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NYT Headline: Boycott or Not, Fox News Bolts Past Networks
by Shifra on August 10, 2020This story is on the front page of today’s New York Times…and above the fold. They must be guzzling the Pepto over at NYT headquarters today 🙂 Via NYT. ….In June and July, Fox News was the highest-rated television channel in the prime-time hours of 8 to 11 p.m. Not just on cable. Not just among news networks. All of television. The average live Fox News viewership in those hours outstripped cable rivals like CNN, MSNBC and ESPN, as well as the broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC, according to Nielsen. That three-hour slot is a narrow but significant slice of TV real estate, and it is exceedingly rare for a basic-cable channel to outrank the Big Three broadcasters, which...
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Kavanaugh Confirmation Week Ratings: CNN Loses… To ‘Home and Garden TV’
by Shifra on October 14, 2018SAD! 🙂 Via Daily Caller. Fox News maintained its position as “King of Cable” last week during the dramatic confirmation hearings and subsequent vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Fox crushed rivals CNN and MSNBC in all demographics. Nielsen Media Research reports that, from October 1 through October 7, Fox News more than doubled the viewership of CNN and MSNBC in total viewers for both primetime and total daily viewers…. Even with the booming ratings from the drama around the Kavanaugh vote, CNN was unable to crack into the top 5 for cable networks. CNN was beat by Home And Garden TV in total viewers and just barely bested The Hallmark Channel.
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Meredith Corp. To Acquire Time Inc. For $2.8 Billion
by Tammy on November 26, 2017Hmm… This deal is partly funded by the Koch brothers. Los Angeles Times. Magazine publisher and broadcast company Meredith Corp. said Sunday afternoon it will acquire Time Inc. in a deal valued at $2.8 billion, as the print magazine industry continues to struggle. The Des Moines, Iowa-based company said in a statement that the deal had been approved by both firms’ boards of directors and is expected to close in the first quarter in 2018. Meredith said it secured $650 million from Koch Equity Development, the investment arm of Koch Industries, but the publisher said Koch Equity Development would not have a seat on the Meredith board and “will have no influence on Meredith’s editorial or managerial operations.” After speculation...
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Sarah Sanders Asks Reporters What They Are Thankful For, Libs Are Outraged
by Shifra on November 21, 2017Sanders asked reporters to first state what they were thankful for, before asking questions at yesterday’s presser. Libs then took to Twitter to blast Sanders for the “audacity” of her request. What a humorless, angry and bitter bunch of miserable people… Via Daily Caller. Verified leftist Twitter got really upset with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday after she asked WH reporters to share what they’re thankful for. With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up on Thursday, Sanders’ insistence that reporters give thanks before asking a question was supposed to be a kindhearted, example-setting gesture. Instead, it angered the left, who devolved into ad hominem attacks and cried about First Amendment infringement…. Sarah Slanders forcing reporters to state...
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Preet Bharara Joining CNN As a Senior Legal Analyst
by Tammy on September 21, 2017Surprise. Because in the end, it’s always been about entertainment and television. And themselves. Bharara’s statements and now this, including his comments in his ‘podcast’ as detailed below, confirms how right President Trump was in firing him. Via NY Post. Preet Bharara, the Manhattan US attorney fired by President Trump, is joining CNN as a senior legal analyst, Politico reported. Known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” Bharara has said Trump fired him in March after first telling him shortly after the election that he wanted him to remain in the federal prosecutor’s post. Since his dismissal, Bharara has become something of a media juggernaut, launching a Twitter account that has 440,000 followers and a podcast called “Stay Tuned with...
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Saudi Donations Now Tainted Money In Media Eyes
by Pat_S on May 22, 2017Ah, the give and take of international relations. Saudi Arabia and the UAE pledged to donate a combined $100 million to a World Bank fund for women which was set up at the urging of Ivanka Trump. In reporting this story the media hadddd to bring up that Donald Trump criticized Hillary for the Clinton Foundation accepting money from the same sources. Trump called on Hillary to return the money. Trump is a hypocrite and/or Hillary was unfairly criticized is what we are supposed to think. Saudis And The UAE Will Donate $100 Million To A Fund Inspired By Ivanka Trump The donation raised some eyebrows, since candidate Trump regularly excoriated the Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from repressive Middle...
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ESPN Anchor Admits Network Failing Because Of Politics
by Tammy on April 28, 2017And she’s right. This is a follow-up to this story: ESPN is laying off 100 employees, including some of its biggest names Via Daily Wire. If those who feel that the reason ESPN is sliding off the cliff is their insistence for waxing political while ignoring sports needed ammunition, they’ve got it now: a famed ESPN host who has served the network for 25 years agrees with them. On Thursday, SportsCenter anchor Linda Cohn admitted that the huge staff reductions announced this week are a result of the network’s penchant for broadcasting politics instead of sports. Appearing on 77 WABC’s Bernie and Sid Show, Cohn said one reason for the cutbacks was the political nature of the network’s programming. She...
