• 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.

Tags: ratings 2015, greta, o'donnell, shep, hannity, schultz

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• The Five video: Free speech is under attack in America.
• Friday’s numbers: Megyn K-Juan Williams-The Five 1-2-3.
• Zurawik: Fox News gets it dangerously wrong in Baltimore.
• Shep apologizes for erroneous report from correspondent.
• CNN anchor under twitter fire.  Is CNN blaming the victim?
• Another exclusive report that MSNBC is planning changes.
• CNNC: Pot trumps news; Concha’s ‘insightful’ chat show.
• Q&A: Shep Smith talks tech, his dust-up with The Five, etc.
• Is this FNC rising star the real deal?  Pay to play at MSNBC?
• O’Reilly/Miller Don’t Be a Pinhead Tour comes to Westbury.
• Cable newsers cross company lines: the guys and the gals.
• CNNC: Reliable Sources avoids reporting on CNN mistakes.
• CNN, NBC execs in ‘intense’ confab.  CNN hires Robyn Kriel.

Tags: ratings 2015, shep, oreilly

• April numbers: FNC grows, CNN holds on, MSNBC sinks.
• Monday’s numbers: Shep-Sean Hannity-Megyn Kelly 1-2-3.
• Outnumbered’s most provocative, unexpected moments.
• Weprin: Imus moves show to Texas, parts ways with FBN.
• NBC logo from 65 years ago reappears on Way Too Early.
• Kaplan: Dr Sanjay Gupta surgery saved life of Nepal girl.
• Video Q&A: Andy Levy.  CNN’s Gnomist. Weekend numbers.
• Joyella: With few words, Shep Smith tells a powerful story.
• Nguyen: CNN isn’t helping.  CNNC: Don Lemon ‘welcomed’.
• Wemple: Shep plus The Five made for compelling television.
• Concha: Shep plus The Five made an uncomfortable combo.
• Zurawik: Cable beefs-up Baltimore coverage on a long night.
• McQuivey: Comcast lucky that regulators nixed merger deal.

Tags: ratings 2015, redeye, shep, lemon

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2015, shep, greta, cooper, o'donnell, oreilly

• Wemple: Eric Holder snubs FNC after targeting James Rosen.
• Greg Gutfeld leaving Red Eye for weekend primetime show.
• O’Reilly 8pm hits astonishing 705,000 viewers in news demo.
• Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Shepard Smith covers the Great Llama Chase of 2015.
• Pew wonders if MSNBC is scaling back opinion programming.
• Another day, another attack, another Bill O’Reilly response.
• It’s all hands on deck at Media Matters for the war on O’Reilly.
• Varney hits peak.  CNNMoney’s online war room (via CNNC).
• A new Wall Street Week is coming—but wait, there’s more!
• Closing on Coop’s crib.  Brooke will climb.  Carney exits CNN.
• Q&A: Jamie Colby, Maria Bartiromo.  Stacey Dash makes book.
• It’s Hewitt. No, it’s Tapper. Wait, it’s both! Maybe it’s neither?
• Shattuck: At MSNBC the system is rigged...for Elizabeth Warren.

Tags: ratings 2015, oreilly, redeye, shep, cooper

• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Throwback Thursday: Shep’s advice especially germane now.
• Zucker play: CNN exec talks BriWi, would love to hire Stewart.
• Nancy Grace unleashed?  Shep talks Jon Stewart.  Forget Fox! 
• MSNBC not progressive enough?!  Give Maddow The Daily Show?
• Jim Sciutto plays twitter games.  Brian Stelter in a twitter spat.
• Imus video: Ed Henry.  Factor video: Dwindling trust in the press.

Tags: ratings 2015, shep, maddow, oreilly

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

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

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Shepard Smith in Jordan for a possibly ‘pivotal’ moment.
• MSNBC shake-up imminent: ‘Everything is on the table’.
• FBN political coverage a no-Bush zone.  Gretchen in Florida.
• Good Morning America blurs screen shot to hide CNN logo!
• ICN: Don Lemon stunts are turning him into a self-caricature.
• Concha: Posting ISIS video online shows lack of consistency.
• Wemple: Posting ISIS video online is the best way to cover it.
• Wemple: Fox airs flames photo, pulls off tactful balancing act.
• Video: Dierdre Imus/Lis Wiehl vaccine debate goes off the rails.
• Gore/Al Jazeera escrow dispute will go to trial (via Liberaland).

Tags: ratings 2015, shep, lemon, baier

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Shep Smith’s ‘gripping’ ISIS chronicle; video.
• Concha: Ratings disaster Morning Joe has lost its mojo.
• Outnumbered video: Debate over vaccines turns rowdy.
• FNC statement on frivolous lawsuit.  Weekend numbers.
• Controversy swirls around O’Reilly Al-Jazeera comments.
• OtR video: The cable news host who is a serial tax cheat.
• Grove: In defense of much-mocked Don Lemon (v/CNNC).
• Wemple: Jesse Watters zings students who criticized him.
• CNN’s full-page ad a break with their past.  Joe: Mostly true.

Tags: ratings 2015, shep, oreilly, lemon, mojo

• 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?

Tags: ratings 2015, megyn, oreilly, cooper, greta, shep

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• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, greta, beck, judgenap

• Bret Baier tops broadcast evening news in multiple markets!
• Anderson Cooper to return tonight after emergency surgery.
• World leaders follow Amanpour, Zakaria most.  CNBC hacked.
• Video: Tom Shillue is Outnumbered in immigration discussion.
• Ferguson coverage: Nobody liked it; Where are the grown-ups?
• Video: Shep has a Wii problem (v/ICN).  CNN ‘spokeswoman’?!?
• Thursday numbers. Friday’s numbers: Tantaros-O’Reilly-Bream 1-2-3.

Tags: ratings 2014, baier, cooper, shep

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

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

• Friday’s numbers: 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, greta

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Concha: When Obama zings Fox, guess who benefits?
• Another skirmish in The War on Fox: FNC returns fire.
• Video: Media Ebola coverage: chaotic or indispensable?
• Shep Q&As: HottyToddy; SBNation; audio: ESPN; JOX-FM.
• Scarry: Disclosure issues haunt Alex Wagner.  More.
• Electrifying new CNN series to focus on...painters?!
• Steel: CNN at crossroads, reasserts itself (via CNNC).
• Weprin: CNN’s ‘reality’ strategy at a critical crossroads.
• Imus video: Bill Hemmer.  Swells gather at The Rev’s rave. 
• Factor video: Are airstrikes on ISIS part of a ‘phony war’?
• Top ten Heroes countdown begins.  Rowe debut: ‘intriguing’.

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

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

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, baier, oreilly, icn, greta, mojo, cooper

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Judge Nap says Prez can’t go to war w/o Congress.
• America video: Full interview, Jorge Ramos and Bill O’Reilly.
• Liz Claman’s apps for traveling ‘workmoms’.  More Bourdain.
• CNN hires Jay Carney; Concha: perfect fit; Wemple: we’ll see.
• Powers: Bill O’Reilly is not sexist.  POTUS coverage rundown.
• Andrea Mitchell notes astonishing coincidence.  Today’s oops.
• Factor video: NFL players’ ex-wives on the culture of violence.

