Fox News is ratings leader in 2024, but challenges remain for cable news
When a sports team loses, its fans don’t hang around for the postgame show.The same goes for the tribal habits of cable news audiences.Viewers have…
Capitol rioter’s defamation suit against Fox News is dismissed
A Delaware court judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News filed by a Jan. 6 rioter who said the network falsely identified him…
Chris Wallace exits CNN as post-election cost-cutting begins
Veteran journalist Chris Wallace is exiting CNN three years after joining from Fox News. “Chris Wallace is one of the most respected political journalists in…
What Trump’s win means to struggling mainstream media organizations
Imagine if the Super Bowl audience dropped by 25%. That’s what happened on Tuesday when Nielsen tallied the viewership for TV networks that provided coverage…
NewsNation is first TV network to call presidential race for Trump thanks to Decision Desk HQ
The polls that inundated TV news in recent months projected the 2024 presidential race was going to be close. And they were right for most…
How ABC, CBS and more will cover 2024 election night (or week)
Ever since network television started covering presidential election nights in 1948, there have been only two occasions when viewers had to wait more than a…
Column: Hitler-splaining. F-Bombs. Fake headlines. An election week in the media like no other
The Republican candidate for president uses crude language at rallies. Vulgarisms on the campaign trail. Off-color remarks in town halls. The media has deployed every…
’60 Minutes’ says Trump’s accusation that Harris interview was deceptively edited is false
In a rare rebuke, the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” denied charges by former President Trump that the program doctored an answer in Vice President…
Harris’ first formal interview with Fox News is combative
In the most combative interview since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, she discussed border policy, taxpayer-funded benefits for transgender prisoners and…
Vice President Harris will do her first Fox News interview Wednesday
Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday for her first interview on the conservative-leaning channel.The…
As pay TV revenues diminish, CNN puts a paywall on its website
CNN has long had one of the most visited news websites in the world. Starting Tuesday, users are going to have to pay for it.The…
Right-wing network Newsmax settles Smartmatic defamation lawsuit
Newsmax has settled the defamation lawsuit from voting machine company Smartmatic over the right-wing network’s false reporting on fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election.A…
Right-wing network Newsmax’s future is on the line at Smartmatic trial
The 2024 presidential election is approaching, but the legal battle over how the 2020 race was covered by right-wing channel Newsmax isn’t going away quietly.On…
Trump recounts assassination attempt to Hannity: ‘Pop, pop, pop, pop’
Fox News’ Sean Hannity spoke with former President Trump in the aftermath of the second assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday and said the former…
Amid GOP criticism, Trump claims he did a ‘great job’ at debate
After a presidential debate in which Vice President Kamala Harris baited former President Trump and put him on the defensive, Trump insisted Wednesday morning he…
DNC ratings thump Trump as 29 million TV viewers watch Harris
The momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign helped push the ratings for the Democratic National Convention past the Republican festivities for former President…
On Fox News, the talk at the DNC was taxes, testosterone and rage
CHICAGO — While Democrats celebrated with abandon Thursday over the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential nominee, viewers of Fox News received…
Smartmatic executives indicted in alleged bribery scheme
A federal grand jury in Miami has charged the co-founder of Smartmatic, a voting machine maker that is separately suing Fox News for defamation, with…
Trump says he’ll skip ABC debate, wants to face Harris on Fox News
CHAPIN, S.C. — Donald Trump says he is pulling out of a scheduled September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC and wants them to…
From Fox News to Bill Maher, Pete Buttigieg is Kamala Harris’ top ally
Slayer Pete is back!In 2020, Mayor Pete Buttigieg became such a savage critic of then-President Trump‘s reelection campaign that I wrote a column with the…