Former CNN Bureau Chief Reveals Why She Quit

imdb.com ^ | 20 June 2005

[Choose Ye This Day]

That little bugger was prolific before his ZOT.

[MitchellC]

This is the other reason I don't watch CNN (on purpose). It's got the feeling of a stuffy, poorly-executed knock-off of Fox & Friends.

[LibertarianInExile]

In reality, when I watched it in Orlando when it was first aired, the show was on at 11 or 11:30, and it did not stay on in that time slot long because in reality, it was not a particularly great TV show. I remember that excuse being floated for the slot change then, but if it had been so great it was syndicated and surely someone would have let it on an evening slot if only for the money.

[I still care]

In NY I remember it being on about 1 in the am.

[LibertarianInExile]

It was on that late in Orlando by the time it went off the air.

[Ichneumon]

["Your expertise is getting in the way of doing the kind of stories we want to see on CNN"]

Her "expertise" being left-wing propaganda?

The impression I got was that she wanted to do real journalism, and CNN didn't.

[csvset]

Fwiw, she has a blog.

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[BillyCrockett]

She said she was "neither a war correspondent nor an infotainment news bunny,"...

"News Bunny"? So, only ugly women should do the news? Uh... let's see... Helen Thomas as a TV news anchor....

[SkyPilot]

She said that as "neither a war correspondent nor an infotainment news bunny,"

[mewzilla]

Oh, I don't know. This chick seems to think she knows what's best for the nation. Seems like a real good fit with CNN.

[DH]

A "News Bunny?" Looks like a News Toad to me.

[ontos-on]

Sure, Greta does real serious news stories now. NOT

[normy]

For what his show was it was a huge success. The time slot sucked and the format wasn't what people were used to at all. It wasn't even on cable and yet it had better ratings than many cable talk shows today. If Rush wanted his own show on cable, someone would give it to him or they would be fools.

Rush has never been Hannity but when he was on his pill problem he wasn't at his best. If you haven't listened to Rush lately you have been missing out. He is far and away better than anyone else out there.

I started listening to Rush in '91 and have heard all the other guys since and they can't touch him.

[linkinpunk]

(Turner) saw (CNN)as something more socially significant."

No bias at CNN. Right?

I am sure that whatever Ted Turner thinks is "socially significant" is significant to us. /sarcasm

[linkinpunk]

The impression I got was that she wanted to do real journalism, and CNN didn't.

But the key here is that she wanted to do "real journalism" on "socially significant" stories.

The plight of baby seals, but not abortion/breast cancer risks... The "hard life" of Palistinians living in Israel, but not the fear that Israelis have of their children getting bombed on a school bus. GWB's supposed drunk driving in 1974, but not the comments and feelings of the servicemen who served with John Kerry in Vietnam.

Who gets to decide what is "socially significant"?

[SkyPilot]

The plight of baby seals, but not abortion/breast cancer risks... The "hard life" of Palistinians living in Israel, but not the fear that Israelis have of their children getting bombed on a school bus. GWB's supposed drunk driving in 1974, but not the comments and feelings of the servicemen who served with John Kerry in Vietnam.

Excellent points. We could go on and on:

- Headline stories about the wonders of "Holistic Medicine" and "Karbaalah", but not the persecution of Christians in the Sudan, North Korea, and China.

- Incessant stories about car bombings in Baghdad, and not one story about the schools built, hospitals with new equipment, jobs created, or Iraqis celebrating their new freedoms.

- Story after story about the thrills of "Gay Marriage", and not one about the level of suicide, violence, STDs, drug abuse in the homosexual community. (Or the fact that the average life expectancy of a homosexual man is 43.)