Saturday, January 01, 2005
CNN-I's New Hire Starts Job Anchoring CNN-US/I Tsunami Disaster Coverage
Source: Digital Spy One of CNN-I's newest anchors/reporter is getting his feet wet hosting a portion of CNN's continuous coverage of the tsunami disaster. Hugh Riminton, whom CNN recently hired from Australia's Nine Network, is anchoring the dual CNN/US and CNNI broadcasts from Sri Lanka.
CNN-US is providing far stronger tsunami coverage than any other American news services by making extensive use of its 24/7 international news service. CNN has more than a DOZEN reporters/correspondents across the tsunami ravaged area. CNN-US is scheduling hours of live coverage from CNN International this weekend in place of pre-recorded programming such as Next@CNN and People In The News.
BUT oneTVspyer says they have had enough of the continous coverage: "With CNN's neverending boasting about this and patting themselves on the back, this is looking like exploitation for ratings." While another TVspyer says, "Don't even tell me about CNN promoting itself when FOX News Channel for the entire month of December and most of November was running those "Only One" promotions during every single commercial break. Not to mention every single anchor on that network who publishes a book always manages to find some way to promote it on his or her show.
>Also word has it Anderson Cooper is headed to the tsunami ravaged area. UPDATE: Sources say he'll be broadcasting 360° from Sri Lanka starting Monday.
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Crossfire "Whooping" Tabbed Best Slapdown of 2004 By AP
Source: Associated Press BEST SLAPDOWN: Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" appeared on CNN's "Crossfire" and very calmly, very coolly whipped the two co-hosts - lefty Paul Begala and righty Tucker Carlson - into jelly without ever raising his voice or flailing his arms. Brutally uncomfortable, Stewart indicted them for bringing little more than PR spin to American voters. Stewart's best retort (after a pummeled Carlson tells him "Come on, be funny!"): "No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey."
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Welcome to 2005
Friday, December 31, 2004
No Rest For CNN'er's This Holiday Weekend
CNN will bring in the new year with a full weekend of "live" programming. According to the program schedule CNN will be live during the day Saturday, mixing in some CNN-I and CNN-US coverage. The program schedule also shows LIVE coverage during the day Sunday, minus CNN-I.
Schedule for Saturday- All times eastern.
>5:00a.m. CNNI Live Coverage: CNN brings you live coverage of the tsunamis' aftermath.
>6:00a.m.CNNI Live Coverage: CNN brings you live coverage of the tsunamis' aftermath.
>7:00a.m.CNN Saturday Morning: A look ahead at the day's top news and events with Tony Harris and Randi Kaye.
>8:30a.m.House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at the emotional, physical and mental toll of the tsunami disaster.
>9:00a.m.CNN Saturday Morning: A look ahead at the day's top news and events with Tony Harris and Randi Kaye.
>10:00a.m.CNNI Live Coverage: Tune in for stories of survival and the latest developments in the tsunami disaster with CNN International's Hugh Riminton.
>11:00a.m.Live CNN Special Report: Tune in to CNN for live updates on the tsunami disaster, relief efforts, personal stories of survival and the risk of disease.
>12:00p.m.CNN Live Saturday: A look at the day's top stories with Fredricka Whitfield.
>1:00p.m.Live CNN Special Report:CNN brings you the latest developments in the tsunami disaster and looks at stories of survival.
>2:00p.m.CNNI Live Coverage: Tune in for stories of survival and the latest developments in the tsunami disaster with CNN International's Hugh Riminton.
>3:00p.m.Live CNN Special Report: Join us for live reports on the relief efforts and the challenges of rebuilding after the tsunami disaster.
>4:00p.m.Live CNN Special Report: Tune in to CNN for live updates on the tsunami disaster, relief efforts, personal stories of survival and the risk of disease.
>5:00p.m.Live CNN Special Report: CNN brings you the latest developments in the tsunami disaster and looks at stories of survival.
>6:00p.m.CNN Live Saturday: A look at the day's top stories with Fredricka Whitfield.
>7:00p.m.Live CNN Special Report: Join us for live reports on the relief efforts and the challenges of rebuilding after the tsunami disaster.
>8:00p.m. Live CNN Special Report: Tune in to CNN for live updates on the tsunami disaster, relief efforts, personal stories of survival and the risk of disease.
>9:00p.m. Larry King Live: Join Larry for a look at the week's most poignant stories following the tsunami disaster.