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ABC News Apologizes After Editing Praise of Sean Spicer to Sound Like Attack
by Tammy on January 25, 2017And they wonder why we’ve had enough. Via Mediaite. ABC News apologized Tuesday after the Monday night edition of Nightline edited a quote from former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer in a way that made it appear that he was more critical of current White House press secretary Sean Spicer than he actually was. “[Spicer’s] briefing made me uncomfortable. It was too truculent, too tough. It looks as if the ball was dropped on Saturday,” Nightline quoted Fleischer as saying. But Fleischer took to Twitter to complain that he had been taken out of context. Flesicher called on ABC News to issue a correction, saying he didn’t really care if he got an apology. As it happens, he...
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Cheney To CNN: Trump Took Us To Point Where We Don’t Need You Guys Anymore
by Tammy on December 5, 2016I love this guy!
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LA Times Fires Reporter Who Wanted Trump Dead
by Tammy on November 3, 2016Jackasses, each and every one, as their own coverage of the campaign compels people to do this. Also worth noting the media continues to complain that it’s Trump supporters who are the dangerous problem, despite every piece of evidence of violence, including the deliberate arranging of it at Trump rallies, coming from the Democrats and their affiliated groups. Via Washington Examiner. The Los Angeles Times on Thursday fired a freelance reporter who tweeted that he hoped Donald Trump would die. “Earlier today, Steven Borowiec, a freelance journalist in South Korea, posted a tweet about Donald Trump on his personal Twitter profile that violated our professional standards,” the paper said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “The Los Angeles Times...
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AP To Clinton Campaign: We Are Preparing To Report FBI Has Thumb Drive, But Can Be Steered Away
by Tammy on November 3, 2016Associated Press "journalist" Eric Tucker is willing to be 'steered away' from a story about Clinton's emails: https://t.co/YHQTiw5HBj — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 3, 2016 Yes, another reporter being Hillary’s lapdog telling them he’d be happy to be “steered away” from a story about the FBI having possession of a Hillary server thumb drive. It’s all collusion, all rigging all the time. For this and more see a chockfull Zerohedge post. In an email dated 8/11/15, Hillary’s lawyer David Kendall expressed some notable concern about information related the AP preparing to report that the FBI has taken possession of Hillary’s thumb drive, a story which the campaign has vocally denied. Which may also explain why as AP journalist Eric Tucker notes,...
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Americans’ Trust in News Media Plummets to Historic Lows
by Tammy on October 14, 2016Gee, I wonder why? Via Washington Examiner. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that the mainstream media can’t be trusted is bolstered by at least four polls showing that as few as 6 percent have full confidence in what the press is writing and showing on TV. Pew, Gallup, Facebook, Rasmussen, and the American Press Institute have all recorded new lows in media trust, dismal results that bolster Trump’s charges that TV and the press are throwing “outright lies” at him, most recently charges if groping women. “Let’s be clear on one thing, the corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism – they are a political special interest no different from a lobbyist,” Trump said Thursday...
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Hot Mic: Was CNN Caught Coaching Post-Debate Focus Group?
by Shifra on October 10, 2016Isn’t this what we’ve come to expect from the Clinton News Network? Via Daily Caller. CNN may have accidentally recorded itself coaching a member of its focus group about what to say following Sunday night’s presidential debate. A video uploaded to YouTube shortly after Sunday’s debate shows CNN discussing the debate’s events with a focus group of undecided Ohio voters, only to have a live microphone reveal more than intended. As the clip begins, CNN is showing a moment from the debate in which Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton says, “that America already is great, but we are great because we are good.” Then, as CNN cuts back to its focus group, CNN reporter Pamela Brown can apparently be heard speaking...
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EU Bureaucrats Tell British Press: Do Not Reveal If Terrorists Are Muslims
by Shifra on October 6, 2016The EU commission feels it is inflammatory to mention that the perpetrators of a terrorist attack may be Muslims. No word yet, if it is also inflammatory to scream Allahu Akbar while slaughtering innocent people because they do not share your religious views. Via Express. A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016. Blaming the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said: “It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.” The...
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Bill Maher: Hillary Won’t Say How She’ll Stop Terrorism, “She Just Seems To Lecture Us…”
by Tammy on September 25, 2016Even though we disagree with them, it’s worth applauding liberals who aren’t allergic to the truth. Every now and then Maher gets it right. You won’t like what he has to say about Trump either (well, some of you will 😉 but this is a program liberals watch and it’s important for them to realize criticism from their side is possible and important. And, of course, when a liberal criticizes Hillary or one of their own they have to reassert their bona fides by going after a conservative. And that’s exactly what he does here. Via RCP. HBO host Bill Maher and his panel discuss the upcoming first presidential debate and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s approach to preventing future...