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Journalist Connie Chung has revealed she was sexually assaulted five decades ago by her family doctor. Dear Christine Blasey Ford,' Chung wrote in the missive, which was published in the Washington Post. 'I, too, was sexually assaulted — not 36 years ago but about 50 years ago. I have kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for five decades.'

Connie Chung is a broadcast journalist. Dear Christine Blasey Ford, I, too, was sexually assaulted — not 36 years ago but about 50 years ago. I have kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for five decades. The molester was our trusted family doctor. What made this monster even more reprehensible was that he was the very doctor who delivered me on Aug. 20, 1946. I’m 72 now. It was the 1960s. I was in college. The sexual revolution was in full swing. The exact date and year are fuzzy. But details of the event are vivid — forever...

Connie Chung Swan Song: What’s The Frequency, Connie? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Christopher J. Stephens Jun 22, 2006 Connie Chung’s bizarre attempt at what we can only hope was a comic farewell during the final broadcast of her MSNBC program “Weekends With Maury and Connie” might have stayed where it should have stayed- barely seen- were it not for the mighty warrior watchdogs of the internet. We love to watch public meltdowns, especially of they involve newscasters who might have been relevant twenty years ago. Walter Cronkite’s exit was dignified. Tom Brokaw’s was suitably stalwart, and Peter Jennings lung cancer death was...

THE ratings-starved Maury Povich and Connie Chung weekend show on MSNBC ended its short, six-month run with a bizarre send-off - sure to live on as a tone-deaf stunt Chung will not soon be allowed to forget. Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown, the former CBS and CNN anchorwoman warbled a farewell song that put down Dan Rather (with whom she co-anchored the CBS news in the early 1990s), her husband and cable TV - all at the same time. "Thanks for the memories," she sang to the tune...

Yikes..... Connie Chung has gone off the deep end.

THE ratings-starved Maury Povich and Connie Chung weekend show on MSNBC ended its short, six-month run with a bizarre send-off - sure to live on as a tone-deaf stunt Chung will not soon be allowed to forget. Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown, the former CBS and CNN anchorwoman warbled a farewell song that put down Dan Rather (with whom she co-anchored the CBS news in the early 1990s), her husband and cable TV - all at the same time. "Thanks for the memories," she sang to the tune...

MSNBC's "Weekends with Maury & Connie" is being cancelled, TVNewser has learned. The program, hosted by Maury Povich and Connie Chung, will end its run next week. The husband and wife team taped their second-to-last show on Friday. "Weekends" launched almost exactly six months ago, on January 7, 2006. It launched to quite a bit of fanfare, and it aired four times a weekend (twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday) but it never seemed to find an audience. There's no word on whether Maury, Connie, or EP Lizz Winstead will have a future role at MSNBC...

I was flipping through channels at the gym today, and I saw something I couldn't believe. Connnie Chung on CNN did a segement where she was fantasizing writing a letter to Ann Coulter. It was filmed like a dream sequence, and it showed her writing with a voiceover reading the letter. In the letter she says that maybe her psychological problems would be cured if she ate ...maybe a raisin or something. If that wasn't bad enough, at the end, she said, PS: BY THE WAY, DEAR..QUIT MIXING THE FINLANDIA WITH YOUR HALDOL!!! I couldn't believe it...then she and her...

MSNBC cancels Connected Coast to Coast, Entertainment shows: From: Kaplan, Rick (NBC Universal, MSNBC) Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:57 PM To: @MSNBC Everyone Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT I wanted to share with all of you some news about a realignment of our dayside coverage. Beginning after the first of the year, we are going to increase our live news coverage on the weekends. With the addition of our new program with Connie Chung and Maury Povich, we will be in live or topical news programming from 8am until 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. This more than doubles our current live weekend...

Veteran newscaster Connie Chung, who suffered through an uncomfortable two years as co-anchor with disgraced TV newsman Dan Rather, says CBS executives are unlikely to replace him with a woman because they are "cavemen." "I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages," Chung told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "It's long overdue." While the leading candidates to replace Rather when he steps down in March are CBS'ers John Roberts and Scott Pelly, Chung said that male anchors represent "an antiquated way of thinking." The one-time anchorwoman said she'd like to see ABC's Diane Sawyer take Rather's place,...