Tags: ratings 2014, judgenap, shep, oreilly

• The Five video: Lively debate over homeland security.
• Wednesday numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• August program ranker: Fox News holds top 14 slots.
• Shep Smith video: Larry King remembers Joan Rivers.
• CNBC’s summer of sinking ratings. The war on Fox!
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Laura-Kelly File-The Five 1-2-3.
• Zucker punch: New Day widens lead over Morning Joe.
• Richard Lui honored; Kate Rogers jumps to CNBC.
• Reliable Sources moves to the Big Apple (via CNNComm).
• Bobbie Battista resurfaces; more.  Bloomberg resurfaces.
• Occasional Cycle panelist to be regular on Meet the Press.
• The Independents still airing new shows on FBN.  Flashback.
• Factor videos: Taking on ISIS, Putin; taking on Jon Stewart. More.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, mojo, oreilly

• Monday’s numbers: Kelly-Eric Bolling-The Five 1-2-3.
• Newsers to Ferguson.  Healing: Don Lemon’s town hall.
• Outnumbered video: Robust debate over militarization.
• The Dirty Dozen: Fareed Zakaria’s history of plagiarism?
• Rothman: Are media in Ferguson being irresponsible?
• ICN: Inexcusable media overreach. Weekend numbers.
• Weprin: Turner CEO’s 20/20 vision sees layoffs at CNN.
• Q&A: CNN’s Don Lemon; AJAm President Kate O’Brian.
• Jake Tapper: ‘Nobody is threatening...there is no violence’.
• Steve Harrigan video: ‘This is amateur hour...this is not good.’
• Factor videos: Bill O’Reilly and Juan Williams on Ferguson etc.

Tags: ratings 2014, lemon, icn, shep, oreilly

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

Tags: shep, friends

• The Five video: Debate over dangers of ISIS turns rowdy.
• Wednesday numbers: Bill O’Reilly-MacCallum-Bream 1-2-3.
• Nededog: New Day changes coming (via CNNCommentary)?
• MSNBC contributor: No African-American hosts on Fox! Really?
• Somerby: Joan Walsh lies about O’Reilly.  NBC selling TheGrio.
• Stelter: Chuck Todd announcement; will leave Daily Rundown.
• AJAm crew: police fired in our direction. Ferguson by the clock.
• Michael Oren says he asked CNN to release him.  Q&A: Soledad. 
• Video: Dennis Miller remembers Robin.  When Coop met Lauren.
• HuffPo: ‘Furious backlash’ fuels ‘viral’ anti-Fox ‘coward’ petition.

Tags: ratings 2014, oreilly, cooper, shep

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

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

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• Israeli ambassador slogs CNN; more. Cuomo’s twitter spat.
• Gregg Jarrett accepts plea agreement.  Where’s Weir? Here.
• Veronica de la Cruz resurfaces, as does Bonnie Schneider.
• Sky sales move Rupert one step closer.  The dandy dozen?
• Wemple: MSNBC’s Jebreal labeling ‘unprofessional’. Update.
• Video: Shep challenges ‘a great lady’ at MSNBC.  Flashback.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on WH blocking press access.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, maddow, oreilly

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, greta, schultz, maddow, baier, oreilly, lemon

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

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

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on Bergdahl swap legalities.
• Video: Jim Cramer’s ‘first big break’ (v/FishbowlDC).
• Beatty: CNN’s iReport needs some adult supervision.
• Bauder: The Sixties a bright spot in weak CNN lineup.
• Price: Survey says...FNC most biased, but most honest.
• Q&A: Bret Baier; audio Q&A: Bret Baier.  Today’s denial.
• Video: Ralph Peters says desertion is not a minor offense.

Tags: judgenap, shep, baier, mojo, megyn

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• As cable newsers hit lows, Fox still leads the pack.
• Shep video: Controversy swirls around drone memos.
• HLN adds Nejad and Vossoughian, shuffles others.
• New Chris Matthews promo: ‘Liberalism always wins’.
• Al-Jazeera America plans to stay the course (via TVN).
• Bauder: A new, opinionated Don Lemon is breaking out.
• Imus video: Bret Baier on primaries, the VA scandal, etc.
• Maglio: CNN is really the #1 cable news network...sort of.
• Kissell: CNN debuts its new primetime...and loses viewers.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, judgenap, matthews, baier, lemon

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

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

• The Five video: Benghazi developments in the media.
• Monday’s numbers: The Five-Bret Baier-O’Laura 1-2-3.
• Zucker punch: CNN ratings drop 45% as plane story fades.
• Concha: Gawker doubles down like Dan...Rather, that is.
• Crossfire hosts explain their hiatus.   Weekend numbers.
• Q&A: Sandra Smith (via TVN).  Dana Perino makes book.
• Larry King zings CNN.  Choosy WHCD viewers choose CNN.
• News coverage makes viewers more receptive to ads.
• Emails about Fox News withheld by State Dept; video.
• Report: MSNBC will apologize, people will be disciplined.
• Cinco de Mayo, Lean Forward style.   Gawker, part deux.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep

• The Five video: Ed Henry on Carney, Benghazi, etc.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Wemple: (MS)NBC seeks dismissal of Zimmerman suit.
• Somerby: How to hold a pseudo-discussion about race.
• Salon: Shep Smith story is a case of fact-check failure.
• Pazienza: Gawker writer obsessed; Shep: it’s ‘horsesh!t!’
• Wemple: Bill & Benghazi...overheated yet on to something.
• Is Ronan Farrow ‘uncool’? Ask Laverne.  The eyes have it.
• Video: Sharyl Attkisson and Bret Baier on Benghazi emails.
• Courtney Friel resurfaces. Today’s lawsuit threat. They’re back!

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, oreilly, baier, hannity, megyn

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

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, friends, mojo

• 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?

Tags: ratings 2014, judgenap, shep, oreilly, greta

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Palin ‘going Rogue’...for real.  Geraldo’s ‘new show’.
• Video: Howard Kurtz on media’s Malaysia mistakes.
• CNN plans theatrical release of illegal immigrant doc.
• Bloggers foment controversy over one nlgja attendee.
• Sorkin writing drama pilot.  Update boosts Chicagoland.
• Q&A: CNN’s Michelle Kosinski, Weather’s Sam Champion.
• Special Report video: Panel ponders separation of powers.
• O’Reilly to appear with Nassau Pops.  Brown in, Brown out.

Tags: ratings 2014, palin, shep, baier, oreilly

• The Five video: Funny is as funny does.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Wemple: Does Enroll America owe FNC an apology?
• Weekend numbers: Media Buzz and Cashin’ In score.
• Craig Melvin’s merger pays a welcome dividend.
• Fox has concerns about Comcast merger.  Today’s oops.
• Somerby: Sonny Hostin thinks everyone should be in jail!
• Video: Behind the scenes with Shep Smith.  Profile: Huck.
• Q&A: Neil Cavuto, Melissa Harris-Perry.   Stay classy, Mika. 
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on the media’s IRS avoidance.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, oreilly, mojo

• Steinberg: CNN’s future...Lawyers, Lemon, and real life?
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Kelly-The Five 1-2-3.
• Piers Morgan Live ends in three weeks; Tapper, Weir sub.
• Shep in Ukraine: shoe-leather reporting plus social media.
• Zucker punched: Chicagoland flops...even in Chicago!
• Somerby: Maddow’s dissembling ‘almost pathological’.
• Imus video: Bret Baier.  Google hangout with Bret Baier.
• Crimea hotel threatens to throw CNN out.  Q&A: Coop.
• CNBC axes Kudlow Report.  Piers slot goes to...Bill Weir?
• Larry King sez of his RT show: I don’t work for RT (v/TVN).
• Keene: Chicagoland debut plays like ode to Rahm Emanuel.
• Moore: Chicagoland a disturbing but hopeful saga of the city.
• Melissa Harris-Perry shows her new baby and her natural hair.

