This is too bad. Over the last several months I became a fan of Wallace’s Saturday morning show. Here is The New York Times; Chris Wallace, a veteran TV anchor who left Fox News for CNNÂ three years ago, announced on […]
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CNN political commentator Alice Stewart has died
For those of us who regularly watch CNN for our news, this is a terrible loss. Stewart was a rational and smart conservative voice on the network. More on Stewart’s life and career here.
The Author’s Corner with Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Kathryn Cramer Brownell is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. This interview is based on her new book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News (Princeton University Press, 2023). JF: What led […]
Don Lemon is out at CNN
What a day for cable news! Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. Don Lemon is out at CNN. Here is Lemon’s tweet: Does Lemon’s firing have anything to do with this or this?
Tucker Carlson and Fox News part ways
Here is the Associated Press: Fox News said Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its popular and controversial host, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting. The network said […]
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Why did Fox News lie to its viewers about the 2020 election?
David French offers a theory at his New York Times column: Fox isn’t just the news hub of right-wing America, it’s a cultural cornerstone, and its business model is so successful that it’s more accurate to think of the rest […]
We now know that Fox News lied to its viewers about the 2020 election
I included this story in Sunday night’s odds and ends, but I wanted to call attention to it again. Here is Brian Stelter at The Atlantic; The other crucial metric Fox leaders were watching, of course, was the Nielsen ratings […]
CNN cancels “Reliable Sources.” Brian Stelter is out
Too bad. Reliable Sources was one of my favorite CNN shows. I tried to watch it every week because host Brian Stelter often had thoughtful guests, including scholars, on the show. I especially enjoyed his critiques of Fox News during […]
CNN pulls the plug on CNN Plus
Well, that didn’t last long. Here is Jeremy Barr and Paul Farhi at The Washington Post: CNN’s new parent company abruptly pulled the plug on the network’s $100 million venture into online streaming — a spectacular reversal that stunned employees […]
What can we expect from CNN under Chris Licht?
Licht, the former Executive Producer of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” promises less liberal politics and more news gathering. Here is Mike Allen at Axios: Under new chief Chris Licht, CNN will dial down the prime-time partisanship and double […]
When you lose Newsmax
The right-wing pro-Trump network is condemning Father Coughlin’s Tucker Carlson’s pro-Putin/Russia comments. Here is Alex Griffing at Mediaite: Newsmax released a statement on Friday calling out Fox News and Tucker Carlson for “supporting Putin and Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine.” The right-wing, […]
Some changes at all three major cable networks
Three new hires: Fox News doubles-down on right-wing Trumpism by giving Jesse Watters a nightly show at 7:00pm. Watters made his bones doing “man-on-street” interviews for the Bill O’Reilly’s former Fox show, “The O’Reilly Factor.” He has a well-deserved reputation […]
Was Chris Cuomo an entertainer or a journalist?
CNN fired him because he violated journalistic “standards and practices” by helping craft his brother Andrew’s response to sexual harassment charges. Here is Edwards Helmore at The Guardian: But the larger question concerns to what extent US cable news has […]
“You may never see those numbers again”
OK, I’ll admit it. Our “numbers” are a bit down here at the blog since Trump left office. We still get thousands of readers a day, but during the Trump era we often had tens of thousands of readers a […]