Those thinking that the most exciting race for the White House in modern history would lead to a higher level of discourse on cable news should think ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.29.2008 | Media
As 2008 comes to a close, each of the cable news networks has reason to celebrate: Fox News maintains its #1 ratings slot, MSNBC is growing faster tha...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media
The cable network that really needs Bill Clinton is BBC America. Bill Clinton is a star of the first magnitude -- people pay to see him, which is why ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media
Nancy Grace rode the news that a child's body was found near Caylee Anthony's grandparents' home to a ratings record Thursday night. Her Headline New...
Broadcasting & Cable | Alex Weprin | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media
According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News retained 74% of its total day and 70% of its primetime audience. MSNBC retained 62% of its total day an...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media
CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein is about to hit his four-year anniversary at the helm of the news network, with one full Presidential election cycle unde...
MediaWeek | Anthony Crupi | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media
Conventional wisdom would suggest that cable news ratings were ripe for a precipitous fall once the cuticle-gnawing tension of the election finally ab...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
CNN's "American Morning" — which dominated its competition the morning after the election, with 2.1 million viewers — is facing increasing...
New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media
Over the last three months of the 2008 presidential campaign, ratings for the cable news channel MSNBC were up 158 percent over the same period a year...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media
CNN may have won election night, but Fox News retained the most viewers, winning Election Week and taking the #1 spot in primetime among all cable net...
Broadcasting & Cable | Marisa Guthrie | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media
Maybe it did all come down to Ohio--again. At least that's what it felt like at the Fox News Channel studios on Election Night. Brit Hume, FNC's drol...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Chris Matthews refused to be drawn in to a debate last week when fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked on "Morning Joe" about whet...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
In the final vote, cable news viewers favored Obama by 11%, he won by 6%. The previous week, we had him ahead by 6%, and would've been dead on, but last week's numbers jumped.
Dan Solin | Posted 11.04.2008 | Business
In times of extreme market volatility, investors are tempted to rely financial pundits. It is important to realize that their advice is flawed and conflicted.
William Klein | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
In what observers say is the shortest "honeymoon" between the public and a new Administration, dissatisfaction with the Obama Administration began before it was even elected.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media
MSNBC beat CNN in prime time for the month of October, led by the breakout success of "The Rachel Maddow Show," which brought MSNBC its first-ever vic...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media
If I were to walk the mile from where I live to the studio and take the reins, I would at least threaten to cut out the tongue of any TV host who dares interrupt anyone else.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media
Update: The final numbers are in: 69.9 million viewers watched the Vice Presidential debate, making it the most watched debate since 1992 and the most...
Charles Warner | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media
What's really sad is that the Sun would be alive if it could have found a few more investors who were willing to see it lose a couple of million dollars a year.
Doug Bremner | Posted 09.12.2008 | Living
I guess someone told Fox that they are getting a lot of advertising dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, and what I had to say might not make some people happy.
Alex Jones | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
There is something sinister about the press's complicity in allowing campaign coverage to feed hungrily on meaningless charges and counter-charges.
Rusty Russell | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home
Cable TV fails to do its job: report on and analyze the candidates' policies. It's like they think we only care about lipstick. Viewers are left completely unaware of dozens of serious issues that dramatically impact enormous swaths of the population.
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics
If an undecided voter responded strongly to the yelling from Mitt, Rudy and Palin, and then watched McCain, they were probably disappointed and let-down by McCain.
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.03.2008 | Politics
What I still want to know is why Governor Palin is more qualified than Olympia Snowe or Christine Todd Whitman or Kay Bailey Hutchison. The McCain campaign hasn't answered that question.
Charles Warner | Posted 09.02.2008 | Media
A new low point in cable news occurred this week with the focus on Sarah Palin's family issues. Even after Barack Obama correctly and firmly said tha...
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
As January 20 grows larger in the window, I've been thinking more often about the...
I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a...
America is in shock. It is not because of the unusual sight of the first black...
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
Rachel Maddow appeared on "The Daily...
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Patrick Swayze, who has been battling pancreatic cancer for a year, sat down with Barbara Walters for...
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
Paley Center | J. Max Robins | Posted 01.06.2009 | Media