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Michael M. Grynbaum The New York Times Company, 10:02 AM Fox News personalities are facing heckles, insults and criticism for their coverage this week of President Donald Trump and the impeachment inquiry. And that’s just from their own colleagues. In an unusual airing of intramural grievances, Fox News anchors and pundits have let loose at one another in full public view — lobbing attacks across time slots and offering a rare glimpse into tensions behind the scenes at the top-rated cable news network. In one striking exchange, a guest on Tucker Carlson’s prime-time show Tuesday dismissed Andrew Napolitano, the veteran Fox News legal analyst, as a “fool” for saying Trump’s urging of a favor from the Ukrainian prime minister constituted a crime. Shepard Smith, the network’s chief news anchor, fired back the next afternoon, declaring it “repugnant” that a guest would insult a Fox News colleague — and adding, pointedly, that … [Read more...] about At Fox News, Trump impeachment inquiry brings on-air sniping

Fox News personalities are facing heckles, insults and criticism for their coverage this week of President Trump and the impeachment inquiry. And that’s just from their own colleagues. In an unusual airing of intramural grievances, Fox News anchors and pundits have let loose at one another in full public view — lobbing attacks across time slots and offering a rare glimpse into tensions behind the scenes at the top-rated cable news network. In one striking exchange, a guest on Tucker Carlson’s prime-time show on Tuesday dismissed Andrew Napolitano, the veteran Fox News legal analyst, as a “fool” for saying Mr. Trump’s urging of a favor from the Ukrainian prime minister constituted a crime. Shepard Smith, the network’s chief news anchor, fired back the next afternoon, declaring it “repugnant” that a guest would insult a Fox News colleague — and adding, pointedly, that the remark had gone “unchallenged” by Mr. … [Read more...] about At Fox News, Trump Impeachment Inquiry Brings On-Air Sniping

The Rev. Billy Graham, an American spiritual icon and activist for decades, died on Wednesday at the age of 99. He had been suffering from cancer, pnuemonia and other ailments and passed away at his home in North Carolina, a spokesman told the Associated Press. During his life, Graham conducted evangelistic campaigns, called crusades, across the United States and in more than 185 countries, regularly speaking to thousands of followers at a time. Two of those crusades took place in Philadelphia, in 1961 and 1992.During second visit to the city, the worlds of sports and religion collided. Graham spoke to more than 200,000 followers during five nights of preaching at Veterans Stadium in South Philly, delivering his classic sermon "Hope for Broken Things." Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Reggie White, an ordained minister, had been invited to speak to the crowd on June 25, 1992. Moments before he stepped to the stage to address the thousands in the seats at The Vet, White learned his … [Read more...] about News of Jerome Brown’s death broke during Billy Graham’s crusade in 1992

Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6 for Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.View more Global BC videos by clicking here © 2019 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. … [Read more...] about WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – Sept. 28

I try to limit my intake of 24-hour cable TV news, because as a medium, on balance, I think it’s bad for America. Though Facebook has suffered more scrutiny and reputational damage for its role in 2016, it was cable, not social networks, that went gaga pumping up Trump during the campaign. Today, it’s the toxic feedback swirl of Twitter and cable — and a president and a press corps that spend all hours feeding on one another’s digital droppings in a dystopian circle of life — that has rendered our political culture so vulnerable to reflexive, narrow-minded conspiracies, tribalism and groupthink. Lately, however, I’ve found myself gorging like a bear in salmon season on the worst, most brain-corroding corner of cable, the network I’ve called a “forked-tongue colossus” for its two-decades-long project of dismantling our collective hold on the truth. I refer, of course, to Fox News. [Farhad Manjoo will answer your questions about … [Read more...] about Why Lefties Should Watch Fox News