Tags: ratings 2014, piers, shep, maddow, lemon, baier, cooper, king

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• CNN skeds legal show w/Geragos.  Smerconish debut set.
• Shep, Coop, et al report from Ukraine.  Reliable rebounds.
• Johnson: Ronan Farrow, the young man only old people like.
• Mika B going through a bad spell.  CNN’s Ukraine dilemma.
• Factor video: Bill O’Reilly with Bob Costas part one, part two.
• CNN and Allstate team up for ‘native’ ads.  Weekend numbers.

Tags: ratings 2014, shep, cooper, oreilly, mojo

• Somerby: Dishonest Maddow trumps pitiful Matthews.
• Live from the Fox News Deck, 10pm weather with Shep.
• Denial? What denial? Scarborough won’t rule out 2016 run.
• Zucker punch: Is CNN about to be bought out by CBS?
• Lori Rothman moving to Imus, will deliver biz updates.
• Imus video: Bret Baier talks Hillary, Rand, Christie etc.
• The doctor is in.  Googling Soledad.  What’s in a name?
• Kelly File video: Jonathan Turley on executive expansion.
• Comcast deal will face tough regulatory scrutiny. Or will it?
• Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable; oppo reax.  King’s zings.
• Videos: Joe & Mika on The View; The Rev w/Wendy Williams.

Tags: ratings 2014, matthews, shep, baier, megyn, king, mojo

• The Five video: Why the Obamacare delays?
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Kelly-Baier 1-2-3.
• Sean Hannity: a big tipper.  Weekend numbers.
• Imus video: Shepard Smith on Christie, Olympics, etc.
• NBC Insider: Joe Scarborough 2016 is not a joke.  More.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on the limits to executive action.
• Carl Bernstein to CNN.  Alino Cho resurfaces.  Candy: true.

Tags: ratings 2014, hannity, shep, judgenap, megyn, mojo

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Bret Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: Judge Napolitano on bridgegate legal implications.
• Adalian: Has Jeff Zucker made CNN better? (Spoiler: a little)
• As CNN shakeup looms: who’s in, who’s out?  Today’s oops.
• MSNBC’s bridgegate connection.  Chris Knowles resurfaces.
• Red Eye time change?  Celebrity chef to open food market.
• Newsy news directors choose CNN.  Fox smear ‘mostly false’.
• Kelly File video: Christie staffers’ emails reveal revenge play.

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

• The Five video: How can you mend a broken promise?
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: Judge Nap says Obama’s created ‘a legal mess’.
• MSNBC host chases photog, calls him ‘c#cks!cking f@g’.
• Marriage proposal on CNBC: re-enacted? Nope...real.
• Jana Winter case becoming a Fox News cause celebre?
• Stverak: Ailes fixes what wasn’t broken, makes it better!
• Video: Chris Matthews explains Obamacare to Letterman.
• Celebrity chef in Las Vegas.  Lean Forward: Slave Hunter.
• Survey says: Fox News more trusted than President Obama.
• Kelly File video: Megyn with Obamacare architect part deux.

Tags: ratings 2013, judgenap, shep, matthews, megyn

• The Five video: The Obamacare rehabilitation tour.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Judge Napolitano says the NSA is ‘out of control’.
• Michelle Malkin edits website, announces hiatus from tv.
• Imus video: Mike Emanuel on Sebelius etc. Today’s oops.
• Second NY Times article this week about Shep’s date.
• Kelly File video: Frank Pallone grilled over Obamacare.
• Collins: Megyn Kelly vaults to the top tier of cablenews.
• Ronan Farrow show starts Jan/Feb.  CNN’s new columnist.

Tags: ratings 2013, judgenap, shep, megyn

• The Five video: Benghazi and the instruments of bias.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Krauthammer-Megyn 1-2-3.
• Video: Shepard Smith gets feisty with Dana Perino.
• Vdeo: Feds seize reporter Audrey Hudson’s notes.
• Video: Media yawn over Obama NSA knowledge?
• Wolff: The elaborate PR plan for Ronan’s roll-out.
• Blackfish triggers protests.  CNN re-ups Spurlock.
• Hogue: How is Tucker Carlson like Shelly Hack?
• Carr: Why Gawker’s hit-piece on Shep Smith fell flat.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly responds to critics of Killing Jesus.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, friends, oreilly

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Shutdownarama: Cablenewsers burn the midnight oil.
• Siegel: Fox News was ripped off in media war over stent.
• Video: How real was the threat of a financial default?
• Lean Forward: Obama White House alum gets a show!
• Ed and Jay, together again.  Romans gets the business.
• Shep’s Mezzanine.  Q&A: Stuart Varney, Piers Morgan.
• Today’s feud (via FTV).  Yesterday’s hyperbole (via TVN).
• Factor video: O’Reilly debates Kurtz on media and religion.
• Three awards to defunct CNN radio.  The sound of silence.
• ICN: Don’t scapegoat Kate Bolduan for New Day’s problems.

Tags: ratings 2013, judgenap, shep, piers, cooper, matthews, oreilly

• The Five video: The triumph of the non-essential.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
• Second edition of new O’Reilly segment changes guest!
• Site progressives are waiting for is ready to launch.
• Politico: CNN Egypt ‘clarification’ doesn’t do the job.
• Imus video: CIA alum Mike Baker part one, part two.
• CNN begins the hype for the annual Heroes reveal.
• The Fox News Deck triggers both awe and ridicule.
• Factor video: Ed Henry zings HuffPo and Jay Carney.
• CNN’s countdown mania.  Zurawik: Ben Carson review.
• Karangu: There are better options for MoJo.  Flashback.
• Lean Forward: Will Joe and MIka take over Weekend Today?

Tags: ratings 2013, oreilly, shep, hannity, mojo

• The Five videos: Shutdown circus, Bob honored.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Megyn-The Five 1-2-3.
• Monday MSNBC scores rare 7pm, 9pm demo wins.
• Kelly File and Shep debuts ‘blew out competitors’.
• Red Eye video: Sherrod Small gets hosting tips.
• Ari Fleischer exits CNN.  Unguarded running late.
• Somerby: Millionaire journalism. Weekend numbers.
• Dillon: Inside the Fox News Deck design strategy.
• Morrison: Kelly debuts as FNC gets experimental.
• Imus video: Martha MacCallum on Shep’s deck etc.
• County Clare thanks hurling fan Kimberly Guilfoyle.
• Lloyd Grove: Megyn Kelly is the future of Fox News.
• Kelly File videos: Megyn welcomes The Five; more.
• Profile: Adam Carolla.  Crossfire’s Cutter expecting.
• Karangu: The Fox News Deck concept is self-defeating.

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, shep, redeye, matthews

• The Five video: A bumpy rollout for Obamacare?
• Byers: Why Megyn Kelly scares the left.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep shows his viewers the Fox News Deck.
• Steinberg: FNC changes aimed at digital distractions.
• Video: Shep Smith’s tour of the Fox News Deck.
• Hogue: Advice for Gretchen Carlson.  Today’s boycott.
• Imus video: Kirsten Powers on O’Reilly, shutdown, etc.
• Q&A: Megyn Kelly on her politics etc;  Melissa Francis.
• Profile: Megyn Kelly, who’s remaking Fox evenings.
• Bauder: Megyn Kelly brings a new style to primetime.
• Gay: Why now, and why Megyn Kelly?  Today’s oopses.

