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Rachel Maddow
MSNBC was the most-watched network in all of cable Friday, and had the most cable news viewers in total day, prime time, and early morning programming. Rachel Maddow helped boost the network to the top spot, with The Rachel Maddow Show – the most-watched show for the day in all of cable and the most watched in cable news for the 10th day in a row – getting 3.76 million total viewers and 609,000 in the demo.
CNN continued to dominate in the key demographic of viewers age 25-54, while Fox had more total viewers than CNN in prime time and the early morning. But in total day viewers, MSNBC topped the competition with 1.99 million total, and 329,000 in the demo. CNN had the second-most total viewers, 1.71 million, but far outpaced the other cable news networks in the demo, with 473,000 viewers. Fox was third overall in total day, with 1.65 million total viewers and 269,000 in the demo.
 In prime time, MSNBC had the most overall viewers, with nearly 3 million total, and 482,000 in the demo.
Fox News wasn’t far behind, with...
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Brandon Straka
A pro-Trump activist who bragged about how the next four years would be “the greatest” has now been charged with several criminal counts in the Capitol insurrection based, in part, on his own social media post. Just three days ago Brandon Straka, founder of the anti-left WalkAway campaign, was openly insulting Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, posting a side-by-side comparison of her to Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany with a blunt-force sexism slam of “We’re just hotter.”
Straka has also now been charged with participating in the MAGA mob that stormed the Capitol. A federal criminal complaint in U.S. District Court named Straka as impeding law enforcement, trespassing, and engaging in disorderly conduct to disrupt Congress — and cites several of Straka’s own videos of posted on Twitter.
Straka’s previous claim to infamy, before possibly incriminating himself online, came this past summer. It involved getting kicked off a flight and subsequently permanently banned from American Airlines for refusing to put on a mask.
So sexism, anti-mask performing, and riotous insurrection do, in fact, have consequences. Ones you can't just Walk Away from, it seems. |
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Retiring
Marty Baron, the editor of the Washington Post, is retiring. Baron announced his retirement in an internal note to staff.
Booted
MyPillow founder and martial law aficionado Mike Lindell has been permanently suspended from Twitter.
Hired - No Wait
News broke on Tuesday that former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had been hired by Fox News. News then broke a short time later that Fox denied the hiring.
From what we can piece together from sources, it seems the network was in negotiations to hire McEnany, but those were recently put on hold. You can probably expect the deal to get finalized at some point soon...
"Responsible for cops being murdered.”
“He’s a seditionist. He led an insurrection. He’s responsible for cops being murdered.”
“The people that raised him. People that taught him. They’re ashamed of him.’
“He has the bone structure of a bird.”
“He should be kicked out of the United States Senate.” Those are just a few of the things that Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough had to say about Republican Sen. Josh Hawley in this Tuesday morning harangue.
Jumping Lines, Offering Bribes Many powerful Hollywood elites are using their wealth and influence in efforts to skip to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line, and some are even offering bribes to get inoculated, reportedly.
First Female Treasury Secretary The Senate voted Monday to confirm Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary. Senators voted overwhelmingly — 84 to 15 — to confirm Yellen.
100 Politico Staffers More than 100 Politico staffers have signed a letter to publisher Robert Allbritton over the decision to allow right-wing firebrand Ben Shapiro guest-author the Playbook newsletter for one day.
‘Awful Woke Orthodoxy’
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp. and Fox Corporation, said that media organizations are facing widespread “censorship” that seeks to “stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential.”
Murdoch made the statement in his pre-taped acceptance of a lifetime achievement award from the Australia Day Foundation, the New York Times reports. Murdoch referred to “rigidly enforced conformity, aided and abetted by so-called social media” as being a “straitjacket on sensibility.”
Honeymoon
President Joe Biden has ushered the historical presidential honeymoon period back in by scoring a 63 percent approval rating in a recent poll, after his predecessor Donald Trump began his own presidency with a record low 45 percent approval in 2017.
How it Started, How it Ended: Looking Back at the Beginning of Trump and the Media OPINION There’s a popular meme on social media: "how it started/how it’s going." It's usually not going particularly well, in the pandemic year we just went through. Well the Trump Era has come and, as of last week, gone. But before we say goodbye, I thought it was important to look at “how it started” – and see what we can learn from it. This weekend I watched more than a dozen interviews Donald Trump vention in 2016 when he officially became the GOP nominee. It was just a small sampling — he was on those networks all the time! — but it’s representative, and fascinating. We can’t forget how the relationship between Trump and the media started. I know news consumers haven’t. [Read the rest from guest columnist Steve Krakauer] 6.5.0 |
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| Like Rip Van Winkle Jared Leto emerged from a 12-day silent meditation retreat in March 2020 to find the world had gone into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. The actor recalled the “shocking” experience on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show. “When I went away, there were about 150 cases,” Leto told host Jimmy Fallon. “And just in that short amount of time, when I came out, there was a shutdown, a state of emergency, and the whole world had changed. But when we were in there, they didn’t tell us.” "It was like coming out to the zombie apocalypse.” |
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