CNN Prez Tells Staff to Stop Booking Talk Radio Hosts - 'They Just Add to the Noise.'
Although we didn't get rid of Lou Dobbs, it looks like the stink we raised is having an impact. From today's Mediabistro.com:
Exclusive: TVNewser has learned, and a CNN spokesperson confirms, that in his morning editorial meeting today, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts. "Complex issues require world class reporting," Klein is quoted as saying, adding that talk radio hosts too often add to the noise, and that what they say is "all too predictable."
One of CNN's longtime show hosts, Lou Dobbs, hosts a daily radio show. A few political contributors also host radio shows including Bill Bennett and Roland Martin. They are presumably not affected by this.
But this means other talk radio hosts who appear regularly on CNN, probably won't in the near future including names like Stephanie Miller, Michael Medved, and Ben Ferguson.
... it's the absence of factual content.
This is nothing more than Klein pretending to do something while still sucking off Lou Dobbs.
!!!
Some stuff you can't make up!
Is this the same network that instructed its staff in 2001 "to balance images of civilian devastation in Afghan cities with reminders that the Taliban harbors murderous terrorists, saying it 'seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan'"?
http://www.fair.org/activism/cnn-casualties.html
CNN needs to make a committment to practice journalism , not modify its propaganda techniques. This changes nothing. I still wouldn't belive the Clownact Noise Network if it told me that the sky is very often blue.
You keep the ones that will follow the company line! The rest can go!
republicanism is a mental illness!
any credibility, they would have people like Sen. Harkin on more
the tv clown act of his own show. He could follow Uncle Buck's example and make a cardboard mask of himself and stick it on some poor overweight guy who has been offered free meals to sit there in the seat.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
"All too predictable" is Newspeak for "all too unpredictable" and uncontrollably off-message. I think this decision is self-serving and not at all a matter of bowing to outside pressure. This would explain why exceptions will be made for radio personalities who can color inside the lines.
they want to slip the corporate line in silently without people figuring it out
It's the same false equivalency comedy routine. We need FACTS, not just reasonable-sounding shills for right-wing talking points.
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Some stuff you can't make up!
that would matter to me are:
1) Fire Lou Dobbs
2) Fire Wolf "Mommy I want to go home, I might get gassed" Blitzer
3) Get out of "news entertainment" and turn the network into the Film Noir Network (FNN)
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
We turned on the fan!
Beck advertisers bail. Dobbs advertisers bail. Grassley and Palin keep stoking the flames.
We shall prevail!
Oh and Susie THANK YOU for the piece on Obama's 10 failures on Health Care! It is your best!
... but the media isn't getting the picture.
We want facts, not bloviating gasbags.
what C&L would do to attract us commenters were it not for bloviating gasbags.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
You're not here because of my winning personality?
/snark
The late Willie Morris in his autobiography North Towards Home, describes how he hired northern liberal writer Robert Sherrill to cover the Texas Legislature while Morris edited the Texas Observer. "Sherill came to scoff. The reason he stayed so long is there was so much to scoff at."
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
... the Texas Observer for Jim Hightower and Molly Ivins. (My wife grew up in San Antonio/Galveston.)
When Molly wrote in Texan (as opposed to English) it was hilarious. When Hightower tried it he could not hide his sanctimonius soul behind a patently phony schtick. And he became a radio talk show host, too.
Or tried to be one, I should say.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
As long as there are commentators here we'll have plenty of bloviating gasbags. ;)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I resemble that...
Any other questions, ricky? lol
Your "subject" line along with your comment creates all sorts of jokes in my head and I think I better leave those jokes right where they are. :)
Plus I have no idea what exactly you are talking about so that even makes it funnier.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I guess I should have been more...uh..what's the word?
Wordy?
I'm afraid I've already given all of this way too much thought because I just fell asleep sitting right here in front of my computer.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
with the author of same does not appeal to my prurient interests.
Update: I did not post fast enough. Even though she does not understand, my comment was not aimed at pop.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
shut them ALL down.
Want to send a message to EVERYONE...media...government...pundits. STOP CONSUMING. Sacrifice. No I-Tunes, no tvs, no cars...nothing. Buy essentials ONLY.
You won't have to do it for long. Capitalists are pussies. They can't bear to have a bad week, much less a bad month.
Hit them hard. Hit them where it hurts. Turn off your tvs...and email...EVERYONE. Representatives, the networks, the pundits...EVERYONE.
The point made last nite on MSNBC is correct. 12 million people are enough of a minority to keep this shit going. Well...WE are the silent majority. Let's show them what happens when you piss off 30 million people. Spread the message.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
next Thursday.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Patience, my son. Patience.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Last night I posted a complete list of Glenn Becks sponsers, the biggest being UPS.
I have contacted UPS and informed them that as a small business owner I will no longer ship with them and I will request each of my manufacturers to not ship my freight via UPS.
Good on YOU!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
USPS anyway
USPS doesn't do "freight", but FedEx does along with an endless number of freight companies.
But Ben Franklins ghost came to me and said to put in a plug ;P
shut them ALL down.
Want to send a message to EVERYONE...media...government...pundits. STOP CONSUMING. Sacrifice. No I-Tunes, no tvs, no cars...nothing. Buy essentials ONLY.p>
For eight years I have not watched tv, I shop at thrift stores, I buy American, getting myself as far off the grid as you can while living in a city.
BUY AMERICAN! It can be done!
http://allusaclothing.com/carhartt_made_in_am...
MAKE U.S. MADE CARHARTT THE NEW FASHION STATEMENT!!!
