[KansasCanadian]

Iceberg dead ahead...gather the deck chairs, call the band...

[PhiKapMom]

I refused to watch Zahn in the morning or when she was on Fox, so what makes CNN think that people would watch her at 8:00! Cannot imagine that I am the only one who doesn't like her style of interviewing!

[mass55th]

I heard she was MIA for several weeks. Has anybody seen her to make a determination if she had plastic surgery like Greta? Usually people don't disappear like that unless they're getting a face lift or they're dead.

[NormsRevenge]

Paula "ZOT" Zahn

I wonder if they'll use makeup on her knee?

[Pukin Dog]

Is she gonna be topless? No?

I guess I wont be watching then.

[JohnCliftn]

Ought to hire Bagdad Bob to co-chair with Paula.

[Rome2000]

Is there really that much difference between CNN, ALJAZEERA and NPR?

Actually , no.

[Ben Bolt]

Hey Hey Paula !

The song is .. Long gone . Paula , diversify your liquid asset's & make your time .

[Savage Beast]

I thought they were counting on Connie Chung...or was it Aaron Brown? Couldn't Christianne Amanpour save them? Maybe they need to call in Phil Donahue.

[Republican Wildcat]

Well, I hope they aren't holding their breath.

[BunnySlippers]

MSNBC -- Phil Donahue's liberal counterpoint

Did anyone see Saturday Night Live's spoof of Donohue last week? It was very funny. Donohue was interviewing Michael Moore and Barbra Streisand ... they made much of how dirty and smelly Moore is!

[xp38]

[Brimack34]

I am watching Pres. Reagan on Larry King right now what a man!!!!!!! Talking about Powell and the current VP from 91.

[Brimack34]

If anyone has not seen Pres. Reagan on larry it is a must see. From 1991. He said most of are planes could not fly because of all the cuts by congress(DEMS). Also the China Nancy got for the White House was donated. The press rip her for spending tax payers he was pissed. It was great.

[SevenofNine]

Are they try get Generation X viewership

HELLO CNN She sucks as interviewer I refuse this watching Paula SHE IS HORRIBLE she got out of contract at FOX news and almost got sued

You not that great Paula Hello

[SkyPilot]

Remember that CNN ad:

"And just a little S-E-X-Y?"

Followed by what sounded like a zipper being yanked like some Bodice-Ripper romance novel?

The ad was quickly stopped, but not before Drudge and Rush had a field day with it. The CNN producer swore he meant the sound to be a turn table (remember those?) having its scratching a LP. He said it was supposed to sound "hip, just like Alley McBeal!"

Zahn's public display of anger at the ad was most amusing, and was a parody of what many of these "professional newswomen" display as a contradiction:

- I am smart
- I am not a bimbo
- I am sexy, but not like that
- I am hip, but not an airhead
- I WILL be taken seriously
- Does this dress make my behind look big?

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Bwaaaahahaha They just don't get it, do they. :0)

[Nick Danger]

"It is only awkward in that we are a Porsche going 40 miles an hour."

Yeah, and a year from now they'll be going 50 if they're lucky. It could as easily turn out to be 30. This kind of churn in prime time is evidence of desperation.

Connie Chung drew an audience. Most people here probably didn't like her, but as my father used to say, "There's an @ss for every seat." Roll her out and bring in Aaron Brown, and a fair number of the Connie Chung viewers will leave. They liked Connie Chung, and Aaron Brown is a totally different kind of "viewing experience."

Whatever Aaron Brown's faults, there were bound to be some people who thought he was just The Greatest Thing.

Now some of them leave, too. Every time they churn this show, they lose some fraction of the people who liked it the way it was. How many people does CNN think are out there whose idea of a good time is to watch a cable news show? Where do they think these Paula Zahn watchers are going to come from? Fox? It is to laugh. If they haven't figured it out yet, here's a vowel: the people watching Fox do not like CNN's politics. They could put J Lo on there in a negligee... once the novelty wore off, it'd be back to O'Reilly.

Whether CNN likes it or not, their world has been forever segmented by Fox News. The conservatives are gone and they won't be back. Audiences will never again be what they were when CNN had a virtual monopoly on cable news.

AOL Time-Warner is in a world of hurt, financially. There is nothing in CNN's future but haircuts and layoffs. This producer will be driving a Yugo before Paula Zahn gets to third gear.