Saturday, October 08, 2005
CNN Shuffles Sunday Schedule
CNN has shuffled its Sunday lineup just a bit. According to the program schedule Reliable Sources is now a full hour beginning at 10am ET and Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer will begin at 11am ET. Added to the Sunday lineup is On The Story beginning at 1pm ET.
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Friday, October 07, 2005
CNN Issues Statement About Media Matters Report
CNN provided WHAC with this statement about the Media Matters report yesterday involving CNN anchor Daryn Kagan: ""Daryn Kagan did not send any notes to anyone about President Bush's speech yesterday. The item is factually incorrect. Whatever reference was made was apparently about somebody else. You should know Rush Limbaugh has an ongoing bit referring to certain women emailing him as his mistresses. Whatever reference was made was certainly not about Daryn.”
# posted by ATN @ 9:57 PM
CNN Anchor Removed From Air
A source tells WHAC,"CNN removed her (Daryn Kagan) from on air duties friday and Tony Harris filled in.Her future is under discussion both in NY and Atlanta. Look for more to come." I guess the little incident from the other day is the reason..hmmmm...
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Coming Soon: The Return of YWT to CNN/US
Everyone has been wondering when or even IF Your World Today would return to CNN/US. WHAC has the answer. CNN tells WHAC "The Only Daily International Newscast on Cable News" will return to the CNN/US schedule on Monday, October 17th in its regular time slot of noon eastern.# posted by ATN @ 3:50 PM
Grace NOT Leaving Court TV
Oh the rumors how they fly. After all the speculation elsewhere in blog-land, Nancy Grace sets the record straight and declares to the New York Post she IS NOT LEAVING Court TV.
"While her Headline News show has been going great- guns, Grace says she has no plans to leave Court TV (where she hosts "Closing Arguments"). "I'm overwhelmed at how lucky I've been, and I don't take it for granted," she said. "There's no way I am leaving Court TV.""
"While her Headline News show has been going great- guns, Grace says she has no plans to leave Court TV (where she hosts "Closing Arguments"). "I'm overwhelmed at how lucky I've been, and I don't take it for granted," she said. "There's no way I am leaving Court TV.""
# posted by ATN @ 3:13 PM
CNN Working on Special War in Iraq Documentary
Source: Cincinnati Inquirer CNN White House correspondent John King pulled into Union Terminal on Thursday to tape segments for the network's documentary, "War in Iraq: Voices From the Home Front."
King taped at Union Terminal because President Bush had made his case for going to war in a national telecast from the rotunda in October 20002.
According to CNN, King "takes viewers on a reporter's journey into the heart of the country to better understand the public's complicated feelings about the war in Iraq. John tries to find out where the nation stands, and delves into its patriotism and sacrifice by going inside the lives of characters in six locations across the country."
The special will air during the weekend of Oct. 14-16.
King taped at Union Terminal because President Bush had made his case for going to war in a national telecast from the rotunda in October 20002.
According to CNN, King "takes viewers on a reporter's journey into the heart of the country to better understand the public's complicated feelings about the war in Iraq. John tries to find out where the nation stands, and delves into its patriotism and sacrifice by going inside the lives of characters in six locations across the country."
The special will air during the weekend of Oct. 14-16.
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Thursday, October 06, 2005
Limbaugh Mentions His 'Mistress Down in Georgia' on Program Thursday
An e-mailer tipped me off to the story and Media Matters has MORE: "Limbaugh read note from his "mistress in Georgia" (aka CNN's Daryn Kagan?): Bush's speech was "great," "sounds like you giving this speech".
On the October 6 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh read a "note" that, he said, came from his "mistress in Georgia," an apparent reference to CNN anchor Daryn Kagan. According to Limbaugh, his "mistress" said of President Bush's October 6 speech on the war on terror, "This is great. This sounds like you wrote this speech. This sounds like you giving this speech." Limbaugh said he agreed: "And I was going, 'Rah, rah. That's exactly right.' " MORE
On the October 6 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh read a "note" that, he said, came from his "mistress in Georgia," an apparent reference to CNN anchor Daryn Kagan. According to Limbaugh, his "mistress" said of President Bush's October 6 speech on the war on terror, "This is great. This sounds like you wrote this speech. This sounds like you giving this speech." Limbaugh said he agreed: "And I was going, 'Rah, rah. That's exactly right.' " MORE
# posted by ATN @ 10:20 PM
CNN Claims Top Spot in the List of Business Decision Makers Across Asia-Pacific
Source: Indian Television CNN attracts more business travelers and high income earners (personal monthly income of more than US $8,000 per month) than any other channel and more than all other news/business channels combined, states the latest findings of Pan Asian Cross Media Survey.Conducted by Synovate, the full-year survey results (July '04- June '05) further reveal that each day 59 per cent of those tuning in to watch CNN are 'exclusive viewers', meaning they watch no other news/business channel, while online CNN.com is visited by 64 per cent more PAX respondents across a month than the next largest broadcaster or publisher’s website.
