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CNN Losing Their Stars |
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Stars? |
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06/03/2005 |
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Judy Woodruff's departure is just the latest in the loss of stars who made CNN the big dog.
You can't beat somebody with nobody. We're gonna get two more hours of Wolf Blitzer? He's a good guy but how much of Wolf can we take?
Crossfire also goes away today to be replaced by more Wolf. Crossfire could and should have been improved rather than dumped. CNN's top managers allowed themselves to be run off by a comedian, and to dump the show. To be replaced by more long packages? Yawn.
CNN's institutional memory is getting dangerously shallow. Earlier this week, when the Deep Throat story broke, it took CNN too long to find people who were grown-ups during Watergate. They finally found Jeff Greenfield. Bill Schneider was not a journalist back then and said so. The worst was with Jeffrey Tubin who had to admit on the air that he was 14 when Watergate hit.
It is said CNN did not try very hard to keep Judy. Who is her replacement? More Wolf. What happens when Wolf is sick?
You can't beat somebody with nobody. This may look good to the bottom line, saving 6 figures. But viewers like me are being chased away to MSNBC. |
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"Inside Politics" was a dinosaur that needed to go.
Their coverage of the 2004 election was a disgrace. I for one will not miss Judy Woodruff as she fades to deserved obscurity. As for "Crossfire", it had become a self parody. Jon Stewart can't get all the credit for killing it, but he deserves everyone's thanks for pointing out its absurdity. His show has more credibility than 90% of the programming on CNN.
I stopped watching CNN (the other cable channels aren't any better, but CNN had a reputation for quality at one time). It wasn't a comedian that brought them down,it was trying to outFox the competion, it was a losing gambit.
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