Posted on 06/06/2007 4:41:23 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
For two decades -- until his retirement in 2001 -- Bernard Shaw was the front-and-center face of CNN. As one of its original anchors, the Chicago native set the tone for serious, insightful journalism on television's first 24-hour cable news operation.
So it pains him deeply to see what has become of the proud brand he helped create.
Asked what he now thinks of CNN, Shaw told WTTW-Channel 11's John Callaway: "I try not to. I'm very, very disappointed with the way the news management at my favorite network has gone. CNN has fine women and men working there. Lou Dobbs, one of the leaders there.
"Unfortunately, Fox News is the ratings leader . . . on the cable side of the business, and what Fox puts on the air is not news."
What Fox does, he said, is "commentary, personal analysis."
Calling himself "very straitlaced [and] very old-fashioned," Shaw said: "When anchors are reporting the news, they should report the news and allow the viewers at home to decide what they think about issues.
"I don't want to hear an anchor's personal opinion about anything. Just report the news.
"But CNN continues to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don't like that," he said.
Shaw was in Chicago last week to help his University of Illinois alma mater kick off a $2.25 billion fund-raising campaign. He was interviewed by Callaway on Channel 11's "Friday Night."
“I don’t want to hear an anchor’s personal opinion about anything. Just report the news.
“But CNN continues to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don’t like that,” he said.
Isn’t this the same guy who refused to be debriefed by the Pentagon about Iraqi troop movements after the US military saved his asss from a downtown Bahgdad hotel in the first Gulf War?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yeah. CNN = unbiased news. Ok, Bernie.
He didn’t talk when he came back.
The only thing he’ll be remembered by is needing a change of pants during the Gulf War bombing.
Certainly Bernie: What’s that you say? You used to work for C N N=Communist News Network!
Hmm, "We report, you decide." Good thinking, Bernie!
I watched CNN last night for the R debate. I don’t usually pay attention to it. They had Ariana Huffington raving and disconnected from reality and later Paul Begala shilling foir the Clintons. The set they designed was awful and covered all over with logos for CNN and the local. Earlier I counted four logos surrounding Clinton in a close up at the Dem debate. Lots of technical glitches. Overall bad.
Yep, CNN covers both sides of the news; Stalinist AND Trotskyist
In CNN's case, it's not biased when Saddam Hussein chooses what people should hear!
Rooster boy!!! is back.
Dear Bernie - go suck an egg.
Liberals can’t be biased, only out of touch. What a dinosaur.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Thank God they are around to save us! No, wait. Don’t thank God. Thank Shoggoth! Or maybe the cosmic muffin!
There's nothing quite like a sanctimonious hypocrite being sanctimonious.
Hey Bernie.... “shhhhh.”
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