Fox News Pre-Empts ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ For Fort Hood Shooting Coverage; CNN Breaks From Malaysian Airlines Marathon

Fox News Channel — determined not to let CNN’s Anderson Cooper beat Bill O’Reilly in the news demo again, as he did in the early days of CNN’s coverage of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 — tonight took the unusual step of pre-empting The O’Reilly Factor to continue covering the shooting at Fort Hood. It marked the first time since the network unveiled the Fox News Deck in October that Shep Smith and his Deck went live with an hour of breaking  news in the 8 PM ET time slot. Greta Van Susteren did her show live at 7 PM, including a hit with Shep. After O’Reilly’s hour, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity went live with more coverage of the shooting. No word from FNC yet as to when was the last time it pre-empted O’Reilly in his timeslot. In other breaking news about breaking news, CNN actually broke away from its monthlong wing-to-wing coverage of that missing plane to go with the Fort Hood story. Apparently this morning’s daily shred of micro-news on the aging story wasn’t enough to keep the intrepid network from covering the tragedy in Central Texas.
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