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Trayvon Martin Coverage: Twitter is For Outrage, Political Talk is For Doubt

March 30, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Trayvon Martin is the focus of a Pew Research Center study, as this is the first story in 2012 to displace the election in terms of media coverage

  

GOP Debate Propels CNN to Strong October

November 1, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The lone network with an October debate posts year-over-year gains, while MSNBC and Fox News ratings fall

  

Feisty at 15, Fox News Turns Its Guns on the Networks

October 10, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

After nearly a decade at No. 1 in the cable news ratings, Roger Ailes turns his gaze away from CNN and over to NBC, CBS, ABC

  

Roger Ailes to Rupert Murdoch: 'If I'd Screwed it Up, I'd be Dead'

October 10, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Ailes appeared alongside News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" Monday morning

  

Fox News' 'The Five' Becomes a Cable News Regular

October 3, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The show has brought advertisers back to the time slot with Glenn Beck off the network

  

CNN Gains on MSNBC, Sets Off Analysis Frenzy Among Cable News Critics

September 27, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

With the release of 3rd quarter ratings, the tightened race for 2nd place behind Fox News stirs intrigue

  

Jon Stewart Leads Ron Paul Charge, Advises Sarah Palin Wig (Video)

September 27, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

"The Daily Show" host devotes half his program to the interview, tells him to go to war in Iran

  

Jon Stewart to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly: ‘No…Stop…Bill…Don’t’

September 22, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

“The Daily Show” host fake-laments a world without his "Papa Bear"

  

Current TV's Cenk Uygur, Executives Ready for 2012, Talk CNN's 'Fake Neutrality'

September 21, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The network will boast a full primetime slate by early 2012 -- just don't call it a cable news channel

  

Poll Position: Fox News Considered 'Best' Cable News Network

September 19, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

CNN places second and fares well among non-whites and younger respondents in national survey

  

CNN-Tea Party Debate Wins Night, Falls Short of Earlier Debate Coverage by Rivals

September 13, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Numbers are much lower than those for recent conservative-party debates on MSNBC and Fox

  

Glenn Beck's Show Web Launches, GBTV Projects $20M in Revenue

September 12, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The former Fox News host has netted 230,000 subscribers

  

MSNBC Sets New Bar for GOP Debates

September 8, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Wednesday's debate drew the highest ratings of any contest thus far, but CNN and Fox News both have debates coming later this month

  

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Announces She Has Breast Cancer on Air

September 7, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The show host and reporter says the prognosis is positive

  

News Deluge Lifts Fox News, CNN Ratings in August

August 30, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Fox News continued top dominate its rivals while CNN edged past MSNBC

  

New MSNBC Host Al Sharpton: 'The Battleground Is Not Just the Streets But the Studio'

August 23, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

"I’m the only one on this station that has run for President and knows what it is to go through a primary and presidential debate"

  

CNN's Anderson Cooper Strong in Demo, Still Low in Total Viewers

August 23, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Cooper is still low in total viewers, but his performance in the demo is cause for encouragement

  

Fox News Rides Debate to Second Place in Cable

August 17, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The cable news channel posts its third-best week of the year

  

Current TV's David Bohrman: Fox News Is the New Mainstream

August 15, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The new president of the network says he was outed as a liberal by joining Current but that his politics did not affect his job while at CNN.

  

Fox News a Double Winner in Presidential Debate

August 12, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The network draws more than 5 million viewers for the debate, far surpassing the ratings of the previous two GOP contests

  

And the Winner of the Republican Presidential Debate Is: Fox News

August 12, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The cable channel displaces a candidate as the night's big winner for asking tough questions

  

Jon Stewart: Fox News' Megyn Kelly a 'Badass' Suffering 'Post-Partum Compassion'

August 12, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Kelly, who just returned from maternity leave, blasted a radio host who called leave a "racket" after months of criticizing entitlements herself

  

New Current TV President David Bohrman: We're Going 'All-In' on Analysis

August 8, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Former CNN exec promises a vastly different network going forward

  

Eliot Spitzer Silent on Schwarzenegger Sex Scandal

May 17, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Disgraced New York governor makes no mention of Governator's infidelity on CNN's "In The Arena"

  

Jon Stewart Wins Rap Battle With Bill O'Reilly Over Common

May 17, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Is this what we really need: two old white dudes debating hip-hop lyrics on cable television? | VIDEO

  

CNN Names Feist D.C. Bureau Chief

May 17, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Network's political director promoted to top job in Washington