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senior media reporter, . covering media and the ever evolving information space. inbox: oliver.darcy@cnn.com
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CNN's town hall with Trump averaged 3.3 million *concurrent* viewers. Concurrent viewers are not equal to total viewers. They measure different things. Twitter's stream crashed with just a few hundred thousand concurrent listeners. Ultimately when it was working it had ~200k.
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"Fox News will not crash during the interview," Trey Gowdy says at the outset of the network's interview with DeSantis.
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There was talk about the Twitter servers melting with only half-a-million people listening. Those are run-of-the-milll cable news numbers, for reference, which tech folks often mock.
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Fox News statement: “Reports based on various tweets by left wing activists are wildly inaccurate – Laura Ingraham, the top-rated woman in cable news, is now and will continue to be a prominent host and integral part of the Fox News lineup."
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DRUDGE has in the past scored the scoops on other major Fox News changes. He broke the news on Tucker Carlson going to 8pm and Megyn Kelly at 9pm, to name a couple examples. Which is to say he has a good record. And right now he's citing a "top source." Interesting.
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More from DRUDGE: "FOXNEWS is preparing to announce an ambitious new schedule, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, a schedule where ever hour of primetime will change! Developing... "
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Those election lies were also fact-checked in real-time and Trump didn't lie specifically about Dominion at the town hall, so there are a lot of holes in this argument.
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Lachlan Murdoch just took a swipe at CNN's Trump town hall. He notes that CNN allowed Trump to air "a lot of allegations about the 2020 election – and I haven’t seen a lawsuit yet!" He implied that Fox News faced a double standard in the Dominion defamation suit.
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Lachlan Murdoch is doing a live interview starting now at MoffettNathanson's Inaugural Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference. Murdoch on Dominion: "I don't believe any of our Fox hosts engaged in any defamation during the period, but it was the right decision to settle."
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Soros often is held up by the far-right, using antisemitic tropes, as the source of the world’s problems. To see , regardless of his intent, feed this segment — comparing him to a Jewish supervillain, claiming Soros “hates humanity" — is not just distressing, it's… Show more
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24 hours after CNN's town hall, it's all anyone is talking about. Throughout the day, we heard from dozens of network staffers — ranging in seniority and positions across the org — who all expressed dismay by what they saw transpire on their TV screens. cnn.it/3I0czqU
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I've lost count of how many times Trump has lied about the election. Collins keeps fact-checking him, but he keeps lying.
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