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Fox News Draws Biggest Audience for Breaking Coverage of Biden’s Withdrawal
Fox News drew the largest audience Sunday for breaking news coverage of President Joe Biden withdrawing from the 2024 campaign. Cable news channels and broadcast networks were largely caught by surprise at the announcement, which the president delivered via social media about 1:45 p.m. ET on Sunday. Fox News had the news out first, at […]
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Hunter Biden Drops Lawsuit Against Fox News
Hunter Biden dropped a bid of his own Sunday. Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, has dropped his lawsuit against Fox News. Biden dropped a filing of voluntary dismissal Sunday, just hours after his father released a statement dropping out of the 2024 presidential race (Fox, of course, was among the TV news channels […]
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Biden Shocker Leaves TV News Channels Scrambling
Producers, anchors, correspondents and executives had spent days gaming out their plan should President Joe Biden end his 2024 campaign. “We were planning for the news to leak out, followed by an address to the nation,” one producer says. Instead, the president caught the media brunching. “Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here […]
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Hot Source: Tucker Carlson Turns the RNC Into His Own Personal Revenge Tour
Tucker Carlson and his estranged ex-boss Rupert Murdoch very nearly collided Wednesday in the lobby of the Trade Hotel in Milwaukee, where they’ve both been staying during the Republican National Convention this week. Sources tell Hot Source that the potentially awkward reunion was averted by quick-thinking Murdoch aides, who formed a human wall around the […]
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Lou Dobbs, Former CNN and Fox Business Anchor, Dies at 78
Lou Dobbs, one of CNN’s original anchors who later worked at the Fox Business channel, has died. He was 78. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Lou Dobbs. An incredible business mind with a gift for broadcasting, Lou helped pioneer cable news into a successful and influential industry. We are immensely grateful for his […]
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Networks Plan Special Sunday Coverage After Trump Rally Shooting
The major TV news outlets are planning special coverage on Sunday, following a shooting at one of former President Donald Trump’s rallies that left the presumptive Republican nominee wounded but OK. The former president’s campaign said Trump was “fine” after being rushed off the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, when gunfire erupted. Trump posted that he […]
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Fox News Sued By Hunter Biden Over Fictionalized Trial Miniseries
Hunter Biden is suing Fox News over a fictional six-part miniseries in which it staged a criminal trial related to his foreign business dealings. In a lawsuit filed on Sunday in New York’s state Supreme Court, Biden alleges the series “intentionally manipulates the facts” and “distorts the truth” while displaying images of him in the […]
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‘The Apprentice’ VP Edition? Fox News Plans Interview Series With Trump Veep Contenders
Think of it as a vice presidential edition of The Apprentice. Fox News on Wednesday will kick off a series in which its Fox & Friends co-hosts interview people who are on the short list to be former President Donald Trump’s VP pick. Fox says that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott […]
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Fox News Promotes White House Correspondents Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich
Fox News is making some changes to its White House bureau … subtle changes, at least. The cable news channel has promoted White House correspondents Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich to senior White House correspondents. They will both continue to cover the Biden administration, with Heinrich also continuing to host Fox News Audio’s Fox News Rundown podcast. […]
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TV Ratings: 18.8M Viewers Watch Trump Guilty Verdict Coverage
TV news coverage of former president Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in a New York trial drew a big crowd Thursday. Nearly 19 million viewers (18.81 million, to be precise) watched coverage of the verdict — cameras aren’t allowed in New York state courtrooms — on the three big cable news channels (CNN, Fox News and MSNBC) […]
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John Oliver Mocks Fox News Reporter for Asking “Dumbest Question Ever” on TV
John Oliver used his opening segment on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to talk about the “hard crackdown” on college students in the U.S. protesting the Israel-Hamas war. He showed clips from a live Fox News report at Columbia University in New York. “Police swarmed campuses in numbers so extreme; this student summed it up pretty […]
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Critic’s Notebook: Fox News Plays Knight in Shining Armor to a Beleaguered Trump-on-Trial
Donald Trump faced the first of what could be many criminal cases this week, as CNN and MSNBC covered the trial exhaustively and the usual right-wing apologists fretted about the former president's well-being.
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