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Drudge: CNN CANCELS 'CONNIE CHUNG' SHOW...
Druge | 3/25/03 | Drudge

Posted on 03/25/2003 6:02:34 PM PST by Keith in Iowa

CNN CANCELS 'CONNIE CHUNG' SHOW...


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41 posted on 03/25/2003 6:46:11 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (* * Common Sense is an Oxymoron * *)
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To: Bisesi
Am on FOX now myself and totally understand.

Maybe because CNN has dug in with Sudaam they have created an information infrastructure there.

CNN can still go pound sand.

42 posted on 03/25/2003 6:49:31 PM PST by oldtimer
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To: Keith in Iowa
I'm glad that they held off for a bit, allowing my son to make some big bucks by working on her new studio.
43 posted on 03/25/2003 6:53:02 PM PST by jackbill
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To: Keith in Iowa
Her show was boring as all hell.
44 posted on 03/25/2003 6:55:24 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (Which one will lose? Depends on what I choose or maybe which voice...I ignore.)
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To: Keith in Iowa
Buh-Bye


45 posted on 03/25/2003 6:59:58 PM PST by LayoutGuru2 (Victor Boc -> 5-8 weekdays on 860 AM - Open your mind)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Making enemies where none is intended is stupid, Moldy Cracker.

As for C.C., her father was an intelligence officer for Nationalist China. In 1944 he fled with his family to D.C. where he transferred into that other intelligence agency that's anything but red.

46 posted on 03/25/2003 7:00:27 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of grey.)
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To: Keith in Iowa
What is a "Connie Chung"?
47 posted on 03/25/2003 7:01:42 PM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace ((the original))
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
LOL. And here I was thinking she was on one of the networks, not CNN.
48 posted on 03/25/2003 7:03:06 PM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: Keith in Iowa
Hopefully, they'll follow up by firing Paula Zaha.
49 posted on 03/25/2003 7:03:25 PM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
The apple fell far from the tree, it seems.
50 posted on 03/25/2003 7:04:57 PM PST by Conservababe (I calls it like I sees it)
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To: Conservababe
Not from what I've heard.
51 posted on 03/25/2003 7:06:05 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of grey.)
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To: Keith in Iowa
CNN CANCELS 'CONNIE CHUNG' SHOW...

And...another one bites the dust! Whew!
Another bites the dust!
And another one's gone, and another one's gone...
Another one bites the dust! Whew!

52 posted on 03/25/2003 7:14:12 PM PST by nfldgirl
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To: Keith in Iowa
So much for the Chung-King recipe for success.
53 posted on 03/25/2003 7:16:37 PM PST by Fifth Business
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To: Keith in Iowa
Who gets to turn off the light at CNN?
54 posted on 03/25/2003 7:24:16 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: All; Conservababe
Conservatives need to be more consistent than this.

Chung came from a military/intelligence background.

She wasn't an occultic scientologist like Greta, a blowhard chest-thumper like Geraldo, a smerking doofus like Aaron Brownnose, AND Dan Rather HATED her.

That puts her ahead of 95% of newsblabbers.

And that's probably why she got canned.

55 posted on 03/25/2003 7:25:03 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of grey.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
I never noticed.
56 posted on 03/25/2003 7:27:10 PM PST by fml (freedom begins with W!)
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To: Keith in Iowa
Because it SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CNN will be following MSNBC's lead to try to be like Fox (WHO RULES!).
57 posted on 03/25/2003 7:40:12 PM PST by Teetop (democrats....... socialist.........whats the difference?)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Connie Chung

Biography

Graceful, reassuring, well-groomed TV newscaster with a beautiful speaking voice who, on June 1, 1993, on CBS, became the first woman to co-anchor a major network's national news broadcast since Barbara Walters was teamed with Harry Reasoner on ABC in 1976. The youngest of ten children born to Chinese immigrants (and the only one born in the US), Chung began as a cub reporter in the Washington DC area. Signed on by CBS in 1971 she eventually began covering stories for the "CBS Evening News" before becoming a co-anchor for network affiliate KNXT in Los Angeles in 1976. She also became a substitute anchor for the national evening news and did many weekend and morning broadcasts. Won over to NBC in 1983, Chung performed similar duties on the "NBC Nightly News" and its parallel daytime broadcasts. She also hosted a number of "NBC News Reports on America", but unfortunately, such installments as "Life in the Fat Lane", "Stressed to Kill" and "Everybody's Doing It" suggested to some that she was essentially a reporter of "soft" news: one TV wag, blithely forgetting her years of reporting, dubbed her "Connie Funn".

Moving back to CBS in 1989, Chung became the network's regular anchor for the Sunday edition of the "CBS Evening News" and often substituted during the week for Dan Rather. She also hosted several moderately successful primetime news magazine shows ("Saturday Night with Connie Chung", "Face to Face with Connie Chung") which featured her covering one of the show's stories herself or conducting an interview with some newsworthy figure. Despite the ups and downs of her career, Chung has always combined a solid professionalism and smooth delivery with a natural, relaxed charm, earning her perenially high marks in media surveys. It was precisely this brand of likability which led CBS (known around the newsroom as the "Connie Broadcasting Service") to team her with the veteran Rather in an attempt to boost the evening newscast's ratings from second place to the top spot. The result was ultimately unsuccessful and Chung was dropped (somewhat unceremoniously in the eyes of many) from the broadcast, but she has certainly made her mark, perhaps most controversially when she House speaker Newt Gingrich's mother to state that her son considered First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton a "bitch". Married to TV talk show host Maury Povich.

And her other credentials, please?

58 posted on 03/25/2003 7:42:44 PM PST by Conservababe (I calls it like I sees it)
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To: bcoffey
Boring, she does not have her hubby's pizzazz ;)
59 posted on 03/25/2003 7:44:32 PM PST by JustPiper (Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
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To: oldtimer
Respectfully, Sir, there's no way CNN beats Fox News...unless you just have an affinity for self-induced nausea and anti-war protest coverage. I'll give 'em one thing though...at least the anchors have figured out the nuances of air raid sirens. I got a real kick out of that "breaking news" the first three days, when I could still stomach their reporting style.

I've been delivered. No more CNN "opiate for the masses" coverage for me.
60 posted on 03/25/2003 7:45:49 PM PST by TheseRsweetDays
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