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'PrimeTime Live' struggles with ratings plunge (23%), staff unrest
USA Today
| 2/10/05
Posted on 02/10/2005 4:56:35 PM PST by Libloather
USA Today
Diane Sawyer anchors PrimeTime, where ratings have dropped 23% this year.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcnews; diane; live; plunge; primetime; ratings; sawyer; staff; struggles; unrest
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This morning, Diane darn near made an American icon out of Hewlett-Packard's canned ex-CEO Carly Fiorina because she's - a woman. Meanwhile, Dr. Condoleezza Rice mops up Europe like nothing this planet's ever seen, and not a peep - maybe because she's - a woman.
To: Libloather
to the ash heap of history with them I say
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posted on
02/10/2005 4:59:45 PM PST
by
Texas_Jarhead
(I believe in American Exceptionalism! Do you?)
To: Libloather
Well, if ratings are dropping so badly, "anchor" is a pretty good description.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:00:01 PM PST
by
Enterprise
("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
To: Enterprise
Well, if ratings are dropping so badly, "anchor" is a pretty good description.Or an albatross.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:02:32 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: Libloather
Sweeeeeeeeeeet. Nice to see a LameStream Media organization get whacked.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:02:40 PM PST
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
To: Libloather
awwwwwwww!
I'm so sad...... NOT!
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:03:03 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Libloather
I can't believe the show has lasted this long. Honestly, the words "Prime Time Live" haven't crossed my mind in years.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:03:45 PM PST
by
silent_jonny
("Don't he never sleep?")
To: Libloather
I used to have a "thing" for her when she was a bit younger, and before I found out she was to the Left politically of Joseph Stalin.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:04:06 PM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: All
Bye-bye Prime Time Live.....
GAWD, does this mean there's going to be another reality show in the works?
To: Libloather
Liberals are the kiss of death for ratings these days.
Yet the answer to long suffering stockholders of Old Media companies from management is simply: "Tough, our job is to support the democrat party, NOT to make a profit."
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:06:22 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
To: Libloather
It must be a lot of fun to be an irrelevant anchor for a dying dinosoar Not News Program! 
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:12:16 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
To: mewzilla
One would think that the female anchors would be in a cat fight to have Condi on their shows. I guess not. Must be something about fearing smart, strong women.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:13:18 PM PST
by
Enterprise
("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
To: Libloather
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:17:15 PM PST
by
SolidRedState
(I've just peed my pants and no one can do a thing about it.)
To: Libloather
Whenever Diane Sawyer is talking about anything she sounds like she is on the brink of tears. It drives me crazy.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:23:25 PM PST
by
nygoose
To: SolidRedState
(I've just peed my pants and no one can do a thing about it.)"Put that in yer book!"...."Don't...hurt my ...mules..."
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:24:15 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(CNN REPORT: Judge says ready to sit for 6 month Jackson trial: God help us!)
To: SkyPilot
"I used to have a "thing" for her when she was a bit younger, and before I found out she was to the Left politically of Joseph Stalin."
- I also thought Sawyer was sexy and, strangely enough, in her early days in journalism she was a pro Nixon Republican. She wrote articles and did interviews with him that were sympathetic, and when he fell from grace she got a lot of ,"How could you have possibly supported that snake?" criticism's from her MSM colleagues. She soon learned that if she wanted regular work on the MSM networks, she'd better change her political views.
Along the way, she married Mike Nichols, the biggest liberal on the A List of the New York cocktail party circuit, further cementing her conversion to the dark side.
By now she has probably convinced herself that she has been a Dem since birth.
To: Libloather
I watched them in the 90s, but I have grown tired of newsmagazines.
I made sure to watch my PTL, the 100 Dateline versions, 20/20, 60 Minutes etc...during the 90s.
It is just too much. I sometimes still catch 20/20.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:27:29 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
To: Libloather
Diane Sawyer anchors PrimeTime, where ratings have dropped 23% this year.Maybe she should do the show nekkid.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:28:07 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(CNN REPORT: Judge says ready to sit for 6 month Jackson trial: God help us!)
To: Libloather
Diane Sawyer is a beautiful woman. It is too bad she is so morally ignorant.
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:28:30 PM PST
by
PhilipFreneau
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. -- Psalms 14: 1, 53:1)
To: Libloather
Prime Time Live? Prime Time Dead!
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posted on
02/10/2005 5:30:22 PM PST
by
CitizenM
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