Posted on 04/21/2008 1:40:02 PM PDT by abb
Topic: Miscellaneous items Date/Time: 4/21/2008 3:51:11 PM Title: Snow joins CNN as political contributor Posted By: Jim Romenesko
News Release
For Release: April 21, 2008
Tony Snow Joins CNN as Political Contributor
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow will join CNN as a conservative commentator beginning today, it was announced by Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S.
A well-known and respected observer of politics with a longstanding news background, Snow will contribute to CNN as the network continues to broadcast winning political coverage.
Snow most recently served as press secretary to President George W. Bush from April 2006 to September 2007. For 10 years beginning in 1996, he appeared on Fox News Channel, hosting Fox News Sunday, Weekend Live with Tony Snow and other programs. From 2003 to 2006, The Tony Snow Show aired on Fox News Radio. Before joining Fox, Snow served as a substitute "From the Right" co-host for CNN's Crossfire.
"In the White House, Tony brought a remarkably human touch to the discussion of public policy, which he will continue to do as part of the Best Political Team on Television," Klein said. "He will contribute a unique breadth of political and journalistic expertise to what is already the most provocative and wide-ranging political analysis on the air."
"I'm delighted to be able to join CNN during the most exciting and unpredictable political year in memory,” Snow said. “The big challenge in 2008 is to develop deep, creative and aggressive analysis of both political parties, their candidates and campaigns. I’m eager to get started, since this race is sure to shape American politics for years to come."
During the 1990s, Snow was a regular guest host for Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. He was the writer, correspondent and host of a PBS news special, The New Militant Center, a regular commentator for National Public Radio and a frequent guest on numerous televised news programs. Snow joined the administration of President George H. W. Bush in 1991 and served first as chief speechwriter and then as media affairs adviser.
In addition to his experience in government, television and radio, Snow spent more than two decades as an award-winning newspaper writer beginning with the Greensboro Record in 1979. He went on to be a columnist for USA Today and Creators Syndicate and an editorial page editor for The Washington Times.
CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.
It's possible that Fox didn't make him an offer, and he's got a wife and children to support. My best wishes to Tony for continued good health...
Congratulations Tony! Best wishes for wonderful success and good health!
Amen, amen, amen!
I switch from Shep to Glenn, so going to CNN for a good conservative is no problem. As Freeper TexasBeth pointed out he (Tony) can handle himself among liberals and his WH stint proved that. He will have many friends watching him and I wish him luck.
It does show me that CNN must be aware that their ratings can only go up with more conservatives on their panels or programs. Would they otherwise? I don’t think so. They want to be competative with Fox and so they MUST go more conservative.
At the same time, maybe Fox will get the message, clean up their acts by stopping the stupid cutsy stuff and bring back serious conservative speakers.
What a great idea.
Tony speaks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004973/posts
Tony Snow: ‘I love the folks at Fox’
Amen to that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those 2 ROCK!!!!!
I LOVE them both!!!!!!
Long live Special Report!!!!!!!!!
“He will contribute a unique breadth of political and journalistic expertise to what is already the most provocative and wide-ranging political analysis on the air.”
Unique is definitely the word to use. “Already...wide-ranging” is only shades of Liberal gray.
I wonder how many calls CNN got in protest.
Good luck to Tony; know he will keep his friends at Fox News, no doubt..
Ping. What a coup for CNN and shame on foxnews for letting him slip through the cracks.
Glenn Beck surely must spin some heads over there, as well. lol/
Great news Tony...give ‘em hell!
Give us a shout out every now and then if you get the chance.
I’m still saying prayers for your health and well being... Hope everything is going good!
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- And the LORD said to Moses, "Go, get down! For your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.
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- They turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to to it, and said, "This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!"
The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day. Now the power to determine each day what shall seem important and what shall be neglected is a power unlike any that has been exercised since the Pope lost his hold on the secular mind.
Ben Bradlee (Washington Post editor of Watergate infamy) joins Lippmann in worshiping the false god of man.
JIM LEHRER: Ben Bradlee is one of America's most famous newspaper editors and he believes the practice of journalism is more than a job.
BEN BRADLEE: I don't mean to sound arrogant, but we're in a holy profession.
JIM LEHRER: A holy profession?
BEN BRADLEE: Yeah and the pursuit of truth is a holy pursuit.
50 percent of journalists [say] they have no religion, and some 80 percent rarely ever [go] to church.
I have found myself watching CNN more of late. Their political coverage on the primaries was very good. And they had the "touch map", if I recall, before Fox. I also prefer Lou Dobbs to Shep Smith.
Overall, Fox is putting too much stuff on the screen, banners and rotating icons, crawlers, and big titles proclaiming the obvious. And then there is the constant replaying of some of the most insipid video ever. Add to that Geraldo and Alan Colmes and it becomes harder to keep watching Fox.
Just the mere announcement of your CNN job has brought out a great number of the SnowFlakes [and, of course, the usual couple of SnowGrinches]. So you are off to a good start.
My problem is now my tag. Somehow “CNNVOXFAN” doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Guess I'll work something out.
8)
One might say a similar thing about our government. It's purpose is not to be paternal, but to protect us from the loss of our freedoms.
Thanks for the ping!
You do realize he has stage 4 cancer? He needs to make as much money as he can for his family right now. I would work for Obama or Clinton if I wasn’t sure I was going to be here much longer to take care of my kids.
CNN??
Good luck with that, Tony.
Hopefully we won't find Tony walking around naked in Central Park with a rope tied from his neck to his genitals.
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