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Talk show hosts are now persona non grata at CNN.
From TV Newser
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.
Successful talk show hosts are entertainers not journalists or policy experts. Banning them may give CNN a more serious tone, but t doesn’t immediately result in the world class reporting the network is seeking. If Klein is serious then he will need to clean house and hire some world class reporters.
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3 Comments for CNN Drops Talk Show Hosts As Guests
Statement in the article:
“… Successful talk show hosts are entertainers not journalists or policy experts …”
Exactly correct.
And their whole purpose is antithetical to any notion of traditional news reporting or objective commentary. In most cases, they preach to their own choirs and add nothing but partisan provocation and controversy.
The main stream media, aka Obama lapdogs, aren’t to be taken seriously in any case. Had George Bush been associated with Willaim Ayres, Bernadette Dorhn, “Rev” Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Louis Farrakhan, ad nauseum, he would never been elected POTUS or would have been impeached before his first 100 days. Yet, these Hussein minions continue to beat the drums for him. They are worthless. Unseal your documents, fraud-in-chief Pinocchio. So sad what this great country has stooped to thanks to the ignorance of the sheeple.
Let us also not forget Clark Howard on HLN. Howard is consumer talk radio host for WSB AM in Atlanta.