The chairman of CNN, Chris Licht, issued a robust defense on Thursday of his decision to broadcast a live town hall with former President Donald J. Trump, an unruly and […]
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Back to news homeCNN’s Donald Trump Forum Was a Preview of Political Coverage to Come
David Zaslav, the chief executive of CNN’s parent company, recently defended the network’s decision to host a live town hall with former President Donald J. Trump, calling the event “important […]
Donald Trump to Appear on CNN Town Hall
Should a leading presidential contender be given the opportunity to speak to voters on live television?What if that contender is former President Donald J. Trump?Mr. Trump is set to appear […]
Tucker Carlson Says He Will Start New Show on Twitter
The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, declaring, “We’re back,” said on Tuesday that he was starting a new show on Twitter, a sign that negotiations to reach an amicable […]
Fox’s Costs From Defamation Suit Lead to a Quarterly Net Loss
Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman of the Fox Corporation, conceded on Tuesday that a Delaware judge’s pretrial rulings against the company “severely limited our defense at trial” and contributed to […]
Tucker Carlson Wants to Return to TV Before 2025. Will Fox Let Him?
News of Mr. Carlson’s breakup with Fox immediately stoked speculation in right-wing media circles about his next steps. Mr. Carlson’s nightly perch on Fox News has made him a power […]
Tucker Carlson’s Text That Alarmed Fox: ‘It’s Not How White Men Fight’
A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular […]
Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming
In October 2021, Google promised to stop placing ads alongside content that denied the existence and causes of climate change, so that purveyors of the false claims could no longer […]
On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox
The day before Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation trial against Fox News was set to begin in a Delaware courthouse, the Fox board of directors and top executives made a startling discovery […]
As Carlson and Lemon Exit, a Chapter Closes on Cable’s Trump War
They were on very different networks and did very different things to draw very different ratings.But the synchronous exits of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon from the cable news landscape […]