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Television and radio outlets have approached former New York x. Eliot Spitzer about hosting a news show, according to published reports.
Speculation about a media move by Spitzer, a Democrat who resigned in March 2008 over a prostitution scandal, was touched off when the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday that CNN had spoken with Spitzer about taking over the 8 p.m. time spot soon to be vacated by Campbell Brown.
“The network is even considering bringing in disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer,” the Examiner stated.
Spitzer told the Examiner there had been no talks with CNN, and CNN declined to comment on the report.
“People close to Spitzer said the CNN job would fail to offer Spitzer the platform he is looking for,” according to the Washington Post, which reported on Thursday that “several” media outlets have approached Spitzer about a job.
A source said: “He’d want to be unburdened to say what he thinks.”
One consideration weighing against a move to CNN could be the stiff competition he would face in the 8 p.m. time slot. Brown’s show attracts an average of 591,000 viewers, according to Nielsen Co. ratings, while MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann draws 1.03 million and Bill O’Reilly pulls in 3.34 million on Fox News.
But a move to MSNBC could be in the works for Spitzer. He appears often on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and recently filled in for anchor Dylan Ratigan on the network, “where the left-of-center politics are more amenable to his analysis about regulation reform, Wall Street abuses or other issues he is asked to comment on,” the Post reported.
And a source told the Post: “Spitzer has been courting MSNBC, and they have been courting him.”
But Spitzer could have greater ambitions. Asked by a New York television news show if he would consider a return to public office, he responded: “Am I ruling it out? No.”

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