The survey also indicates that CNN also attracts more business travelers and high income earners (personal monthly income of more than US $8,000 per month) than any other channel and more than all other news/business channels combined.
The television audiences continue to grow; the channel posted the largest year on year gain in audience size of any channel, meaning more than 1.4 million more viewers tune in to CNN each month compared to the same period last year. The survey also indicates that the growth in CNN audiences across all demographic groups, informs an official release.
CNN continues to outpace its nearest rivals across all measurements, with more than half a million more monthly viewers than all other news/business channels combined.
“Our continued growth results in part from our commitment to consistently provide quality programming. In addition to our distinctive breaking news coverage of events such as the south Asian tsunami, landmark programming initiatives over the twelve months of the PAX research have included the CNN Connects live debates from around the world and CNN Presents documentaries featuring award winning filmmakers tackling some of the toughest issues” said Turner International Asia Pacific Ltd CNN advertising sales vice-president William Hsu.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005
CNN Presents Profiles Children Affected By Hurricanes Katrina, Rita
Source: CNN PR “Children of the Storm,” CNN Presents’ newest documentary, profiles children who survived hurricanes Katrina and Rita only to face new challenges in different homes, schools and communities, sometimes hundreds of miles from their hometowns. The one-hour program will premiere on Saturday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. (ET)Among the numerous stories offered in “Children of the Storm,” CNN Presents follows several New Orleans children to examine how they coped over the past month from surviving a hurricane to experiencing traumatic rescues to living in shelters far from home. The program tells the heart-rending journey of a 6-year-old boy with leukemia from Slidell, La., after Hurricane Katrina disrupts his chemotherapy treatments. The program also looks at how displaced children adjust to new schools with a profile of a high school senior facing a different lifestyle at a private school in Atlanta and a stand-out football player now playing for a different team 400 miles away from home.
In the wake of Hurricane Rita, viewers meet a 9-year-old boy who had an epileptic seizure while his family fled Galveston, Texas. In a look at those who were able to return after the hurricanes, CNN profiles children who started their first day of school in the devastated community of Jefferson Parish, La.
Bud Bultman is managing editor of “Children of the Storm.” Sid Bedingfield is senior vice president of CNN Productions. Selected CNN Presents programs will be aired as commercial-free classroom editions. For further information about on-line curriculum and airdates, please visit www.CNN.com/Education.
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CNNRadio Offers Gupta’s NASCAR Program for Affiliates
Source: CNN PR CNNRadio will offer its affiliates a live one-hour program that puts the pedal to the metal with the drivers of NASCAR. In his CNNRadio debut, CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta follows NASCAR drivers on and off the track to examine safety and athletic performance in one of America’s top spectator sports.The program, “NASCAR: Driven to Extremes,” will air live Tuesday, Oct. 11, from 2-3 p.m and is a companion program to the CNN/U.S. NASCAR special scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 16, at 8 pm. All times Eastern.
Gupta talks with insiders who explain how NASCAR is more than fast cars. As he reports on the athleticism and safety required to maintain a top racing team, Gupta offers a revealing look at how the speeds, the heat, the g-forces, the intensity and the crashes associated with high stakes auto racing impact the human body. CNNRadio supervising producer Sherri Maksin serves a producer for this program.
Scheduled guests include NASCAR drivers Carl Edwards, Jerry Nadeau, and Kyle Petty; Dr. Jack Stark, a sports psychologist who helps drivers with the mental demands of the sport; Phil Horton, a pit crew trainer; and Joey Logano, a 15-year-old driving phenomenon.
“This will be a first-hand account of the extreme measures drivers face behind the wheel, one that will go a long way in answering the classic sports argument, ‘Are race car drivers athletes?’,” said Jerry DeMink, vice president, CNN News Services. “Who better to discuss the extreme measures faced by these drivers than Sanjay? He will take audiences beyond the chase for the Nextel Cup to provide a glimpse into the human side of NASCAR.”
CNNRadio long-form programs are now available for podcasting on CNN.com. To locate CNN’s podcast offerings, please visit: http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/. Additionally, CNNRadio programming, including long-form programs, can be heard streamed for the Web on the CNN.com home page.
UPDATE 10/06 NASCAR driver Jeff Burton has been added to the CNNRadio affiliate program.
