Zahn, Cooper shows to officially launch Sept. 8 (on CNN)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9.2.03 | CAROLINE WILBERT

[mhking]

More grist for the mill.... Zahn'll be gone soon enough...

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[bedolido]

she was doing okay on FOX. She made a major mistake when she jumped to CNN. She is pretty though.

[Uncle Hal]

Joining CNN now is sort of like signing on to the Titanic just before it sailed.

[magslinger]

What's CNN?

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Her fluttering eyelid routine gets tired real fast.

They had her pegged when they made the commercial touting her, complete with the zipper sound at the end...

"Paula Zahn...Intelligent, Experienced, and just a little...sexy ZZZZZZZZZZZZIP!!!!!!!

[Huck]

a straight news program

Baloney. They'll do plenty of homo news.

[Izzy Dunne]

...will be called "Anderson Cooper 360."

Great. Stories from 1,643 years ago.
Just what I need.

[finnman69]

One day I will have to post pics of Anderson Cooper from my highschool yearbook, when at a high school talent show he stood up during a stand up comedy bit, wearing black tights with a long baloon and two tennis balls stuffed down the tights.

[prairiebreeze]

Sounds like you ought to demand hush money from Anderson. LOL

Prairie

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times CNN Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[Timesink]

Cooper's show, which targets younger viewers...

Not at 7 pm, it won't, no matter how good it turns out to be ... unless CNN's idea of "younger viewers" is to grab people in their early 50s instead of their late 50s, which is probably about as good as they'll ever be able to manage regardless of what stunts they try. CNN has a 25-year tradition of being the Ambien Network, and hiring all the World News Now alumni in the world won't change that unless they're allowed to produce shows completely outside of the CNN newsroom culture, which is something that will never occur.

Paula's show, needless to say, is doomed, because it's hosted by Paula Zahn. There's no getting around that.

[Timesink]

she was doing okay on FOX. She made a major mistake when she jumped to CNN.

The key word in that sentence is "okay." After she left Fox, their ratings went up in the 10 pm time slot almost immediately, even before they hired Greta to replace her.

She is pretty though.

Not in person without the makeup, she ain't. Well, she's all right for her age, I guess, but she sure wouldn't make you turn your head to look twice if you found yourself standing next to her in a supermarket aisle.

[Timesink]

One day I will have to post pics of Anderson Cooper from my highschool yearbook, when at a high school talent show he stood up during a stand up comedy bit, wearing black tights with a long baloon and two tennis balls stuffed down the tights.

I see absolutely no reason why you should wait to do this.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

I like Anderson (and I liked "The Mole"). But I couldn't Resist!, lol.

[Endeavor]

Paula Zahn Now -- why Now? (how about Never?)

[Endeavor]

That's where I know that guy from, The Mole! Thank you, it has been driving me crazy.

[veronica]

Anderson Cooper is the only good thing on CNN.

[mhking]

and hiring all the World News Now alumni in the world won't change that

Bump!

[Timesink]

Allow me to clarify that: Hiring WNN alumni from no later than the Mark & Asha era (save for Anderson himself, who kinda overlapped with Mark anyway). Anyone working for WNN either on-air or behind the camera since 1998 at the latest are about as good at network news as a bunch of chimpanzees banging away randomly on typewriters.