>10:00p.m. CNN Saturday Night: A look at the day's top stories with Fredricka Whitfield.
# posted by ATN @ 5:12 PM
AC: No Apology For Showing Graphic Pictures of the Tsunami Disaster
Thursday night in his "The Nth Degree" degree segment Anderson Cooper addressed the issue of many viewer complaints of CNN showing graphic pictures of the dead from the Tsunami disaster. Here's a portion of his comments:
A few of you have e-mailed us, not many, but a few, saying the pictures we've been showing you are too graphic. Now I understand the sentiment, but I hope you know that we don't want to show you these things.
None of us wants to see them. A parent silently screaming over the body of their lost infant. A child lost, searching for parents who may or may not be alive. Rows of bodies being cremated. No one wants to see this.
Yes, these images are terrible to look at, but look at them we should, because these bodies, these people are us. Death has defaced them. The water has done its worst, but in life they were like you or me, teachers and shopkeepers, students and parents, bakers and doctors. People struggling, as we all struggle.
And so very many of them died alone anonymously. They'll go uncelebrated, unremarked on, picked up by bulldozers, buried in pits. They will simply disappear.
And that is why we think, hard as it is, we must make ourselves look. Otherwise, for so very many, it will never -- it will be like they never existed at all.
# posted by ATN @ 1:12 AM
Where Are They Now
Today we feature Claire Shipman. Shipman Shipman began her broadcast career as a production assistant and intern at CNN's bureau in New York. Shipman worked at CNN for a decade. During that time she gained widespread recognition while covering the White House. Shipman previously spent five years at CNN's Moscow bureau, where she won international praise for her coverage of Boris Yeltsin's 1993 assault on the Russian Parliament building.
Shipman's Moscow coverage helped CNN earn a National Headliners Award and her reporting on the aborted Soviet coup and 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union won the network a coveted Peabody Award. She also received a Dupont Award and an Emmy as one of the key contributors to CNN's coverage of the 1989 Tianamen Square student uprising, as well as a Dupont Award for CNN's coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In 1997 Shipman left CNN for NBC. What's Claire doing now? Shipman joined ABCNEWS' Good Morning America as the show's senior national correspondent in May 2001. Shipman also serves as a substitute anchor on the news segments of Good Morning America and contributes to other ABCNEWS programs.
# posted by ATN @ 12:01 AM
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Tsunami Coverage Boosts U.S. Cable Ratings
Source: Reuters CNN gained the most from this week's coverage of the tsunamis that devastated parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, as its total-day viewership Sunday through Wednesday jumped 75 percent compared with the three previous weeks. In prime time only, CNN posted an 81 percent audience spike.
"This is reminding them why they exist," Tyndall said of CNN, which still outpaces Fox News in the scope of its news-gathering resources. "They are much better at reporting than they are at arguing or opinion or debate. Fox cleans their clock when it comes to all that argument stuff."
Fox News viewership was up by a modest 18 percent this week over the rest of the month on a total-day basis (it was down 6 percent in prime time), but Fox still eclipsed CNN by well over 300,000 viewers on average, Nielsen reported.
> Note- Reading some of the message boards, FNC fans claim the reason it fell in numbers during prime-time this week and previous weeks was because the "star" talking heads were absent. Crazy thing this week on CNN ALL of the "star" anchors have been gone and CNN pulled in better than normal ratings.
# posted by ATN @ 8:38 PM
CNN-International on CNN-US Overnight, Tonight
It seems the CNN webmasters are very slow to update the program schedule, anyway CNN will simulcast CNN-International on the domestic channel at 11pm eastern and at 3am eastern. AC/360 will once again be 2 hours, followed by Larry King Live and News Night.
# posted by ATN @ 5:39 PM
More Praise For CNN's Tsunami Disaster Coverage
Source: Fall's Church News-Press Sincere kudos to the media, with CNN taking the lead in this case, for giving the epochal disaster in Asia the attention it deserves. It was at about 8 p.m. on Christmas night, East Coast time, when the underwater earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, a 9.0 on the Richter scale, set off the mammoth "tsunami" tidal surge that swept across the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, wiping out what may exceed 100,000 lives in a matter of moments.
The numbers, too staggering to imagine, could more than double by the time a full inventory is taken of all the stricken areas, and the water-borne diseases arising from contamination take their toll.
