New chief takes CNN helm at critical time for 24-hour news

USA Today ^ | 01/15/2003 | Del Jones

[GeneD]

Jim Walton, the new CEO of CNN, went to work at the network 22 years ago as a video journalist, a weighty title for the bottom-rung, low-pay job of delivering tapes and other gofer work. The infant network employed 200.

[GeneD]

For some reason that business about "classic rock" and the "twisted" sense of humor reminded me of the stories about Yuri Andropov and his alleged love of jazz.

A classic Kremlin -- er, AOL (er, Time Warner) apparatchik if ever there was one.

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[mhking]

I worked under Walton when I was at CNN/SI - nice guy personally, but him at the helm is little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[Ciexyz]

Our TV's at work, in the lobbies and breakrooms, all run CNN. Sometimes it's watchable. Sometimes I want to throw something at the screen when they have leftist Demopukes babbling on.

[1Old Pro]

but him at the helm is little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

yep, their failure is their liberal slant which is institutionalized and will never change.

[Wait4Truth]

Are you saying that Walton is just another liberal and that CNN still just doesn't get it? I hope that's what you're saying...

[mhking]

I hope that's what you're saying...

Like I said, he's a nice guy personally, but yep: He's still more of the same.

[Slainte]

Goodnight John-boy.

[Bernard Marx]

Tell us more if you can -- I can't find much about him thru Google.

While Googling I ran into the following and think it's worth a read. It reads like it was written before Isaacson made his announcement but was published today. Interesting...

http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=6433#top

[Wait4Truth]

Hasn't CNN had about four top bananas in the past 2-1/2 years? And they still keep appointing the same kind of person over and over again? DUH. Oh, well - Fox should gain even more viewers if that is the case.

[mhking]

And they still keep appointing the same kind of person over and over again?

They keep scrounging around in-house (yes, I know that Bubba's friend was from outside), and end up with more of the same. They haven't got the balls nor the brains to try something/someone radical and different from what they've been doing.

They keep getting these J-School types (and we all know who inhabit the J-Schools 'round the country), and have forgotten that the viewers want something different.