CNN is dying a slow Death. They haver made one silly mistake after another. Only a CNN show would think that would pull ratings.
I don't think they understand how to appeal to the public. They look at FOX and think it is the graphics and bumpers.
They are like the fat ugly girl that looks at Ann Coulter and concludes it is Ann's jewelry that attracks guys.
Chung coaxed Kathleen Gingrich into telling what Newt thought of Hillary Clinton. The now infamous Baiting: "Why don't you just whisper it to me, just between you and me,"
Transcript as follows:
Chung: "Mrs. Gingrich, what has Newt told you about President Clinton?"
Kathleen: "Nothing. And I can't tell you what he said about Hillary."
Chung: "You can't?"
Kathleen: "I can't."
Chung, leaning forward: "Why don't you just whisper it to me. Just between you and me."
Kathleen, leaning in and whispering: "She's a bitch."
Chung: "Really? That's the only thing he ever said about her."
Kathleen: "That's the only thing he ever said about her. I think they had some meeting, she takes over."
Chung: "She does?"
Kathleen: "Oh Yeah, yeah. But when Newtie's there, she can't."
CBS was engulfed in criticism for using a statement which many thought Chung made clear was "off the record."
But contrasting objectives involving interviews with the Gingriches/Clinton's moms???
Chung dishes some dirt: "According to a friend at the time, Newt said he was divorcing [then-wife] Jackie because she wasn't young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a President and besides she has cancer." She also ran down a list for the Gingriches: "These are some of the things said about your son -- a very dangerous man...visionary... bomb-throwing guerrilla warrior...abrasive."
A very different Chung interviewed President Clinton's brother Roger and mother Virginia Kelley for the debut of Eye to Eye on June 17, 1993. She elicited stories from them showing the President in a positive light: how Bill Clinton protected them from his abusive stepfather, how he served as a father figure to his brother. She never asked about any negative traits of Bill Clinton's.
( from the achives of mediarearch.org.,4:15pm EST Wednesday January 23, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 13)
There's more going on here than this blurb is letting on.