Friday, February 17, 2006

Fickle CNN slouches to the right
Commentary: Plus Lewis' shame and Iger-Jobs

...At CNN, Headline News is considered to be a diamond in the (very) rough. Because it spews breaking news all the time (when, of course, it isn't showing some airhead Hollywood-gossip nonsense), the station frees up CNN to show prime-time "programs," starring the likes of Anderson Cooper, Paula Zahn and Aaron Br -- oops! Aaron Brown was terminated last year. Maybe I'm just projecting my readers' wishes that his show was still on CNN

... CNN shouldn't be running a news supermarket. It should stand for something -- anything. Not only would it be a better network, but the morale of its beleaguered troops would go up. Pssst -- so might those precious ratings.