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Former CNN Reporter Promoting Book About Embed Experience During Gulf War II
Source: The Southern.com "CNN correspondent and Southern Illinois University Carbondale graduate Walter Rodgers didn't set out to write a book about his experience embedded with the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry during the opening days of Operation Iraqi Freedom.Nor did he write a book to criticize the Bush administration for going to war with the Middle Eastern country.
Rodgers, a 1960s graduate of the SIUC history department, ultimately put his pen to paper to assure himself the sights he saw and the emotions he felt in reporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003 were absolutely real.
In the end, Rodgers said he wrote his book, "Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry: An Embedded Reporter in Iraq," as a testament to "some very fine soldiers."
Having just ended his career as CNN's international correspondent in September, the 65-year-old Rodgers, after 40 years of covering the affairs of the world, said he now plans something different.
"I'm going to retreat from it (the world) now and hide for a year," Rodgers said in an interview Tuesday in the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute building. "I'll probably read a book a week.""
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Miller Does Lou Dobbs Tonight
In her exclusive first interview on television, New York Times Reporter Judith Miller spoke with CNN’s Lou Dobbs about her recent release from jail and her experience during her 85-day incarceration. Below is a trascript of just a portion of the interview:
DOBBS: There are those liberals who've commented here, obviously in public, and I'm sure to you, saying, you know, she is protecting a conservative White House and really is not protecting sources, or upholding the public's right to know by doing so. She's really providing benefits to the conservative -- this from the liberals -- the conservative enemy. How does that make you feel? How do you respond?
MILLER: Well, they wrote lots of postcards, saying I should testify, and why wasn't I testifying? Why was I covering for these people? You know, Lou, I knew and I know they wasn't covering for anybody. I was protecting the confidentiality of the source to whom I had given my word. I was keeping my word. And until I knew that that source genuinely wanted me to testify, and I heard that from him, I was willing to sit in jail. I didn't want to be in jail, but I knew that the principle of confidentiality was so important that I had to, because if people can't trust us to come to us to tell us the things that government and powerful corporations don't want us to know, we're dead in the water. The public won't know.
DOBBS: The public is certainly...
MILLER: The public won't know. That's why I was sitting in jail. For the public's right to know.
The complete transcript can be found HERE.
DOBBS: There are those liberals who've commented here, obviously in public, and I'm sure to you, saying, you know, she is protecting a conservative White House and really is not protecting sources, or upholding the public's right to know by doing so. She's really providing benefits to the conservative -- this from the liberals -- the conservative enemy. How does that make you feel? How do you respond?
MILLER: Well, they wrote lots of postcards, saying I should testify, and why wasn't I testifying? Why was I covering for these people? You know, Lou, I knew and I know they wasn't covering for anybody. I was protecting the confidentiality of the source to whom I had given my word. I was keeping my word. And until I knew that that source genuinely wanted me to testify, and I heard that from him, I was willing to sit in jail. I didn't want to be in jail, but I knew that the principle of confidentiality was so important that I had to, because if people can't trust us to come to us to tell us the things that government and powerful corporations don't want us to know, we're dead in the water. The public won't know.
DOBBS: The public is certainly...
MILLER: The public won't know. That's why I was sitting in jail. For the public's right to know.
The complete transcript can be found HERE.
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TWC Looking to Expand Offerings
In a Q and A with Landmark (parent company of The Weather Channel) CEO Frank Batten Jr. repeats The Weather Channel IS NOT for sale and is in fact looking to expand its product offerings. Below is the questions dealing with the subject:Q. The Weather Channel has had many suitors. Its profile is perhaps higher now than ever, with the hurricanes. Describe Landmark’s long-term strategy for the channel.
A. We are not seeking to sell The Weather Channel. We really like The Weather Channel and feel like we have real good future prospects for it. The good news is even though the biggest part of our weather business is The Weather Channel cable network, we’ve developed a very substantial Web site in Weather.com, by far the leading weather Web site. And we also have WSI, which is a business-to-business weather company which sells weather data and software. We’re interested in expanding our weather business, both through organic growth like new product development as well as through acquisitions, if any come up.
Read the complete Q and A in the The Virginian-Pilot HERE.
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TWC Head Announces Retirement
Source: Cynthia Turner's Cynopsis Patrick Scott, President of The Weather Channel Networks, has announced his retirement. He will step down in November and concentrate his future efforts on his various philanthropic activities. Effective immediately, Wyona Lucas will assume the GM role, with additional programming responsibilities for The Weather Channel, Weatherscan and The Weather Channel Radio Network, and newspaper syndication.# posted by ATN @ 7:15 PM
After CNN, Woodruff Keeps Eye on Media Diversity
Source: Women's E News After three decades interviewing policymakers and political wonks, Judy Woodruff is not about to take a break.The former White House correspondent and anchor is embarking on a new phase in her post-CNN career, with a Harvard fellowship and travels around the nation.
