What a lousy bunch of bastards. Sharon "The Religious Bigot" must lead the way.

When NewNight was first produced it followed the format of a newspaper. The program began with an editorial by Aaron. Then followed what was coined 'The Whip Around the World.' It was considered the programs "Headlines." Each journalist that appeared gave a personal introduction into the information they were presenting for that particular news hour.

Here is an example from the first NewsNight, October 10, 2001:

AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: When it was one person, it seemed possible it was an innocent if bizarre coincidence. When a second person was exposed to anthrax, innocent explanations were a stretch for even the optimists among us. Now there are three and a criminal investigation. And while all the responsible parties say, be calm, who can honestly say there isn't a knot in the pit of your stomach when you think about this anthrax case? So we see this building in South Florida differently tonight. This is a crime, scene pure and simple. The killer remains unknown and the weapon, anthrax, remains invisible. It is the fear that is palpable. Of things that are easier to understand, U.S. forces today pounded targets in Afghanistan for the fourth day: the most intense attacks yet on the Taliban's base city of Kandahar. Sources say special operations forces may soon be on the ground. We know that these are the faces of America's most wanted. They are 22, rather than 10. The U.S. offering up to $5 million each for the capture of any one of these suspected terrorists. A quick whip around the world again tonight to get us started. Susan Candiotti in Florida is following the anthrax scare for us. Susan, the headline.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Aaron, a big development tonight. Now the FBI is launching a criminal investigation after disclosing that a third case of anthrax has been found. The patient a 35-year-old female employee. So far all three cases limited to that publishing house in Florida. So far no evidence that the cases are tied to the September 11th attacks. FBI now believes it may have traced -- isolated strain to one found in Iowa in the 1950s.

BROWN: Susan, we will be right back with you. First to northern Afghanistan. Matthew Chance is on duty there tonight. Matt?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, Aaron. Big flashes over Kabul from the north of the city as U.S. strikes take place for a fourth consecutive day. Also positions of the Northern Alliance opening up on the Taliban front line. There's no sign at this stage, though, of their big push deep into Taliban-held territory to advance on the Afghan capital. We are watching from the situation from here. BROWN: Matt, thank you. We go across the border to Islamabad, Pakistan. Tom Mintier has the watch this evening. Tom.

TOM MINTIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Aaron, despite day and nighttime bombing inside Afghanistan, the Taliban apparently remain defiant. The ambassador here saying the air defenses have not be been degraded. This despite seeing the photographs from the Pentagon of now you see it, now you don't. Back to you.

BROWN: Tom, we'll be back to you shortly. Now to Washington. Our Senior White House Correspondent John King is on duty tonight, as always. John.

JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Aaron, the president began his day by brokering a truce -- or at least, perhaps, detente -- with members of Congress in that fight we've been talking about in recent days over sharing classified information. The president spent the rest of his day trying to remind the American people and governments around the world -- friends and not-so-friendly governments around the world -- that Afghanistan is just phase one.

BROWN: A lot of events at the White House, John. We'll be back with you shortly as well. We begin in Florida. Officials in that state said tonight there is no evidence that the outbreak of anthrax is anything but isolated to one building. And we have no reason to doubt that. Still, a third person has been exposed to anthrax, and the testing of hundreds more is far from complete -- which is to say no one knows exactly where this is heading. We go back to Susan Candiotti in South Florida with the latest. Susan.

Then came the actual reporting and that was called "Page Two." Each change in format took on a different flavor such as "Segment Seven." The program would move away from completely 'heavy' material and end the news hour with some amusement such as "The Accordian Guy." That went on until "Morning Papers" was coined and that would be the tone to end the program for sometime.

The point is that the format for NewsNight was unique. A news industry version of the days news and for the most part it was the industry that was front and center more than the audience although we all were welcome to attend.

TONIGHT on "CNN Sunday," Carol Lynn opened the hour program with an introductory 'whip' of all four journalists that would present news segments. It was directly from the origins of NewsNight. It sent me back to the time beginning and I found myself appalled to realize how ravenously this Executive Producer 'gutted' NewsNight out of jealousy for the Flag Ship program David Bohrman produced and his audience came to love. Yet, now, when a sadly needed 'structure' is needed CNN returns to the very programming appeal that Bohrman produced that Brown took to heights of journalist indulgence.

A Master never is forgotten but only savors over time. I find the 'casual' use of the former NewsNight format at the very hour the show still aires a huge victory for Bohrman but an even sadder reality for Aaron and the grudges his own Executive Producers hate of his lingering success.

It used to be Age before Beauty but now it's just EGO FIRST

On Friday Night, John King nearly died trying to 'One Up' Anderson Cooper during the excessive coverage of the "Rita's" Landfall.

Tonight the name of the program has changed to give Anderson Cooper top billing:

"NewsNight with Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown"

When will CNN discover there is a world out there other than 'wet journalists?'

The time proportion is has changed as well.