Posted on 08/23/2005 5:58:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
CNN President Jonathan Klein implies ratings news leader FOXNEWS is mired in coverage of "meaningless nonsense," claiming: "Fourteen Americans dead, and they have Natalee Holloway on," Klein says. "And they're supposedly America's news channel."
"It's easy and it's brainless," Klein charges in a telephone interview set for publication at the NEW YORK TIMES, explaining why cable news outlets had gravitated to the Aruba story. "They're looking for an ongoing drama" along the lines of the NBC crime show "Law & Order," he said, adding, "Except 'Law & Order' doesn't do the same plot every night."
"There are an awful lot of things you can cover if you don't have people tied up with this meaningless nonsense," Klein says.
In early July, Klein pulled CNN's correspondent out of Aruba and dropped the subject from most CNN shows in the absence of new developments.
"If Jon performed as well as he talks, he wouldn't have to explain his network's dismal ratings," says Irena Briganti, a spokeswoman for FOXNEWS. "We have trounced him on every breaking news story from the London bombings and last week's events in Gaza."
Impacting...
Well those two do go together, inseparably.
Unfortunately, he should have added, we haven't figured it out!
Fifty million people have been freed and their lives improve every day, and all CNN can do is report casualties. I'm no fan of the Holloway obsession at Fox, but at best, Klein is calling the kettle black. In fact, it's more like he's calling a snowbank with a little bit of dirt on it black.
Creepy Nut News.
FOX is doing the Supreme Court!
"Fourteen Americans dead, and they have Natalee Holloway on," Klein says. "And they're supposedly America's news channel."
When a similar number of American soldiers died in Mogadishu in IIRC 1993, did CNN cover this for 6 months and ask why and who was responsible and who's fault it was. How about the NYT. Did they give it the same coverage they gave Abu Ghraib?
CNN and the MSM whine, whine, whine about everything they don't like.
CNN does do similiar sensationalistic reporting but Fox wastes too much time as well and should not be above criticism in its appeal to the Springer crowd.
Now that's funny!
See # 5, also my post. I'm a capitalist. How about you?
The Clinton News Network........hypocrites all.
I'm suprised he didn't say, "so's yer old man!"
Larry King? Nancy Grace? Give me a break. CNN is tabloid-like just like Fox and MSNBC.
The minute the news comes on TV or the radio, I turn it "OFF" immediately. My blood pressure can't take the Liberal BS.
Agree to a point ... the Natalee Holloway Aruba story is way overblown.
This man is a joke...I do believe that the week of the London Bombings...Larry King had on Tammy Faye Bakker...
He is their "main man"...and all he has is has-been neo-celebrities....sheesh
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