CNN Hires New President for Its U.S. News Group (The guy who made the bloggers in pajamas comment!)

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 11/22/04

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - CNN News Group on Monday said it has tapped an online media CEO as its new president overseeing U.S. news, just a little over a year after it hired a former local TV newsman to run its domestic operations.

Jonathan Klein, founder and chief executive officer of The FeedRoom Inc., a high-speed Internet news network and video streamer, will assume the role of head of U.S. news operations, answering to CNN President Jim Walton.

CNN is the cable news unit of Time Warner Inc.

"Six years steeped in the digital information industry have helped me understand today's news consumers in ways never before available to media executives," Klein said in a statement.

Klein replaces Princell Hair, who was appointed to oversee the U.S. news group in September 2003. Industry analysts questioned whether Hair, who ran Viacom Inc.'s television stations and was a former TV news director in Los Angeles and Baltimore, was the best candidate to run one of the world's most prestigious news networks.

Hair will assume a new role as senior vice president of program and talent development across the CNN News Group.

Klein was the former executive director of CBS News, with oversight of its flagship "60 Minutes" program.

[NJBushcountry]

LOL

[jrewingjr]

Only she knows, I sure don't. It's the funniest Dan Rather slam drawn, I think. I laugh everytime I see her cartoon ; all the little details. Here's what I made re Danny Boy and his producer:

[Captain Peter Blood]

I just read an article where this guy wants a more news magazine look for CNN.
Just what they need more news magazine type stories and less talk.
This guy is so far left of field that he is going to put them more into the toilet than they are.
These guys that they hire from the networks are the ones that are responsible for the decline of network news to the paltry audience they have now and they still can't see what the problem is.
Fox is going to continue to eat their lunch and dinner if they stay with the same useless format and philosophy.
Well so be it.

[spodefly]

by Jenya of FR

No. It came from here.

[jrewingjr]

Thanks for the heads up. The way I first saw it posted, it looked like Jenya did it. It sure is funny, one of my favorite political drawings ever.