Chris Cuomo's forthcoming book (originally titled DEEP DENIAL) from a HarperCollins imprint has been pulled. "We do not intend to publish the Cuomo book," a HarperCollins rep tells me.
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Alan Dershowitz said he hopes Chris Cuomo wins a potential lawsuit against CNN after the network fired him on Saturday. The Harvard Law School professor also said that CNN president Jeff Zucker, not Cuomo should have been fired.
Cuomo is reportedly preparing to sue his former network if it does not pay him the remaining $18 million to $20 million remaining on his contract. He was terminated after CNN was alerted to an allegation of sexual misconduct against him by a former colleague during his time at another network.
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The former host had a tumultuous year at CNN. In May, he was revealed to have assisted his brother, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), in trying to combat allegations of sexual misconduct. Five days before being fired last week, the New York state attorney general’s office released transcripts of correspondence showing Chris Cuomo wanted to dig up information on his brother’s accusers.
Appearing on Spicer & Friends on Newsmax, Dershowitz defended the former CNN host and eviscerated Zucker.
“The person who should be fired is Jeff Zucker,” said Dershowitz, who happens to be suing CNN for $300 million for allegedly depicting him as an “intellectual who had lost his mind.”
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Close allies of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including his top aide and his former CNN anchor brother, plotted to find ways to discredit Fox News meteorologist and host Janice Dean after she became one of the most vocal critics of the governor's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to people familiar with the matter.
Melissa DeRosa, who had served as secretary to the governor, was among the Cuomo aides who ripped Dean behind the scenes and sought to craft a public messaging strategy that would paint the Fox News personality as merely a right-wing commentator, people familiar with the effort told CNBC. Dean's criticism of Cuomo stemmed mainly from the 2020 deaths of her husband's parents, whom she said died of Covid in their elder-care facilities.
It remains unclear if DeRosa or Cuomo's team ever went ahead with initiating such a plan.
Andrew Cuomo himself was present during some of the strategy sessions during which Dean was mentioned, one of the people said. These sessions mainly focused on the governor's response to Covid.
Chris Cuomo, who was a CNN anchor until he was fired last week, was encouraged to find information that would focus on Dean's political leanings, according to a person familiar with the matter. It's unclear whether Chris Cuomo ever went ahead with digging up information on Dean, or who encouraged him to seek the information. Dean started criticizing Andrew Cuomo on air and in columns during 2020, before the sexual harassment scandal exploded.
The people cited in this article declined to be named in order to speak freely about private conversations.
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Chris Wallace is leaving Fox News effective immediately.
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I am surprised he stuck around this long.
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I am surprised he stuck around this long.
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Eighteen years too late.
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Chris Wallace is going to CNN+. That's so bizarre when they have the 9pm hour open on Actual CNN. This July story has the basics of CNN+. Put two stories about CNN+ in spoiler if you'd like to know more about what CNN+ is all about.
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I know a lot of news people have "non-compete" clauses in their contracts which prevent them from appearing on another broadcast/cable network for a period of time - usually several months to a year - after leaving the one they're currently working for. Perhaps going to a streaming service doesn't "count" under that kind of a clause since it doesn't create direct competition with his former network?orlylicious wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:13 pm Chris Wallace is going to CNN+. That's so bizarre when they have the 9pm hour open on Actual CNN. This July story has the basics of CNN+. Put two stories about CNN+ in spoiler if you'd like to know more about what CNN+ is all about.
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I don't think Chris Wallace is quite the brand they're looking for to replace Maddow.
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Or perhaps Fox was anxious to be rid of him and agreed to waive any non-compete he may have had?Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 6:25 amI know a lot of news people have "non-compete" clauses in their contracts which prevent them from appearing on another broadcast/cable network for a period of time - usually several months to a year - after leaving the one they're currently working for. Perhaps going to a streaming service doesn't "count" under that kind of a clause since it doesn't create direct competition with his former network?orlylicious wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:13 pm Chris Wallace is going to CNN+. That's so bizarre when they have the 9pm hour open on Actual CNN. This July story has the basics of CNN+. Put two stories about CNN+ in spoiler if you'd like to know more about what CNN+ is all about.
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Reportedly Wallace's contract was up at the end of this year, so all Fox had to do was not renew it. I can't imagine Fox waiving any non-compete clause.filly wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:09 amOr perhaps Fox was anxious to be rid of him and agreed to waive any non-compete he may have had?Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 6:25 am
I know a lot of news people have "non-compete" clauses in their contracts which prevent them from appearing on another broadcast/cable network for a period of time - usually several months to a year - after leaving the one they're currently working for. Perhaps going to a streaming service doesn't "count" under that kind of a clause since it doesn't create direct competition with his former network?
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Businesses can and do waive non-competes for many reasons. OTOH, maybe the non-compete is in force but the calculation is that virtually nobody will see him on CNN+.
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Angry smoke clouds from the windows of a FL real estate as a real billionaire gets presented
Elon Musk named Time person of the year
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Monday December 13 2021, 5.00pm GMT, The Times
Elon Musk has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, having become the world’s richest person and “driving society’s most daring and disruptive transformations”, the magazine said.
“Person of the Year is a marker of influence, and few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth too,” Edward Felsenthal, the magazine’s editor, wrote.
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That's just a wee bit grandiose, IMHO.... few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth ...