The first reports of the event indicated a few hundred fatalities, but as more very scattered and sketchy accounts began to roll in, the profile of something far more ominous began to emerge. With the benefit of satellite access to initial streaming images of the holocaust, CNN led other 24-hour news organizations in a news blitz that left the major network operations, snoozing over a holiday weekend, in the proverbial dust.
Thanks to CNN, it was not difficult for governments to mobilize major relief efforts within hours of the catastrophe. By yesterday, only four days after the tsunami hit, over $225 million had been raised from the international community for the relief effort, the most in such a short period of time, according to United Nations officials, in history. The story has remained the focus of the virtually undivided attention at CNN since, as well it should be. It has dwarfed any single tragic event in our lifetimes.
# posted by ATN @ 5:13 PM
CNN-International Is As Close As Your Computer
There is a webstream available for CNN-International. You will find the stream HERE. It seems to be a slow stream but it works.
# posted by ATN @ 2:52 PM
An Interview With CNN-I's Chris Cramer
Source: TV Newser TV Newser interviewed CNN-I Managing Editor Chris Cramer on the network's coverage of the tsunami disaster. Here are some quotes from the interview:
"Obviously we have quite a formidable bureau structure in that part of the world, as a matter of routine -- Because we're a global network, not just an American network, we have bureaus all over that region. When the news broke...we deployed our correspondent from Bangkok and correspondents and producers from New Dehli. We also deployed correspondents from London, and as of this morning, have 13 correspondents in the region, and 60 staff members."
"I was traveling around Atlanta yesterday and I observed people watching TV screens, and I was pleased to see they were watching CNN...People [were] paying much more attention. This is an earth-shattering event, and this is a remarkable TV event."
# posted by ATN @ 12:44 PM
Should Carlson Have His Own Prime-time Gig
Source: Film Stew.com Lisa Johnson with Film Stew.com thinks adding Carlson to the prime-time lineup " could be just what the doctor ordered." But once again the question is who would Carlson replace? You'll find the article HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 12:32 PM
CNN's Purpose: Deliver the News
Source: WSJ Opinion Journal Peggy Noonan writes about the tsunami disaster coverage: "The cable news networks distinguished themselves, and CNN in particular has been fabulous, wall to wall. News ennobles them. When there's no news CNN is endless chatter, tacky as cheap sets. Then news comes and they are reminded of why they exist: to tell us what's happening, to get the newest and latest. It's as if the anchors sit straighter, knowing they do have a purpose beyond being the aural screen saver on our TV."
# posted by ATN @ 12:24 AM
Where Are They Now
Roger Cossack is in today's "Where Are They Now" spotlight. While at CNN, Cossack co-hosted the daily legal news program Burden of Proof. At CNN, he also provided commentary on a variety of legal issues, including the 2000 presidential recount, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Prior to CNN, Cossack was a prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office where he tried local and federal cases in more than 20 states. He has also served as a defense counsel and argued U.S. vs. Leon in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1984. So what's Roger doing now? Well he joined Court TV as an anchor in 2002. He serves as a substitute host for the daytime program Open Court, and contributes analysis to the network's legal news specials.
# posted by ATN @ 12:00 AM
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Is It Live or Memorex?
I have recieved several e-mails asking if the CNN-International broadcasts CNN-US has been carrying are "Live" or "taped." I am told by folks who regularly view CNN-International that that the majority if not ALL of the programs broadcast on CNN-I are "Live." Unlike here in the US where we constantly see a "Live" bug at the top of the screen, CNN-I only throws the "Live" bug up when a reporter is out in the field filing a report. This is the same thing my local news channels do during their newscasts. So yes, the broadcasts are "Live." I guess that's one of many difference's between CNN-US and CNN-I.
# posted by ATN @ 11:17 PM
CNN Wins Key Demo Tuesday Prime-time
Source: TV Newser Thanks to its tsunami disaster coverage, CNN's Tuesday primetime outperformed FNC in the 25-54 demo for the first time in five months, according to Nielsen ratings data. Between 8 and 11pm, CNN averaged 592,000 viewers in the coveted demographic, while FNC averaged 534,000.
In the 8pm hour, CNN beat FNC by 16% in the demo. In the 9pm hour, CNN had a 63% advantage -- 705,000 viewers to Fox's 433,000. CNN increased its primetime 25-54 demo ratings by 189% over its prior three-week Tuesday average, while FNC declined 9%, according to the network.
