FOX tripled CNN in prime time. O’Reilly had a huge night coming very close to Greta’s record numbers from last night. Nancy Grace’s rampage over Paula Zahn Now continues unabated. Mad Money beat Abrams but managed to scratch in the Demo. In other news, Connected: Coast To Coast scratched both times yesterday averaging 100,000 viewers and 24,000 in the Demo. ICN wonders how much longer will Rick Kaplan allow Connected to drive down MSNBC’s daytime average because it is far and away MSNBC’s lowest rated program on daytime. And it’s on twice a day which means double the ratings damage (though the afternoon version traditionally performs better than the morning version). Like The Situation, the programs on either side of Connected perform noticeably better. Not good.
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CNBC announced today that Tyler Mathisen has been promoted to Managing Editor of CNBC Business News. The announcement came from David Friend, Senior Vice President, CNBC Business News and Glen Rochkind, Vice President, CNBC Business News. Quoting parts of the release…

Tyler knows CNBC inside and out and completely understands what our unique audience of business leaders and executives demand from us,” said Friend. “He is the right person to make sure that we continue to break news, land exclusive interviews and take our viewers right to where the action is.”

“The Managing Editor position is a critical role for our network and today’s announcement marks a significant step up for Tyler,” added Mark Hoffman, President, CNBC. “He brings to the position a unique combination of extraordinary journalistic instincts coupled with significant management experience and he is, without question, the right person for this important leadership role.”
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In light of today’s announcement, Mathisen will relinquish his “Closing Bell” (M-F, 3-4 p.m. ET) anchor duties effective Friday, July 29. He will, however, appear on occasion on CNBC programming.

Said Mathisen: “This is an opportunity too important and too full of potential to pass up. I am so looking forward to working with the best business news team in this new capacity to strengthen our coverage and make it even more vital to viewers.”

The Boston Phoenix’s Mark Jurkowitz takes an in depth look at Media Matters For America and David Brock…(via Romenesko)

Given his own history, Brock knows plenty about conservative pressure. But he’s also aware that questions continue to dog him in his new incarnation. Who is the real David Brock, and why should we trust him?

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“In terms of accuracy, they’re generally pretty good as far as they go,” says Bryan Keefer, assistant manager editor of CJRDaily.org, an online media-monitoring site created by the Columbia Journalism Review. But they are “self-consciously lefty…. They’re really only looking for things where liberals have been treated unfairly or where conservatives have gotten away with things.”

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Washington, DC–based Project for Excellence in Journalism, says, “I don’t have a lot of patience for any media criticism that is based in ideology. Frankly, [for] reporters who cover the news business, it makes our lives more complicated.”

ICN thinks it is about time someone did a proper in perspective look at Media Matters. They’ve gotten too much of a free pass from the media for too long in as much as nobody has called the spade a spade. Media Matters is about as unbiased as the Media Research Council and Brock is about as credible as Brent Bozell. Both should be soundly dismissed for what they are…partisan hacks.

Harry’s got out-takes of Tucker Carlson doing a promo for The Situation.