Anchor Aaron Brown's Star Appears to Fade

AP ^ | 11/09/03 | DAVID BAUDER

[Pokey78]

You are getting sleeeeeeeepy . . . . . .sleeeeeeeeepy . . .

sleeeeeeeeeepy . . . . . sleeeeeeeeepy . . . . . . sleeeeeeeeeepy . . . . .

[mhking]

Maybe he should be up late at night, wide awake...

[prairiebreeze]

Perhaps the higher-ups at CNN are finally getting tired of the Sneer.

But it's a lesson to Brown and anybody else at "the top". If you can't get off the golf course to cover a story, you shouldn't be surprised if future stories get assigned elsewhere.

But being a liberal I'm sure that's a revelation that shocks and infuriates the heck out of the Sneer.

Prairie

[Cicero]

Larry King has excellent ratings, for reasons I really don't understand. He looks to me as if he died several years ago.

The rest of them are going downhill.

[Flux Capacitor]

----He anchored much of the terrorist attack coverage that day and those that followed, impressing many viewers with his soft-spoken, cerebral style.----

"Rush Limbaugh has been more than a bit unkind to me more than once. He’s also been unkind to Al Franken, who in turn has been unkind to him. He’s taken shots at Michael Wolff, New York magazine’s media critic and Michael is hardly the retiring sort. So, here we all are, Al, Michael, and me, and the subject is Rush – made worse, no doubt, by the permanent smirk that seems to be attached to my face."

– CNN’s Aaron Brown on the October 10 NewsNight after Limbaugh announced he was seeking treatment for an addiction to prescription pain medicine

[Lancey Howard]

"I like his program," legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite

Well, if that lying scumbag Cronkite likes him, then that seals it. Buh-bye, Aaron.

[NutCrackerBoy]

A day or two after 9/11, The Smirk interviewed an expert who alluded to a need to kill terrorists.

Smirk seemed nonplussed and said, "you used the word kill..." The plan wasn't cerebral enough for him, I guess.

[Huck]

Larry King has excellent ratings, for reasons I really don't understand

The answer is simple. The guests are the draw. Larry gets gets that draw a big audience--tabloid stories, celebs, etc.

[Huck]

gets gets

meant to say "gets guests". Sorry.

[martin_fierro]

(squint, squint) "I like the way Aaron Brown surrounds and envelops a story, while squinting..."

[Pokey78]

Every time I turn past LKL, I get the impression that ole Larre sees Nancy Grace as the next Mrs. LK., which would be, what. . . the 23rd?

[Texas Eagle]

The Boston Globe's Mark Jurkowitz, wrote: "He is just too studied, too enigmatic and, frankly, too weird to be anchor material."

Weirder than Dan Rather?

[hispanarepublicana]

Aaron who?

[InvisibleChurch]

Brown is a "very important part of CNN's election team"

sounds like the kind of 'endorsement' a coach or manager gets when the owner says "he's our man, he'll be with us as long as he wants to be"

[Lijahsbubbe]

Aaron "I'm so boring, I'm intellectual" Brown.

[rwfromkansas]

Some journalist.

A real reporter would run to the studio barefoot if he had to to cover a story like the Columbia crash....

[Flux Capacitor]

Meanness and vindictiveness is mean and vindictive until directed against a conservative (especially a successful one). Then it's soft-spoken and cerebral.

-Dan

[Mr. Mojo]

Weirder than Dan Rather?

Probably, but not as weird as Peter Jennings. ....Anyone who would think Hanan Ashwari to be girlfriend material has to be a first-class weirdo. And Jennings even smirks more than Brown, which isn't an easy trick.