The coverage of the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh reflected a nation bitterly divided, but also produced a rare collective civic moment.
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.
“We always have a studio that is ready to go on air at any moment,” a CNN insider familiar with its logistics says. Following yesterday’s discovery of a pipe bomb at its New York headquarters, the cable network managed to remain on the air as the network’s live feed jumped between anchors in Washington and New York — with Big Apple reporters doing the bulk of their work from phones and hot-spot connections on Manhattan city streets.
CNN’s Time Warner Center office was evacuated on Wednesday in response to the discovery of a suspicious package, the network’s journalists reported on air. “The New York bomb squad unit right in front of the building, they are taking this very seriously,” morning anchor Jim Sciutto said. The package was found inside the mailroom, after it was delivered. Sciutto said the network is not aware of any injuries.
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CNN sister network HLN is making a major overhaul of its daytime lineup and axing three live news shows, Across America With Carol Costello, Michaelaand Crime & Justice With Ashleigh Banfield. The three hosts, prominent anchors Carol Costello, Michaela Pereira and Ashleigh Banfield, will all host their last shows Friday, Oct. 26, and the network’s new lineup will kick in Monday, Oct. 29.
Cable-news heavyweights used to appear mainly in the evening, where shows continue to attract the greatest number of viewers. In today’s 24/7 news cycle, however, daytime hours are becoming hot spots.
Television journalists standing out in the rain and wind is a staple of hurricane coverage. Some viewers love it, others think it’s ridiculous. No matter what you think, Wednesday showed the limits of those spectacular live shots. Hurricane Michael was so ferocious that reporters near the center of the storm could not physically stand in the worst of the winds.
In a crucial period with the midterms less than a month away, some in the White House are worried that the president is losing a primetime megaphone to his base. As Trump has ramped up his rally schedule ahead of the midterms, viewership numbers for the raucous primetime events have been roughly similar to — sometimes dipping below — Fox News’ regular programming, and the network has recently stopped airing most evening events in full.
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Adam Buckman: While Fox News Channel is still the top-rated among the three news channels, the MSNBC numbers are not that far behind.
Martha MacCallum, the 54-year-old mother of three and host of a popular early-evening show on Fox News, The Story With Martha MacCallum, represented exactly the demographic the White House feels it is trying to convince of Kavanaugh’s fitness to serve on the Supreme Court. MacCallum had developed a reputation on the news side of Fox News as a measured interviewer.
With the wall-to-wall coverage starting at 10 a.m. ET, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing involving Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford promises to be a national drama along the lines of Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearing in 1991, when Anita Hill testified that he had sexually harassed her.
Martha MacCallum got the on-air exclusive of Kavanaugh’s denial of multiple sexual assault allegations.
NEW YORK (AP) — Political commentator Steve Schmidt says he’ll take some inspiration from former NFL players who become television analysts when he starts appearing on Showtime’s “The Circus.” The […]
CNN’s story, written on July 27, said that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen was willing to say that he heard Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., tell his father about the Russians’ offer to share material about Clinton, his Democratic rival for the presidency. CNN said it had more than one source for its story, which it stands behind, co-authored by Jim Sciutto and Watergate legend Carl Bernstein.
Cable television news hosts and commentators are among the first voices that Trump hears in the morning and the last he listens to at night. Now he is increasingly relying on those voices in making decisions — often running afoul of his actual advisers in the process.
Another on-air reporter is leaving Fox News over frustrations with the direction and tone of the network, the second in the last three weeks to defect for those reasons. Adam Housley, a Los Angeles-based reporter who joined Fox in 2001, felt there was diminished opportunity at the network for reporters and disapproved of tenor of its on-air discussion, according to two former Fox News employees with knowledge of his situation.
As the political news around the Trump Administration heats up, TV news networks have been raising advertising and on-air promotions efforts over the last four months. From May 1 through Aug. 20, Turner’s CNN ran the most promos of any cable news network in the period — with some 8,631 airings of promotion spots for the channel, according to iSpot.tv.
Few reporters have lived the Trump administration’s war against the press more vividly than April Ryan, a 21-year veteran of the White House press corps and CNN contributor who has seen her national profile grow along with concerns about her physical safety.
