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Piers Morgan: CNN's New Lineup will be 'Provocative, Aggressive and Ballsy"
TV Newser ^ | September 8, 2010 | Alex Werpin

Posted on 09/08/2010 2:42:10 PM PDT by Beaten Valve

Newly minted CNN 9 PM host Piers Morgan knows he is not a familiar journalistic face to American audiences. He also knows that the cable news landscape is full of big personalities and opinions.

Morgan has no intention of aping the competition, or using his new platform to push a political agenda.

"I have a lot of opinions, do I want to shove them down my viewer's throats? No, there are enough people doing that on cable news at 8 or 9 o'clock at the moment," Morgan says. "I don't want people to view me as a political animal, I don't put my own politics into it. CNN's one objective with the new schedule is to be provocative, aggressive and ballsy, and to seek out the truth."

Morgan's new boss, CNN/US president Jon Klein, echoed that point:

"I think you have lineup of fearless, aggressive journalists who will ask tough questions throughout the evening, they will hold public officials accountable," Klein says. "Having Piers as part of a lineup that includes Anderson [Cooper], Kathleen [Parker] and Eliot [Spitzer] on top of that, it is a lineup that is beholden to no side, you cant find that in primetime in cable news."

(Excerpt) Read more at mediabistro.com ...


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To: Beaten Valve

Wil he wear suspenders?


21 posted on 09/08/2010 3:43:33 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Beaten Valve

The CNN-whale crap still has not hit the bottom of the ocean...... =.=


22 posted on 09/08/2010 5:06:34 PM PDT by cranked
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To: GunningForTheBuddha
Yeah, I’m just waiting for the metrosexuals over at CNN to pull off “ballsy”.

Maybe he means Hairball.

23 posted on 09/08/2010 5:09:08 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best.)
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