So, Where Does Keith Olbermann Go Now?
Perpetual bridge-burner Keith Olbermann set ablaze another viaduct Friday with an acrimonious departure from Al Gore's Current TV network. Where can he go next?
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Roger Ailes is full of self-righteous outrage that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails. It's a recent conversion after leading a news network that has been calling for criminalizing journalism for years.
Perpetual bridge-burner Keith Olbermann set ablaze another viaduct Friday with an acrimonious departure from Al Gore's Current TV network. Where can he go next?
More than two hours before MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was due to arrive, the line at the Union Square Barnes & Noble last night was already stretching as far back as the audiobooks section in the far corner of the massive building's massive top floor.
Fox News felt a 17 percent drop in viewers this month compared to March 2011 -- guess that means everyone hates Republicans, right?
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is trying to put together a national sports network to rival ESPN, a daunting task, but then, the company does have a history of unseating cable rivals.
According to Geraldo Rivera, the Fox Newser's "own son just wrote to say he's ashamed of my position re hoodies." He's not the only one. Today, Geraldo hatred went viral.
Using the treasure trove of readership data that are Bitly links, Forbes' Jon Bruner has created an interactive map of the news preferences of online readers that mediaphiles like us are sure to scour over.
Mitt Romney was an agitated and evasive candidate on Fox News Wednesday. He was a relaxed and able explainer of his policies on Fox News Thursday.
Fox News thinks Media Matters is out to destroy it, and its resident psychiatrist knows why: Because Media Matters founder David Brock can't get over the fact that he was adopted.
The leftward shift or "course correction" at Fox News in recent months could have several explanations but a pair of reports in Politico and The Daily Caller give credit to the cable network's mortal enemy: Media Matters for America.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton don't want you to know what they're calling their dog, Fox News is trying to be nicer to Politico, and there may be an inter-office romance in bloom at MSNBC.
Apparently the "Fair and Balanced" news channel is run like one big family which, as anchor Shepard Smith knows, won't necessarily fly at your own workplace.
Newt Gingrich is getting hammered by conservative media outlets that fear his nomination would cost Republicans the general election, but there's one outlet that has not been afraid of a Newt nomination: Fox News.
The New York Times's Home Subscriber alert heard round the world on Wednesday is now enjoying a second, silly turn in the news cycle, mostly thanks to News Corp and Anonymous.
The dutiful Media Matters researchers who stare at Fox News all day have flagged another humorous mistake made by the cable news network: Fox accidentally swapped Mitt Romney's face with Barack Obama's in an Iowa polling segment today.
News that Roger Ailes is shopping an autobiography around to publishers is leading to speculation that he may step down from his post as head of Fox News after the 2012 election.
If Herman Cain is good at anything, it's talking about his opinions and upsetting many people in the process. Obviously, this makes him a great candidate for one of those high-paying, freewheeling pundit jobs at Fox News.
The Moscow activists who protested the Russian elections in the streets of Moscow Tuesday did not do a good enough job of looking scary and violent, it seems, because Fox News cut its coverage of the protests with footage riot police and streets on fire -- in Athens.
The always ridiculous Fox News manages to outdo itself.
Whatever the outcome of Herman Cain's multiplying sex scandals, the extensive (and defensive) coverage on Fox News, especially by their female commentators, has not made the news network sound like a pleasant place for women to work.
Mitt Romney's cantankerous side emerged again last night during a Fox News interview during which Bret Baier pushed the presidential candidate on his several position changes over the years.
The Fox News anchor talks Twitter and how she snagged the first post-scandal Herman Cain interview
The Fox News host on MSNBC vs. Fox and the quality he dislikes most about TV news anchors
The President accuses the journalist of being "a spokesman for Mitt Romney"
The cantankerous country star's latest track slams Fox & Friends along with ESPN
The MSNBC host explains how Occupy Wall Street hijacked her media diet
On its 15th birthday, people are taking inventory of its nine years of news ratings dominance
Jesse LaGreca, one of our budding stars of Occupy Wall Street, has a wish-list for his broadcast interview
The GOP candidate earned $239,000, pushing his earnings above $1 million
The Peacock might be missing Keith Olbermann following its September ratings slump
The Fox News head takes issue with the AP's characterization of people praying in mosques
You can't win the Republican presidential nomination without talking to the Fox News chief
Getting paid by the news network has been political poison for the GOP's 2012 field
Two new magazine pieces on Stewart compare the comedian with his cable news pincushion
Plus: Two papers, two perspectives on video of the NYPD suggestively dancing
The most powerful predictor of mistrusting Muslims: trusting Fox News
Report says Fox pundit used a promise of a police charity donation as leverage
Says if Palin wants people to stop speculating, she should say she's not running
Fox's White House correspondent is 'captive to devices and President Obama'
Hell hath no fury like a maybe-presidential candidate scorned
Everyone was wondering why MSNBC, CNN, and Fox didn't broadcast from Tripoli sooner
Here's how to have a real hip-hop bbq
On hating Obama, loving Obama, and hating him all over again
The newly-minted Fox News reporter has become a suspected right-winger
Finally MSNBC president Phil Griffin admits to what everyone already knows
A new count pegs the network's coverage at at least 30 segments
The scandal at its parent company's British papers is getting scant Fox News coverage
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