Woodruff, 58, the former anchor of CNN's now canceled "Inside Politics," left the network in June after deciding that the time had come to switch gears. She is now planning to look at politics from a new angle, particularly from the perspective of women and young people.
Woodruff's fellowship at Harvard University, with the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, is also designed to take a piercing look at the issues that journalists cover and how students view them. Among those she hopes to explore include how news organizations operate in a climate of decreasing resources, the role of women in the news business and how the recent controversy over journalistic sourcing methods will affect the profession. MORE
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CNN.com Among Top Five Advertising Sites Following Katrina/Rita
Media Life Magazine reports,"Online during the week ended Sept. 25, Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo, Google and eBay were once again the top five parent companies, according Nielsen//NetRatings.
Apollo Group claimed the top advertisers spot, with almost twice as many impressions as the next-closest competitor, LowerMyBills.com. The rest of the top five were Vonage, NexTag.com and Dell.
The top five advertising sites during the week were Yahoo, MSN, MySpace, AOL.com and CNN, the second straight week in which those sites finished in that order.
Usage was slightly down during the week, with average computer sessions per person even at 16 and average domains visited per person down from 39 to 38. Average PC time per person fell 4.48 percent to just over 15 hours and 20 minutes."
Apollo Group claimed the top advertisers spot, with almost twice as many impressions as the next-closest competitor, LowerMyBills.com. The rest of the top five were Vonage, NexTag.com and Dell.
The top five advertising sites during the week were Yahoo, MSN, MySpace, AOL.com and CNN, the second straight week in which those sites finished in that order.
Usage was slightly down during the week, with average computer sessions per person even at 16 and average domains visited per person down from 39 to 38. Average PC time per person fell 4.48 percent to just over 15 hours and 20 minutes."
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AC Cancels Date
Source: LaPorte, Indiana Herald-Argus News Citing ongoing hurricane coverage in the U.S. Gulf Coast, Anderson Cooper, host of CNN’s “360,” is doing a 180 from his speaking engagement with the Sinai Forum on Sunday.
The blame can fall on his wanting to report on the rebuilding and recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, according to Wendy Levenfeld, executive director of the Sinai Forum.
“He just has this very personal commitment to stay down there,” Levenfeld said. “He’s made a commitment to the people of the Gulf Coast and to see them through this tragedy.”
Levenfeld said Cooper’s disappearing act wasn’t mandated by his bosses at CNN; instead it was his decision. He
exercised an “act of God” clause in his contract, she said.
Cooper couldn’t be reached for comment today. His publicist at CNN, Carolyn Disbrow, did not return a message seeking comment.
Levenfeld said she didn’t want Cooper’s cancellation to reflect negatively on his replacement as lead speaker — Soledad O’Brien, also a CNN news personality.
The blame can fall on his wanting to report on the rebuilding and recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, according to Wendy Levenfeld, executive director of the Sinai Forum.
“He just has this very personal commitment to stay down there,” Levenfeld said. “He’s made a commitment to the people of the Gulf Coast and to see them through this tragedy.”
Levenfeld said Cooper’s disappearing act wasn’t mandated by his bosses at CNN; instead it was his decision. He
exercised an “act of God” clause in his contract, she said.
Cooper couldn’t be reached for comment today. His publicist at CNN, Carolyn Disbrow, did not return a message seeking comment.
Levenfeld said she didn’t want Cooper’s cancellation to reflect negatively on his replacement as lead speaker — Soledad O’Brien, also a CNN news personality.
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Cooper Flooded With Book Offers, But Charity Reigns
It seems the New York Daily News has more on the scoop Gawker had last week on a possible book deal for Anderson Cooper. Here's the gossip from the NYDN:
"It looks like Anderson Cooper, the prematurely silver-maned CNN anchor who won plaudits for his searing coverage of Hurricane Katrina, is about to sign a rich book deal to write about his journalistic adventures.
The furious bidding - which has involved Hyperion, HarperCollins and Rodale Press, among others - hit $1 million last week, and I hear that Cooper's agent, Luke Janklow, is getting close to crossing t's and dotting i's with a generous publisher.
Yesterday, a publishing insider told me that Cooper's book - a professional memoir spanning the year from the December tsunami to Katrina to Hurricane Rita - is being sold without an outline, a formal proposal or even a paragraph on paper.
