Cnn primetime with abby philips starts right now. Objectively american democracy is in perilous condition. The nations politics are poisoned. Truth has become optional. Instead of desired or even required. The republic has of course always faced threats to it even before Rupert Murdoch. But so much of the current state of our democracy can be traced back to the beast of his creation. Good evening everyone. Im abby philip. Rupert murdoch is stepping down as ceo of fox news tonight. His legacy is outrage porn. Partisan red meat. Stoking relentless culture wars. But it all started with what you could argue is a noble vision to create a center right news network to elevate more perspectives that arent based in gotham or in washington. But instead, Stoking Division seemed to become murdochs mission. So did power and so did the money. Fox became a mouth piece for republican administrations, a mouth piece really for donald trump and eventually a vehicle for his baseless conspiracies. It is im
DJ Lance Rock, host of the hit Nickleodeon children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba” from 2007 to 2015, will help the Pleasanton Public Library celebrate the end of its 2023 Summer
a look at the list of the 50 most watched shows on cable the top would be nickleodeon. rug rats. lose ces. don t you know cartoons will ruin your mind? some very surreal, high concept humor to it and this is the beginning of the splintering of the television audience and the splintering of the family audience really. i mean, because with families having three or four tvs in the house you had a kid watching nickleodeon, you had dad watching espn sports. you have mom watching lifetime. you know, they were in their own separate universes watching television. mtv wasn t merely a music channel. they were having great success in terms of creating shows that incorporated music but also shows and programs that stood on their own.
this case are no longer able to speak publicly about any of this. the information we ve been getting is going to slow to more of a trickle as the hearings go on. people here got a bit of a surprise when christian bale, the actor who plays batman showed up here. it was a surprise to just about everybody. he visited patients in the hospital at the bedside. after that he came to this make shift memorial here and joined a prayer circle and prayed with people. it was all unannounced, they had no cameras with him and didn t want media coverage. our affiliate happened to be there and caught him. and it exploded on twitter and facebook, people pretty excited he took the time to come and visit. i ll bet that helped folks trying to recoup rate in the hospital. thanks, jim. the rest of the day s top stories, let s get right to christine romans. good morning. good morning, soledad, syrian forces stepping up attacks to regain control of aleppo, targeting rebel strong holds in syria s