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Editor’s note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author’s point of view. In trying to opine that the presentation of evidence about a horrific day in American history did not rise to…

UPDATED, 4:57 PM: When the January 6th Committee holds its first primetime hearing on Thursday, Fox News Channel will stay with its primetime lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. The proceedings will air on the Fox Business network instead. The hearing starts at 8 PM ET on Thursday, with…

UPDATED with dismissal: Ex-Fox News host Ed Henry’s defamation lawsuit against NPR and CNN has been voluntarily dismissed. A federal judge granted dismissal of the lawsuit with prejudice last week, according to a document filed in U.S. District in New York. Under the terms, the parties will bear their own costs…

Standing just a few feet away from the first President of the United States to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner since 2016, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah mixed the political with the pop culture to take an equal-opportunity dig at everyone tonight — including the people who pay him the big bucks. “I…

UPDATE, 5:22 PM PT: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued an irate statement over the evacuation of the Capitol, which caused a momentary bit of alarm until Capitol Police determined that there was really no “probably threat” from approaching aircraft. Pelosi blamed the incident on the FAA. In a statement, Pelosi said…

Chris Wallace spent nearly two decades at Fox News before shifting to the new streaming service, CNN+. In an interview with the New York Times on Sunday, Wallace gave what is believed to be his first public statements on the reason he left his longtime media home. Wallace claimed Fox News shifted in the months…

UPDATE, 6:55 AM: The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said that “it is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant,” amid reports that Russians have seized the Zaporizhzhia facility. “Putin’s shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further,” the Embassy said. The fire at the plant reportedly…

For the past seven years, Chris Licht's favorite comic has been Stephen Colbert. As the new chairman of CNN, Licht's focus has instantly shifted to the brilliant ex-comic from Ukraine named Volodymyr Zelensky, whose heroics are the story of the hour. "Give CNN one great news story and all my network's problems will…

Bob Beckel, the former Fox News Channel host and longtime political operative who ran Democrat Walter Mondale’s unsuccessful 1984 presidential campaign, died Monday. He was 73. A cause of death was not specified. His death was revealed by old friend Cal Thomas on social media. FNC’s Sean Hannity also announced “dear…

Jim Angle, one of Fox News Channel’s original reporting line-up in 1996 and its chief national correspondent when he retired in 2014, died Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Virginia. He was 75. His death was confirmed by Fox News. A cause was not disclosed. In a statement on the Fox News website, Fox News Media CEO…

As with almost every role she plays on Saturday Night Live, Kate McKinnon does a wicked version of Fox News' Laura Ingraham. Listing off rising inflation, rocking gas prices, and the flaws of the Green M&M girl, McKinnon's wonky-eyed Ingraham went right after the first year of Joe Biden's "disaster" of a presidency in…

“A jury declared Jussie Smollett really bad at acting,” Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost started tonight, making light of the recent headlines over the guilty verdict for the Empire actor earlier this week from his 2019 assault. “Smollett was found guilty of charges of staging a hate crime; it was the worst staged…