Among total viewers, CNN averaged 1,472,000 viewers in primetime, up 89% over its prior three-week Tuesday average. FNC averaged 1,794,000 viewers, down 13% from the same average.
Also: Headline News averaged 275,000 total viewers on Tuesday, up 40% over its prior three-week Tuesday average and outperforming MSNBC by 34%, which averaged 205,000 viewers.
# posted by ATN @ 6:00 PM
More CNN-International for CNN-US Viewers Tonight
CNN-International will be simulcasted overnight again tonight on CNN-US. BUT there's a different twist to the schedule tonight as there will be NO repeat of Larry King Live. CNN-US will join CNN-I after News Night at 11pm eastern THEN at midnight eastern the special two hour edition of Anderson Cooper 360 will be re-ran, THEN CNN-I coverage will air at 2am then at 3am eastern Anderson Cooper 360 is scheduled to repeat again.
UPDATE: Well CNN noticed it made a mistake and omitted LKL from the repeats overnight so the schedule has been updated. I know Larry King Live is CNN's number program BUT isn't it about time for him to retire?
# posted by ATN @ 3:54 PM
CNN's Rising "Star"?
Has anyone noticed that all of CNN's "stars"are off this week? Nearly all the American Morning crew is off, along with Wolf Blitzer, Judy Woodruff, Lou Dobbs, Paula Zahn, Larry King(he did work Monday though), and Aaron Brown. Who's the star this week? Could it be news is the star? For heaven's sake Tucker Carlson is hosting News Night and CNN is letting CNN-International air overnight. I think if there is one rising star this week it's NEWS.
# posted by ATN @ 1:21 PM
Year End Data: CNN Has More "Unique Viewers" While Fox Has Higher Ratings; HLN outperforms MS and CNBC During Day
Source: Multichannel News No new numbers here, just a re-hash of the numbers from Tuesday. While Fox still takes home the ratings trophy CNN still has more "unique viewers. CNN Tuesday was touting its reach advantage among cable-news networks in 2004, claiming to have had a double-digit lead over Fox News and MSNBC in total unique viewers and a key demographic on an average monthly basis.
Citing data from Nielsen, CNN said it attracted 11% more unique viewers two years and older than Fox News and 32% more than MSNBC. CNN averaged 63.175 million, Fox News had 57.122 million and MSNBC 47.873 million.
In addition, CNN garnered 11% more unique viewers 25-54 than Fox News and 27% more than MSNBC. In that demographic, CNN averaged 29.909 million, Fox News had 26.994 million and MSNBC 23.543 million.
Here are some some new #'s for Headline News: In addition, Headline outperformed MSNBC and CNBC in total viewers during the day. Headline averaged 213,000, MSNBC had 201,000 and CNBC had 207,000.
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CNN Wants To Hear From You
As CNN-US continues it's simulcasting of CNN-International, anchors Richard Quest and Monita Rajpal want viewer's thoughts on the Tsunami disaster. E-mail your comments to tsunami@cnn.com
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Where Are They Now
Today we feature CNN Veteran Charles Feldman. Charles was a CNN correspondent based in New York City from 1983 to 1994 and the network's Los Angeles Bureau from 1994 to 2004. He has focused his reporting on organized crime and terrorism and has done extensive investigative work on a variety of topics. Charles covered the World Trade Center bombing with a series of investigative reports and also covered the lengthy federal trial of the men accused of the bombing. Additionally, he was instrumental in the network's coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. What's Charles up to now? In June 2004 Charles joined Hollywood's KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO as a reporter.
# posted by ATN @ 12:00 AM
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
CNN Sending in Re-Inforcements
It seems CNN is slowly moving in more correspondents/reporters to the tsunami ravaged area. CNN's Senior Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta arrived and reported Live from Sri Lanka during News Night Tuesday night. Gupta joins a slew of CNN staff already in the region that have been reporting the latest developments since Sunday. UPDATE: According to Variety(sub req'd) Gupta joins seven other CNN reporters in the region: four in Sri Lanka, two in Thailand and one in India. Fox News sent only two reporters and crews to the beaches, as did NBC, whose Baghdad reporter, Kevin Sites, had been on vacation in Thailand.
BTW, if you've enjoyed the overnight simulcasting of CNN-International on CNN-US the past couple of nights why not send CNN a "thank you." You can do that by going HERE. And while you're at it, tell them to start programming CNN-I overnight, everynight on CNN-US.
