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Donald Trump this morning tweeted another love letter to Fox News Channel’s morning show Fox and Friends, faux-asking “Was @foxandfriends just named the most influential show in news?” On Wednesday, web site Mediaite had named the FNC morning show the Most Influential In News Media for 2017, topping a list that also included, in reverse order, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Matt Drudge, FNC star Sean Hannity, and CNN chief Jeff Zucker. Mistaking Mediaite’s “most influential” for “best,” Trump crowed that the Trump News Network morning show hosts “deserve it” and that “the many Fake News Hate Shows should study your formula...

Who Dares to Question the Great and Powerful? Last weekend the media made great sport of the expressions on President Bush's face during the first presidential debate. Many surmised that he looked irritated because he is unaccustomed to being questioned. Yet a certain media figure has come right out and expressed his annoyance at being questioned. Tom Brokaw, soon-to-retire anchor of NBC Nightly News, has had about all he can stand of media bias activism. One in particular has been irritating enough to be mentioned by name. "It is a little wearying, but you've got to rise above it and...

NBC News ran a background story about Jose Guiterrez, killed U.S. Marine. He came to the country illegally from Guatemala in a freight train. Lived in a foster home, became a U.S. Marine and died in the last few days in Iraq. Brokow follows up with: "Think about that before you rail against illegal immigrants again!"