[tongue-tied]

Another opening for FOX News. They could start a network where the anchors were professionals and simply read the news, without slipping editorial statements in.

The few times I've seen CNN's version recently they were trying too hard to be hip, and cool. From what I remember of them when they began, that is already a change from what they used to do.

[Liz]

The few times I've seen CNN's version recently they were trying too hard to be hip, and cool.

No kidding. Hip and cool? Damn, I missed it (/sarc).

[angkor]

They could start a network where the anchors were professionals and simply read the news, without slipping editorial statements in.

Here in Metro DC we have the Mhz Network which runs 30 and 60 minute daily news shows from all around the world.

Some are in the native language, some are in English, and some with English subtitles.

But I kid you not, even the French and German news broadcasts are more interesting, less biased, and more globally comprehensive than the swill that pours forth from CNN.

Most of the shows include one or two newsreaders who announce a story, then allow a 2 to 5 minute in depth report to be shown. No phony jocularity, no smart quips, no false repartee. Just the news.

Really, the state of American news broadcasting is a disgrace.

As for BBC News, that's not shown on Mhz but is relegated to the PBS evening feed, where it belongs. It is by far the most sneering anti-American news broadcast out there (again, even compared to France and Germany).

[KateatRFM]

Fox could use "Just the Facts, Ma'am" as their advertising slogan for an all-news the old fashioned way programming. Show clips of blather from CNN and intercut with Joe Friday's "Just the facts, ma'am" from the 1950s and you've got a winner.

Another great slogan -- show CNN blather, show real news on Fox, and have the real newscaster say "You can't make this stuff up."