# posted by ATN @ 10:19 PM
CNN Ratings Increase During Tsunami Disaster Coverage
Source: TV Newser CNN's extensive coverage of the tsunami disaster has significantly boosted its ratings, according to data provided by the network. In primetime on Monday, CNN averaged 1,351,000 viewers, up 69% from its prior three-week Monday average. Fox News averaged 1,615,000 total viewers during the same hours, down 22% from its average. In total day, CNN averaged 717,000 total viewers, up 69% over its prior three-week Monday average.
On Sunday, CNN averaged 422,000 total viewers, up 27% over its prior three-week Sunday average. In primetime, CNN averaged 628,000, up 26%. The ratings for Headline News have also increased.
# posted by ATN @ 8:56 PM
Tsunami Coverage: CNN Is Doing What It Does Best-NEWS
Source: Slate Slate's Dana Stevens seems to think CNN is doing what it does best--NEWS. Steven's writes, "In the quake coverage of the past few days, one cable news network has pulled ahead of the others in both the scope and quality of its reporting—CNN. The network that pioneered the concept of 24-hour cable news has had trouble competing with Fox News when it comes to personality journalism. But when it comes to journalistic chops, CNN provides disaster coverage that's consistently informative, seldom tasteless, and almost never altogether stupid." Read the complete article HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 6:25 PM
More End of the Year Ratings Numbers
Source: Multichannel News Fox News Channel outperformed its four cable-news rivals combined -- Cable News Network, MSNBC, CNBC and CNN Headline News -- in primetime this year. Fox News averaged 1.668 million viewers in primetime in 2004, CNN averaged 855,000 viewers in primetime, while MSNBC had 374,000, CNBC had 161,000 and Headline had 212,000. The four networks’ combined averages totaled 1.602 million, less than Fox News.
CNN Has More Unique Viewers
Source: TvNewser
>The CUME: "CNN attracted 11% more unique P2+ viewers than FNC and 32% more than MSNBC," and 11% more viewers than FNC in the 25-54 demo.
>"CNN was most-watched in both red states and blue states on Election Day (6am - 6am), reaching 20.2 million total viewers in red states and 18.5 million total viewers in blue states."
# posted by ATN @ 5:54 PM
Year End Ratings Analysis: Second Place Again for CNN
Source: TV Newser It should be no surprise that Fox News Channel is at the top of list when looking at the year-end ratings. CNN only had 1 program in the top ten most watched cable news programs. And is it any surprise the program is Larry King Live. News Night is CNN's second most watched program followed by Wolf Blitzer Reports and Paula Zahn Now.
TV Newser has posted the complete list HERE. You'll see for the most part FNC's programs are at the top of the list CNN in the middle, MSNBC next to the last and CNBC at the bottom. Oh yea, CNN-HLN is in there, mixed in with MSNBC and CNBC.
# posted by ATN @ 3:47 PM
More CNN-International For CNN-US Viewers
Knock me down and call me Sally, CNN-US will be programming CNN-International overnight tonight. Looking at the schedule it seems we should follow the same format as last night. CNN is going to spoil us aren't they.
# posted by ATN @ 2:28 PM
CNN-Hong Kong Anchor Shuffle
Source: CNN PR Stan Grant, currently based at CNN's regional headquarters in Hong Kong, has been appointed Beijing Correspondent; his anchor/correspondent position in Hong Kong is succeeded by Hugh Riminton, a veteran journalist who joins CNN from The Nine Network in Australia.
Starting January, Grant will join Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime Florcruz and take up his new position responsible for CNN's coverage of China; Riminton will co-anchor the daily show CNN TODAY with Kristie Lu Stout from CNN's regional headquarters in Hong Kong.
# posted by ATN @ 12:28 PM
First of Four Events To Recognize 25th Anniversary Planned For Next Month
Source: Indian Television CNN is to focus on the powerful and political in a week of special programming in CNN Connects: Power Redefined from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This is the first of four special events recognizing CNN's 25th anniversary. CNN's five days of the World Economic Forum coverage will run from 26 January to 30 January, 2005.
Hosted by Jim Clancy, Power Redefined will be in front of an invited audience of business executives, academics and politicians to tackle the questions: Who has it, who wants it, who can bestow it and who can take it away?
In 2005, CNN will celebrate its 25th anniversary and the creation of the 24-hour television news. The anniversary will be marked with special global events including four landmark CNN Comments programs that tackle issues facing the world in the decades to come.
