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Looks like a deep-dish double whammy today for CNN's Chicagoland. First the 8-part docu series produced by Robert Redford‘s Sundance Productions got caught in a media hailstorm for being too chummy with one of its main subjects, Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Now the ratings are in for last night's finale, and it ain't pretty…

Another day, another media story on the fudging of "reality" and "documentary" for the TV camera – this time it's CNN's eight-part series Chicagoland, which never got so much media interest as it did this morning when the Chicago Tribune posted a report on emails between the office of  that city's mayor Rahm Emanuel…

Fox News Channel solidified its return to the top spot Friday in total day and primetime as viewers wearied of the lack of new developments in the Malaysian airliner mystery. Fox News logged 1.08 million overall viewers in total day, 230,000 in the news demo, besting CNN (593,000 and 188,000) and MSNBC (339,000 and…

UPDATE, 4:30 PM:  Unlike entertainment programming, the world of cable news is not one where Live + 3 numbers often have any relevance. You don't often think of DVRs as how audiences watch CNN, Fox News or MSNBC but with some of the non-breaking news programming that Jeff Zucker has instituted since taking over CNN…