"It's 'We saw you on TV, we saw you get very emotional, we love you, here's the money!'" said the insider.
As befits a guy who's being marketed as "a journalist with a heart," Cooper, I'm told, plans to donate "a significant portion of the proceeds" to charity - including funds for victims of the hurricanes and other natural disasters."
"It looks like Anderson Cooper, the prematurely silver-maned CNN anchor who won plaudits for his searing coverage of Hurricane Katrina, is about to sign a rich book deal to write about his journalistic adventures.
The furious bidding - which has involved Hyperion, HarperCollins and Rodale Press, among others - hit $1 million last week, and I hear that Cooper's agent, Luke Janklow, is getting close to crossing t's and dotting i's with a generous publisher.
Yesterday, a publishing insider told me that Cooper's book - a professional memoir spanning the year from the December tsunami to Katrina to Hurricane Rita - is being sold without an outline, a formal proposal or even a paragraph on paper.
"It's 'We saw you on TV, we saw you get very emotional, we love you, here's the money!'" said the insider.
As befits a guy who's being marketed as "a journalist with a heart," Cooper, I'm told, plans to donate "a significant portion of the proceeds" to charity - including funds for victims of the hurricanes and other natural disasters."
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CNN Exclusive: NYT’s Judith Miller to Appear on Lou Dobbs Tonight
Source: CNN PR New York Times reporter Judith Miller joins Lou Dobbs Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 6:40 p.m. for her first broadcast interview since her release from jail. In this exclusive interview, Miller will discuss her decision to testify before a federal grand jury in the investigation of the CIA leak exposing the identity of agent Valerie Plame.
Lou Dobbs Tonight provides viewers with in-depth news coverage, political and economic analysis, and debate and opinion on the most important issues of the day affecting the quality of life and standard of living of Americans. The program airs each weekday on CNN at 6 p.m. (ET) Jim McGinnis is the show’s executive producer.
Lou Dobbs Tonight provides viewers with in-depth news coverage, political and economic analysis, and debate and opinion on the most important issues of the day affecting the quality of life and standard of living of Americans. The program airs each weekday on CNN at 6 p.m. (ET) Jim McGinnis is the show’s executive producer.
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Q and A With Blitzer
Today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette features a Q and A with Wolf Blitzer. Among the questions:
How would you change news coverage if you could?
WB:The facts: who, when, where and why. You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values. MORE
How would you change news coverage if you could?
WB:The facts: who, when, where and why. You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values. MORE
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Overnight Schedule ReHashed
This from an e-mailer:
"Another change made, CNN has the following NEW overnight schedule;
12am-1am LKL
1am-2am AC360 (replacing Newsnight)
2am-3am. PZN (replacing NewsNight) 3am-4am LKL
4am-5am Lob Dobbs
all times Eastern.
One has to wonder if this too is *subject to change as is everything, (except Anderson Cooper), on CNN these days."
"Another change made, CNN has the following NEW overnight schedule;
12am-1am LKL
1am-2am AC360 (replacing Newsnight)
2am-3am. PZN (replacing NewsNight) 3am-4am LKL
4am-5am Lob Dobbs
all times Eastern.
One has to wonder if this too is *subject to change as is everything, (except Anderson Cooper), on CNN these days."
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When...WILL Your World Today Return To CNN/US?
Harry Shearer wants to know,"What happened to Your World Today?": "We're living in the bubble again. CNN's little experiment with opening up one daily hour of its day to the very different coverage of its international channel, titled "Your World Today," seems to have been yet another victim of Hurricane Katrina. On the heels of the entirely understandable pre-emption of the program during the height of the disaster, it has failed to return to the schedule, and no announcement of its cancellation has surfaced, at least to the eyes of this Googler.
Maybe the comparison of the measured, reasonable, non-frantic output of CNNI with what the domestic side grinds out these days was just too painful. Or embarrassing.
Maybe the comparison of the measured, reasonable, non-frantic output of CNNI with what the domestic side grinds out these days was just too painful. Or embarrassing.
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Monday, October 03, 2005
Bryant Out At Showbiz Tonight
Source: Broadcasting and Cable Karen Bryant is out as co-host of Headline News' Showbiz Tonight.“We can confirm that Karen is no longer with the show,” said a network representative without elaboration.
A source says Bryant, who co-hosts entertainment news program with AJ Hammer, had at times been difficult to work with.
Hammer will be the sole host of the program.
