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CNN Cancels Soledad O’Brien Show, Says It Wasn’t Due to ‘Ethnic’ Viewership
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Posted on 02/01/2013 2:13:43 AM PST by SMGFan

The tumult at CNN that has seen several contributors leave the cable news network continued on Wednesday, when Soledad O'Brien's morning show, “Starting Point,” was canceled because her program's small audience was “too ethnic, based on the high concentration of minority viewers.”

Despite ending O'Brien's morning show, a CNN spokesman told Politico on Thursday that "Soledad is very important to the network, and we're discussing various options with her.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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Seems a bit racist to me.

She did those installments of Black in America on CNN. Maybe the viewers were confused by her last name. Too Irish? /s

1 posted on 02/01/2013 2:13:52 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Dashwan muhammed o’callahan yeah I can see the confusion.


2 posted on 02/01/2013 2:16:35 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Lexington / Concord, America's first gun grab attempt)
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She just couldn’t get any audience to pay for the bills. End of story.

Anderson Cooper ends up going away eventually too. CNN really has a major problem, and isn’t even in the same league anymore with Fox News, or the Comedy Channel. In fact....the Amish Mafia is pulling better numbers than CNN’s same time slot.


3 posted on 02/01/2013 2:24:37 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: SMGFan

May Piers Morgan soon follow.


4 posted on 02/01/2013 2:29:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: pepsionice

I read somewhere that the Weather Channel gets higher ratings than CNN in some markets/time slots.


5 posted on 02/01/2013 2:31:15 AM PST by jospehm20
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“She just couldn’t get any audience to pay for the bills.”

Yes, while anti-white rhetoric has a market, that market has no money except the subsidies from white America. The permanent underclass used to be a lucrative market because they would steal the money to buy $250 new sneakers; now they just shoot someone and take theirs...


6 posted on 02/01/2013 2:48:13 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SMGFan
FOX News Channel is Again Top-Rated Cable News Network for the Month of January

JANUARY 2013 NIELSEN RATINGS (7 day week):

TOTAL DAY

FNC: 1,029,000 total viewers; (209,000 in 25-54)

MSNBC: 491,000 total viewers; (160,000 in 25-54)

CNN: 448,000 total viewers; (135,000 in 25-54)

PRIMETIME

FNC: 1,617,000 total viewers; (267,000 in 25-54)

MSNBC: 790,000 total viewers; (235,000 in 25-54)

CNN: 664,000 total viewers; (200,000 in 25-54)

7 posted on 02/01/2013 2:56:41 AM PST by RC one (.From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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If MSNBC is a “news” channel, than anything is a news channel. It has more fantasy than the Disney Channel and Oxygen combined.


8 posted on 02/01/2013 3:06:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: RC one

If MSNBC is a “news” channel, than anything is a news channel. It has more fantasy than the Disney Channel and Oxygen combined.


9 posted on 02/01/2013 3:06:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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“too ethnic, based on the high concentration of minority viewers.”

racist motivation by definition.

which, since its a hard left organization, is perfectly acceptable


10 posted on 02/01/2013 3:12:10 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Wait a second! Soledad O’ Brien is a Mulatto. Therefore she is appealing to both Black and White audiences! /sarc


11 posted on 02/01/2013 3:28:53 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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""Soledad is very important to the network, and we're discussing various options with her.”"

Maybe she can run a breakfast burrito stand in the break room.

12 posted on 02/01/2013 3:32:40 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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Soledad O’ Brien is a Mulatto.

Soledad O'Brien is a low-rent poseur, daughter of privilege, champion of the self-pitying.

13 posted on 02/01/2013 3:33:03 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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Soledad O’ Brien is a Mulatto.

Soledad O'Brien is a low-rent poseur, daughter of privilege, champion of the self-pitying.

14 posted on 02/01/2013 3:33:03 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Ditto to our great leader!!! He SHOULD have been FIRED also, but he wasn’t.


15 posted on 02/01/2013 3:33:43 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

And all this time I thought a mulatto was something you ordered at Starbucks.


16 posted on 02/01/2013 3:34:07 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: SMGFan

Too bad, Soledad offers a rare mix of sanctimony and stupidity. Wait, that is probably not that rare on CNN.


17 posted on 02/01/2013 3:41:33 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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Soledad O’Brien is a low-rent poseur, daughter of privilege, champion of the self-pitying.
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She is indeed! That plus a major league bubble-head.


18 posted on 02/01/2013 3:46:42 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Enterprise

Maybe she can lip synch the National Anthem.


19 posted on 02/01/2013 4:00:06 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: SMGFan

Obama will miss his politically and ethnically correct mouthpiece at CNN.


20 posted on 02/01/2013 4:15:54 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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