Posted on 03/23/2005 1:49:55 PM PST by srm913
"I'm not going to tell you what my plan is, but it is better than President Bush's plan. I have a plan."
CNN's secret plan in four words: Live Naked Jello Wrestling.
Unfortunately for them, so far they've only scheduled the al franken / michael moore matchup.
To anyone eating lunch, I'm sorry.
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19 Minutes? I'm surprised anyone stays around that long for any of these clowns, especially King. Lou Dobbs is about the only watchable CNN prime time piece IMO.
Oh how could you not like Greta and how every single show for the past 9000 years has been about Scott Peterson?
Wow, no guy can sit through 5 minutes of commercials without switching channels. They must have 90 percent female audiences.
It's like a bad football team changing the plays they run rather than getting better players.
Or they could do reruns of Judy Woodruff's expressions when the Democrats lose yet another elections. Those are priceless.
CNN needs to come out and announce that they realize they have been unfair and bias over the years and they are now changing to get back to more traditional news reporting.
Instead they are saying, we need to inject more "feeling" more "emotion" and yes, likely, more BIAS.
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CNN, and any news outlet, can get more compeditive with Fox if they just made an effort to give some respect to different points of view on the issues of the day.
The network media for decades used to have discussion panels where 3 articulate liberals would 'debate' a sincere but befuddled conservative. They would also stack stories with liberal spokespeople while at the same time understating the conservative point of view.
They don't need a conservative bias to get compeditive. All they have to do is let articulate conservatives speak to get more sides of the issue than they are used to reporting.
If they did that they would have more credibility and would be more watchable. It's a simple solution - they need not forsake their liberal bias, they just need to make an effort to call it more fairly.
Now, now, that's not quite fair. She's spent about 6000 years on Michael Jackson, and another 3k on women teachers having affairs with underage students.
I am all for competition. A strong CNN will make a stronger FOX and the viewers will win. Now what CNN has to do to get more viewers is give the folks what they want. They don't want the left wing cheering section, they want a neutral yet concise newscast.
I watch FOX myself but what CNN has going for it is that the advertising industry assigns CNN a higher rating per viewer than FOX. In other words CNN has less viewers but gets more ad revenue because the viewers they do get are more "upwardly mobile." You know the Manhatten Intelligensia and friends. FOX needs to neutralize that advantage.
He is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. CNN is a sinking ship, and nothing that Klein can do -- especially given his ignorance about Internet communications -- to save that ship. I just want to know if Klein will try to escape CNN when it goes down, dressed as a woman (the way the Director of the White Star Line escaped the sinking of the Titanic).
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All CNN needs to do is start showing reruns of Gilligan's Island instead of Larry King.
Do you think its because you have gotten used to it? I think I have. But I remember the first time I saw FNC I was shocked that their opinions and paradigms were so far different from the MSM. It was like someone opened a window in a stuffy room.
When you consider that all of the evening cable news programs (CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews) draws only around 3 million total, that speaks volumes. There are some 260 million viewers nationwide. Fighting over a pool of 3 million who are all that watch the evening cable news channels is rather ridiculous.
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