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Reza Aslan leaving CNN after Donald Trump comments draw ire

Matt Carter — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 02:11:42 +0000

The exodus of cable news personalities continue. There have been departures aplenty at Fox News, and recently, Kathy Griffin was dismissed over at CNN. The latest departure is yet again tied into political commentary, but this time it was centered around host Reza Aslan and some of the comments that he made about President Donald […]

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Kathy Griffin fired by CNN, will not appear in New Year’s Eve broadcast

Matt Carter — Wed, 31 May 2017 17:55:08 +0000

This was a move that many were expecting, and it’s now official: Kathy Griffin has been fired by CNN over a controversial new photo shoot. The photo, which featured her with a fake prosthetic head of President Donald Trump, received immense backlash on Tuesday and led to her eventually apologizing on social media. (Photographer Tyler […]

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CNN evaluating New Year’s Eve plans after Kathy Griffin controversy

Matt Carter — Wed, 31 May 2017 14:41:26 +0000

Will CNN scrap its New Year’s Eve broadcast over a Kathy Griffin photo that crossed many lines? Throughout most of Tuesday afternoon and evening, there were absolutely calls for it to happen following her decision to most a photo alongside a fake severed head of Donald Trump, taken by photographer Tyler Shields. It was widely criticized as […]

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Donald Trump skipping White House Correspondents Dinner 2017; will networks?

Matt Carter — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 23:59:32 +0000

Well, consider this a surprise … or not really at all. The news of Donald Trump bailing on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shouldn’t shock anyone given his recent treatment of the media, which included not allowing a major news network in CNN to attend a recent press gaggle. Today, the news was first confirmed […]

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Presidential Debate #2: How did Anderson Cooper, Martha Raddatz fare as moderators?

Matt Carter — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 01:36:24 +0000

Tonight, just about every major network is broadcasting the Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and of course this became a metaphorical slap-fight within a number of minutes. We don’t want to spend too much time talking about the politics of it all, mostly because A) this is a total dumpster fire and […]

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Presidential Debate 2016 (#2): Where to watch, live stream Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Anderson Cooper

Matt Carter — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 22:11:49 +0000

The second major Presidential Debate is coming your way Sunday night from Washington University in St. Louis, and to say that this one is going to be a lively affair would be making one of the biggest understatements known to humankind. We expect fireworks, intensity, drama, and probably a little bit of contrition somewhere. The […]

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Anderson Cooper gets emotional on CNN reading names of Orlando shooting victims

Matt Carter — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 03:23:46 +0000

Obviously, the role of the news is to provide an upfront, honest view of the stories of the day, but at times it is hard to separate the facts from the humanity of the situation. This is certainly happening now in the wake of the unspeakable tragedy that took place in Orlando, Florida over the […]

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Cable ratings: Did Donald Trump’s absence hurt Fox News’ GOP debate?

Matt Carter — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:25:30 +0000

While we have zero interest in wading too much into the waters of politics on CarterMatt (there are plenty of other places you can for that), we are constantly interested in TV ratings. With that, we thought we’d take a moment to analyze whether or not Donald Trump skipping out on Thursday night’s GOP Debate […]

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Kathy Griffin strips down in Times Square with Anderson Cooper during CNN broadcast

Matt Carter — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:54:16 +0000

We thought it would take at least a little bit longer for us to write about something controversial during CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast, but Kathy Griffin made short work ensuring that we had something new to talk about sooner rather than later! The first forty-five minutes or so of the network’s broadcast was spent […]

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CNN bringing back Kathy Griffin, Anderson Cooper for New Year’s Eve; start time and more

Matt Carter — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:47:22 +0000

There are few things that we enjoy more on New Year’s Eve than the one-two punch of Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper on CNN. These two have been ringing in the new year for several years now on the network, and for our money there is not a better show out there for a few […]

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