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, shep, oreilly, friends

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Q3 cablenews program ranker: Fox holds top 13 slots.
• New FNC schedule: O’Reilly loses his 4:00 am repeat.
• ICN: As FNC broadens its horizons, MSNBC narrows.
• Ailes memo re Shep revealed.  CNN Latino takes root.
• Imus video: Ed Henry on Dana Bash, shutdowns, etc.
• Zurawik: Dr Ben Carson’s innuendo and reckless talk?
• New MSNBC host already attacking…his colleagues!  More.
• Colbert video: Chris Matthews ‘jokes’ about Killing O’Reilly.

Tags: ratings 2013, oreilly, icn, shep, matthews

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: Did Putin deserve a forum in the NY Times?
• Top-secret video: Is this the intro to The Kelly File?
• F&F videos: Seven years with Gretchen; farewell!
• Shaw: Six things the new Crossfire is doing right.
• Video: Putin vs Obama…who’s winning in the press?
• Fox Report video: Shep Smith explains his new role.
• Shep: Roger is disrupting the news business…‘I love it!’

Tags: shep, ratings 2013, megyn

• Q&A: The Five on Scott Pelley, The Newsroom, etc.
• The Five video: Putin, Obama, and a credibility gap.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Ailes: New tech and a new approach to breaking news.
• Shep loses Fox Report, gains new role. Q&A; more.
• Video: What’s really behind the Putin ‘deal’.
• At CNBC, Money Talks…but viewers walk.
• Rothman: Dishonest Colbert clips smear Red Eye.
• Video: Elisabeth Hasselbeck previews Fox & Friends.
• Imus video: Mensa panel dissects Putin vs Obama.
• Crossfire: Let’s party like we’re in third place!
• Video: Syria twists are giving media spinners vertigo.
• Hogue: A Healthy You has a bit of an infomercial vibe.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, redeye, friends

• The Five video: Whose red line is it anyway?
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Shepard Smith grills Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
• Kurtz: What to expect on premiere of Media Buzz.
• Shield standoff: Jana Winter wins two-month delay.
• Fox/SiriusXM seal expanded deal.  Weekend numbers.
• NBC News covers GOPers just for appearances’ sake?
• Factor video: Krauthammer has concerns about Syria.
• CNN’s The Flag ties post-9/11 flag-waving to ‘intolerance’?
• Matthews shift lifts Chris Hayes.  CNN’s Hamby goes digital.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, oreilly, matthews, hayes

• Video: Ailes on Megyn, O’Reilly, Hannity, and more.
• The Five video: Filner’s female fiasco.
• Wednesday’s numbers: Laura-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• Drudge: Megyn to 9:00 pm slot.  Piers, Hannity reax.
• Ailes says ‘stars will be back’, hints at Shep changes.
• Chuck Todd rips NBC on MSNBC! Non-Profit part deux.
• ICN: CNN’s broader definition of news? Imitating HLN.
• Zucker Jr is on, then off, prominent Dem’s committee.
• Video: Battered tot haunted by nightmares of Kilmeade.

Tags: megyn, ratings 2013, piers, hannity, shep, friends

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, greta

• The Five video: Celebrities get Zimmermania.
• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Laura-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Wolf moving to 1pm to make room for Crossfire at 6?
• Video: Judge Napolitano on DoJ charges against Zim.
• Q&A: Charles Gasparino.  Dining with Mr Henry.
• Shaw: 14 weird, pointless facts about cablenewsers.
• Video: Howard Kurtz on the media vs Mr Zimmerman.
• Fox Fans assemble at Yankee Stadium; more.
• Imus video: Laura Ingraham on law, order, and justice.
• Lean Forward: Impartial MSNBC journalist strikes again!
• Zimmerman lawyer set to move ASAP against (MS)NBC.
• FNC most-watched, MSNBC crushed as Zim verdict read.
• Kissell: MSNBC Trayvon trialarama was little ratings help.

Tags: ratings 2013, judgenap, shep

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, greta, friends, oreilly, judgenap, shep

• Wemple: Holder’s Rosen stance ‘weaselly garbage’.
• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Wallace-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep and the Judge rail at FBI ‘misstatement’.
• Kurtz: ‘I’ll have the freedom to criticize anyone’.
• Rothstein: Kurtz has zinged Fox News in the past.
• Wemple: Kurtz move to Fox means ‘everybody wins’.
• Stelter: Seeds of Kurtz departure sown months ago.
• Zurawik: Kurtz is ‘down the middle’, has credibility.
• Howard Kurtz to Fox, will host revamped News Watch.
• Lean Forward: Today’s MSNBC deceptive edit.
• Q&A: Melissa Francis on a ‘tiger mom’. Erin expecting.
• Parker: Two career arcs at CNN.  Yesterday’s oops.
• CNN newbie Spurlock zings MSNBC’s paucity of news.
• Video: Varney with Les Gold, on Imus about Les Gold.
• Factor video: Kirsten Powers vs O’Reilly on drones etc.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, judgenap, oreilly

• The Five video: A summer fairground of scandals.
• Upset! The Five edges Bill O’Reilly in 25-54 demo.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Today’s oops: But only Fox does this!  Apology.
• Video: The Judge on killing Snowden via drone.
• Shield standoff update. Today’s frivolous lawsuit.
• Imus video: Mike Baker is skeptical of data mining.
• CNN wins Murrows. TCA nominees: Coop, Maddow.
• CNN hires Rosa Flores.  Soledad O’Brien resurfaces.

Tags: ratings 2013, oreilly, hayes, judgenap, megyn, shep

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• VIdeo: Shepard and the Judge take on the NSA spies.
• Don Imus to Jonathan Alter: Take your book and shove it.
• Lean Forward: Example 427 of why this chart is correct.
• Video: Judge Nap on Susan Rice and executive privilege.
• Factor video: Bob Beckel on Obama’s new appointments.
• Again?! Controversy swirls around deceptive MSNBC edit.
• Video: 69 years ago on the 6th of June…Operation Overlord.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, judgenap, friends, oreilly

• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Ex-MSNBCer blasts ‘the place for utter ignorance’.
• Profile: Charlie Gasparino.  Essence of MSNBC.
• Video: ‘There was no crime’ says Judge Napolitano.
• Fox News will ‘unequivocally defend’ James Rosen.
• Harsanyi: But we were told Fox wasn’t ‘real news’?!
• Video: Brit Hume blasts DoJ spying on James Rosen.
• Greenwald: Attack on the press escalates (via Twitchy).
• Obama admin targets FNC’s James Rosen in leak probe.
• MSNBC’s fast fade among pressing issues for Turness.
• CNN dropped by VTV over licensing flap.  The brick look.

Tags: ratings 2013, judgenap, shep

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Kirell: Megyn Kelly goes extra mile to be fair and balanced.
• A cablenews love connection.  Benghazi coverage roundup.
• Chris Wallace receives RTDNA lifetime achievement award.
• Imus video: Lis and Dierdre do Blond on Blond pt one, pt two.
• Zucker play: CNN skeds Robert Redford produced reality show.
• Laurie Dhue resurfaces (via FTV).  Shactman: too-early bird.
• Video: The Benghazi difference.  Today’s dishonest headline.
• Lean Forward: Shareholders prep for protest at annual meeting.