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CNNRadio Journalists to Discuss Experiences Covering Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Source: CNN PR CNNRadio correspondents relate their newsgathering experiences covering Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in a new one-hour special titled, “Chasing the Storm.”Over the course of the last four weeks, seven different correspondents were reporting from storm-affected cities such as New Orleans; Houston; Lake Charles, La.; Mobile, Ala.; and Biloxi, Miss. CNNRadio correspondents will describe their first-hand accounts of the destruction of property and the loss of lives. The journalists will go beyond the headlines and discuss the people they met and damage they saw, as well as stories about the difficulty of traveling and reporting under extreme conditions. CNNRadio anchor Jim Ribble will host the program as New York correspondent Gary Baumgarten, producer Laura Caviezel, Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Goddard, national correspondent Ed McCarthy, coordinating producer Amanda Moyer, Los Angeles correspondent Jim Roope and Washington, D.C. correspondent Dick Uliano share heart-wrenching stories and discuss their personal experiences covering the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the United States.
“Chasing the Storm” will air Thursday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. The program will refeed on Friday, Oct. 7, at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. CNNRadio senior producer Tyler Moody will produce the program.
“CNNRadio journalists were there, reporting before, during and after the storms in order to provide our affiliates with the best live coverage in radio news,” said Jerry DeMink, vice president, CNN News Services. “This special program marks the first time so many CNNRadio journalists have come together after the fact to recount their real-life stories and experiences covering a single story.”
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Is the Name NewsNight OR State of Emergency?
A tipster responds to this morning's Gail Shister's article about the addition of Anderson Cooper to NewsNight or whatever it will be called.
Here's the first one received this morning: "Maybe he should tell his advertising department the same thing he told Shister as 'new' promos have been running on CNN since Saturday morning as follows; 'State of Emergency with Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown (voice over, graphics have Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper) starting monday at 10pm". Doesn't mention or show the word "NewsNight" anywhere. One could say Kleins' actions speak louder and truer than his words ever do.
Then this one was received a couple of hours later: "To comment and tip sent earlier this morning, CNN, under pressure from several sources, is now, after 12 noon, running new promos for 'new' NN. Graphic, no voice over, now reads; 'NewsNight, (smaller font), State of Emergency, (seperate line large font); Aaron Brown (lst line); Anderson Cooper (2nd line). As always, all subject to change.
Additional: 06:30 pm ET This from an e-mailer: "Both cnn.com and the PRiMETIME Newsletter from cnn are calling the show "NEWSNIGHT"!!!! just 'NEWSNIGHT' "
Here's the first one received this morning: "Maybe he should tell his advertising department the same thing he told Shister as 'new' promos have been running on CNN since Saturday morning as follows; 'State of Emergency with Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown (voice over, graphics have Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper) starting monday at 10pm". Doesn't mention or show the word "NewsNight" anywhere. One could say Kleins' actions speak louder and truer than his words ever do.
Then this one was received a couple of hours later: "To comment and tip sent earlier this morning, CNN, under pressure from several sources, is now, after 12 noon, running new promos for 'new' NN. Graphic, no voice over, now reads; 'NewsNight, (smaller font), State of Emergency, (seperate line large font); Aaron Brown (lst line); Anderson Cooper (2nd line). As always, all subject to change.
Additional: 06:30 pm ET This from an e-mailer: "Both cnn.com and the PRiMETIME Newsletter from cnn are calling the show "NEWSNIGHT"!!!! just 'NEWSNIGHT' "
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CNN Photog Saves Lives Following Hurricane
Source: Associated Press David Bauder writes: "Journalism may be the only profession where someone who helped save more than a dozen lives felt compelled to reassure his bosses that his time was well spent.
The night after Hurricane Katrina struck, veteran CNN photographer Mark Biello brought back vivid images of New Orleans residents rescued from floodwaters that chased them to roofs or attics. Some he pulled into a boat himself.
Biello isn't used to putting his camera down - journalists are trained to be observers, not participants. But the human misery caused by Katrina put these instincts at war with reality, and made many journalists rethink how to do their jobs amid calamities.
After riding out the storm in a French Quarter hotel, Biello met CNN correspondent Jeanne Meserve at the Superdome. A distraught city councilman drove up and said his Ninth Ward neighborhood was submerged. The CNN team jumped in their car and followed him there.
Biello, 44, has worked for CNN since 1983 and been to 81 countries, recording famine, disaster and the bombs that flew over Baghdad in the first Gulf War. But even he was shocked by what he saw from a New Orleans highway overpass.
"We did not know the extent of how many people were trapped," he said. "Nobody did ... As far as we could see in all directions you could hear people screaming and yelling, waving, some were drowning."
Three men pulled up in a boat. Biello asked if he could come along.
Their first rescue was a husband and wife plucked from a roof, arguing with each other as they stepped onto the boat.
