Okay here is my quarter.
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.
Nor can we. It’s gotten downright silly and noting newsworthy. Besides...we were watching one show the other night and I think it was Julie Banderas who was reporting. My God...the background was RED AND BLUE and I mean a GAWDY Red and Blue and it looked sillier than ever. Whatever happened to a classy looking backround. Looked like they were trying to match the background with the outfit Julie was wearing. How silly is that? That’s for COOKING shows...not a news network. Fox is slipping big time. Can’t wait for this dem nomination to be over with then I am through with all the news everywhere.
Okay here is my quarter.
I've been following Tony Snow's career and his writings for more than 15 years. So, I'll say it again: I wholeheartedly disagree with you.
Know the man and his passions before you slap your personal standards on him.
Thanks.
That was my thought. Could bring back respectability to network news.
good for Tony Snow!! can’t hurt, can only help!!!
Glenn Beck now Tony Snow ....
This is a good move by cnn. 80% of FoxNews sucks and now only 80% of cnn will suck.
Upon Receiving Freedom of Speech Award From The Media Institute Friends & Benefactors Awards Banquet Washington, D.C. October 16, 2007
“Now, I’ll conclude with good news and bad news. First, the bad: The public hates politics and the press. People don’t trust either institution, even though they sustain our system of free intellectual enterprise. Those of us involved in either profession - or in my case, both - shouldn’t complain. We need to ask how things reached this state, and how we can fix the problem. Now the good news: I don’t think any of the weaknesses I have cited are inherent or irreversible. I have spent nearly 30 years of my life in the business of journalism, and with luck, I’ll get 30 more. I love the business and the people who work in it. My experience as White House press secretary confirmed what I always have known: Reporters are curious, aggressive, eager to learn, and interested in ideas. They share many of the frustrations I have mentioned this evening. They want to range wider, dig deeper and explore more broadly than they can today. They hate censorship. They love what they do. They see it as a noble calling. They want to get better at their jobs, and they want to grind their competitors into dust. They know the public has become sick of vicious political discourse and the media who pass it on. They know the country teems with new kinds of stories, incredible innovations, novel ways of attacking the problems we all confront. But everyone needs to realize that the days of the old-fashioned newsroom are over. It’s a different world out there - wilder, more competitive, and much less predictable than even a decade ago. Rather than cursing innovation, journalists need to embrace it. They need to get out of their cubicles and plunge into the task that drew most of us into the business in the first place the challenge of engaging a chaotic world filled with willful fellow human beings; a world of joy and agony; of triumph and crushing failure; a world united by love and atomized by hatreds and aggression, The democratic media provide new tools for examining our world, new competitors for reporting about that world, and new reminders to the press establishment that markets really do work - and people want better than they’re getting.
I come not to bury journalism, but to celebrate and challenge it. It’s a cliche that every crisis presents an opportunity, but it’s true: The democratization of the media is a good thing. We now face competition from all quarters - including from people who have specialized expertise that journalists lack. We ought to welcome the new participants in the game and learn from them. They should do the same with us. There’s an old boast in the business - that the job of a journalist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The thing is, we never realized that we were becoming The Comfortable - with good pay, job security, and access to movers and shakers all around the world. We need to cast off our coziness, venture away from safe stories and presumptions and into the wilderness of new topics, new ideas and new sources of information. In that quest lies the possibility of fulfillment and joy - and the hope of keeping alive the text and the spirit of the First Amendment.”
So? That would be pretty good news, too, IMHO.
Unless, of course, we really prefer to just talk to each other and have no desire to get our message out to those who need to hear it.
I think that Tony has been offered more money from CNN than he could get anywhere else. My opinon is that he is taking the opportunity to earn as much money as possible since every day for him now, and has been since he got sick, is a gift from God. Tony Snow is an honorable guy, loves his family, and is going to do everything possible to leave them the means to live comfortably when and if he leaves this world.......and for money to send his children to school.
If it means going to CNN, that is what it means. CNN may learn something....and Tony Snow will be unchanged....
Katie’s leaving CBS will only leave a teeny tiny hole. She has done a perfectly horrible job. Cutesy does not a credible newsman make. (as in, we are all man) Tony would have been an excellent choice for the job. Tony is an excellent choice for any and all jobs in news. Real news.
I wish him all the best in his new job. He won’t take pressure to become CNN like. He’s too smart for that.
Don’t waste your effort. Some, even here on FR, are only happy when they’re posting horrid comments.
I too have followed Tony for years, and MY personal standards have nothing to do with this: I wouldn’t work for CNN in any capacity for any amount of money.
I would have thought Tony could find lucrative work almost anywhere. Why CNN? The only reason I can see is the money. He is certainly smart enough to see that he will have minimal impact for the conservative cause, since the majority of CNN’s audience are moonbat liberals.
Besides, we have evidence of his willingness to moderate his message when his boss wants him to; or have you forgotten his brief stint as Press Secretary? He was all too willing to mouth GWB’s milquetoast position on illegal immigration.
A man who allows his faith to be a compass.
He will make CNN a better network with his presence.
I for one will be watching him.
Good luck Tony.
I avoided watching CNN as a matter of principle for at least the last 10 years. OK, I checked them out once-in-awhile but that was about it. Too liberal. Too biased. Not for me.
That boycott ended when CNN went HD and I bought a big new Sharp LCD for the family room. I started with their election coverage which runs circles around Fox. Sorry to report that but it is true, at least if you are watching on big screen TV in HD.
What I found is that the bias on CNN has been moderated when compared to the past where it was as thick as soup. That is not to say that we have a new Fox News on our hands. Hardly. But conservative views do get heard and the libs are a little bit less obnoxious. A small step for CNN but I think a telling one. The market (and Fox News) has spoken and CNN is fighting for its survival - by leaning a little bit right from their normal wacko far left postion. Personally I'm glad to see it. Fox needed a kick in the pants - they've been getting lazy lately. And they still don't have HD.
I’ve missed something. I don’t get the noose, etc. meaning.
What B.S.!
I will trust what I hear Tony say.
I will verify what he say too mind you, but that is just something I learned from President Reagan.
Glenn Beck rocks. I turn off Shep and turn on Glenn at 7 every evening. Glad he will have some company now among the leftist loonies over there.
Go Tony!
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