Posted on 11/02/2005 12:50:57 PM PST by Cicero
Edited on 11/02/2005 2:17:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Headline on Drudge's front page. The link to story wouldn't work for me.
UPDATE
AARON BROWN OUT AT CNN
Wed Nov 02 2005 15:43:11 ET
To: All CNN Staff
From: Jon Klein
We have made some programming decisions which will impact our prime time schedule as well as our colleague Aaron Brown. Aaron will be leaving CNN and is very much looking forward to some well-deserved time off with his family.
Aaron has made enormous contributions to CNN since his groundbreaking anchoring of Sept. 11th through the war in Iraq to the Tsunami to the recent hurricanes. Outside of the big stories, on a nightly basis, Aaron has provided our audiences with insight into the events of the United States and the world with eloquence and the highest journalist integrity.
Besides his stellar work as an anchor, Aaron stands as an absolutely brilliant writer, evident by the thoughtful perspective he injects into every story he touches.
Personally, I will miss Aaron and his wicked sense of humor. We cannot thank Aaron enough for the skills and professionalism he brought to CNN. Given his respect throughout the industry, there is no question that he will be missed.
He referred to himself once as "The Face of CNN," and this was when he had been there less than a year or so. I think of old-timers like Wolf or Christiane as the "face" of CNN>
Ego and self-regard (badly misplaced) for days. He was also fierce competition for Sominex.
Thanks .. now who's going to be out in the natural disasters, stumbling and screaming into the mike?
Me too. I'd wipe the floor with the competition. LOL
So, let's guess who will replace Aaron. Would CNN follow it's heart and hire Dan Rather? It could happen.
Or would they go for hip and irreverant, and hire a Keith Olberman clownish buffoon type?
One thing for certain, CNN will not go for fair and balanced. I think Rush was right awhile back when he said CNN had a liberal audience and would just stick with pleasing them. Pat Buchanan made a similiar observation about CNN on Matt's radio program last week.
I bet CNN will go for a male/female tag team. Two nice looking ABC or NBC retread airheads.
What'd he do, start making sense?
It will be a hot chick, you can make book on it. They are desperate. Possibly a former NFL sideline reporter or maybe a famous liberal lesbian from hHollywood, but it will be some chich who is attractive.
lol
Too bad J. Fred Muggs wasn't still alive, they could hire him to replace Aaron Brown, and leave Cooper out there blowing around in the hurricanes.
I would add my "good riddance" to Brown except that since I never watch CNN
Oh, nevermind. Good riddance to Brown.
CNN Talk: Aaron will be leaving CNN and is very much looking forward to some well-deserved time off with his family.
Translation: He was fired.
That dude! I tossed the tv a while ago, but he WAS one annoying person. If the content on CNN wasn't enough to change the channel, his appearance certainly was.
It's coming round to a point where a weird form of snobbery that is beginning to dawn on me:
I've never seen this face, this "Aaron Brown", before setting eyes on this web page, and I AM PROUD OF IT!
I'm not making this up...
He was one of the original hosts of ABC's World News Now. They were funny because they knew the bosses were asleep, and they could do or say anything they wanted to.
Before I had a dish, it was all there was to watch in the middle of the night(I'm in the boonies; no cable.)
I didn't even know he was the anchor on CNN anyway so what's that tell ya?
:)
I must have been one of those ten, but incredibly, I haven't the slightest twinge of sorrow.
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