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(This will not be live, per the Fox press release. It will be pre-taped earlier in the day and then air at 9pm.)
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Inbox: CNN will be holding a presidential town hall with Mike Pence on Wednesday, June 7, hosted by Dana Bash.
Jake Tapper will be moderating a town hall for Nikki Haley on June 4.
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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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The Reliable Sources A1: Failure to Launch view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16849
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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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This whole Spaces event is centered on complaining about legacy media, while simultaneously failing horribly at replicating what legacy media does all day, every day.
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For context, more people watch CNN at 3am.
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After starting a new Space, David Sacks introduces DeSantis, claiming a "record" audience. Twitter shows thats fewer than 100,000 people
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The conversation between DeSantis, Musk and Sachs now centering on “legacy media” being in their “bubble” and how great of a platform Twitter is…
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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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“Be truthful, but not neutral,” advised journalism graduates. “Bothsidesism is not always objectivity. It does not get you to the truth. Drawing false moral or factual equivalence is neither objective or truthful.” More in : cnn.it/3ocnjf7
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“Be truthful, but not neutral," Amanpour urged grads today. "Bothsidesism …does not get you to the truth. Drawing false moral or factual equivalence is neither objective or truthful.”
Via view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16843
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Amanpour says she disagrees with the Trump town hall and had a "very robust exchange of views" with CNN boss Chris Licht over the matter. To the audience, she says, "I can only hope that your trust in us might have been shaken, but not shattered." cnn.it/3ocnjf7
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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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Adding to the intrigue.
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Fox News responds to Drudge:
“No decision has been made on a new primetime line-up and there are multiple scenarios under consideration.”
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Drudge reporting Hannity moves to 8pm and Watters and Gutfeld get prime time slots.
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It's fun that Lachlan Murdoch is on stage at an investor conference talking about Fox while DRUDGE is simultaneously teasing a major overhaul of Fox News' prime time lineup.
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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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By leaning on for 9 o'clock, CNN is admitting that its prior approach — an unpredictable mix of hosts, topics, formats — wasn't working. Viewers want consistency, predictability, companionship.
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Kaitlan Collins going to 9pm is a major bet by CNN to revive its primetime ratings – and she's the first permanent anchor in the time slot since Chris Cuomo was fired in 2021.
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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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Covering Trump is "tricky and messy," Licht says, and it will "continue to be messy and tricky, but it's our job." He confidently says "America was served very well by what we did last night." Many CNN employees strongly disagree.
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"And CNN aired it all. On and on it went. It felt like 2016 all over again. It was Trump's unhinged social media feed brought to life on stage." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16837
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It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening. More in : cnn.it/44NDzDU
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CNN banners after the town hall:
TRUMP REPEATS FALSE CLAIM OF "RIGGED" 2020 ELECTION
TRUMP AGAIN REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION
TRUMP DEFENDS JANUARY 6TH RIOTERS
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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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