You could have predicted this last September and October, as the networks were busy burning all their bridges that they came to and crossed. Never once did they consider that a time and place would come...where people would regard their news as “less-than-news”. That time and place...has come.
We are almost six months into the Obama period. I would imagine that Anderson Cooper will quietly disappear into the sunset by spring of 2010 with CNN pursuing some fantastic twist and turn to recover.
If the President continues his Tuesday night ‘softball’ game and helps to dump profit off the big-three...we can envision some severe cuts coming. My guess is that the president will cool off on news conferences for five months and try to come back in October...just as the new season of shows start up.
As for CNN...somewhere after the 2010 elections....they will eventually decide to take on Fox News....and go right-wing. I realize that this will be impossible to believe....but in terms of business...it will be a hard pill that they must swallow. I believe three of the top ten Fox players...will switch at that point and get pay raises to anchor or play for CNN. That will be the only way that they survive. As for CBS and the others...they are toast, and best left for sports analysis.
When I read your comment my first thought was that if CNN were to start honestly reporting the news and cease being a shill for O they might stand a chance. That would be a pretty fantastic twist & turn though. Won't happen.
As for CNN...somewhere after the 2010 elections....they will eventually decide to take on Fox News....and go right-wing.
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I think their best approach would be to actually present the news without bias. I do occasionally surf over to CNN when FOX has on someone, e.g., Geraldo or Huckabee, or something I do not want to see.
FOX, I have noticed has been leaning to the left. I was pretty disgusted with their noncoverage of the alternate graduation at Notre Dame.
“As for CNN...somewhere after the 2010 elections....they will eventually decide to take on Fox News....and go right-wing.”
Won’t happen. As CNN sees it, Anderson Cooper is CNN’s rightwing reporter.
This isn’t about business model. If it was, the NY Times would have been fair and balanced 40 years ago. It is about political agenda and the unsuspecting morons who fund these ventures.
CNN can be successfulby making two changes. One, news is news. Stop editorializing it and report the truth. Two, leave Cooper and friends on and admit they are liberal commentators. Bring on conservative guests and argue the issues in a civilized format.
That is Fox’s business model and it works. The way to be successful is copy a successful business model.
CNN and anderson cooper could try an expose on acorn, obama, the stimulus porkfest....or any host of subjects, but alas, it is more important to forge ahead with an agenda then to seek real news.