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CNN Bans Talk Radio Show Hosts
Newsbusters.org, ^ | 8/11/09 | by Noel Sheppard

Posted on 08/11/2009 2:38:11 PM PDT by Nachum

Has CNN banned talk radio show hosts from its on air programming?

Such was reported by TVNewser a few hours ago (h/t Steve Malzberg):

Exclusive: TVNewser has learned, and a CNN spokesperson confirms, that in his morning editorial meeting today, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bans; cnn; radio; talk; talkradio
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To: Nachum

The reporter has it backwards. They are going to ban radio talk show hosts as guests and perhaps guest hosts. This was a meeting of producers, the guys who book guests.

They probably will continue to use radio talk show hosts as hosts because they can really talk a blue streak and make sense. They also pull in advertising better.


21 posted on 08/11/2009 2:53:06 PM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: Nachum

22 posted on 08/11/2009 2:53:59 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: GauchoUSA
Wow, I wonder what would happen if Liberals were banned from Fox news?

"Corporate-owned, right-wing news network silences women and minorities."

23 posted on 08/11/2009 2:54:45 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: Nachum

Only guys that look like Larry the Cable Guy are allowed to discuss the issues from the right. Then we will make fun of them in the next segment.


24 posted on 08/11/2009 3:01:50 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum

Shutting out opposing views is “un-American” unless they disagree with the regime


25 posted on 08/11/2009 3:02:37 PM PDT by GeronL (http://unitedcitizen.blogspot -Guilty of deviationism- http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: DManA

And I like Larry the cable guy!


26 posted on 08/11/2009 3:06:49 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jim Scott

Not yet...LETS ROLL!


27 posted on 08/11/2009 3:07:15 PM PDT by ldish (Looking forward to Independence Day)
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To: Nachum

So CNN is dropping the Rachel Maddow Show?


28 posted on 08/11/2009 3:09:22 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Nachum
Will everyone in the red counties please shut up? We don't need your viewership. Thank you very much. -CNN


29 posted on 08/11/2009 3:10:36 PM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: Nachum

Just to make sure I don’t give them a ratings boost, I will block CNN and HLN from my selection list. While I am at it, so long MSNBC


30 posted on 08/11/2009 3:11:43 PM PDT by CenTex (Texas has a governor for sale; make an offer...)
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To: Nachum

Are they so weak that they can’t stand having conservative voices on their shows? Meanwhile, Fox is accused of bias. This is, in fact an attack on conservative freedom of speech.


31 posted on 08/11/2009 3:13:17 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Nachum

Does this INCLUDE Al Franken?


32 posted on 08/11/2009 3:13:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Nachum

Lou is not gonna like this....he always has them on his show


33 posted on 08/11/2009 3:14:44 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Have you girded your loins today??????)
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To: Nachum

Let’s just eliminate truth and dialogue completely.


34 posted on 08/11/2009 3:16:50 PM PDT by TPOOH (I wish I could have been Jerry Reed.)
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To: Jim Scott

“the reincarnation of JFK (who was never that popular while president)”

To be perfectly blunt, getting his brains blown out was the most popular think JFK ever did.

Having barely one one of the tightest elections in history, but with hindsight being 20-20, it is hard to find anybody who will admit to having voted for Nixon over JFK.


35 posted on 08/11/2009 3:20:24 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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To: allmendream

The media was all over the Kennedys after the election. Kind of like today, except they were better dressed. The media created Camelot and the assassination made him a martyr.


36 posted on 08/11/2009 3:22:15 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: Jim Scott
coupled with a president who they thought was the reincarnation of JFK (who was never that popular while president)

The media has always loved the Kennedys far more than the public does. John Kennedy quite possibly would have been a one term president had he not been assassinated. His internal polling wasn't good, and he was at risk of losing Texas, which had not ever voted Republican in any presidential election. That said, they are an interesting bunch to study. It's kind of a combination of the Ewings from the series Dallas and the Sopranos.

37 posted on 08/11/2009 3:23:16 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“Translation: Conservatives shut the f up.”


....quit talkin’, get out of the way and let me clean their mess up.

Roughly excerpted from B. H. 0bama


38 posted on 08/11/2009 3:24:02 PM PDT by hotshu (Keep the Faith, that will be the only thing 0bama doesn't try to steal from us.)
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To: Richard Kimball

Given the election practices in Texas, he would have never lost the election, unless Johnson and Connelly wanted him to.


39 posted on 08/11/2009 3:24:37 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Does this INCLUDE Al Franken?

No it doesn't include Bill Bennett either. They are only banning conservatives.

40 posted on 08/11/2009 3:26:03 PM PDT by SUSSA
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