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Report: CNN Pitching Piers Morgan as one of Network's 'Foundation Brands'
Breibart - Big Journalism ^ | 4-18-2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 04/19/2013 6:30:06 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

In an attempt to revive CNN's slumping advertising revenue, a direct result of its last-place ratings, new CNN chief Jeff Zucker is reportedly doubling-down on Piers Morgan, making him one of the network's "foundation brands."

Morgan has exploited the Newtown tragedy to shamelessly push his anti-Second Amendment agenda on a near-nightly basis. Despite his sagging ratings, Zucker has decided to feature Morgan, along with old faces like Anderson Cooper and newcomer Anthony Bourdain, to try to get non-traditional advertising dollars.

Ad Age reports CNN will sell and market the network's "foundation brands"--like Morgan, who was also featured in CNN's "reintroduction"--to attract advertisers like BMW and MillerCoors. Both of those brands usually do not advertise on prime-time cable news shows but have bought time on Bourdain's new weekend show. According to reports, CNN's audience has dropped 37 percent over the last six years. The network brands itself as the "most trusted name in news" while its anchors often show their partisan biases and advocate openly for liberal policies--like more gun control--and their poor ratings are finally catching up to them.

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(Snort!) Jeff Zucker doubling down.
1 posted on 04/19/2013 6:30:06 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

I’m not into Newspeak. What the hell is a Foundation Brand?


2 posted on 04/19/2013 6:31:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I think he’s onto something, Piers is the reason they are at the bottom (where the foundation is)


3 posted on 04/19/2013 6:31:24 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Sir Napsalot
"CNN Pitching Piers Morgan"

We could only hope.

4 posted on 04/19/2013 6:32:11 PM PDT by mountn man (ATTITUDE- The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Who cares. However, I was impressed with him saying to people talking positively about the two idiots who bombed Boston to shut up. He said they are not good they are terrorists.


5 posted on 04/19/2013 6:32:30 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
“foundation” is a term commonly used with women's underwear. This may be the connection.
6 posted on 04/19/2013 6:35:52 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: CrazyIvan
“foundation” is a term commonly used with women's underwear.

I thought it was something they put on their face. But what do I know.

7 posted on 04/19/2013 6:39:59 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Isn’t he about to deport himself?


8 posted on 04/19/2013 6:41:58 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Sir Napsalot

Aw cripes!

I like Anthony Bourdain’s travel shows. Giving him a platform to freely express his dumbassed NooYawker/NooJoisey political views is going to totally ruin him for me.


9 posted on 04/19/2013 6:45:44 PM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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To: Sir Napsalot

cnn’s new foundation - communist, lawbreaking nutter-butters


10 posted on 04/19/2013 6:49:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I thought Piers would be packed and gone by now.


11 posted on 04/19/2013 6:53:14 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Sir Napsalot

Piers Morgan is a Brit Card-Carrying Obamanation Journalist on an American Obamanation Journalism TV Channel.

Card-carrying Obamanation Journalists have used every excuse that they can spin to enable Tyrant B. Hussein Obama to continue to bypass Congress and destroy the US Constitution.

Our sorry Liberal Agenda Media, has proven to be a willing ally to Commie Obama by publishing gun ownership information in their sorry news outlets.

“Confidential” Gun Show background checklists are as confidential as the weakest link in the confidentiality chain, be it the sorry ‘Freedom of Information Act,’ or a sorry Media outlet Editor.

The purpose of a confidentially armed America Citizenry is THE BEST DETERRENT to power grabs by Tyrants such as the current wannabe Tyrant B. Hussein Obama.

Thus, Government knowledge of private gun ownership is ILLEGAL because it is an infringement upon the 2nd Amendment.

Gun background checklists collected will be used to confiscate our anti-Tyrant guns whenever the present or future Tyrant chooses. Of course, that would happen ONLY when it is in “the National Interest.”

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We need to stay focused!

DO NOT GET DISTRACTED!

Commie Obama has just begun to fight us!

With Communist-Style Communal Obama’care,’ B. Hussein already has one-sixth of the US Economy under his Communist heel.

Control of the US House in the 2014 National Election will clear the way for Commie Obama to take over the other five-sixth of the US Economy.

Most of the news from the Obamanation Administration centers around topics that are designed to be just another Obamanation Smokescreen to divert the attention away from Obama managing each new Constitutional Crisis into a Regulation that violates the Constitution.

“Never let a Crisis go to waste,” is the rule that guides Commie Obama.

Examples of these Obamanation distractions are most of the social issues that get attention by the Liberal Agenda Media.

Our sorry Congressional RINOs have been to stupid to learn this smoke and mirrors distraction game, and run from bargain to bargain or deal to deal, with nary a thought to use REGULAR ORDER, as designed by our Founding Fathers to protect us from Tyrants such as B. Hussein Obama.

If “bargains” and “deals” do not work then Arrogant, Incompetent, Communist Tyrant B. Hussein Obama will try to bypass the REGULAR ORDER of Congress by using Executive Orders, selective enforcement of REGULATIONS, and other Jack-Booted actions and verbal dictates that are consistent with the Communist Cell training that B. Hussein received in his quest to “FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”

As any card-carrying Obamanation Journalist will tell you:

” - - - We must support Obama “ - - - TO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - - - ” into a totally Regulated Communist Obamanation of Debt and Doom.

After all, how else can “- - - everyone get a fair shot?” - - - “

BTW, RECEIVING a “fair shot” would have been a lot easier if Commie Obama had succeeded in his personal recent attempted “bipartisan” destruction of the 2nd Amendment to disarm us - - - - .


12 posted on 04/19/2013 6:55:14 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: CrazyIvan

No, no, foundation does not refer to undergarments but is the common term used in womens makeup! Ahhhhh, maybe that includes Piers, I dunno.


13 posted on 04/19/2013 6:56:45 PM PDT by biff (WAS)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Well that’s my laugh for the day, in the midst of all the hell that has been breaking loose.


14 posted on 04/19/2013 7:03:16 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, Crew, etc. make your basic underwear brands.


15 posted on 04/19/2013 7:14:19 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Team: Progressives, Margret Sanger, Josef Mengele and the Butcher of Philadelphia)
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To: Huskrrrr

Like Hillary, carpetbaggers are hard to dislodge.


16 posted on 04/19/2013 7:15:32 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Team: Progressives, Margret Sanger, Josef Mengele and the Butcher of Philadelphia)
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To: Sir Napsalot

CNN has been openly anti-American for a while now.


17 posted on 04/19/2013 7:31:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The only reason I’d watch Piers Morgan on CNN is if they were throwing him off a cliff into spikes and then jumping after him.


18 posted on 04/19/2013 7:34:40 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

I’ve often wondered where Morgan gets the idea that anyone in the US needs his input on issues in our country. The good old UK has a huge pile of problems that are getting worse by the day. Muslim nutcases bent on killing civilians being one of them. We live in a dangerous world where groups of people want to kill us, our way of life, and take over the world enslaving everyone under islamic law. Doesn’t that sound fun? Screw you Piers. Go back home. No real American likes or listens to you. Bombings are going to occur more and more frequently. Ask Israel what that is like. Eventually, I hope,we real Americans, will take our nation back. But what will it take for people to wake up and realize how serious this is?


19 posted on 04/19/2013 7:40:56 PM PDT by dv8from
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To: Sir Napsalot

20 posted on 04/19/2013 7:46:29 PM PDT by Califreak (11/6/12 The Day America Divided By Zero)
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