CNN was forced to correct a key error in a story about the Trump campaign and access to hacked Democratic National Committee emails on Friday, extending a run of high-profile media mistakes.
Exclusives
Fox News and Bill O’Reilly have been hit with a lawsuit over press statements made in the wake of a New York Times story revealing the former television star had paid $13 million to five women to settle sexual harassment claims.
Fox News Channel today named contributor Gillian Turner a full-time news correspondent. Based in FNC’s Washington bureau, Turner will cover the top news stories of the day across daytime and […]
CNN has fired senior producer Teddy Davis following complaints from co-workers about inappropriate behavior. Specifics surrounding Davis’ departure were unclear. A source said some co-workers said Davis made them uncomfortable at times but he was not accused of any physical acts of harassment. CNN declined to elaborate. Davis was not immediately available for comment.
President Trump praised Fox News and ripped CNN on Saturday, saying on Twitter that the conservative-leaning news network is more important than the cable network. “Fox News is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!” the president said in a tweet.
Fox News Channel has signed nationally syndicated radio talk show personality Mark Levin as host of Life, Liberty & Levin, a new weekend primetime program debuting in February 2018. Airing each […]
Media Giving Up Its Place In Our Democracy
Whatever side you’re on in the debate over journalism these days, you’re not going to like some of what I have to say. Let’s start with a basic fact. President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on the free press in our history. Since early in the campaign, he has done everything he could to delegitimize the media — attacking us institutionally and individually. And I think his purpose is clear: a concerted campaign to raise doubts over whether we can be trusted when we report critically about his administration.
Pivotal Research Groups says broadcast network news viewing is down 8% from last year. Total network TV news viewing through Nov. 12 — on broadcast and cable — is up 6% versus the same time period a year ago with viewing among the three big cable networks — MSNBC, CNN and Fox News Channel — 15% higher than a year ago.
Rupert Murdoch telephoned AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about cable network CNN, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. According to one of the sources, the 86-year-old executive chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox offered to buy CNN in both conversations. Another source said Murdoch had “zero interest” in owning CNN.
The network’s primetime hosts, who gave Roy Moore the benefit of the doubt over sexual misconduct allegations, have been drawing viewers after a slump.
The network that sparred with him as a candidate now rarely questions him as president. It signals that Fox fears increasing competition on its right flank.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway reignited the White House’s bitter rivalry with CNN on Sunday, trading blows with host Brian Stelter over his network’s coverage of the administration.
Opinion Media A Problem For Trust In Media
I was struck this week by two inside-baseball journalism stories following Monday’s Mueller investigation bombshells that spoke, tangentially but notably, to what I have often said about a main obstacle in our industry’s ability to regain the trust of the public: The conflation in many information consumers’ minds between responsible journalism and the opinion media.
