Fired CNN President Wants to Return (Rick "FOB" Kaplan, That Is)

ShowBIZData.com ^ | 3/21/02

[GeneD]

Fired by CNN last August after serving three years as president, Rick Kaplan has indicated he'd like to return to broadcast news -- on one of the networks. "I think people know I want to come back," Kaplan told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday, indicating that he had no preferences among the three major networks. "It's not if I can find a beautiful woman to marry, it's whether any beautiful woman wants to marry me. I'm hopeful." [On Thursday, the New York Daily News reported that Today show host Katie Couric was rumored to be drumming up support for Kaplan to replace Jonathan Wald as producer of the NBC morning show.] Kaplan, a former producer of ABC's Nightline (1985-89), also took issue with critics who have suggested that 24-hour cable news networks have made network news shows irrelevant. "Everything [cable news networks] do, when not in talk shows, is immediate, hour-to-hour coverage." On the other hand, he said, "You learn more from Nightline in half an hour than you do from 24-hour cable systems across the entire day."

[KC_Conspirator]

You mean Rick "I sent out a company memo during the 90's that banned CNN employees from using the word 'scandal' when referring to Klinton" Kaplan?

[Joe Boucher]

Go find algore and be miserable together.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Is that the same Rick Kaplan who edited the 'Toon Flowers interview saying: "I pulled his candidacy out of the trash can" thus making him (with the 'Toon and Laden) responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans on 9/11?