TIMEWARNERCNN CHAIR BLASTS FOXNEWS: 'Crazy people exchanging views'... [Hilarious Drudge Photo]

Drudge Report ^ | 8/6/04 | Matt Drudge

[joey9004]

Time Warner Inc. chairman Dick Parsons Friday described Fox News Channel as "crazy people exchanging views," telling a group of minority journalists in Washington he felt that the channel and his own Cable News Network are two different services.

When asked by Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos why CNN was losing the ratings battle with Fox, he was not ready to concede that. He said that Fox was more like talk radio on TV, which meant that its viewers stayed longer because people tended to "come and sit down for an hour or two and listen to crazy people exchange views." CNN actually draws more viewers, he said, but said they were grazers who didn't stay long.

Parsons said he did not feel CNN was liberal, but instead has a bias for the truth. He conceded that journalists are often perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge the establishment. He did not make an overt comparison with Fox, but he did say that his news operation "does not give a corporate slant to its journalism. We don't tell them how to report."

[joey9004]

The story is pretty un-interesting. CNN blasting Fox news, blah, blah, blah. Drudge takes the opportunity to zing O'Reilly. Everyone go to Drudge and look at the picture.

(Headline: "TIMEWARNERCNN CHAIR BLASTS FOXNEWS: 'Crazy people exchanging views'..." Picture: O'Reilly interviewing Moore at DNC). Funny stuff.

[gilliam]

I watched the the Capital Gang the other day. CNN shouldn't throw stones.

[martin_fierro]

[headsonpikes]

That certainly qualifies as 'crazy people exchanging views.

Point taken!

[uncitizen]

Do the "crazy people" include Franken?

[Shermy]

Parsons said he did not feel CNN was liberal, but instead has a bias for the truth.

Just a bias? Maybe he's factoring in CNN's agreement with Saddam to downplay criticism in return for access.

[cripplecreek]

"Parsons said he did not feel CNN was liberal, but instead has a bias for the truth."


Christiane Ammanpour is married to who?

[GeorgiaYankee]

He conceded that journalists are often perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge the establishment.

Like during the CLINTON Administration, oh yeah, boy did they challenge the establishment. That's why they were called the Clinton News Network!

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

He conceded that journalists are often perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge the establishment

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. Yeah right, that's why CNN and the liberal media gave Sandy Berger a free pass, and why they tried to downplay every single thing Clinton did wrong.

[Congressman Billybob]

Aesop covered this story in a parable about 2,500 years ago. Can't remember exactly how it went, but it had something to do with a fox and some sour grapes.

This man demonstrates why CNN is down the toilet and will go further down the toilet. As long as the "leaders" CNN don't have a clue why people are rejecting them, the rejections will continue. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

Congressman Billybob

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[JPJones]

"We don't tell them how to report."

'We don't have to, we only have very liberal reporters on staff."

[keysguy]

I'm crushed, Dick Parsons doesn't like FNC.

[MinuteGal]

Well, if his "crazy people" on Fox includes Susan Ostrich and Dickie the Toe, he's right on.

Leni

[IamConservative]

"Fox was more like talk radio on TV, which meant that its viewers stayed longer because people tended to "come and sit down for an hour or two and listen to crazy people exchange views." CNN actually draws more viewers, he said, but said they were grazers who didn't stay long."

My dumb capitalist ass thought the point of TV was advertising. I am sure the "grazers" are a sought after demographic by advertisers.

[RoseofTexas]

HMMMMM..funny how it all comes down to.. CNN represents the left wackos, yet the CEO of FOX endorsed Kerry and sided with the left instead of the folk that MADE Fox what it is today. AS OF TODAY I WILL NO LONGER WATCH FOX. I am broken hearted that the CEO would slap his BREAD AND BUTTER folk by personally endorsing the LEFT. I have been a FAITHFUL, truly, FAITHFUL viewer. FOXNEWS was my only source of news from the tube. I guess I'm completely left with the Internet for news now. I AM BITTERLY DISAPPOINTED IN FOX! The CEO spoke VOLUMES when he chose to display his loyalty to the left. HE SHOULD HAVE JUST KEEP HIS FREAKIN ROTTEN MOUTH SHUT! SOOOOOO LONG FOOOOOX! It's Cspan for the RNC convention for me!

[JPJones]

When asked by Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos why CNN was losing the ratings battle with Fox, he was not ready to concede that.

"It depends on your definition of 'losing'."

[CyberAnt]

"often perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge the establishment"

WHAT ..?? I've never witnessed CNN challenging x42's admin at any time or any place. As usual, they're lying through their teeth.

[joey9004]

But if you do that, you're doing just what liberals do (thinking that only liberals are qualified to give them the news). What does it matter if the CEO of Fox endorses Kerry? It's thinking like that that gives conservatives a bad name.

[rundy]

Parsons said he did not feel CNN was liberal, but instead has a bias for the truth."
Christiane Ammanpour is married to who?

Dick Parsons Ammanpour would not know the TRUTH if it bit him in the @$$.

[Soul Seeker]

Liberals ARE the "establishment".

They consider because they are STILL the outsiders with the public that it means they have not ascended to "establishment" status. Ha!

Conservatives are the ones currently banging the wall, demanding the tear down THEIR walls to make room for the TRUTH. Only we aren't blowing up buildings to make our voices heard.