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, shep

• The Five video: A scandal too simple for the media?
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Stelter: Megyn Kelly re-ups at FNC, could move to prime.
• Inside the Kurtz crucifixion.  Zucker play: CNN VP ousted.
• Imus video: Shepard Smith on Syria, Benghazi, and more.
• Mika B is still Obsessed: ‘it’s like alcoholism’.
• Huck to quit talk radio?  Coop swatted.  Weekend numbers.
• Nededog: Zucker hopes New Day will be just that for CNN.
• CNN hires from GMA, FNC; MSNBC hires from Mother Jones.
• Geraldo: Cut my mic? Not one time, ever. ICN: Oh, yeah? More.
• Factor video: Bernard Goldberg on Dan Rather and polarization.

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, shep, cooper, icn, oreilly, mojo

• The Five video: Pulpit politics prompts palaver.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Public perturbed about politics from the pulpit?
• Imitation is the sincerest form of tv: another Five clone?!?
• That was quick: Brown on Fox gets high-profile subbing gig.
• FBN signs Jo Ling Kent.  The Judge is headed back to court.
• Q&A: Shepard Smith.  Profiles: Lou Dobbs, Nicole Petallides.
• Hot & Not: Tucker, Kate, Coop, Kathy, Erin, and John.
• Fox News Sunday video: The day the President almost died.

Tags: ratings 2013, megyn, oreilly, judgenap, shep, icn

• The Five video: Greg Gutfeld scorches Jim and Jason.
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-TheFive-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Gabriel Sherman to Pat Caddell: ‘I know Ailes put you up to it…’
• Roland Martin: White CNN execs wouldn’t give me my own show.
• Video: Why did Chris Matthews drag Hitler into the gun debate?
• Q&A: Shepard Smith, the no-opinion oasis; Bret Baier (via TVN).
• Ending point: Soledad signs off CNN mornings for the last time.
• Lean Forward: Chris Hayes uses racial quotas when booking guests!

Tags: ratings 2013, matthews, shep, baier, hayes

• 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.

Tags: shep, maddow, icn, greta, hayes

• The Five video: White House backing off tour shutdown threat?
• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Bogus CNN chyron.  Imus video: Mike Baker on Egypt, Korea, etc.
• Zucker’s Erin Burnett: Isn’t it worth it to support anti-Semitism?!
• Video: Shep’s comments on the Catholic Church stir controversy.
• Factor video: O’Reilly vs Colmes rematch over federal spending.
• Q&A: Shep (via ICN); Charlie Gasparino on ‘sticking it to CNBC’.
• Q&A: Soledad, Jake Tapper. Maddow in Houston.  Olby settles.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, oreilly, maddow, olbermann

• The Five video: Is hating America still the new world sport?
• Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Hannity-Bret Baier 1-2-3.
• Studio-B video: Shep interview of John McCain turns tense.
• Rachel Maddow gushes over a Fox News anchor.  Flashback.
• Powers and Miller examine media fluster over drone filibuster.
• FTV: Burnett move to mornings dead…no, alive…no, still dead.
• Joy-less View revives Behar/CNN talk.  Today’s overhyped scandal.

Tags: ratings 2013, shep, maddow

• 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!

Tags: ratings 2012, oreilly, greta, friends, shep, mojo

• The Five video: Was there a lie in the 2007 tape?
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• Video: Newest FNC contributor makes on-air debut.  Flashback.
• Phil Griffin: I want to steal Shepard Smith from Fox News!
• Q&A: Neil Cavuto, Bill O’Reilly, John Avlon, Lou drubs CNBC.
• Reese’s piece: September cable news ratings predict election?
• Somerby: Maddow’s weasel words, Harris-Perry’s bafflegab.
• Video: Mike Baker and Don Imus looking for clarity in Libya.
• Q3 numbers: Fox tops; program ranker. Spin: MSNBC, CNN, HLN.

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, oreilly, maddow

Tags: shep

• The Five video: Why are celebs silent on free speech violation?
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• NY Times jumps on FNC car chase. FNC: ‘Severe human error’.
• Ex-Merrill-Lyncher reacts poorly to latest Gasparino scoops.
• Who are the missing women?  NBCNews.com trashes Fox News!
• FNC’s Clayton Morris wins prestigious city-wide competition.
• ICN: O’Donnell should apologize where false story occurred: on air.
• Did MSNBC distort Romney clip with false captions? Apparently, yes!

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, friends, o'donnell

• Steve Harrigan exclusive video: Eyewitness to massacre.
• Soledad insists: ‘I don’t think I show bias in my tv show’.
• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: Megyn Kelly breaks down over graphic Syria footage.
• FNC’s Brit Hume praised...on MSNBC!  Ainsley’s big news.
• Somerby: Tuesday was a night of cable news stupidification.
• Video: S-bomb deployed on FNC.  New CNN Newsroom graphics.
• Rothman: CNN is getting a bum rap—they’re really non-partisan.
• Zurawik: Lame Zakaria defenses enable debasement of journalism.

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, megyn, friends, maddow, o'donnell

• Friday’s numbers: The Five-Laura-John Roberts 1-2-3.
• Will The Cycle be unbroken? Plummets to all-time low.
• Video: Shep with Erin Andrews on her move to Fox Sports.
• Q&A: Cavuto, Chuck Todd.  Judgment for Maddow: legal fees.
• Little-viewed cable channel receives unwanted recognition.
• Kurtz crumbles. CNN teams w/facebook. Sambolin’s pricey crib.
• Hot & Not: HBO, Joe and Mika, Coop, Re-Cycle, etc.
• Video: The Five’s seven assemble part one, part two, part three.
• Anatomy of a blunder, and why it was smart to trust Megyn Kelly.

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, maddow, cooper, icn, megyn, mojo

• Video: Anti-Beckel protest demonstration at Fox News HQ.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• MSNBC celebrates our national holiday.  Weekend numbers.
• Will The Cycle be unbroken? A distant third to Studio-B.
• Somerby: Why is ‘Saint Maddow’ so baldly dishonest?
• Gun-shy CNN reluctant to report Andy Griffith’s passing.
• Video: Jenna Lee with US hero Sgt Travis Mills (h/t Mediaite).
• Dobbs again tops CNBC; more; Out of Work special: 9:00 pm.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on Howard Kurtz, Media Matters, etc.
• Lauren Green in Orem.  Alan’s mailbox.  Coop spurs navel-gazing.

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, maddow, oreilly, cooper

• Wednesday’s numbers: Hannity-JuanWilliams-Baier 1-2-3.
• Publius: CNBC ratings crash as FBN surges?  Video Q&A: Shep.
• Video: Cavuto interviews Murdoch part one, part two, part three.
• Somerby: Dishonest Maddow could learn from Soledad O’Brien.
• Health care cable news confusion. FNC speaks. More. And more.
• Breaking The Cycle: ratings disaster, topped by 5:00 am F&F First.
• News Corp’s split decision.  Gasparino another Pulitzer wannabe?

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, maddow, friends

• Byers: What’s wrong at CNN?
• The Five video: Why all that hype over The Newsroom?
• Monday’s numbers: Laura-Baier-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3-4.
• The worst cable news shows ever? How quickly we forget.
• Fox News secures its HQ for the RNC.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: The Judge on why killings are far worse than leaks.
• Poor: NYT Hayes hype misrepresented his dismal ratings.
• High anxiety at Time-Warner: CNN craters at 21-year low.
• Q2: FNC holds top 13 slots; MSNBC down double digits.
• CNN and HLN play musical anchors; Kyung Lah to L.A.
• Somerby: Confusion and contradictions rampant on MSNBC.
• CNBC sinks to 7-year low.  Bloomberg’s Pulitzer pretense.
• Greg Burke: the prequel.  News Corp headed to Splitsville?