# posted by ATN @ 12:22 PM
NYP:Coverage Of the Tsunami The real Disaster
Source: New York Post Linda Stasi with the New York Post seems unimpressed by coverage of the tsunami disaster. But then again why would anybody at the NYP think positive about anything? Oh well she mentions a bit about CNN in her article.
Take CNN. Please. Yesterday morning, Rush Limbaugh's (yes), girlfriend, anchor Daryl Kagan, had a seismologist on to discuss the deadly tsunami. She actually asked him what, as a scientist, fascinated him most about the tsunami. Huh?
A "Is Chicken of the Sea chicken or tuna?" moment if ever there was one. We're talking thousands of dead, including children! Get a grip, or better yet, get a reality check.
Kagan then switched with the speed of light to sprightly "reporting" of airport delays with "No eggnog! No tree! No presents!" for some unlucky passengers. What had she done — hit her boyfriend's leftover stash of drugs?
# posted by ATN @ 5:40 AM
Where Are They Now
Today we feature Bill Delaney. From 1998-2002, Delaney was CNN's Boston bureau chief. He served as CNN's Berlin bureau chief from 1995-98, covering the war in Bosnia, neo-Nazis and their opponents in Germany, economic crises in Europe and the death of Princess Diana. As the chief correspondent in CNN's Jerusalem Bureau, from 1992-1995, he reported from Israel during the middle of the Palestinian uprising until two and a half years later following the Oslo Agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians.Prior to joining CNN, Delaney worked as a South American correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor Television. He also worked for five years as a Latin American correspondent for ABC News.Delaney won a 2000 Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of a major earthquake in Colombia. He also received a CableACE Award for CNN's coverage of the 1996 Russian elections. What's Bill doing now? Earlier this year, Bill was at WBUR in Boston where he served as co-host of the station's Here and Now program. But in May 2004 Bill left WBUR and that leaves us still wondering, what's he doing now?
# posted by ATN @ 12:00 AM
Monday, December 27, 2004
Is Carlson All Tuckered Out at CNN?
Well Crossfire co-host Tucker Carlson is getting an opportunity this week to show he is worthy of staying at CNN. Carlson is subbing for Aaron Brown on News Night this week and everyone is watching to see if he is worthy of having a slot in CNN's prime-time. For the folks that have been asleep the past couple of weeks MSNBC is attempting to woo Carlson for his very own prime-time program on that network. Carlson's contract is up at CNN on Friday.(12/31) I say let Carlson go to MSNBC. Heck, it's very difficult to take him seriously doing a program like News Night after you've watched him for years doing nothing but screaming on Crossfire. CNN cut Carlson's strings loose and let him go.
I will say this, CNN needs to make up it's mind in what direction it wants to go in. Does CNN want news in prime-time OR does it want to do nothing more than newstainment like those other so called 'news channels' ?
# posted by ATN @ 11:00 PM
Who Got Caught With Their Mouth Open This Year?
Newsblues has compiled all of it's Daily Noteable Quotes from the past year. Don't worry they are free for all to read!
Here's one of my favorites from the list:
(October 15)"I have been advised to keep my big mouth shut, and I have promised to do that."Bill O'Reilly
Maybe I should buy Bill some duct tape.
Here's one of my favorites from the list:
(October 15)"I have been advised to keep my big mouth shut, and I have promised to do that."Bill O'Reilly
Maybe I should buy Bill some duct tape.
# posted by ATN @ 7:12 PM
What's This I See On The CNN-US Overnight Schedule?
Well I must say someone at CNN Center is reading the blog and giving us what we want: LIVE NEWS from CNN-International in the "wee hours" of the morning. Check it out, CNN-US is scheduled to carry CNN-International coverage of the tsunamis' aftermath from 11pm eastern to midnight, 1am to 3am eastern and then will carry CNN-I AGAIN from 4am til 5am eastern. Thank you very much. Like I've said before, make this a permanant change to the overnight schedule and CNN will never be caught with it's pants down during the overnight hours.
NOTE: Just noticed there will be no Paula Zahn Tonight, tonight. Instead there will be a special 2 hour Anderson Cooper 360. Hmmm.....let the questions and the rumors begin circulating.
