News a hit...in Saudi Arabia!
• Tensions roil at floundering Park & Spit.
• Zurawik: Olbermann steps up to the plate.
• Video: Glenn Beck explains the Assange ‘rape’ case.

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• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• MSNBC ignores extraterrestrial news event.
• Savannah Guthrie rebels at ‘dirty’ writing by MSNBC staff.
• Will HLN’s Morning Express find its way to CNN?
• Fed secret bail out of GE, unreported by MSNBCNBC.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Imus re Wikileaks.
• Time is running out for Park & Spit.
• Q&A: Jenna Lee.  Rachel Maddow at Harvard.
• Video: John Bolton vs The Judge re Wikileaks.
• November program ranker: FNC holds top 11 slots.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3.  Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
• Wikileaks to break new info on Freedom Watch?
• CNN hire looks to restructure programming.
• Preview: Bret Baier World Aids Day with Bono.
• November numbers: FNC, CNN, HLN, MSNBC.  CNBC’s slide.
• Audio: Bill Hemmer previews John Lennon special.
• Parker incensed at Spitzer, threatens to bolt.
• Video: Follow the Money looks at the Volt.
• Larry King at Wendy Walker’s book party.
• Video: Judge Nap vs O’Reilly on entrapment.
• MSNBC’s Abrams goes on CNN and defends Fox.

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• Scarborough teams with big-bucks anti-partisan group.
• November: FNC in a league of its own.  Bret Baier beats Beck, Hannity.  Park & Spit craters.  MSNBC again tops CNN.
• Friday’s numbers.  Thursday’s numbers.
• Impartial MSNBC anchor labels guest ‘radical right-winger’.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly with Don Imus.
• Alan’s hate mail keeps pouring in.
• Thomas Roberts talks suicide and more.
• Rampant conspiracy theory suddenly loses steam.
• Olby attacks Palin daughter over old story, recently rehashed.

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• Glenn Beck Video: the hatred must stop.
• Tuesday’s numbers: Chile (CNN/11pm)-O’Reilly (8pm)-Chile (FNC/11pm) 1-2-3. Zurawik: MSNBC viewership numbers ‘pathetic’.
• Kelly’s Court Video: can Karl Rove sue?
• People mag profiles Jennifer Griffin [pdf].
• Newsmakers don’t want to appear on Park & Spit?
• Soledad’s next Black special: Almighty Debt.
• Glenn Beck update on his medical issues.
• Tamron Hall and domestic violence (via HuffPo).
• NBC drama gives Joe & Mika consultant credit.
• Blitzer’s DE Senate debate important night for CNN.
• Cablers up late with Chile coverage. More. Tyndall: ‘wretched overkill’.

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• Video: The Judge subs for Beck, blasts both parties.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Hannity 1-2-3. Weekend numbers.
• Park & Spit premiere week a ratings catastrophe. More.
• Cablers burn the midnight oil for miners in Chile.
• Fireworks: Did Larry O’Donnell sandbag Ron Paul?
• Rachel Maddow to helm Tiller doc.
• The Rick Sanchez apology tour continues.
• Megyn Kelly in Glamour [pdf], Piers Morgan in Vogue.

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• Fox News Latino debuts Tuesday.
• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Kelly’s Court Video: Brett Favre’s forward pass.
• Coop to feature Kanzi, the celebrity ape.
• Joe Scarborough: an influential who matters?
• MSNBC welcomes Richard Lui by misspelling his name! (via ICN)
• High concept: ‘Lean Forward’ uses pseudo-candid shots.
• Park & Spit: let the tweaking commence!
• Cable news and the political divide.
• Coop praised, Piers profiled.
• Hot & Not: O’Donnell, Park & Spit, Jansing, msnbc.com.

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• MSNBC dayside tinkering: Jansing, Tamron, Novotny.
• Video: Karl Rove vs Joe Trippi on Fox News Sunday.
• Video: Reliable Sources on Sanchez and Dobbs.
• Video: News Watch on Rick Sanchez and Kurtz. More.
• Video: Red Eye on race and whores.
• Today’s conspiracy: Fox to fire Beck--he knows too much!
• Q&A: Steve Doocy.
• FBN giving Freedom Watch primetime nightly slot.
• ICN examines CNN’s Park & Spin. Show praised...for its set!
• National Center calls for MSNBC ‘shake-up’.
• Branding: Spirit Airlines borrows a tag-line.
• Sunday talkers: tip sheet, preview, HuffPo recap.

