None of this will work. People don't want hard news in the mornings that they have to sit down and actually watch; the public is getting ready for work and the TV functions as a glorified radio for them while they're running all over the house. So American Morning is doomed no matter who anchors.
Anderson Cooper's show could work, but not at 7 pm. People aren't ready for quirky at 7 pm. Keith Olbermann is quirky at 8 pm, and his ratings blow.
Paula Zahn simply has a cold, off-setting personality. People don't want to watch her. So her show's dead, especially against O'Reilly.
CNN: One screwed-up channel.
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To: Dont Mention the War
Fox News is winning with its mix of confrontational talk-show hosts like O'Reilly and edgy news anchors like Shepard Smith, but CNN executives say that format is not for them. What icebergs Captain Smith?
2 posted on
07/07/2003 11:53:22 AM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Soddom has left the bunker.)
To: Dont Mention the War
A news channel where Larry King "gets the lion's share of CNN's prime-time ratings" is in deep trouble. King looks about a hundred years old at this point.
3 posted on
07/07/2003 11:54:22 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Dont Mention the War
Instead, they say they're sticking with the one that CNN founder Ted Turner chose two decades ago: objective news.They've got to be kidding...
To: Dont Mention the War
Paula Zahn == sacrificial lamb.
5 posted on
07/07/2003 11:55:45 AM PDT by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: Dont Mention the War
Did you happen to see Paula Zahn when she "hosted" Ann Coulter? Ann had her totally stymied. It was wonderful.
6 posted on
07/07/2003 12:07:26 PM PDT by
sarasota
To: Dont Mention the War
Soledad is hot.
7 posted on
07/07/2003 12:08:55 PM PDT by
JohnnyZ
(I barbeque with Sweet Baby Ray's)
To: Dont Mention the War
How long until Fox brings Rudi Bakhtiar into the fold?
8 posted on
07/07/2003 12:10:09 PM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Dont Mention the War
CNN executives say that format is not for them. It's the format.
That's it! It's the format!
We've got to have a new format.
Maybe if we change our format.
I'll bet it's the format.
We can change the format.
Fox's format is what does it.
But that format's not for us.
Got to find the right format.
Just a few more changes to the format.
We want the same format, but different.
Maybe if we used last year's format...
9 posted on
07/07/2003 12:13:58 PM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Dont Mention the War
Put Rudi, Robin, and Soledad as co-hosts on a show with a "FOX and Friends" type format, and they might have a chance.
10 posted on
07/07/2003 12:19:14 PM PDT by
Russell Scott
(When Christ's Kingdom appears, all of man's problems will disappear.)
To: Dont Mention the War
Never heard of most of these people!! But, any organization the gives Paul Begala employment and expects others to believe that anything Begala says isn't BS, lies, dishonesty or corruption doesn't know what he is doing.
The traditional, weasel left media is just doing fine. It has so many other revenue sources that it doesn't have to be competitive and, it gives them someting and all the lefties, something to whine about.
12 posted on
07/07/2003 12:23:20 PM PDT by
Tacis
To: Dont Mention the War
How many news cookies has Zahn crawled over?? If you handed her a kitten and told her all she had to do was twist it's head off and she would have the prime time slot. I don't think she would even flinch. I call it the dead kitty principle.
I had an aunt that was just like her. Very smug. You got the feeling you were being made fun of the whole time you were talking to her.
To: Dont Mention the War
Former ABC anchor Anderson Cooper now anchors the 7 p.m. ET/4 PT hour
I rememeber when Anderson Cooper was on "Channel One"- my public school's morning indoctrination by television. We had to watch it every morning after we said the pledge of allegiance (yes, we still said it then). It's no surprise that he ended up on CNN.
btw.......If any of your children have to watch this crap like I did (nothing but commie-lib BS and soda commercials. Thanks to great parents I recognized it for what it was even then, which got me sent to the office more than once....) I would suggest that you go have a talk with your school board ASAP.
14 posted on
07/07/2003 12:26:07 PM PDT by
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To: Dont Mention the War
"I'm really not interested in having an anchor ram their opinion down a viewer's throat. I'm more interested in being objective and reporting stories." Well of course you don't ram your opinions down their throats. You slip the knife in sideways, like all good objective liberal journalists. You objectively report everything that Tom Daschle said today, you report on all the press releases from environmentalists and anti-gun crusaders, and you objectively tell us that three professors at Berkeley have pronounced Bush "the most failed President in a hundred years." Hey... it's news. They really said that. No thanks. Rather and Jennings were doing that when you were a zygote. I'd as soon have you tell me flat-out that you're a partisan advocate, and all the stories I'm going to hear today will either highlight items from the DNC's daily talking points memo, or show Republicans throwing homeless grandmothers into the streets. We both know you're going to do that anyway, so why not be up front about it? |
21 posted on
07/07/2003 1:52:10 PM PDT by
Nick Danger
(The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)
To: Dont Mention the War
Bill's already made Larry King his b*tch. Now it's Paula's turn.
24 posted on
07/07/2003 3:44:15 PM PDT by
CholeraJoe
(White Devils for Sharpton. We're baaaaad. We're Nationwide)
To: Dont Mention the War
Instead, they say they're sticking with the one that CNN founder Ted Turner chose two decades ago: objective news.
BWA-HA-HA-HAAAAAA!
Oh man..stop...I'm dyin' here!!!!
This article belongs in the comedy section!
"...objective..." BWA-HA-HA-HAAAAAA!!!!!
(Snort...snuffle...giggle...) No really...what did they REALLY give as an excuse..er expalnation...(snicker)...
26 posted on
07/07/2003 4:31:03 PM PDT by
Itzlzha
(The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote!)
To: Dont Mention the War
Iceberg ramming speed ... aye captian.
31 posted on
07/07/2003 5:49:33 PM PDT by
snooker
To: Dont Mention the War
Seriously, this story needs to come with a laugh track. There are so many unintentional knee-slappers in this report.
CNN will stick to objective news...yeah, like mercury.
32 posted on
07/07/2003 5:49:40 PM PDT by
Tall_Texan
(Half the people you encounter are below average.)
To: Dont Mention the War
I guess they need to shoot up anothe Iraqi guard post. That was the first time I tuned in CNN in over a year. Haven't been back since.
33 posted on
07/07/2003 5:50:54 PM PDT by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
To: Dont Mention the War
"Darn! Lost *another* loan to DiTech!"
"Oh, wait! Am I supposed to be doing hard news this hour?"
34 posted on
07/07/2003 5:53:46 PM PDT by
Tall_Texan
(Half the people you encounter are below average.)
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