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- Anyone who has been watching any cable news during the early stages of the 2020 race knows how dominant, informational and powerful a role cable news has come to play in providing a microphone and stage for new voices and shaping the national conversation of politics and the presidency.
- Leonard Pitts Jr: Fox News does not deserve to be treated as a legitimate news organization.
- President Donald Trump is struggling to control the media message in a way not seen before in his presidency.
- Let’s put aside all the heated rhetoric and personality-oriented-Trump-v-Acosta framing and ask more fundamental questions, such as: With all the disinformation and lies coming from that podium in the White House press room, what are we getting from these sessions anyway?
- CNN is suing President Donald Trump and top aides on the White House communications team in an effort to get correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials immediately restored, the network announced this morning.
- President Donald J. Trump on Friday called White House correspondent and CNN political analyst April Ryan a “loser” and “nasty,” and hinted that he is considering revoking press credentials of journalists.
- Even by the contentious standards of President Trump’s generally troubled relationship with press, what happened Wednesday at the White House between him and reporters from CNN, NBC, PBS and American Urban Radio Networks is truly shocking. His response to CNN's Jim Acosta is beyond the pale.
- Zurawik on a racist Trump ad rejected by CNN — and after blowback, by NBC and Fox.
- I cannot let this work week end without voicing outrage over CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins being barred from a White House press event Wednesday. The more I think about it, the angrier I get — especially Deputy Chief of Staff Bill Shine lecturing her.
- Melania Trump's performance at Tuesday's state dinner gave media outlets a chance to contrast her qualities with those of her husband.
- Local affiliates of the Sinclair Broadcast Group have posted links on the masthead of their websites to a youtube video responding to criticism regarding a message the company aired last week on the perils of “fake” news.
- While Zuckerberg sounded like he was saying some of the right things in the CNN interview about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, his record on matters of social responsibility and stewardship of personal data contributed by members of his Facebook community is dismal.
- I have seen a lot of strange things on cable news TV the last 25 years, but the journey through live interviews that former Donald Trump aide Sam Nunberg took Monday on MSNBC and CNN was one of the strangest and saddest.
- The right-wing's 'deep state' narrative is sounding way too much like Joe McCarthy talk from the 1950s to me. That was one of my observations on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday in a conversation with host Brian Stelter, CNN's Hadas Gold and Yahoo's Michael Isikoff.
- It is easy to mock cable news for its countdown clocks, endless loops of the same images playing repeatedly on breaking news, and occasionally over-the top prime-time hosts. But I have also been finding some of the smartest discussions and most in-depth coverage there as well.
- In his tax speech in Pennsylvania last week, President Trump gave a shout out to "the great Jeffrey Lord."
- April Ryan, Morgan State University graduate and White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, will join CNN as a contributor, the news channel
- I was lucky enough to be part of two panels Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources," and each had something special to offer viewers.
- The Fourth Estate thinks viewers can't see through Kellyanne Conway's spin, so they must be protected from it.
- For the last 18 months, CNN has chosen to live or die with political operatives playing a prominent role in its campaign coverage. Despite widespread criticism, the channel stuck with that strategy on election night, and mainly died with it in the early going.
- On Sunday, I wrote about the dangers of mixing politicos with journalists in a piece about ABC News adding Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to its
- Fox News has been getting some support for a statement it issued Friday denouncing Donald Trump for his continued attacks on show host Megyn Kelly. But on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday, I said the tough Fox stance was about seven months late.
- CNN's "Reliable Sources" devoted its full hour Sunday to the feud between Donald Trump and Fox News, and I took part in two of the segments.
- The first thing you should know about the CNN-Baltimore Sun special report "Who Killed Freddie Gray?" is that it doesn't deliver on the promise of the title. But that TV tease of a title is one of the few criticism I have of this hour-long report that looks at Gray¿s death, the unrest that followed and some of the efforts to improve police-community relations since. And no matter how much you think you know about Freddie Gray and the events following his death, you will learn something from this skillfully crafted production.
- CNN will air a special report on Freddie Gray, produced with The Baltimore Sun, at 9 Tuesday night, the news channel announced Friday.
- A coalition of local and national media outlets has intervened in court to call for broader transparency and increased access to legal documents in the prosecution of the Baltimore police officers in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.
- CNN did a couple of things much better this time around than it did in its September Republican debate. As a result, it was, by and large, a more informative telecast for viewers.
- CNN is denying a story that said President Jeff Zucker apologized to staff during a town hall meeting Tuesday for a reference made to Freddie Gray's mother in an online story.
- I was on CNN Sunday talking about Hillary Clinton and the dramatic turn her narrative has taken.
- CNN's audience Tuesday night was the largest ever for a Democratic TV debate.
- When do Democrats debate? Here are some details ahead of Tuesday's presidential showdown on CNN.
- Mike Rowe describes his CNN series, "Somebody's Gotta Do It," as "a light-hearted show on a serious network." But this season, which starts at 10 p.m. Sunday, he's going to take on a very serious topic: Baltimore's media image following the riots in April after the death of Freddie Gray.
- On CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday, we debated last week's GOP debate and the return of Brian Williams on MSNBC.
- Politics continues to be a huge draw with CNN reporting an average audience of 22.939 million viewers for Wednesday night's GOP debate. And that's across three hours - the longest TV debate ever.
- CNN's GOP debate Wednesday night had some very good moments. And I definitely came away with a better sense of some candidates than I had when the event started - especially Carly Fiorina.
- CNN, Fox, the Associated Press, National Public Radio and Buzzfeed were among the outlets represented for the hearing.
- If you want to see the kind of great journalism that cable TV is still capable of when it shakes itself out of its Trump-drunk summer stupor, turn on CNN or go to CNN.com and chack out its coverage of the desperate journey Syrian refugees are now making through Hungary. The promised land they hope to reach is Germany.
- On April 27, when the Baltimore rioting began, CNN anchor-reporter Victor Blackwell was perched in a Marriott Hotel bar in Port-au-Prince on vacation. A TV broadcast footage of teens and others battling police.
- Baltimore is back in the cable news wheelhouse this week with Fox and CNN hitting Freddie-Gray-related stories hard last night and today.
- Martin O'Malley got a lot of national cable news attention Saturday morning when he announced in Baltimore for president. But most of it was bad, with analysts criticizing him from him the left and the right before and after live coverage of his announcement.
- The problem with CNN's big story approach in Baltimore is that when you don't have a big story, you have to pretend that you do.
- CNN host Mike Rowe visits Fort McHenry, dons swim trunks for CNN show "Somebody's Gotta Do It."
- After lighting up the Internet with his use of the "N word" in a heated exchange with CNN's Erin Burnett Tuesday, Baltimore City Council member Carl Stokes was back on the cable channel this afternoon explaining his words.
- After a week of cable and network news providing most of the best TV coverage of protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, the national outlets were mainly missing in action tonight when things got ugly.
- When last we spoke with Mike Rowe, he was talking about how he planned to use his new CNN show "Somebody's Gotta Do It" to try and improve Baltimore's TV image.
- It loooks like Kevin Spacey can't get enough of the Oval Office.
- Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg followed his blistering Facebook post on Saturday about Bill O'Reilly with an appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."