Posted on 12/11/2012 11:50:51 AM PST by Domandred
New CNN programming chief Jeff Zucker will reportedly replace Soledad O'Brien, the host of the network's morning show "Starting Point," with Erin Burnett, who currently hosts "Outfront," which airs at 7 p.m. on the struggling cable news network.
The New York Post reported that Zucker is “looking at Erin Burnett to revive the cabler’s moribund morning ratings” and quotes a CNN source who said Zucker will team Burnett “up with a guy, and they’ll go after the audience watching ‘Today’ and ‘Good Morning America.’" O'Brien recently told a college audience that when she first heard of Zucker's hire, she thought, "Yes!" because Zucker "knows news. He knows winning. He knows morning TV.”
“To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning,” O’Brien said last week at Drexel University, according to Media Bistro. “He’s an incredible news executive. I want to be on a team that strategizes how to win. It’s great to have a leader … I’m thrilled.”
Apparently, Zucker believes CNN's best chance to win the ratings race in the morning is without O'Brien.
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I would as well. There’s so many hot news chicks...especially on Fox News.
Look at this thread if you want to see the picture that was OK then, but not now.
I loved that episode! Cracked me up!
No surprise here. She is cute as a button. Dumb as a rock, but cute as a button. And she may never again have to apolize for calling the president a monkey if we never have another Republican president.
Racist Soledad replaced by a White Devil! Love it!
CNN can do anything they want...they still won’t be tuned in at this house...
nor will ABS, NBC, OR CBS AND DON’T FORGET MSNBC ONE OF THE WORST...
any news we watch will come from fox, but we have lost our FOX NEWS addiction...thankfully.
Erin Burnett is known in financial circles as the Money Honey. She leans right too.
Sorry,but the money honey is Maria Barteromo of CNBC.Gee I hope I spelled her last name right.
She’s not dumb; she has a degree in economics from Williams College. I watched several thoughtful interviews she conducted while at CNBC. She actually listened to the responses to her questions and followed up appropriately when necessary. She is much more than a teleprompter reader. Doesn’t mean she is sympathetic to conservatism, though.
O'Brien recently told a college audience that when she first heard of Zucker's hire, she thought, "Yes!" because Zucker "knows news. He knows winning. He knows morning TV.”
“To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning,” O’Brien said last week at Drexel University, according to Media Bistro. “He’s an incredible news executive. I want to be on a team that strategizes how to win. It’s great to have a leader … I’m thrilled.” /
I imagine O'Brien isn't this excited anymore and the word "racism" might be floating around her noggin right now. "
Yeah but it’s like sending someone back onto the Titanic to unplug the ice machine.
You are right, Burnett is The Street Sweety. Got them mixed up.
Where is diversity? Why are there no fat ugly chicks on TV? It isn’t fair! OK, there is Whoopi.
moribund ratings? is that what they call them? back to wherever ya came from, Soledad.. ya bay area media by-product
Question is will her replacement also use Wikipedia as a critical source.
WOW ,Wikipedia ,I thought she used a Magic 8-Ball
All I heard was
BFKGU(FDS to replace FKEIFOWE with DLKFXJEOIRU
and I do not care!
I was going with "it's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," but yours is fresher ...
So...Zucker thinks that Erin “Nervous Tick” Burnett will save CNNs Morning Show? Poor Erin has already aged 20 years in the 2 years she has been on CNN
Soledad O’Boring now has been booted from hosting CNN morning show twice. Wonder if she will now go “Black in America” and sue CNN?
CNN is a train wreck...and I apologize for slandering train wrecks
REPORT: CNN TO REPLACE SOLEDAD O’BRIEN WITH ERIN BURNETT
Similar to replacing urinal blocks. Useful only for human discharge.
Mean...but totally funny...LOL
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