"I was just recording and witnessing what they were doing," he said. "It wasn't until there were people submerged in the water that they asked for my help in pulling people onto the boat ... they needed the physical strength to pull people up." MORE
The night after Hurricane Katrina struck, veteran CNN photographer Mark Biello brought back vivid images of New Orleans residents rescued from floodwaters that chased them to roofs or attics. Some he pulled into a boat himself.
Biello isn't used to putting his camera down - journalists are trained to be observers, not participants. But the human misery caused by Katrina put these instincts at war with reality, and made many journalists rethink how to do their jobs amid calamities.
After riding out the storm in a French Quarter hotel, Biello met CNN correspondent Jeanne Meserve at the Superdome. A distraught city councilman drove up and said his Ninth Ward neighborhood was submerged. The CNN team jumped in their car and followed him there.
Biello, 44, has worked for CNN since 1983 and been to 81 countries, recording famine, disaster and the bombs that flew over Baghdad in the first Gulf War. But even he was shocked by what he saw from a New Orleans highway overpass.
"We did not know the extent of how many people were trapped," he said. "Nobody did ... As far as we could see in all directions you could hear people screaming and yelling, waving, some were drowning."
Three men pulled up in a boat. Biello asked if he could come along.
Their first rescue was a husband and wife plucked from a roof, arguing with each other as they stepped onto the boat.
"I was just recording and witnessing what they were doing," he said. "It wasn't until there were people submerged in the water that they asked for my help in pulling people onto the boat ... they needed the physical strength to pull people up." MORE
# posted by ATN @ 5:02 PM
Should AB Be Worried?
Philadelphia Inquirer's Gail Shister writes: "Should CNN's Aaron Brown be hearing Anderson Cooper's footsteps? The boss says no.
"There's no plan to slowly phase out Aaron," says CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein. "If I wanted to do that, I would just can him. He's doing a really good job."
Cooper, a rising star whose Katrina coverage has upped his luminescence, joined Brown's expanded 10 p.m. NewsNight as coanchor three weeks ago. Klein intends to keep him there. (Cooper will continue on 360 at 7 p.m.)
Cooper and Brown "are two sides of the same coin," says Klein. "Anderson is visceral. Aaron's cerebral. One makes you experience the story; the other helps you understand it. I like the chemistry there."
Klein may say he loves all his children equally, but it's clear he's betting on the suave, silver-haired Cooper to turn around CNN's ratings.
To wit:Cooper's executive producer,David Doss, will swap shows with NewsNight's Will Surratt beginning today. Ditto for some of the senior staff.
As for NewsNight's two-hour length and hurricane-driven subtitle, State of Emergency, Klein's in no hurry to change either one.
"I just want to focus on what kinds of stories we're covering. We'll have to see what every day brings. I'd rather have the stories dictate the title rather than the title dictate the stories."
Klein insists that the addition of Cooper, 38, is not a stunt to attract younger viewers. Nor is it part of a master plan to groom him to replace Brown, 56." MORE
"There's no plan to slowly phase out Aaron," says CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein. "If I wanted to do that, I would just can him. He's doing a really good job."
Cooper, a rising star whose Katrina coverage has upped his luminescence, joined Brown's expanded 10 p.m. NewsNight as coanchor three weeks ago. Klein intends to keep him there. (Cooper will continue on 360 at 7 p.m.)
Cooper and Brown "are two sides of the same coin," says Klein. "Anderson is visceral. Aaron's cerebral. One makes you experience the story; the other helps you understand it. I like the chemistry there."
Klein may say he loves all his children equally, but it's clear he's betting on the suave, silver-haired Cooper to turn around CNN's ratings.
To wit:Cooper's executive producer,David Doss, will swap shows with NewsNight's Will Surratt beginning today. Ditto for some of the senior staff.
As for NewsNight's two-hour length and hurricane-driven subtitle, State of Emergency, Klein's in no hurry to change either one.
"I just want to focus on what kinds of stories we're covering. We'll have to see what every day brings. I'd rather have the stories dictate the title rather than the title dictate the stories."
Klein insists that the addition of Cooper, 38, is not a stunt to attract younger viewers. Nor is it part of a master plan to groom him to replace Brown, 56." MORE
# posted by ATN @ 9:07 AM
Sunday, October 02, 2005
RS Guests Discuss Miller, Delay
On today's one-hour special edition of "Reliable Sources," Howard Kurtz discussed the Judith Miller's release from prison and the media's response to the indictment of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay . Joining him were Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, Byron York, White House correspondent for “National Review” and John Harwood, national political editor of the “Wall Street Journal”. Below are a few of the highlights from the program:On Miller's initial refusal to testify in the CIA leak investigation
KURTZ: Do you understand why Judith Miller didn't take the waiver from Libby months ago?
