CNN Cancels ‘In the Arena’ With Eliot Spitzer

NY Times ^ | 6 July 2011 | Brian Stelter

[Rummyfan]

CNN on Wednesday cancelled Eliot Spitzer’s 8 p.m. political talk show, “In The Arena,” after only nine months, and said it would shift Anderson Cooper’s 10 p.m. nightly newscast into the time slot.

[opus86]

If they were smart they’d do a spin-off of “In The Arena”, called “In The Brothel”...Would garner better ratings and, let’s be honest, it’s a topic more within Spitzer’s realm of expertise.

[lowbridge]

Maybe they can do something different for that time slot, like you know....hire a liberal to host.....

Oh wait....

[fortheDeclaration]

I am shocked!

[Scanian]

You know, as badly as CNN does in cable news ratings, I’ll bet that it could be bought for chump change.

The way Fox has been drifting left the last couple years, somebody like the Koch brothers could buy up the network, staff it with UNCOMPROMISING conservatives, and meet the needs of the right on a daily basis.

I don’t doubt that the news gathering capacity of CNN might make its acquisition more complicated but I’m quite sure that most of the wrinkles could be ironed out.

[highpockets]

CNN is corrupt.

I have removed the channel from my sets. Not one of my televisons even stops on channel 20.

They will never get one penny from me.

[Steely Tom]

Here's a picture of entropy in action:

[AdamBomb]

“CNN Pulls Out Weiner, Will Next Host Spitzer Swallow?”

[org.whodat]

Cnn is stupid, hire the hooker, and the audience would be a thousand times greater.

[max americana]

Maybe he needs more hookers to spice up the ratings.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Client #9 is a folk-hero to the deranged left (along with DSK) as the whole world KNOWS both of them are VICTIMS...being set-up in honeytraps by BIG EEEEEEVIL CORPORATIONS

[McGruff]

The fruit loop replaces the pervert.