Buckets of voters. Obscure swing counties. How John King, Steve Kornacki and Bill Hemmer bring the data to life with their whiz-bang “boards.” Pioneered by CNN a decade ago, the screens have also made stars of their human minders, the anchors who blend wonk-level knowledge with tap-and-swipe dexterity. Fleet fingers, and a mind for numbers, are essential.
After a federal judge ordered that CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s credentials be temporarily restored last week, the White House sent Acosta a letter saying it had made the “preliminary decision” to suspend his pass. The White House said Acosta would continue to hold his credentials while the 14-day judge’s order was in effect. CNN sought an emergency hearing, saying in a Monday court filing that the administration was creating “retroactive due process.”
A federal judge temporarily restored Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials, but didn’t rule on the CNN correspondent’s First Amendment claims.
The network is backing CNN over White House access, just the latest sign of distance between Fox News Channel and the president.
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CNN’s lawsuit against President Trump and several top aides is specifically about Jim Acosta’s access to the White House, but the case could have repercussions far beyond CNN. “This is a very, very important case,” said famed lawyer Ted Olson, who is representing CNN. It was Acosta whose press pass was suspended this time, but “this could happen to any journalist by any politician,” Olson said. The judge assigned to the case has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. ET. Here’s everything you should know about CNN v. Trump.
CNN has sued the White House for pulling Jim Acosta’s press credentials. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C., District Court. CNN claims the revocation of Acosta’s press pass violates the constitutional rights to freedom on the press and due process. CNN is asking for an immediate restraining order to return Acosta to the White House.
The channel’s news anchors are butting heads with its big-name pundits, who are avid promoters of President Trump.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders distributed an altered video of CNN’s Jim Acosta that made his actions at a news conference look more aggressive toward a White House intern.
Benjamin Craig Matthews of Mountain Home, Ark., was taken into custody Tuesday and remains jailed on $15,000 bond. Matthews faces multiple counts of making terrorist threats and harassing communications.
The ratings firm said Wednesday that 36.1 million people watched midterm election results on TV, a whopping 59% increase over the last midterms in 2014. For the last midterm election during Barack Obama’s presidency, an estimated 22.7 million people watched the counting. Nielsen said it was the largest midterm election audience dating back to 2002. Fox News Channel led the way with 7.78 million viewers.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) — A 39-year-old Arkansas man has been arrested after Atlanta police accused him of making threatening telephone calls to CNN. The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office announced […]
Hours after an on-air confrontation Wednesday between President Trump and Jim Acosta, the CNN reporter has been “suspended” from the White House “until further notice.”
Fox News Channel was the big winner in the cable news ratings battle Tuesday night. Just like the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet did in the 2014 midterm elections, FNC wiped the small screen floor with rivals CNN and MSNBC plus ABC, CBS and NBC proper when it came to where most Americans turned for results and more on election night.
In an aggressive call on a night when many television networks played it safe, Fox News was the first major news organization to project that the Democrats would retake control of the House of Representatives, dealing a blow to the channel’s most famous viewer, President Trump.
Thanking his campaign supporters for their spirited challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz, he said on live television Tuesday: “All of you, showing the country how you do this. I’m so f—ing proud of you guys.”
Fox News is not happy with hosts Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro for appearing onstage at a Trump campaign rally last night. “Fox News does not condone any talent participating in campaign events,” the network said in a statement Tuesday. “We have an extraordinary team of journalists helming our coverage tonight and we are extremely proud of their work. This was an unfortunate distraction and has been addressed.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Martha MacCallum is no stranger to Fox News Channel viewers, but she will have a prominent new role for the network during its midterm election coverage. […]
Popular Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity appeared on the podium in a Missouri arena Monday night after being called to the stage by Trump. Another Fox News host, Jeanine Pirro, also appeared onstage with the president. “By the way, all those people in the back are fake news,” Hannity told the audience.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel says Sean Hannity will not be appearing as a guest at President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Missouri, even as the campaign continued […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s Ainsley Earhardt says President Trump is suggesting that if the press doesn’t want to be called an enemy of the people, it should […]
New Fox chief Lachlan Murdoch deflected criticism of the company’s stewardship of Fox News, whose strident programming has inflamed Hollywood figures such as longtime Fox creators Seth MacFarlane and Steve Levitan.
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN isn’t commenting about Don Lemon’s statement that white men represent the biggest terrorist threat in the country. Lemon’s statement, on his show Monday, attracted criticism […]
For the 2017-2018 TV season, TV news programming climbed 3% in advertising revenue versus the season before, according to Standard Media Index’s AccuTV service. Cable TV news networks collectively posted a big 11% hike — from $2.08 billion to $2.31 billion — with broadcast TV network news programming down 4%, from $2.37 billion to $2.27 billion.
A third suspicious package addressed to CNN has been found and removed from a postal facility in Atlanta, Georgia, where the cable network is based. “This morning, another suspicious packaged addressed to CNN was intercepted at an Atlanta post office,” CNN president Jeff Zucker wrote in a memo to staffers on Monday morning. “There is no imminent danger to the CNN Center.”
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Thursday called bombs sent to prominent Democrats including former President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CNN “fake bombs” in a tweet that has since been deleted.
