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So Cable News Apparently Hates The Turkish Prime Minister

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson and Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 05.16.2013 | Media

President Obama's press conference on Thursday was filled with news, and cable news networks naturally covered every bit of what he said about the IRS...

Anti-Hillary GOP War Begins While Major Media Aids and Abets

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.13.2013 | Media
Brent Budowsky

What is most troubling, though not surprising, is how many in the major media have legitimized these crass and partisan Republican attacks and the manner they are being carried out in hearings that are organized so unfairly they resemble the proceedings of a one-party Republican state

The Intersection of News and Social Conversation

Sam Fiorella | Posted 05.15.2013 | Media
Sam Fiorella

"You know who's the all-time champion here? Jake Tapper. His Twitter stream is a crazy mix of scoops and sports scores and good reads from the competition, with the occasional picture of a lost dog (Twitter's version of service journalism?)."

Cable News Is Just As White And Male As The Rest Of The Media

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.13.2013 | Media

Why are we not surprised? On Monday, Media Matters released a study which showed that, just like Sunday talk shows, and newspapers, and basically a...

Advocates Say Put the Public First in Illinois Cable Law

Barbara Popovic | Posted 05.13.2013 | Chicago
Barbara Popovic

The proposal seeks preferential treatment from the legislature, creates an unlevel playing field with other statewide and local franchise holders, erodes municipal authority, and cuts funding and channels for public use.

Jon Stewart Mocks Nancy Grace

Posted 05.09.2013 | Media

Jon Stewart took CNN to task on Wednesday for its coverage of the Jodi Arias trial. The network has gone all in on the salacious court case, but St...

CNN Still Struggling With Overhaul

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.04.2013 | Media

CNN may have had a strong ratings month during April, but some of its new experiments are still struggling in the ratings. It's no secret that CNN ...

Cable: A Recession Proof Industry

Barbara Popovic | Posted 04.29.2013 | Chicago
Barbara Popovic

The number of U.S. cable TV subscribers decreased over the last decade. At the same time, the average monthly cable bill went up 84 percent. llinois welcomes healthy business partners. But Illinois residents need and deserve laws from the legislature that protect the public.

CNN Faces 'Stunning' Challenge

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 04.10.2013 | Media

CNN's ratings woes have long been cushioned by a steady stream of cash. But, according to a new report in the Washington Post, even that money is in s...

Fox News' Tough Month

Posted 04.02.2013 | Media

The cable news industry was hit with another month of tough ratings news. Every network saw its ratings drop from 2012, a politics-heavy election ...

Fair And Balanced?

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 03.27.2013 | Media

Daytime programming means everything to the defense of Fox News. Ever since the network's founding in 1996, critics have bashed it as a biased and ten...

Jake Tapper's 'The Lead' Debuts To Lower Ratings Than CNN Predecessor

Posted 05.23.2013 | Media

"The face of the new CNN" debuted with rocky ratings during his first week. "The Lead," the new show anchored by Jake Tapper, premiered with huge e...

Why Is Cable News So White?

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.21.2013 | Media

Several commentators have recently noticed that, for all of the turnover in cable news these days, one thing is constant: the faces being shuffled aro...

MSNBC Almost Entirely Dominated By Opinion, New Study Says

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.18.2013 | Media

MSNBC is far more reliant on opinion coverage than any of its cable news rivals, a new study found. The Pew Research Center's annual "State of the ...

Journalism Study Makes For Miserable Reading

AP | By DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.18.2013 | Media

NEW YORK (AP) — Years of newsroom cutbacks have had a demonstrable impact on the quality of digital, newspaper and television news and in how consum...

Dave Jamieson

Chris Hayes Tells Ed Schultz Fans Not To Fret

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.15.2013 | Media

WASHINGTON -- Plenty of labor activists were dismayed by the announcement this week that primetime MSNBC host Ed Schultz was destined for a less desir...

Chris Hayes Moving To 8 PM On MSNBC

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.14.2013 | Media

MSNBC's Chris Hayes is taking over the network's 8 PM weekday slot, the New York Times reported Thursday. Hayes is replacing Ed Schultz, who will b...

MSNBC Hosts Mostly Ignore Or Dismiss Rand Paul Filibuster

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.07.2013 | Media

The majority of MSNBC's prime time hosts either ignored Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan or dismissed it as a partisan stunt. Paul, the Repub...

Tamron Hall To CNN?

Posted 03.04.2013 | Media

Another day, another piece of CNN gossip. For those not hanging on every twist and turn in the network's reinvention, a quick recap: the "old" conv...

Fox News In February

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 04.29.2013 | Media
Reese Schonfeld

The big question for the future is: Will younger voters remain Democrats as they grow older or, when they become fogies, will they also become Republicans?

O'Reilly, Hannity See Huge Ratings Drop-Off

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung and Jack Mirkinson | Posted 02.26.2013 | Media

There was good news and bad news for Fox News in the February cable news ratings. The good news? Fox News once again had the top 13 programs — mu...

Is Joy Behar Going To CNN?

Posted 04.25.2013 | Media

Is Joy Behar headed to CNN? Page Six reported on Saturday that the "View" and Current TV host was spotted meeting with CNN chief Jeff Zucker recent...

Jack Mirkinson

Soledad O'Brien: CNN Didn't Give My Show A Lot Of Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 04.24.2013 | Media

Soledad O'Brien may have just lost her job as CNN's morning show host, and she will no longer have a daily presence on the network. But, in an intervi...

If Only Carnival Cruised to Syria

David Westin | Posted 04.20.2013 | Media
David Westin

There's nothing wrong with covering things people are interested in. Who are we to tell them they shouldn't be? The problem isn't with what TV news covers, it's with what it doesn't cover. Or doesn't cover nearly enough.

Saving CNN, Can Zucker Do It

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 04.08.2013 | Media
Reese Schonfeld

It seems to me that Jeff Zucker is going to have a hard time bringing CNN back to its glory days. After all, Inauguration Day comes only once every four years.