Tags: ratings 2012, judgenap, shep, hayes

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.  Q&A: Behar.
• Video: Shep ridicules CNN’s low-rated Casey Anthony ‘interview’.
• CNN cancels John King USA, replaces with...more Situation Room.
• Come see the softer side of Piers.  CNBC and Yahoo team up.
• Somerby: FNC vs MSNBC face-off.  Dana’s image-bending lingo.
• Flip, meet Flop: Big Ed condemns ‘Stop Rush’ campaign he promoted!

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, piers, schultz

• The Five video: The Life of Julia.  CNBC: today’s oops.
• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-The Five 1-2-3.
• CNN biz model a failure.  Seven semi-bizarre ideas for CNN.
• News Corp inquiries: payback?  Juan misses NPR. More.
• CNN vs MSNBC: Maddow’s mendacity, part quatre.
• Q&A: Liz Claman on travel and a Buffett/Gates exclusive.
• Fans erupt in frustration over CNN’s descent into irrelevancy.
• Shep’s bear-on-a-trampoline video: banned!  Mole cashes in.

Tags: ratings 2012, shep

• Video: The Five at the Correspondents’ Dinner.  Photos.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Baier-The Five 1-2-3.
• HuffPo media list: CNN, MSNBC...here’s why no FNCers.
• Shep’s Bear Alerts spreading to CNN?  Q&A: Sandra Smith.
• What’s in a slogan?  Swells at WHCD.  MSNBC throws a party.

Tags: shep, ratings 2012

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• MSNBC Journo-lister bewails ‘breaking news’ alerts (via ICN).
• Fox Business shakes up daytime sked; changes start Monday.
• Cable beats broadcast: Fox & Friends doubles CBS in key markets.
• Olbermann seen wandering aimlessly through Central Park.
• Profile: Melissa Harris-Perry.  Shep and Eli return to Ole Miss.
• The $50 million defamation lawsuit that Maddow wants dismissed.
• Sherman: Is CNN’s news strategy obsolete?  Speed kills (credibility).

Tags: ratings 2012, friends, olbermann, shep

• Video: Bret Baier interview with Jay Carney turns contentious.
• After O’Reilly Factor airing, NBC admits error in doctored 911 audio.
• The Five video: Send in the clowns...on the taxpayers’ dime.
• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five (!)-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: S.E. Cupp offers best wishes to Keith Olbermann.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly fact-checks Brian Stelter.  Heather hubbub resolved.
• MSNBC signature program announces landmark.  Weekend numbers.
• Olbermann’s ‘silent treatment’: he wouldn’t even talk to his boss!
• Bercovici: What’s next for Olby...CNN?  Lowry: Divorce—media-style.
• Simon: Olbermann is just one ironclad contract away from a new job.
• Q&A: Carl Cameron on the MD primary and staying fit; Rich Edson.
• Zurawik: Does anyone at Comcast care about journalistic standards?
• Video: Bernard Goldberg has a solution for Comcast’s (MS)NBC problem.
• Today’s deep (i.e. sick) thought.  Tonight’s cablenews primary coverage.

Tags: baier, ratings 2012, oreilly, olbermann, shep, audio

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• FBN scraps entire primetime lineup.  More.  Analysis.
• Video: Megyn wonders if spanking made her more aggressive.
• Video: Juan Williams talks contraception and more with Imus.
• Q&A: Shepard Smith.  First Geraldo, now Huck! (via Alan)
• The CNN/Martin backlash begins.  Dating advice from CNBC?!
• Was CNN bullied by gay activists?  Martin to grovel before GLAAD.
• VIdeo: Matthews boasts he has access to highest level WH briefings.

Tags: ratings 2012, megyn, shep, matthews

• The Five video: Is Romney making it easy for the media?
• Tuesday’s numbers: FloridaFNC-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• Fishbowl DC kvetches about Politico ‘buttering up’ Fox News.
• Fox News: a decade on top.  Politico: How FNC pulled it off.
• January program rankers.  CNBC’s Kelly girl.  Reena Ninan to ABC.
• Harris-Perry debut pushed back two weeks.  Changes at CNNi.
• Q&A: Neil Cavuto, Jenna Lee, Bret Baier.  Liz Claman in Davos.
• MSNBC produces another promo attacking the GOP.  Flashback.
• Hollywood Reporter interview with a semi-snarky Shepard Smith.
• After MSNBC tags him (D), Herman Cain gets into tiff on Now w/Wagner.

Tags: ratings 2012, baier, shep

• The Five video: Bob Beckel’s heated debate over Col West.
• Q&A: Shep Smith on FNC’s milestone and his own weight loss.
• Report: WSJ ‘darling’ Kelly Evans jumping to CNBC?
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Kilmeade faces a Cuba missing crisis (h/t @MartyDavis).
• Q&A: Greg Gutfeld, Liz Claman, FNC’s Jeremy Steinberg.
• The incredible disappearing Shep Smith.  Fox News rings the bell.
• An appropriate choice: subbing for Olbermann...Eliot Spitzer!
• Current wants to move next door to CNN and Fox News.
• Gore: There’ll be none of that ‘balance’ stuff on Current.
• Hot & Not: Suze Orman, Big Ed, CNN, MSNBC inciting violence, etc.

Tags: ratings 2012, shep, friends, redeye, olbermann, icn

• Current confusion: Is Olby on tonight, or not on tonight? Not!
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Faulkner-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Videos: Megyn Kelly questions Perry, Romney, Gingrich.
• Murdoch says it’s ‘much more fun than Beck’.  Analysis.
• ICN: Cable news resolutions for 2012.  R.I.P. Jim Huber.
• Blue on blue: MSNBC slammed for coddling rape trivializers.
• Video: Alan Colmes apologized to Santorum.  Q&A: Shep.
• Caucus coverage roundup: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, FBN.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on MSNBC’s journalist-free caucus coverage.

Tags: olbermann, ratings 2011, megyn, icn, shep

• 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!

Tags: ratings 2011, greta, oreilly, shep, olbermann

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• 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.

Tags: ratings 2011, palin, greta, maddow, cooper, redeye, shep

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Greta 1-2-3.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly on The View part one, part two.
• Ed Schultz interrupts Dem fundraising to narrate Chile doc.
• Journalist Shuster’s Fox attacks succeed: he got attention.
• Q3: FNC #1 in every hour, beating CNN+MSNBC combined.
• Battle for distant second place sets off analysis frenzy.
• Erin Burnett: profile, Q&A, Q&A.  Juan Williams in Sioux City.
• Video: 15 years of Shepard Smith.  O’Reilly on NPR.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on public trust of the media.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, schultz, shuster, shep

• Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Carpe Diem: Will The Five be around longer than expected?
• September numbers: FNC holds top 16 programs; The Five grows.  September spin: MSNBC, CNN.  Q3 spin: CNN, HLN, MSNBC.
• Bill O’Reilly videos: Imus in the Morning part one, part two; Fox & Friends; Good Morning America part one, part two.
• Lean Forward: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz fundraises for Democrats.
• John King: changing of the guard.  Weekend numbers.
• Is MSNBC sinking into third place? Maybe, or maybe not.
• CNN debate may exclude Huntsman.  Q&A: Erin Burnett.
• FNC 15th celebration: Shepard Smith is live in Las Vegas.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, friends, schultz, shep

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Ailes & Company celebrate 15 years of Fox News. More.
• Megyn ready for debate, and ready to interrupt if necessary.
• FBN goes live 7-10pm tonight with Dobbs and Asman.
• Soledad’s newest exposé: female boxing.
• Cablenewsers focus on cop-killer’s execution.
• Shepard Smith is still holding a hot hand.  Q&A: Bret Baier.

