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CNN Offering Paula Zahn's Job to Soledad O' Brian of NBC 'Weekend Today' [Dead Racoon Alert]
Hollwood Reporter and National Journal 'Wake Up Call' Section ^
| June 9, 2003
| Chuck Todd
Posted on 06/09/2003 9:01:51 AM PDT by ewing
Sources say that the Cable News Network has offered Soledad O'Brian of NBC's Weekend Today the spot now occupied by Paula Zahn on 'Amercian Morning' opposite Bill Hemmer.
Zahn's CNN countract is up next month
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ailes; cnn; deadracoon; soledad; zahn
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To: ewing
Doesnt surprise me in the least...
Now, had they offered the position to a White Heterosexual Conservative Christian Male ....that would've surprised me.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:35:51 AM PDT
by
VaBthang4
(Could someone show me one [1] Loserdopian elected to the federal government?)
To: rabidralph
She appears to be frustrated with the cooking spots and chirps seriously when she can do the "serious interviews". Approriately grieved when her co anchor David Bloom died in Iraq...
A lightweight but aren't most talking heads?
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:36:19 AM PDT
by
eleni121
To: ewing
Just to show how much I know about Zahn's slot, I thought she replaced Connie Chung/King, in the evening slot. O'Brian might be a good addition to the morning slot at CNN, but then she's a lib and I don't really want to see another claiming a top slot. The CNN morning slot would be better than what she has now, but I still think a future at NBC would be better than one at CNN.
To: BaghdadBarney
Oh, I'm not discounting it -- just pointing it out. The pretty-blonde-chick factor could certainly work for her (some would argue it always has).
But, an exodus of viewers from Olberman would require first that he has viewers. :) (Is he on now? I have no idea. I thought he got the ax a long time ago.)
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:38:00 AM PDT
by
lainie
To: ewing
She has an interesting name. I'm not sure of her age, but I recall a Black Panther sort of book published around 1970 called "Soledad Brother" about life in a California prison.
Perhaps she was born in the quiet town of Soledad, California. Or perhaps her parents idolized the Black Panthers.
To: ewing
CNN did wonders for Paula who??? Soledad would be smart not to destroy her career going to that loser station. There biggest capital is Wolfy Blitzer, for God's sake.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:38:33 AM PDT
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Soledad is cuban.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:42:27 AM PDT
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(Just because a house fell on your sister doesn't mean that you have to take it out on me.)
To: gridlock
Gotcha. I'm a little slow/dense today, after the weekend.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:44:24 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I"m not always cranky.)
To: rocky88
Yes she did and the high point for her was crawling to the largest earth mover on earth.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:44:45 AM PDT
by
dts32041
("The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.")
To: DoughtyOne
Solidad O'Brian is being groomed to become the next Katie Couric
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:46:11 AM PDT
by
SquirrelKing
(Mad enough to eat BB's and crap ten-penny nails.)
To: dts32041
to=into
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:46:29 AM PDT
by
dts32041
("The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.")
To: ewing
Soledad O'Brien is the WORST!!!!
To: SquirrelKing
LOL
To: ewing
She I cant wait for Katie to leave.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:47:51 AM PDT
by
hattend
To: lainie
He did get the axe, but he is back now.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:51:24 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Who names their kid after a prison? Solodad.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:52:33 AM PDT
by
AGreatPer
(And deliver us from Evil Hillary, Amen.)
To: ewing
Soledad's name is a mutt's name.
it reminds me of gems like Ramon Goldstein. Jacques Ho. Timothy Al Hussein.
It just does not sound right.
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posted on
06/09/2003 9:58:20 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: ewing
Any relation to Conan?
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posted on
06/09/2003 10:01:05 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: BaghdadBarney
Zahn would get more viewers than Greta but less than Joe Scarborough at the 10 oclock timeslot.
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posted on
06/09/2003 10:09:34 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
To: DoughtyOne
Problem for CNN is that Zahn garnered less ratings than Chung. Now she's hiding while they try a make-over of some kind.
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posted on
06/09/2003 10:10:52 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
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