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"For completeness": Time: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Wins TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year Reader Poll:
Second place in the freeperable poll!Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has won TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year reader poll. The controversial leader, who will stand for re-election in 2022, is confronting increased disapproval over his handling of the economy and faced widespread criticism by politicians, courts and public health experts for downplaying COVID-19’s severity and displaying skepticism around the vaccine.
Of the more than 9 million votes cast by readers for whom they think is the person or group who had the greatest influence on the year—for better or worse—Bolsonaro received 24% of the vote.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump—who incited the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots and has been contemplating another run for the presidency in 2024—came in second place in the reader poll, with 9% of votes.
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This was us and reckon a lot of folks here. Think they are missing the exhaustion factor. After four years of DL2XIT, people are tired of the grind and 24 hour screaming about things that will be irrelevant the next day. Information overload.
https://www.axios.com/media-ratings-tra ... 87677.htmlNews engagement fell off a cliff in 2021
Axios Sara Fischer, Neal Rothschild
Engagement with news content plummeted last year compared to 2020, and given the ongoing decline in interest in news about COVID-19 and politics, it doesn't look like 2022 will be much better.
Why it matters: The Trump era and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic created a one-of-a-kind media moment that will be hard for news companies to replicate. With fewer singular storylines capturing America's collective attention, news consumption was more scattered and diverted to sports.
Data shows that that the Omicron variant is not jumpstarting Americans' engagement in COVID news like it did at the onset of the pandemic.
By the numbers: Primetime news viewership was down 36% across the three major cable networks, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, with the steepest decline during that time frame happening at CNN, per Nielsen ratings.
Broadcast viewership was also down for broadcast networks' evening news shows, but the declines weren't as drastic, the Associated Press notes.
App downloads for the top 12 mainstream publishers dropped 33%, according to data from Apptopia. Downloads to news apps fell most dramatically during the second half of the year.
Engagement on social media with news articles nosedived, according to data from NewsWhip. Interactions (likes, comments, shares) dropped 65% between 2020 and 2021, despite more articles published.
Website visits for the top performing news websites in the U.S. tracked by Similarweb in the first 11 months of 2021 dropped 8%.
Yes, but: As Axios has previously noted, traffic to hyper-partisan and political publishers took a severe hit in 2021, while mainstream news publishers did better.
Be smart: The full-year drop in news engagement would have been even more dramatic were it not for the enormous amount of news traffic driven by the Capitol siege in January. The Capitol riots drove a massive global traffic spike in Jan 2021, according to Bonnie Ray, the head of data science at traffic analytics company Chartbeat. Overall, Chartbeat found that amongst 4000+ publishers globally, traffic declined 8% between 2020 and 2021, but when comparing overall traffic for December 2021 to January 2021, it's down nearly 20%.
What to watch: A few landmark events — like the Beijing Winter Olympics and the 2022 midterm elections — could provide some much-needed traffic boosts for publishers looking to hold on to fleeting subscribers.
But even those big events, in addition to tentpoles like Hollywood award shows, the Super Bowl and other sports championships, look poised to sustain TV viewership declines as Americans migrate to streaming.
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Not a good sign for democracy.
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The Media deserves this. They’re no longer the guardians of democracy because they’ve been bought. There are so many RW “news” organizations that are allowed to flat out lie in the name of opinion. We no longer seem to have common ground with half the citizenry.
Investigative journalism is now a niche. Pack journalism and opinion journalism don’t serve us. There are still a few outlets acting independently but for the most part the Media now comfort the comfortable.
Investigative journalism is now a niche. Pack journalism and opinion journalism don’t serve us. There are still a few outlets acting independently but for the most part the Media now comfort the comfortable.
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Award-winning Washington journalist Scott MacFarlane (
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Good for you, Scott!
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Yay! Former Officer Fanone is on CNN right now, first time I recall seeing him on the new job.
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He was on Don Lemon's show last night. Don showed the new video from the tunnel and him getting dragged out and he was having trouble speaking. Understandably. I hope his therapist knows what he/she is doing,
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Audie Cornish Joins CNN
HOST OF WEEKLY CNN+ SHOW AND PODCAST FOR CNN AUDIO
Audie Cornish is joining CNN as an anchor and correspondent for CNN+, the much-anticipated streaming subscription service that is set to debut this spring. Cornish will host a weekly CNN+ show and contribute to CNN+’s slate of live programming. She will also host a new podcast for CNN Audio and will appear on CNN covering national, political and breaking news.
“I am very excited to join CNN and the CNN+ team. There are fresh stories to be told and new ways to tell them,” said Cornish. “CNN has a dynamic system of reporters and storytelling channels. I am thrilled to be a part of it.”
Cornish joins CNN after two decades in journalism, most recently as a recognized and trusted voice on the airwaves as co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. She joined NPR’s National Desk in 2005, reporting from Nashville, covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and other news in the Southeastern United States. Cornish later joined the NPR politics team in Washington to cover the 2008 presidential race and the historic election of President Barack Obama. Named host of Weekend Edition Sunday in 2011, she earned a George Peabody Award for her work with David Isay’s StoryCorps 9/11 Project, and in 2020, the National Press Foundation recognized her work with the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. Her feature reporting on the opioid crisis in Baltimore earned a Salute to Excellence Award from National Association of Black Journalists.
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