Paula has developed a keen taste for Buffalo Burgers.
"Taste yummh, Teddy!!"
ZZZZIIIIIPPPPPPP!!!!!!
Well, CNN gets a little free advertisement out of it with no repercussions because they aren't FOX.
"By a woman" -- what difference does that make?
It shows CNN took it off not because it is not appropriate to be calling news people sexy but because of some dumb Political Correct thing.
CNN proves they are even more out to lunch than we thought.
This is a laugh riot.
But I must!
This was not a mistake. It was thoroughly planned, and I'm sure that they paid a lot of money for the ad. She asked for it by going to that network.
Paula has developed a keen taste for Buffalo Burgers.
"Taste yummh, Teddy!!"
ZZZZIIIIIPPPPPPP!!!!!!
LOS ANGELES(Reuters) - Executives at CNN had a new mantra Monday: don't call Paula Zahn sexy, don't call Paula Zahn sexy.
A CNN promotional spot touting its new morning newscaster as ``just a little sexy'' was pulled off the air after it was broadcast repeatedly over the weekend in error, CNN officials said.
Red-faced executives said the 15-second ad was the work of an overzealous promotional staff and that ``appropriate steps'' were being taken to ensure future promos are cleared through proper channels.
``It was a major blunder by our promo department,'' CNN Chairman and CEO Walter Isaacson said in a statement. ``The ad was never seen or approved by anyone outside the promo department. I was outraged, and so was Paula Zahn, who has spent more than 20 years proving her credibility day in and day out on the air.''
Zahn, 45, is a 10-year CBS News veteran who joined the Fox News Channel as an evening news anchor in 1999 and moved to rival CNN in September, signing a deal worth roughly $2 million a year to host CNN's morning news show. She first appeared on CNN on Sept. 11 during coverage of the suicide attacks on Washington and New York.
A revamped version of CNN's morning news program, retitled ''American Morning,'' debuted on Monday.
In a CNN promo that aired several times on Saturday and Sunday, a voice-over asks: ``Where can you find a morning news anchor who's provocative, super-smart, oh yeah, and just a little sexy?'' At that point, the music pauses and the voice-over intones the answer: ``CNN, Yeah, CNN.''
Zahn appears in the ad with a shot of her on the set interviewing someone.
The episode occurred amid an intensifying battle for viewers between CNN and Fox News, which last week hired away CNN's longtime legal affairs correspondent and anchor Greta Van Susteren to put her in the 10 p.m. spot formerly occupied by Zahn.
Fox News fired Zahn in September after learning she was in talks to anchor a news program on CNN, then sued her agent, N.S. Bienstock, for breach of contract.
Fox officials were clearly gleeful over the Zahn promo embarrassment. Kevin Magee, Fox News vice president of programming, called the ad a ``sign of desperation.''
``It makes you wonder who's running the place over there,'' he said. ``She's their No. 1 star. It's the big premiere of their big show, and no one watched the promo before it went on. What were all those people doing?''
Reuters/Variety REUTERS
Paula Zahn was some, dummy at Fox's, fill in choice when Crier left. Crier was quality. Zahn was the blonde bimbo trying to masquerede as a neo-conservative. Actually Zahn was a liberal through and through. Fox caught hell with her from listeners that saw through her from day one. No wonder she finally "went home" to CNN.
Should it suprise anyone that CNN wants to prop her up as T&A. That's all they have.
Strikes me as a pretty face with a lot of emotional baggage.
Before Fox, one of her gigs was Boston. They had an awful shot of her on the cover of Boston Magazine announcing her arrival as the new anchor. Emphasized the hugeness of her nose, most unflattering angle in general.
I wonder if she knew O'Reilly there. They may have been at the same station (channel 7, I think), paths crossing.