President Joe Biden’s Oval Office address on ending his re-election campaign Wednesday drew a large TV audience. About 26 million people watched the 15-minute speech at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT across eight broadcast and cable networks, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings. That figure will grow some with the inclusion of other outlets in the …
Producers, anchors, correspondents and executives had spent days gaming out their plan should President Joe Biden end his 2024 campaign. “We were planning for the news to leak out, followed by an address to the nation,” one producer says. Instead, the president caught the media brunching. “Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here …
An attempt on former president Donald Trump‘s life Saturday led millions of viewers tune in to TV news coverage. Broadcast networks and cable outlets quickly moved to special coverage of the shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania. One person was killed and three people, including Trump, were injured before Secret Service agents killed …
Jon Stewart criticized Joe Biden and the White House’s response to ongoing concerns about the president’s mental fitness and candidacy. Returning to The Daily Show on Monday night, Stewart played clips of Biden struggling with his words while trying to reassure voters in the wake of his disastrous debate performance on June 27, and showed …
President Joe Biden is ready to meet the press following his disastrous debate performance last week. ABC News has scored the first exclusive post-debate sit-down with the president, who is seeking to reassure voters about his health and candidacy. Biden is facing calls to step down in the wake of his faltering live 90-minute performance …
CNN is pushing back after critics blamed the channel for its handling of last night’s debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The critics, most of them Democrats, took aim at CNN and moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, with the absence of real-time fact checking one of the major issues. A …