CNN shakes up news administration

CBSMarketwatch ^ | 01/23/04 | Jon Friedman

[Howlin]

Nobody is more interested in what Aaron Brown has to say than Aaron Brown; and he also thinks that what he has to say about the news is more important than the news.

[rewrite]

Rush made a point the other day that I hadn't thought about ,as he often does, the picture is just crisper and better on Fox News.CNN and MSNBC don't have the crispness of picture.I'll watch Scarborough and Hardball(I have a crush on Peggy Noonan!) long enough to get sick of looking at a bad picture,then it goes back to Fox News.

[FormerACLUmember]

These are folks without the slightest clue. They genuinely do not see their repulsive biases.

[Contra]

They might want to get somebody with a name other than Princell Hair. It's hard to take somebody by that name seriously.

[laweeks]

Just don't get rid of Rudi Bahktiar . . . easy on the eyes

[Common Tator]

There were huge budget problems when Fox news was started.

Roger Ailes had a problem They had no audience yet and most cable systems would not put them on. CNN is paid by every cable system they are on, 25 cents for every subsriber. It matters not if they actually view CNN. CNN gets paid 25 cents a month for every cable subscriber that that can get their channel.

To get on the systems Fox had to agree to be paid nothing for 10 years. So the parent companys had to pay the entire costs until they had enough audience to generate advertising revenues.

Female newscasters are plentyful and they don't get paid as much as men. So Ailes hired females to deliver the news. He hired pretty ones over ugly ones, hoping channel hopping males would stay to watch his news babes.

Babes are cheap and attract the attention of channel flippers.. that is the story. Now everone does it.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I believe the next line includes the phrase, "... let the *^%$*&^@#$er burn."

Burn baby burn!

[Timesink]

You in news anywhere now, Tator?

[martin_fierro]

Sure wish this mush would make up his mind whether he's male or female.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Rush made a point the other day that I hadn't thought about ,as he often does, the picture is just crisper and better on Fox News.CNN and MSNBC don't have the crispness of picture.I'll watch Scarborough and Hardball(I have a crush on Peggy Noonan!) long enough to get sick of looking at a bad picture,then it goes back to Fox News.

I remember Don Imus talking about some sort of technology that has been around for a long time that is built into the studio setup that smudges skin tones, which Imus said, "...makes wrinkled old bastards look younger". Bernie and I believe MSNBC turns it off during his program. LOL

[BigSkyFreeper]

Princell Hair

With a name like that, I bet he got his ass kicked on the playground alot.

[Timesink]

I used to tell my programmers that if I ever tune in and personally like what you are programming, you are just one notch away from being fired.

You should see how much time the "professionals" spend on the various news industry web sites, lavishing embarrassing amounts of praise on Keith Olbermann's show. They absolutely worship it, yet it's the lowest-rated prime time show on all three news channels. And your numbers have to really SUCK to earn bottom place.

[adam_az]

Interestingly enough, when CNN *DOES* figure it out, various and sundry leftists will use it and Fox as examples that "the media is Conservative" and that the liberal media is an invention of the VRWC.

BTW I don't consider Fox News remotely close to conservative. They just don't lie blatantly and intentionally to promote a political agenda as does CNN. If they want to consider relatively unbiased and truthful news reporting as conservative... that's fine by me. :)

[Timesink]

I remember Don Imus talking about some sort of technology that has been around for a long time that is built into the studio setup that smudges skin tones, which Imus said, "...makes wrinkled old bastards look younger". Bernie and I believe MSNBC turns it off during his program. LOL

You mean soft focus? That's been around forever. It's literally just a slight blurring of the image to take the edge off. (Unfortunately, it tends to make everything else in the picture look like some gauzy fabric has been draped over the camera lens. Of course, contemporary digital technology helps make it less noticeable.) If you want to see it in action, watch ANYTHING anchored by Barbara Walters.

[BigSkyFreeper]

CNN was threatened to be dropped off the channel lineup of DISH Network. I was watching the CEO of Echostar, Charlie Ergen, explain that CNN has dismal ratings, no one watches them, and they bear the burden of paying for a channel no one watches. It may have been an idea tossed out there, but I know Charlie Ergen really cares about all of us DISH Network customers by giving them the kind of channels they want at a fair price.

[BigSkyFreeper]

You mean soft focus?

Thanks for jarring my memory, thats what I was thinking of. It's been a decade since I been in television. Mostly doing radio these days.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Personally, it doesn't bother me if they say FOX News is the VRWC of media. FOX consistantly has been kicking ass ratings-wise. :)

Liberals despise success and want to tear it down.

[BigSkyFreeper]

If you want to see it in action, watch ANYTHING anchored by Barbara Walters.

I remember it used back when Hugh Downs and Barbara hosted 20/20, and it's very noticeable on her "private and intimate" interview shows.

[adam_az]

Yes, also notice even when they broadcast the same speech and camera as CNN and MSNBC, on Fox, the colors are always brighter and the picture is crisper.

Fox has video guys with racks of real time gear to tune and sweeten the image. Their audio is also better produced than CNN's.

They got a new makeup artist recently, too.

Also, I think Susan Esterich got some plastic surgery! anyone else notice that?

[StarFan]

Nobody is more interested in what Aaron Brown has to say than Aaron Brown

AND Larry King who introduces Aaron as if he was the second coming. They must be related as there's no plausible reason for Larry's nightly gushing.