Tags: ratings 2011, megyn, shep, baier

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Megyn grills Keith Ablow over Chaz Bono.
• FNC travels cross country to celebrate 15th year.
• ICN: Print journalism snobbery.  Q&A: Big Ed.  Hayes gets Up.
• Shep Smith pulling up stakes.  CNBC: That’s entertainment!

Tags: ratings 2011, megyn, icn, schultz, shep, hayes

• VIdeo: Peter Johnson Jr on honoring the legacy of 9/11 victims.
• VIdeo: Fox News Watch on media coverage of Obama’s speech.
• Video: September 11 2001 as it happened.
• CNN reporters attacked by Cairo mob.
• Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell now leaning.
• Don Lemon wants to be a baby daddy.  Coop’s crib.
• Sunday talkers: preview, tip sheet.  The gaffe that won’t die.
• 9/11 reflections: Jennifer Griffin, Rick Folbaum, Wolf Blitzer, Shepard Smith, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Soledad O’Brien, The FIve.
• Saturday: Cavuto live at Ground Zero.  Sunday: Weekday anchors on FNC. MSNBC simulcast with NBC. Coop, Crowley helm CNN global simulcast.

Tags: friends, cooper, shep, lemon

• Friday’s numbers: Juan Williams-Chris Wallace-Harris Faulker 1-2-3. Two of the top three programs: anchored by Fox News African-American journalists.
• Video: Jeff Flock takes a direct hit from Hurricane Irene.
• Nancy Grace trips the light fantastic.  Maddow in Cummington.
• Salon: The worst hurricane Irene coverage was from...guess who?!
• Profile: The Rev Al.  Q&A: The Root, Eric Deggans.  NPR: Sharpton hire part of a larger trend.  Washington: He’s cable catnip.
• Shep Smith remembers 9/11.  Bauder: Irene attracts media big guns.
• Lemon’s iPhones.  FBN live at 5:00 am; F&F Monday extra hour.
• Hot & Not: Sharpton, Childers, Irene, Herridge, Gawker, Contessa etc.

Tags: ratings 2011, maddow, icn, shep, lemon

• Fox & Friends weekend stirs speculation yet again.
• Kurtz: Hurricane coverage hype and scaremongering.
• MSNBC, biznets bug out early; CNBC skips PotUS for informercial.
• Q&A: John Roberts, John Roberts.
• HuffPo’s oops.  Sunday talkers: tip sheet, HuffPo recap.
• Irene: FNC 46 hours continuous live coverage; Shep anchors 13+ hrs.  FBN simulcasts WNYW Sun 6am-8pm, then Casone. More skeds: CNN/MSNBC, CNBC.

Tags: friends, huffpo, shep

• Monday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.  FNC #2 in all cable.
• Schultz and MSNBC use special Ed-it to falsify Perry speech.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly with Imus on Elvis and Iowa, part one, part two.
• The Rise of Freedom e-book to feature exclusive WTC footage.
• Video: Bias Bash on theological campaigns, jobs in Texas, etc.
• The truth about Fox News.  Lemon provokes second incident?
• Rick Sanchez resurfaces.  Video: Ali Velshi with Jon Stewart.
• O’Donnell goes on leave.  Biznet ad wars.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg on uncomfortable questions for Bachmann.

Tags: ratings 2011, schultz, oreilly, shep, lemon, o'donnell

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

Tags: ratings 2011, newscorpse, newshounds, piers, shep

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

Tags: ratings 2011, cooper, shep, friends

• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Grace 1-2-3.
• Liz Claman’s guide to L.A.  Coop: I’m not the new Oprah.
• Shep Smith responds to NY Times and Bill Keller.
• Hardball in Philly.  Guthrie sign-off simulcast on NBC.
• Friday: Baier extra hour at 5:00 pm, special at 10:00 pm.
• CNN debate line-up set: Huntsman a no-show.
• The secret Fox conspiracy to sabotage Sarah Palin!

Tags: ratings 2011, cooper, shep, palin

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Debater is interrupted, but when given the floor walks out!
• Video: Bias Bash on DSK, Paul Ryan, and more.
• Imus videos: O’Reilly part one, part two; Chris Wallace.
• Video: Ed’s sorry.  One-week suspension more like three days.  Zurawik: Why let Schultz set his own punishment?  VIdeo: Dr Ablow offers counseling.
• Prof Shep Smith.  Burnett in, King out...or not?  CNN/Nokia deal.
• Lean Forward: Coming soon to a snooty art house near you.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, schultz, shep

• Tuesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Shep 1-2-3.
• Beck plans online channel: GBTV.
• Big Ed calls Laura Ingraham a ‘right-wing slut’.  She responds.  MSNBC suspends Ed Schultz: one week without pay.
• Video: Bias Bash on NY-26, Libya, and more.
• R.I.P.: Mark Haines of CNBC; more.  Today’s Ailes hit-piece.
• Thousands read fake CNN site daily.  Shep Smith at Overby Ctr.

Tags: ratings 2011, beck, schultz, shep

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2011, shep, olbermann, greta, schultz, huffpo, oreilly, lemon

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• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3. Piers plunges.
• Video: Breitbart and Bashir bicker on MSNBC.
• Video flashback: Shep interviews journalist killed in Libya.
• CNN sues Haiti Live Networks for calling themselves ‘HLN’.
• Exposed! The CNN-UFO-CIA-Obama conspiracy!
• Q&A: Andrea Mitchell, Lori Rothman (via TVN); Eric Bolling.
• Profile: Juan Williams.  Matthews at Daemen.  Kiran caught.
• Video: Sanjay Gupta with Conan.  CNN releases android app.

Tags: ratings 2011, piers, shep, matthews

• Friday’s numbers: Laura-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: S.E. Cupp delivers ‘special comment’ re Olbermann.
• Videos: Shep dissects the debt, erupts over government ‘lies’.
• Video: Trump swipes at Perino, Romney, Rove.
• CNBC cost cuts hit Media 3.  NBC trims wedding plans?
• Beck failures to attribute stir controversy. Analysis.
• Hot & Not: Imus, Roberts, Soledad, John King etc.
• Yet another version of the Glenn Beck/Fox News split.

Tags: ratings 2011, olbermann, shep, beck

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Baier-Beck 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Bill O’Reilly w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• Why is Thomas Roberts doing a bit on 30 Rock?
• Q&A: CNN’s Jim Walton (via TVN).
• Juan Williams to receive Freedom of Speech award.
• Video: Bernard Goldberg w/O’Reilly on Trump’s run.
• Couric replacement specularama: John Roberts, Coop, Shep?

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, cooper, shep

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3.
• How The Factor got his name.
• Video: Evan Bayh debuts as FNC contributor.
• Profile: Adam Shapiro.  Q&A: Sanjay Gupta, Soledad.
• Video: Chris Wallace with Don Imus.
• Video: Shep apologizes for Greg Palkot?!
• MSNBC botches report on nuclear dangers.
• Video: Reps Weiner and Bachmann slug it out.
• FNC top cable source for political news; MSNBC, CNN drop.