# posted by ATN @ 5:30 PM
NEW DEVELOPMENT...NEW DEVELOPMENT...NEW DEVELOPMENT
Is this going to become CNN's version of the FOX NEWS ALERT? It seems someone at CNN has gone wild and is playing with the graphics. As CNN continues to cover developing news in the aftermath of the weekend quake and tsunamis, a BIG "NEW DEVELOPMENT" banner has been splashed on the screen several times. Maybe this CNNFan forum poster knows more than we do about new CNN President Jon Klein's plans to butcher up the graphics. All I have to say is, LEAVE THE GRAPHICS ALONE.
# posted by ATN @ 12:43 PM
Cable News Nets Get Competition on the War Front from the Pentagon "News" Channel
Source: World Peace Herald It seems the Pentagon has created it's very own 24-hour news channel. Created with $6 million in congressional funds, (taxpayer money) the Pentagon Channel earlier this year began airing full coverage of defense press conferences and other programming targeted at U.S. troops.
"We carry all of the briefings from start to finish with no editorial content," said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Allison Barber. "We realized that we didn't have a good way to provide news here in the States," said Miss Barber, adding that major commercial networks often ignore certain troop-sensitive stories, such as press conferences on vaccines or personnel changes.
# posted by ATN @ 12:21 PM
CNN-US and CNN-International--Do You Know the Difference?
Source: Washington Post DC Post contributer Jerry V. Haines shows the simalarities and differences of CNN-US and CNN-International in an essay in Monday's Post. Here's an exerpt from the article:
As my wife and I have traveled throughout the world, we have found CNNI practically everywhere, and thus foreign travel has become like a series of family reunions. It's an extended family, though. While wacky Uncle Larry always comes to these things, there are distant cousins here, too -- friendly enough, but talking about issues we only sort of remember from World Civ.
CNNI news stories are more worldwide in scope than those at home, even on our network news: much more on African issues, for example, or train crashes in Turkey, or elections in Indonesia. But where's the Scott Peterson trial? Have these people never heard of "The Apprentice" or Joe Gibbs? And what is this unhealthy preoccupation with soccer?
Nigel Pritchard of the network's public relations office estimates that only about 3 percent of CNNI's worldwide audience consists of American expats. Rather, the service is directed generally to the English-speaking populations of the countries we're visiting.
About 90 percent of CNNI's programming is produced exclusively for the international network. Most of the remainder consists of material shared with CNN's domestic service: "Larry King Live," for instance, or "NewsNight with Aaron Brown," or on weekends Wolf Blitzer's "Late Edition." (True to his program's name, King is aired live even overseas, contributing to travelers' disorientation when they see him at sunrise in some distant time zone.) Newscasts are CNNI's own, except for breaking news, when CNNI may simulcast domestic CNN or vice versa. Some CNNI news stories may have an American core but, Pritchard says, often they must be expanded to provide context for viewers unfamiliar with the subject or to explain certain American colloquialisms.
# posted by ATN @ 12:37 AM
Coverage of the Monster Quake
I am referring to several sources for info on how CNN-US covered the massive earthquake that sparked the Tsunamis.
TV Newser wrote: CNN correspondent Aneesh Raman in Thailand was a major contributor to CNN's initial coverage. The network also relied on Suhasini Haidar in New Delhi and Satinder Bindra in Sri Lanka. CNN.com is the only major news site posting original reporting by its correspondents -- Fox, NBC, ABC, and CBS replied on wire copy on Sunday morning.
Some Media Line message board posters weren't impressed with CNN-US's delayed response: I found it interesting that nearly an hour and a half after this story broke, CNN is still running pretaped repeats of the snowstorm, travel woes and over and over again, the story about the guy handing out $$ at a homeless shelter BUT Fox News is running live with it including a phoner.... I guess I know where to tune for now on in breaking news situation. CNN....Crappy News Network.
Meanwhile, I caught some of CNN's coverage Sunday and was really impressed at the number of reporters/correspondents CNN moved into the area. Right now as I speak CNN-US is airing CNN-International's coverage of events in the countries affected by the tsunamis. It really bugs me that CNN doesn't air CNN-International overnight all the time.
Note: Remember the music CNN-US used as a bumper during hurricane coverage this past summer? Well it seems the same bumper music is being used on CNN-International as part of the tsunami disaster coverage. And yes this is the same music folks claim CNN stole from Fox as FNC used the music for it's Laci Peterson coverage.
Update 02:04a.m. Eastern- Looks as though CNN-US will stick with CNN-International coverage the remainder of the early morning hours until it's time for Daybreak at 4:00a.m. Eastern. It's bedtime for me. Have a good Monday.
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