NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's Don Lemon said Thursday that he "misspoke" the night before in an attempt to make a broader point when he claimed that Fox News Channel did not report on White House communications director Hope Hicks' resignation.Turned out that Fox had, several times — every hour from when the story broke after 4 p.m. through midnight. It did not get the wall-to-wall attention it received on CNN and MSNBC, however.Lemon tweeted out a correction on Thursday afternoon. "I should have been more specific," he wrote.Things have been testy between CNN and Fox lately. Fox aired segments last week questioning whether CNN had scripted questions in its town hall on gun control. But when the father of a Florida school shooting survivor told The Associated Press that he had omitted words in an email sent to media outlets that may have falsely given that impression, Fox's Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity corrected the record.Lemon, during a discussion of the Hicks story on his … [Read more...] about CNN’s Lemon says he ‘misspoke’ on claim about Fox News
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Extra, Extra: Fox News Employees Reportedly Embarrassed They Work For Fox News
by Ben Yakas in News on Oct 31, 2017 5:47 pm The Standard High Line (albyn davis' flickr) Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Fox News employees tell CNN they are deeply embarrassed by the network's Russian coverage (or lack thereof). Chance The Rapper made a horror movie about someone killing pizza delivery guys, and here's its first trailer. If your Google Docs weren't opening today, fear not. Alec Baldwin gave a very unsatisfying interview to the LA Times about his friend James Toback and what he did/didn't know about his behavior. This weatherman knows how to do Halloween right. These are the most haunted buildings in NYC. Speaking of creepy buildings, Jared Kushner's 666 5th Ave. development plan has been deemed "not feasible" by the project's partner, leaving the future of the property in doubt. The spookiest Halloween story: the NY Times reports that … [Read more...] about Extra, Extra: Fox News Employees Reportedly Embarrassed They Work For Fox News
Video: Megyn Kelly & Gretchen Carlson Lambast Bill O’Reilly & Fox News On Late Night Shows
by Ben Yakas in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 26, 2017 12:02 pm Bill O'Reilly was back in the news this week when the NY Times reported that he had agreed to a $32 million settlement with an attorney who accused him of sexual harassment at the start of the year, shortly before Fox News gave him a lucrative contract extension. Former colleague Megyn Kelly spoke out Monday saying that she had complained about O'Reilly's behavior, which she discussed with Seth Meyers on Late Night with Seth Meyers. "Litigations happen all the time, a lot of them are nonsense and you pay some small amount to make them go away. $32 million is a different story," Kelly noted. As for why she chose to talk about the scandal on her program, "It was time to tell that story. I take no pleasure in discussing Fox News in that way because I had a lot of good years there and they're not all bad. They've got some great people. He is not one of them." As for O'Reilly's defense—posting thank you cards from … [Read more...] about Video: Megyn Kelly & Gretchen Carlson Lambast Bill O’Reilly & Fox News On Late Night Shows
Fox News star Tucker Carlson faces accusations of “white nationalism” from left
Analysis Tucker Carlson Fox News White Nationalism The gypsies were coming, and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson was going to do something about it. Actually, the gypsies—Roma, as the nomadic European people are known—had already come: Forty of them had settled in a small Pennsylvania town named California, and Carlson had taken it onto himself to expose what he saw as their manifold depredations, lest their invasion grow into something grander, more malign. Carlson focused, in particular, on reports of Roma defecating outdoors. “That seems to me a hostile act,” the Fox News host concluded. While some longtime residents of California did bristle at their unexpected Roma neighbors, who’d been resettled by the federal government, others welcomed the newcomers. Carlson hyped the fears of the former while hardly mentioning the hospitality of the latter. “Integration is not going well,” Carlson declared grimly. Keep up with this story and more by … [Read more...] about Fox News star Tucker Carlson faces accusations of “white nationalism” from left
February Ratings: Fox News and Sean Hannity on Top — CNN and Chris Cuomo in Freefall
With an average of 3.3 million viewers, Fox News anchor Sean Hannity extends his status as the King of Cable News to five months, reports Forbes. In second place is Fox’s Tucker Carlson, who averaged 3.144 million viewers.Next up is the now-deposed Rachel Maddow, whose MSNBC show was number one in 2017. She is now in third place with 2.874 million average viewers. Of every basic cable channel, including ESPN, USA, TNT, etc., Fox News is the most-watched and has been for 20 straight months.Overall, Fox averaged a whopping 2.8 million viewers during primetime and only lost -3 percent of viewers when compared to February of last year. CNN, on the other hand, is collapsing. The far-left cable channel averaged only a measly 979,000 primetime viewers, a catastrophic drop of -16 percent when compared to last year. The anti-Trump network lost a whopping -19 percent of its total day viewers. With its ongoing and well-documented fake news crisis, Democrats appear to be fleeing in droves … [Read more...] about February Ratings: Fox News and Sean Hannity on Top — CNN and Chris Cuomo in Freefall