PAT BUCHANAN OUT AT MSNBC

Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan has been handed his walking papers by MSNBC executives — and he is not simply cleaning out his drawers and walking away quietly. In a statement on Thursday, Buchanan blasted his former employer: “After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me [...]

CNN TAKES RATINGS LEADING IN HOUSTON COVERAGE

Affirming CNN’s reputation as the place to go for late-breaking news, especially when that news is non-political in nature, Nielsen said on Monday that the cable news network ‘s wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Whitney Houston attracted an average of 2.17 million viewers from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, peaking at 9:00 [...]

DEGENERES THANKS BILL O’REILLY FOR SUPPORT

Ellen DeGeneres has thanked conservative Fox News host Bill O’Reilly for standing up for her and against the so-called family group One Million Moms, which has urged a boycott of J.C. Penney for its decision to hire the openly lesbian performer as its spokesperson. After playing a clip of O’Reilly commenting, “This J.C. Penney thing [...]

DESPITE COSTLY HACKING SCANDAL, NEWS CORP PROFITS SOAR

Forget about the fact that News Corp may have to pay $200-400 million to settle all of the invasion-of-privacy cases that have been filed against it in the wake of the recent telephone hacking. The company on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $1.06 billion, up 65 percent above last year’s $642 million. Revenue rose to [...]

ABC MAY LAUNCH NEW ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWS CHANNEL WITH UNIVISION

ABC may be about to enter the cable news wars with Univision as its partner, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Tuesday), citing people familiar with the negotiations. While rival Fox has links to the Fox News Channel, NBC News produces content for MSNBC, and CBS has ties to CNN, ABC News has no cable [...]

FOX NEWS APOLOGIZES FOR LIFTING ARTICLE

Fox News’s website has been caught lifting an article verbatim from The Atlantic Wire and running it virtually verbatim without attribution. The article by John Hudson, about how the U.S. Navy is reportedly training dolphins to be used as minesweepers in the Strait of Hormuz, was originally posted on The Atlantic Wire’s site on January [...]

REPORT: PBS DEVELOPING SPECIAL ABOUT U.K. HACKING SCANDAL

PBS’s Frontline is preparing a special about the telephone hacking scandal that has embroiled — and continues to dog — News Corp, Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera has disclosed in a Facebook post. Rivera said that he learned about plans for the special from veteran investigative reporter Lowell Bergman, a colleague during their days at [...]

CNN LOSES IN IOWA

CNN, which ordinarily draws big ratings for live coverage of special events, saw its audience plunge Tuesday night for its coverage of the Iowa caucuses. According to Nielsen Research, total viewers dropped to 1.3 million — 41 percent below the 2.2 million viewers who tuned in a year ago. As it did last year, Fox [...]

LET THE TV PRIMARY COVERAGE BEGIN

To the relief of everyone connected with TV coverage of Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses, the polls turned out to be right on the mark. Political pollsters, who have sometimes proved to be embarrassingly off-target in recent elections, had predicted a very tight race between Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. No one had realized how [...]

ROMNEY SPURNS TRUMP-MODERATED GOP DEBATE

Chalk up another Republican presidential candidate who is not likely to gain Donald Trump’s endorsement: Mitt Romney. Romney on Tuesday said that he will not participate in the GOP debate scheduled to air on the ION network on December 27th that will be moderated by Trump. Interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox News, Romney said [...]

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