CNN Cancels Crossfire 182
blonde rser writes "Three months after Jon Stewart
appeared on (and lambasted) CNN's Crossfire the
Globe and Mail reports that CNN is dumping Tucker Carlson. It appears that Crossfire is being canceled and Carlson's contract is not being renewed. As to whether Stewart's opinion had any affect on the decision there is this quote from Jonathan Klein, CEO of CNN's US network:
'I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.'"
Re:Thank God they're getting rid of Tucker (Score:3, Informative)
I mean, really, look at Canada or some European countries for much closer examples of socialism. We're nowhere close and getting further away.
--trb
transcript (Score:3, Informative)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf
Re:AKA "Carlson gets a better, more visible job" (Score:4, Informative)
Mod parent down. The poster and the editor did read the article and summarized it properly.
Crossfire was cancelled and Carlson did not get a more visible job. CNN has about twice as many viewers as MSNBC in America
Re:Tucker on PBS, Jon S (Score:2, Informative)
This was the funny (yet sad) part about Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire. He clearly admits that his show is a comedy show, duh its on a network called Comedy Central. People don't tune into his show to become informed on the news, they tune in to laugh.
Crossfire does attempt to be a news show and does a terrible job at it. They're on CNN, a news network that people turn on to learn about the news. Go figure?
Stewart was attacked for doing a bad job or reporting the news on his comedy show? I say we blame Stewie on The Family Guy next for not informing me more about civil rights.
Stewart attacked Crossfire for doing a bad job of reporting news on their news show. The sad part is that they, and you, don't seem to understand this.
Re:CNN is dead (Score:1, Informative)
The numbers speak for themselves. The American people love "fair and balanced news".
CABLE NEWS RACE
WED, JAN 05, 2005
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2.3 [RATING]
FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 1.7
FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 1.6
FOXNEWS GRETA 1.4
CNN LARRY KING 1.1
COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1.1
CNN WAVE SPECIAL 0.8
MSNBC HARDBALL 0.5
MSNBC AMBER FREY 0.6
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 0.4
MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.3
CNBC MILLER 0.1
Kinda blows CNN and the xNBCers out of the water, huh?
misunderstanding steward (Score:3, Informative)