HS&M makes all their clothing here in the US and uses union labor. They are about the last one of their kind left. They need and deserve our support for their investment.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
which is to relentlessly attack all things progressive and all things Democratic or democratic.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I am glad they learned their lesson. Let us go back to watching Rick Sanchez get tased.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7tMs2udBbQ
Medved and Ferguson are no great loss but Stephanie Miller is smart and funny. Oh, well, she'll still be booked with some regularity on the Ed Show.
(and, I don't watch CNN anymore, anyway. Ever since they refused to run the ads promoting health care reform.)
continue to run ads against health care reform that are full of lies!
I use to watch CNN sometimes but it is extremely rare these days. It was a process of watching less and less as they became more and more like fox jr. I must admit I even liked lou dobbs at one time. When he toyed with standing for the working man against the corporations and observing the constitution. I see his show as just a more extreme example of what has happened to their network as a whole.
Frankly it is basically cartoons on all the networks anymore because they have decided the insane rantings of cartoon like conservatives with cartoon like ideas of reality is worthy of "equal time". Liberal media my *ss, reasonable is not even a standard anymore.
anyway so screw them.
None of the so called news channels spew anything but corporate propaganda (right wing bullshit) so I'll continue to not watch any of them
"Complex issues require world class reporting," Klein is quoted as saying,"
Explain how Candy Crowley fits your definition of world class.
What pool of excellence was Wolf Blitzer dredged out of?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
... should involve FACTS, n'est-ce pas, M'sieur Klein?
Facts aren't always friendly things.
BREAKING NEWS: Your organization hasn't done any reporting in years, Mr. Klein. Proof of that is the fact that it took you until 2009 to realize that talk show hosts don't contribute anything meaningful to policy discourse.
By the way, President Kennedy has been shot.
I couldn't care less
I never watch the BS infotainment channels - not since the 2004 debacle.
Scrooo Dobbs and scrooo CNN, MSNBC, and the rest.
Imagine if people got fed up enough to stop watching this kind of crap on the TV?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
America's Biggest Losers?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
... shit like Twitter and Facebook are gaining prominence. It's because we're fundamentally incapable of existing in a private space.
That private space used to be where we could consider things and formulate our own opinions. Now, it's just non-stop blather and expert opinion.
We don't think anymore, and our media reflects that.
on these threads. Godbless.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
true.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Actually I don't need a radio person telling me what to think, I kinda like to do my own thinking. I'm selfish that way.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Yes, but you do realize that you may be a member of an ever shrinking crowd.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Am I an endangered species? Where's my Federal protection then?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The Endangered Species Act is not enforced to protect Flora and her cousin Fawnna. It is there to allow more gummint intrusion on sacred private property rights.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
So Flora and Fawnna are in some sort of danger? I better let them know because today is their market shopping day.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
A majority of voters elected a BLACK MAN as president.
Republicans (Conservatives) really MESSED THINGS UP.
People want to do the right thing.
Every person has a "smell test" monitor in his or her own brain.
Invading Iraq was a BIG MISTAKE.
George W. Bush STOLE the 2000 election.
American health care is not the best... it's the most expensive.
Conservatives aren't smarter... they're just LOUDER.
Publicly LYING about important issues is bad for the LIAR.
THERE WILL BE HEALTH CARE REFORM... and Obama will OWN IT.
wish it would stop.
More worthless lip service from the Corporate News Network. CNN raise the bar of journalism? What a laugh. This act is worthless symbolism-good intentions are not necessarily good deeds. If they were serious they would start by firing Wolfie Blitzkrieg, Glenn Yeck, and Lou Slobbs. But of course they won't, might deplete the EPS for the shareholders you know!
There money grubbing greedmeisters are truly pathetic.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
"The Most
TrustedDelusional Name in News ..."... CNN would have to hire the entire staff of the Columbia Journalism Review and DemocracyNow just to get started ...
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
You must check your free thinking at the door but you can take your loaded gun inside with you.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I am notifying all my TV newsers that I will not be watching any
guest commenters who are not obviously packing.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Atta boy! The bigger the gun, the more attention you will pay to them. It's the patriotic American way.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Or, when he "clarifies", he'll insist he only meant LEFT wing talkers. Bets anyone?
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
So I guess simplistic issues like WMDs, Niger Uranium, the Downing Street Memo, the August 6th PDB, the US Attorney firings, Jack Abramoff, the Sept. 11th Attacks, etc. only required shitty, provincial, third-rate reporting, eh?
all they have to do is find some "world class reporters" to join the couple they occasionally have on.
I don't see how this helps.
They will just lump the few liberals who actually know the facts and are reasonable and represent the position of 75 of the country in with the rightwing liars, who pull shit out of their ass, and have never been right about anything.
They will then fill the void with GOP corporate fascist liars.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Of course, the gasbags will scream that this is censorship. But then is it really censorship to tell someone to stop screaming "fire" in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire ? Is it censorship to "uninvite" guests who only hate, lie, slander, incite and make stuff up ?
((( "Complex issues require world-class reporting," Klein is quoted as saying... )))
Well, that would eliminate CNN as a source for the reporting. Until Lou Dobbs is gone, CNN can't begin to patch together what little remains of its tattered credibility. This move is just subterfuge to deflect from the damage that Dobbs has done to their former reputation as "the most trusted name in news."
this is great news and a start, so the CNN racists can't continue to spew their habitual lies on Dobb's farce of a show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUXdWCq5kk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This douche bag is right, it does call for world reporting that is why I am sure Klein will fire Wolf Blizter, John King, Candy Crowley and Jessica Yellen to name a few. Their idea of world class reporting is just spewing republican talking points while never challenging the validity of what the republicans are saying. Rather preferring to give the lies credence
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