Tags: redeye, beck, friends, judgenap, icn, parker, spitzer, o'donnell

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• When Coop speaks, Hollywood listens.
• Olby week in review: Keith the fundraiser.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly on Imus, part one, part two.
• Park & Spit does worse than Sanchez; words that didn’t work.
• Glenn Beck to undergo medical tests.
• Today’s rumor: Katie Couric to CNN (via ICN).
• Video: Maddow takes on Art Robinson; fireworks ensue.
• Sanchez begins rehabilitation tour on GMA: Video; analysis. Sanchez ends twitter silence, talks Stewart, Olbermann. Sanchez/CNN twitter account not closed.
• CNN teams with Cartoon Network over bullying.

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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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• Video: Cavuto talks to Time Warner CEO about CNN, Spitzer, Klein, Sanchez, Piers Morgan, ratings, and more [@5:01].
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Msnbc.com to change its name? A shockingly bad idea?
• Cablers, swells turn out for Arianna book.
• Jansing & Co: rigid, monotone, newsless.
• Skype Gripe: Is Park & Spit ready for primetime?
• PR expert to Sanchez: speak for yourself! And he does.
• Q&A: Phil Griffin on ‘Lean Forward’.
• MSNBC launches new political website.
• Piers Morgan hypes promise of ‘big changes’.
• O’Donnell impresses a skeptic, creates three-way race.
• Publicity seeker sets up shop outside News Corp.
• CNN’s rescue is not imminent.
• CNN Espanol gets an extreme makeover.

Tags: spitzer, piers, ratings 2010, parker, o'donnell

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3. Park & Spit an instant ratings disaster. Weekend numbers.
• Olby hearts Thurber, thinks Spielberg did Star Wars (via ICN).
• CNN/WaPo Howard Kurtz joins The Daily Beast. More.
• Video: SE Cupp, Kirsten Powers pan O’Donnell ad.
• Park & Spit reax: obnoxious self-important noise; a colossal thud; hard to watch; surprising; not bad; a car crash; middling; a freak show; desperate; awkward; a nothingburger.
• Injury reports: Soledad’s knee, Jon Scott’s arm.
• Fox & Friends video: Trump considering run for Prez.
• Rick Sanchez apologizes...to Jon Stewart. Flashback.
• MSNBC slogan Lean Forward, has Olby leaning backward!
• Aaron Brown resurfaces...in Seattle.
• Shep Smith doesn’t like John Calipari.

Tags: ratings 2010, spitzer, parker, olbermann, friends

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Hitchens wants CNN to re-hire Rick Sanchez!
• Fox live streaming CT Senate debate w/Bret Baier.
• CNBC follows FBN’s lead.
• Park & Spit pre-taped segment already online.
• CNN’s Cal Perry has left the building.
• Charlie Gasparino makes top biz commentators list.
• NY Daily News slams Spitzer: a ‘disgrace’ (via C-boomer). CNN’s Kurtz profiles Park & Spit. Q&A: Spitzer (Mediaite), Park & Spit (TVN), Park & Spit (HuffPo).
• Cable news bloodsport: Olby claims CNN tried to hire him; MSNBC’s twitter rule; Olby/Joe tensions; the Campbell Brown experiment; more.
• O’Reilly/Nolan/Comcast flap rehashed; Olby quoted.
• Hot & Not: Sanchez, Coop, O’Donnell, Allred, EEOC, Shultz.
• Profiles: Gerri Willis, Robin Meade. Q&A: Sanchez pt one, two, three.

Tags: ratings 2010, parker, spitzer, olbermann, matthews, maddow, oreilly, cooper, mojo, o'donnell

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Greta-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Chris Jansing criticizes MSNBC graphic.
• Major Garrett resurfaces, talks w/Imus: part one, two.
• MSNBC to rerun Obama town hall.
• Q&A: Park & Spit; Robertson/Engel (via TVN); Asman.
• CNN plans better holograms for mid-terms: more.
• Kurtz: investment in MSNBC is paying off: more.
• Hot & Not: Brian Wilson story doesn’t add up? Wilson speaks.

Tags: ratings 2010, parker, spitzer, icn

• Thursday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Fox didn’t take the bait.  Kurtz praises.  Zurawik: FNC gets full credit.
• Rick Leventhal and panel reflect on 9/11.
• Bret Baier takes center stage.
• Olby week in review.
• New, bizarre MSNBC interview technique.
• MSNBC changes.
• 9/11 schedules: FNC, CNN.
• Surprise: Park & Spit agree!
• Q&A: Rick Sanchez.
• Grace’s Swift Justice imminent.

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