MIDI - FLASHDANCE -- first version All of your news are now belong to us There is a network with a great big black eye In the boardroom they ask themselves why...oh, why It's that man...Dan's the man...who does all that he can To make our president go bye bye There's a FReeper named Buckhead...who knew those docs had looked like bull They were spaced way too proportional What a feeling...Rather's reeling With his DemocRAT dirty tricksters he is so screwed He's been outed!...the FReepers shouted It's about time Castro's good buddy finally is through Their old rules are...

November 26, 2003 MSNBC Is Clearing Out a Slot in Prime TimeBy JIM RUTENBERG SNBC is reshuffling its lineup again to clear the way for a star, so far unidentified, it hopes to introduce in prime time in the coming weeks, according to a memorandum made available yesterday. Erik Sorenson, the president of MSNBC, said in the memorandum to his staff that he was moving "The Abrams Report" to 6 p.m.. from 9 p.m. weekdays. It had been at the later hour since major combat in Iraq ended but that time slot was supposed to be a temporary berth. The...

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/cnn/0903/23primetime.html?urac=n&urvf=10643489956980.7520239648255277Link via Drudge CNN's prime-time ratings still down despite overhaul By CAROLINE WILBERT The Atlanta Journal-Constitution CNN still is putting the final touches on its new prime-time lineup, but the first two weeks' worth of ratings are down compared with last year. The network said Monday it has hired contributors -- including former Defense Department spokeswoman Victoria Clarke and Time magazine columnist Joe Klein -- for the 8 p.m. show, "Paula Zahn Now." Zahn's show drew an average of 598,000 viewers in its first two weeks since CNN relaunched it with the new name. That was down 25 percent from...

Bum start for CNN's 'Zahn' and 'Cooper'Best hopes for stemming slide against Fox News By Kevin Downey     CNN's hopes of reclaiming No. 1 from Fox News Channel were dealt a major setback this week with the disappointing premieres of “Anderson Cooper 360” and “Paula Zahn Now.”      The audience for “Cooper” on Monday was down 47 percent in the 7 p.m. time slot occupied last year by “Crossfire,” to 319,000 people, while “Zahn's” audience of 508,000 people was down 45 percent in the 8 p.m. time slot briefly occupied by the canceled “Connie Chung.” All figures are based...

Five months after CNN canceled Connie Chung's 8 p.m. show, the network still is fiddling with the replacement -- and losing viewership. Chung's show often was criticized for its tabloid feel, and last winter newly named CNN President Jim Walton shelved it in favor of a hard-news show featuring one of the network's best-known anchors, Paula Zahn. Zahn has anchored the 8 p.m. hour most of the time since, although CNN officially will launch and rebadge the program Sept. 8, spokeswoman Christa Robinson said. Initial ratings suggest more than a catchy name may be needed. Viewers seem to have preferred...

NEW YORK -- Connie Chung is out at CNN as the centerpiece of the cable news network's star-driven, prime-time lineup. "Connie Chung Tonight" had been criticized in some circles for its emphasis on crime and personality stories but had drawn strong ratings in a nondescript time slot. Her show was temporarily replaced by a news program when the Iraq war began last week. A CNN spokeswoman says when Chung asked management Tuesday when it would be back on, she was told it had been canceled. CNN said Chung declined to stay on in another capacity. Chung has been a major...

CNN has told Connie Chung, one of the its most prominent hosts, that it has dropped her prime-time show, effective immediately. Although CNN asked her to stay in some other capacity, she declined and will leave the network, an associate of Chung said Tuesday night. Chung, a longtime news anchor who worked for the three major broadcast network news departments before joining CNN last summer, was informed of the decision by Jim Walton, the new president of CNN, the associate said Tuesday. The show, "Connie Chung Tonight," which is usually broadcast at 8 on weeknights, had been suspended for coverage...

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Connie's stream of consciousness questions are a hoot Although the start of the fall television season is still a month away, those of you seeking a reliable, original, prime-time comedy are in luck. Just pick a weeknight, settle down at eight o'clock Eastern and flip on over to CNN. That's right, CNN. The news network. The news network whose programming executives, in what can only have been the result of a corporate retreat held at a whisky distillery, actually decided to confer a nightly "news" program on Mrs. Maury Povich. Connie Chung Tonight is the Spinal Tap of talk TV,...