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CNN's Brown doesn't rise to top as anchor (Gratutitous Aaron Brown Bashing! Plus: Old-Skool Journos)
Boston Globe ^ | March 27, 2003 | Mark Jurkowitz

Posted on 03/27/2003 8:17:33 AM PST by Timesink

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

On paper, CNN ''Newsnight'' anchor Aaron Brown has some good qualities. He is bright, even cerebral. He has a smooth set of pipes that are easy on the ears. He often asks smart, layered questions that go beyond the obvious. But as was the case in the days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the war on Iraq is again proving that he is just too studied, too enigmatic, and frankly, too weird, to be anchor material.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aaronbrown; bostonglobe; cablenewsnetwork; cnn; davidmartin; jamiemcintyre; jimmiklaszewski; johnmcwethy; peterarnett; susancandiotti; televisedwar; wesleyclark
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To: Timesink

41 posted on 03/27/2003 9:23:53 AM PST by Porterville (Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
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To: beaversmom
Looks like the Beaver's been bad again. ;^)
42 posted on 03/27/2003 9:24:19 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Timesink
How Aaron Brown is an anchor is one of the great mysteries of our time.
43 posted on 03/27/2003 10:13:49 AM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Constitution Day
Soporific and pompous, he annoys me on such a visceral level that I can't even explain it fully.

One second of Aaron Brown's nasal whining voice is sheer torture.

I was thinking about this last night - how so many of the broadcasters seem to have speech impediments of some type.

*Barbara Walters - can't pronounce R's
*Aaron Brown - whiny, nasal voice
*Tom Brokaw - mouth full of marbles
*Connie Chung - slight lisp
*a Bwitish woman on the BBC - even wuhs than Babwa Wawtas
*half of PBS - nasal & nerdy-sounding
*the other half - speak-ing ver-y slow-ly & pro-noun-cing one syl-la-ble at a time - sheer tor-ture!

I had more in mind last night. I've forgotten who else.

44 posted on 03/27/2003 10:45:02 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
So glad I found this thread. I need some antivenom for my exposure to Brown last night. Let me explain...

Last night (Wed 26 Mar), I went to bed early but couldn't sleep...got up to watch Fox...ads...flipped to CNN to catch a glimpse...time: 1105p CST...

There's Brown, one-on-one with a CNN Pentagon reporter (don't remember who)...Brown says (nearly exact quote, I swear):

"It seems that the war isn't going exactly as the Pentagon planned."

And there it was: that smirk.It was a smirk that your fourth-grade teacher would have slapped you for! It was so nasty, so prolonged that it seemed he was restraining himself from laughing outloud!

Anybody else catch it? A most outrageous and unconcealed delight at adversity involving our Nation's mission in Iraq.

The slime...

45 posted on 03/27/2003 2:18:28 PM PST by Airborne Longhorn
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To: mrswashburn
I think Aaron Brown comes across as just that - probably a nice guy off-camera, but hopelessly and stupifyingly boring and annoying on-camera. Does he dye his hair? That wouldn't work in his favor, either.
46 posted on 03/27/2003 2:24:30 PM PST by mountaineer
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To: Timesink
"He has a smooth set of pipes that are easy on the ears. "

???????????????

I hate his voice!!!

47 posted on 03/27/2003 2:27:02 PM PST by MozartLover
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To: Timesink
Has anybody ever watched this guy for over 2 minutes without dozing off?
48 posted on 03/27/2003 2:28:27 PM PST by iconoclast
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To: mountaineer
Does he dye his hair? That wouldn't work in his favor, either.

Let's just say his hair isn't quite the same color it was 10 years ago, and I'm not talking about the touch-of-gray sideburns, either. In fact, his hair isn't the same color now as it was in the photo in post 22 above, which I believe is between 12-18 months old.

49 posted on 03/29/2003 11:01:30 PM PST by Timesink (If you use the word "embedded" in a conversation, you'd better be carrying an x-ray to show me.)
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