Can CNN Compete With Headline News?
I launched both CNN and Headline News, and I never believed the days would come when more people watched our tabloid version rather than what was supposed to be the quality product.
I launched both CNN and Headline News, and I never believed the days would come when more people watched our tabloid version rather than what was supposed to be the quality product.
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.16.2012
Yes, there's a double-standard. And until there's full equality and the long slow process of racial healing is completed, the double-standard has to remain.
Posted 05.02.2012
April was the worst month for CNN in over a decade, and Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes made his dissatisfaction clear on Wednesday. The cable news ra...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.02.2012
CNN ought to do whatever it can to cut April out of the calendar. Last year was bad enough, but this year CNN's audience shrunk by 21% over the total day and 16% in primetime.
Posted 04.10.2012
Adam McKay is not optimistic about the current state of TV news. But unlike most, he has told millions of people his thoughts on the subject, in the f...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 04.01.2012
Keith Olbermann may have departed from Current, but the war between the two sides is just getting started. It was clear from the moment that the fl...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.30.2012
CNN is a major brand worldwide, but it's in third place on its home turf.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.27.2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Al Sharpton's activism on the Trayvon Martin case has given him a unique role — some would say unique conflict — on MSNBC. The n...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.16.2012
Rachel Maddow confronted Republican Senator James Inhofe about his ties to anti-gay legislators in Uganda during a tense conversation on her Thursday ...
Posted 05.14.2012
MSNBC's election team veered into some adult territory while watching Tuesday night's Republican primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. Rick Santoru...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.09.2012
WASHINGTON -- Seeing an emerging playing field where Internet delivered video news will eventually be on par with cable, Politico will broadly expand...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.03.2012
Rachel Maddow spent about half of her Friday show on the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh's incendiary comments about Sandra Fluke and contracept...
Posted 04.30.2012
The cable news ratings for February 2012 are in, and things were not business as usual. Like clockwork, Fox News cleared the top of the list. The ...
Posted 02.07.2012
More people are turning to cable news for information about the 2012 presidential campaign than other forms of media, according to Pew Research Center...
Posted 04.08.2012
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly launched a rather scathing attack on MSNBC in a recent interview, saying the rival network does not deal in "facts." O'Reil...
Posted 02.01.2012
The cable news ratings for January 2012 are in, and as usual, Fox News cleared the top programs. The network claimed the thirteen highest rating shows...
Posted 03.19.2012
Bill Clinton had some sharp words for MSNBC in a just-released interview with Esquire. The former president was speaking to the magazine about "thi...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.10.2012
Keith Olbermann's feud with his bosses at Current TV has been resolved -- for now. Tensions between the "Countdown" host and the leadership at the ...
Posted 03.07.2012
Fox News has signed Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former Vice President, as a contributor, Politico's Mike Allen reports. The transition from gue...
Posted 01.03.2012
Cable news networks have devoted a considerable amount of time and resources to coverage of the 2012 Iowa caucuses. The networks will each air a 3-hou...
The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 12.16.2011
Joy Behar ended her HLN show with a surprising twist involving none other than Joe Scarborough. Behar's show was axed last month, and she has spent...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 02.15.2012
We are all used to a diet of falsehoods and fabrications, and we've come to accept it. I'm glad that Mitt Romney called out Governor Perry, and I thought we all learned a lot when Governor Perry chickened out.
Posted 02.15.2012
Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck had a tense argument about Newt Gingrich on O'Reilly's Thursday show. Beck has been a fierce critic of Gingrich, curre...
Posted 02.13.2012
Lawrence O'Donnell gloated about the rise and fall of Donald Trump's debate dreams on his Tuesday show. O'Donnell is one of Trump's most gleefully ...
Posted 11.30.2011
November's cable news ratings are out and here we go again! Like clockwork, Fox News dominated the ratings. Still, every network had an interesting st...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.22.2012