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"The View" mocks Carlson's Fox ouster

“They end up in somebody’s basement with a podcast,” Joy Behar quipped on Wednesday's episode of the show

Salon

Tucker Carlson fired after he got ‘too big for his boots,’ new book claims

The right-wing conspiracy theorist was dismissed in April despite his status as the most-watched cable TV personality

The Independent UK

Tucker Carlson fired by Fox News for getting ‘too big for his boots’, book says

Network of Lies by Brian Stelter, excerpted in Vanity Fair, says firing was inevitable after he alienated large parts of network

The Guardian - US

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‘Ha, ha, ha’: Mitt Romney laughs off Trump’s ‘total loser’ attack

Utah senator calls former president a ‘whack job’ after Trump called book ‘much like him – boring, horrible and predictable’

The Guardian - US

White House says Republicans ‘playing games with people’s lives’ as shutdown odds increase – as it happened

Failure to advance defense bill spells trouble for separate funding bill as no more votes expected this week

The Guardian - US

CNN adds diversity, still needs strategy

Elevating Abby Phillip and Laura Coates is wonderful. Now CNN needs more viewers to watch them

Salon

Fox News v Tucker Carlson: dispute rumbles on weeks after messy exit

Network and former star remain at loggerheads in wake of surprise dismissal – is there a resolution in sight?

The Guardian - US

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Chris Licht Ouster Shows How Cable News Has Become a Cope

The journalistic crusade against "bothsidesism" is an unsubtle attempt at enforcing political orthodoxy.

Reason

How Chris Licht’s botched effort to drag CNN to the right ended with his own stunning downfall

The one-time wonderboy of breakfast television had a vision to make CNN the most trusted source in news. But he failed to gain the trust of his newsroom, Bevan Hurley writes

The Independent UK

CNN’s Licht Apologizes to Newsroom Following Disastrous ‘Atlantic’ Profile; Staffers Privately Say, ‘He’s Done’

CNN’s embattled CEO declares intention to ‘fight like hell’ to win back staff’s trust as WBD chief David Zaslav appears to lose confidence in him

Broadcasting & Cable

Trump news – live: Trump and DeSantis to duel in Iowa as ex-president defends CNN town hall ratings

DeSantis will court voters at a picnic and fundraiser in Cedar Rapids as Trump holds a rally in Des Moines

The Independent UK

CNN CEO defends pro-Trump audience

"While we all may have been uncomfortable hearing people clapping, that was also an important part of the story"

Salon

CNN head defends Trump’s lie-strewn town hall: ‘America was served very well’

Chris Licht boasts that network ‘made a lot of news’ in call to angry staff but CNN reporter laments Trump’s ‘firehose of disinformation’

The Guardian - US

CNN touts "masterful" Kaitlan Collins

"You do not have to like the former president's answers, but you can't say that we didn't get them," CNN CEO says

Salon

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The Independent UK

CNN praises Kaitlan Collins’ ‘tough’ questioning at Trump town hall amid furious backlash at network

‘You do not have to like the former president’s answers, but you can’t say that we didn’t get them,’ CNN CEO says during editorial call with angry staff

The Independent UK

James Corden’s Late Late Show was ‘losing up to $20m a year’ before it ended: ‘It was simply not sustainable’

‘CBS could not afford him anymore,’ unnamed executive said

Salon

Fox ratings plummet after Carlson axed

It's not just Tucker's slot — Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham's ratings are falling too

The Guardian - US

Stunning Rupert Murdoch deposition leaves Fox News in a world of trouble

Media mogul’s admission in Dominion Systems election case that he let cable network broadcast falsehoods stuns observers

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Reason

Davos Elites Warn That Disinformation Is an Existential Threat to Their Influence

At the World Economic Forum, Brian Stelter and panelists discuss why everything is Facebook's fault.

WEKU

Six ways media took a big step backward in 2022

Elon Musk caused Twitter chaos, the streaming industry hit adolescence, late night TV lost its footing, there were lots of layoffs and some dispiriting indications of compassion fatigue.

The Guardian - US

The media are rife with hidden agendas. That’s why I choose the Guardian

A great deal of the media are concentrated in the hands of too few people, who are often too attuned to what their corporate owners or political benefactors would like emphasized

Axios

Brian Stelter heads to Harvard while he figures out next gig

Stelter will convene discussions about threats to democracy — and possible responses by the media.

The Guardian - US

New ‘objective’ CNN appears to be making itself objectively rightwing

The cable network’s CEO dramatic hiring and firing of on-air talent seems designed to woo the Fox News crowd

The Guardian - US

Democracy is under attack – and reporting that isn’t ‘violating journalistic standards’

Biden gave a rare primetime address on the most important challenge facing America – and the media coverage was just more he-said/she-said reaction

The Independent UK

CNN management intent on changing perception of the network

The first steps toward change at CNN have been slow and incremental — at least until the network cancelled its long-running media criticism show ‘Reliable Sources’ and cut loose its host, Brian Stelter

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