HARWOOD: I still don't get it and still don't get it after listening to Floyd Abrams talk to you just now. He said in that conversation with you that, on the one hand, Tate said to him it's okay with Libby if she testifies, and then he agreed the government waiver was inherently coercive. Fine. It may have been inherently coercive, but if Tate was telling Abrams she could testify, I don't under why she didn't do it. Journalists have been saying for a while, the facts of this case aren't great for a big principle test of First Amendment and the ability of reporters to protect their sources. But it may be even worse if you take bad facts, assert a principle and then reverse course and look like you're undercutting the principle.
YORK: That's the lesson that will come out of this. If you are a prosecutor -- Fitzgerald wanted her testimony. She had a high-minded reason for not giving it. He sends her to jail and now he's got her testimony. The lesson is, coercive detention works if you are a prosecutor.
On Miller not yet having shared her side of the story
MITCHELL: Matt Cooper did that, and in fact I think that is something we do expect and would have wanted from Judy Miller. We want to hear her story. I'm not quite sure why we're not hearing her story... It's conceivable we'll never know. If [Fitzgerald] doesn't indict, he does not have an obligation to file a report. We may never know what's going on.
I think it should lead to what John McCain and others have called for, a national shield law... It is really an outrage that she was in jail for 85 days, for whatever reason, for a story she never wrote.
On Tom DeLay's attacks on the media
HARWOOD: Does the mainstream journalist community lean Democratic or left of center in how they privately feel? Yes, that's true. Do Republican politicians spend an awful lot of time whining about that? Yes, they do. That strains that whole relationship, probably exacerbates the situation. Look, a felony indictment of a House leader is a big deal. Whether or not Ronnie Earle is going too far, we're going to have a trial to determine that. This is a serious matter.
HARWOOD: If you are pulled over by the cop that doesn't mean you weren't going 68 in a 55, and that's going to be a challenge for Tom DeLay to prove that he was innocent.
The complete transcript from the program can be found HERE.
# posted by ATN @ 3:50 PM
Media Anger Management
DC Post's Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach writes,"Much has been made of the surge of emotion among journalists who covered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and to a lesser degree Hurricane Rita. Jean Meserve of CNN broke down. Anderson Cooper, also of CNN, got mad. Shepard Smith of Fox was outraged.
Many have lauded the news media's newfound passion, and some have even wondered whether it might be a welcome sign of a new aggressiveness on their part.
But the praise has by no means been unanimous. "A 100-year journalistic commitment to a dispassionate report of facts seems to be in jeopardy," one well-known Washington journalism educator wrote us. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was moved to ask Anderson Cooper one night: "Is this an argument or an interview?"
The issue cuts to the heart of what it means to be a journalist at a time when the matter is more in doubt than ever. In a profession that pledges itself to suppress self-interest to ensure its credibility, are emotionalism and outrage ever appropriate? And if so, when do they go too far?" MORE
Many have lauded the news media's newfound passion, and some have even wondered whether it might be a welcome sign of a new aggressiveness on their part.
But the praise has by no means been unanimous. "A 100-year journalistic commitment to a dispassionate report of facts seems to be in jeopardy," one well-known Washington journalism educator wrote us. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was moved to ask Anderson Cooper one night: "Is this an argument or an interview?"
The issue cuts to the heart of what it means to be a journalist at a time when the matter is more in doubt than ever. In a profession that pledges itself to suppress self-interest to ensure its credibility, are emotionalism and outrage ever appropriate? And if so, when do they go too far?" MORE
# posted by ATN @ 11:12 AM
Dr. Gupta to Address Isle Health Care Forum
Source: Star Bulletin Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN senior medical correspondent, will be the key speaker at a health policy forum, "Turning Point or Tipping Point," from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki, Mauna Kea Ballroom.About 100,000 islanders have no health insurance and The Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs and The Hawaii Uninsured Project are sponsoring the forum to discuss ways to make health care more affordable in Hawaii.
"The affordability of health care coverage is of growing concern as costs continue to rise; it's a topic that affects everyone in Hawaii, from families to employers," said Laurel Johnston, executive director of the uninsured project. "We look to our speakers to shed new light on how we in Hawaii can work together to make health care coverage more accessible and affordable."
Gupta, a neurosurgeon, is responsible for much of CNN's medical coverage. He is on the faculty of the neurosurgery department at the Emory School of Medicine and is chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
# posted by ATN @ 11:09 AM
