-
Why Doesn’t Obama Ban Iranian Press TV? by Kenneth R. Timmerman
The Case of CH2M HILL: $2 Billion in Crony Stimulation by Rusty Weiss
The Truth about George Soros by AIM Staff
Lifting the Veil on WikiLeaks by AIM Staff
The Truth about Al-Jazeera English by Cliff Kincaid
Reaganomics and Obamanomics in the Media and in Reality by Malcolm A. Kline, Don Irvine and Spencer Irvine
How State Budget Battles Could Mean More Criminals Back on the Streets by Michael Tremoglie
Radical Muslims, Environmentalists and the Green Jihad by Mark Musser
Russian-Backed Propaganda Networks Claim Obama is a CIA Agent by Cliff Kincaid
Media Conceal True Nature of Flash Mob Racial Violence by John T. Bennett
NBC’s Mitchell Should Resign Over Telling Gaddafi’s Lies (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Cliff Kincaid
CASA de Maryland: The Illegals’ ACORN by James Simpson
Special Report
The Newswire
Take AIM Podcast
CNN Gives In to Spitzer, Dumps Parker
After months of rumors and on the same day that the New York Post reported that Eliot Spitzer said Kathleen Parker “would be gone within a week,” CNN announced a reformatting of Parker Spitzer that doesn’t include Parker.
Starting tonight the new show will be called “In The Arena” and will feature former Fox News anchor E.D. Hill and former National Review columnist Will Cain and “others within and outside the CNN family,” according to a CNN memo obtained by the New York Times.
I have one word for this change Boring.
Dumping Parker is a half-hearted move on the part of Jautz who for some reason is trying to save a program that was the brainchild of his predecessor Jon Klein. If Jautz was serious about being competitive in the 8 p.m. time slot he should dump the entire show and start over.
Parker was terrible but why the fascination with Spitzer who left office in disgrace? Was that the best CNN could do?
I didn’t realize it was CNN’s job to try and rehabilitate disgraced politicians.
But adding Hill, Cain and other conservatives won’t make the program any more competitive against MSNBC and may even chase viewers away.
All Jautz has to do is look at the programming on Fox and MSNBC to see that the most successful shows are those that have a solo host with a point of view.
Instead of trying to copy that model to compete more effectively Jautz wants to continue down a muddled middle path in an effort to appear more balanced than their competitors.
Until he realizes that playing to the center is a losing strategy in today’s political climate CNN will remain firmly in third place.
I score this one Spitzer 1, CNN 0.
Share This
About the author
Don Irvine is Chairman of Accuracy in Media. He is active on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow him @donirvine to read his latest thoughts.
Related Posts
2 Comments for CNN Gives In to Spitzer, Dumps Parker
So CNN got rid of conservative traitor (Parker) and brought in another conservative (and FOX News) traitor with E.D. Hill who joined the likes of Kirian Chetry and Karen MaGinnis (who did weather on the O and O FOX network in Atlanta).
Can’t be trusted at all.
CNN the COMMUNISTS NEWS NETWORK is stedly losing its top spot and its owned by RED TED TURNER and managed by BIG BAD WOLF BLITZER