Tags: ratings 2011, oreilly, shep, hannity

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Blitzer-Shep 1-2-3.  Analysis.
• Fox News signs former Senator as a contributor; more.
• Video: Shepard Smith first report from Japan.
• Sarah asked Roger for advice and didn’t take it. Mika chimes in.
• MSNBC centerpiece series renewed.  Larry’s got a new tv gig.
• Lou Dobbs profiles: AP, Daily Mail, Daily News, Post-Gazette.
• New Pew: 2011 report on cable news part one, part two.
• Hot & Not: Japan, Keilar, Sheen, Morning Joe etc.
• FBN: 5:00 am McDowell/McShane market report on Monday.

Tags: ratings 2011, shep, palin, king, icn, mojo

• 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.

Tags: greta, shep, cooper

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• 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.

Tags: ratings 2011, piers, king, icn, shep, greta, matthews

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2011, parker, spitzer, piers, palin, shep, judgenap

• 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.

Tags: beck, shep, ratings 2011, piers, schultz, olbermann, parker, spitzer

• Wednesday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Hannity-Baier 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep explains FNC employees’ snow options.
• Zurawik: Maddow’s uninformed SotU snark is not journalism.
• Deggans: CNN’s SotU highlights problems w/Piers & Spit.
• Dean: Getting ready for the baby.  Claman: women in Davos.
• Video: Chris Wallace w/Don Imus part one, part two.
• CNN hackles raised when Spitzer goes off-script (via CB).
• Goldstein: Piers shows real potential (as viewers dwindle).
• Video: Anthony Weiner gets snippy with Judge Nap.
• Rainey slams FNC focus group; Frank Luntz explains.
• What are Comcast’s plans for (MS)NBC News?
• Video: Bill O’Reilly takes issue with Jon Stewart.
• Soros-backed group targets Beck, Ailes. FNC responds.

Tags: ratings 2011, shep, maddow, piers, spitzer, judgenap, oreilly, beck

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, greta, shep

• Thursday’s numbers: Laura-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep interviews El-Al security expert.
• Olbermann’s revenge? Scarborough suspended by MSNBC!  Christopher: Will this make Olby’s WPitW?
• Yowza! Megyn Kelly profiled in GQ.
• Juan Williams hosting tonight’s Factor.
• Tyndall: MSNBC vs FNC...guess whom he likes better?
• David Axelrod to discuss daughter on FNC: preview.
• Olby week in review: false equivalency.
• In depth analysis: a day of watching CNN.
• Friedman: Four steps to saving CNN (and Newsweek).
• Coop at Drew University, Varney in Nevada.
• Big Ed loses at his own numbers game.
• Video: Lou Dobbs makes FBN debut.

Tags: ratings 2010, shep, olbermann, megyn, cooper, schultz, mojo

• Wednesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep in heaven...a car chase!
• Swells swarm to Geist get-together.
• Q&A: Jeff Bewkes (via CB); Roger Ailes part deux, more.
• Video: Peter Johnson Jr vs Coulter on TSA screenings.
• ICN: Anonymous makes specious MSNBC complaint.
• US Senator wants to shut down Fox News...and MSNBC!

Tags: ratings 2010, shep, icn

• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Video: Shep grills TSA’s John Pistole.
• Surprise: Obama admin wants more politics coverage on MSNBC.
• Jewish group slams Jewish groups slamming Beck.
• Worst Persons ‘suspension’ almost as short as Olbermann’s!
• Video: dramatic car chase ends in crash.
• Kurtz Q&A: Roger Ailes. Analysis (via ICN).
• The savior of tv news is...Rachel Maddow!?
• IBD: Television’s latchkey journalism.
• Fineman: Scarborough mulling a run for Veep? Or not?

Tags: ratings 2010, shep, beck, olbermann, maddow, mojo

• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.  October numbers: FNC still dominates.  Program ranker.  MSNBC gains, Olby slips.  HLN falls.  CNBC sinks; Kudlow crashes.  Park & Spit a dud.  Coop only CNNer to gain.  Weekend numbers.
• Video: Shep and panel with three races to watch tonight.
• Imus video: Bill O’Reilly on midterms, Jon Stewart.
• Olbermann vs the truth: Christie, ‘cocky’, and Kilmeade.
• Why the Fox boycott is doomed to failure.
• MSNBC recruits distinguished journalist for 3:00 pm slot.
• Zurawik: MSNBC’s lack of standards, Olby’s ‘delusional self-importance’.
• Video: Shep’s behind-the-scenes tour at Fox.
• CNN debuts its own take-off of MSNBC ads.
• Olby drops ‘worst persons’ attacks...for now. More.
• Election night coverage rundown.

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• CNN’s ridiculed election matrix off to a shaky start.
• Monday’s numbers: Bill-Beck-Bret 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
• Karl Rove and Howard Dean debate Fox News.
• Beck boycott backwash: a bust?
• Video: Chris Jansing, a Snuggie, and a missing child (via ICN).
• Emails flood after cartoon of O’Reilly calling Obama ‘Hitler’.
• Videos: Shep on The View, O’Reilly on Imus, Maddow on Today.
• Shepard Smith signs new contract with Fox.
• Larry King confuses old video with his live guest.
• Q&A: Lori Rothman on moving to FBN and HD.
• Cable sub fees: FNC #5, CNN #7, MSNBC not in top 25.
• Video: Alicia Menendez (D) on why she likes going on FNC.
• New wrinkles in Carnahan ad flap push resolution into 2011.

Tags: ratings 2010, beck, oreilly, shep, maddow, king

• 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)?

Tags: ratings 2010, beck, o'donnell, greta, friends, shep, parker, spitzer, king

• Friday’s numbers: Bill-Bret-Beck 1-2-3.
• MSNBC hires Shep’s producer.
• Q&A: Ken Jautz (via ICN), Lawrence O’Donnell, Klein.
• The Fox primary: contracts complicate coverage. Greta reax.
• Poll: FNCers influential, MSNBCers largely unknown.
• MSNBC Digital revolutionizes...ad placement.
• Hot & Not: Klein, Capus, Scarborough, etc.
• WND claims credit for FNC’s A-jad interview?!?
• Mike Jerrick reviews Fox & Friends Weekend history.

Tags: ratings 2010, shep, o'donnell, friends, mojo

• 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.

Tags: ratings 2010, greta, shep, icn, king

• 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.

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• Tuesday’s numbers: Bill-Hannity-Beck 1-2-3.
• Shep interviews O’Reilly on his book, Jon Stewart, etc.
• Stossel special slated for Saturday.
• Even Rick Sanchez watches Fox News.
• Shape Magazine profile: Jennifer Griffin.
• Q&A: Liz MacDonald, Gerri Willis, Aaron Brown, Joe.
• Anti-O’Reilly gadfly loses suit, stays fired.
• Cablers cavort in Wall Street sequel.

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• More Democrats watch FNC than CNN or MSNBC.
• Friday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Timeline to Terror-Hannity 1-2-3.
• Spitzer replacement volunteers.
• Groovin’ with Shep [pdf].
• Richard Lui’s MSNBC debut, part of new lineup.
• Larry is still the king. Of sports?
• Pew: News consumers transitioning; MSNBCNN down.
• Morning anchor’s undergarments.
• Q&A: Rick Sanchez, Jamil Smith.

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From Studio B, May 4 2010

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