January 06, 2005
One Down, So Many, Many More to Go
Specifically citing John Stewart's influence and criticism, the new president of CNN has announced the cancellation of the long-running debate show "Crossfire." Jonathan Klein has also announced that CNN will be dropping conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, as a part of his network's shift from "head-butting debate shows" to "roll-up-your-sleeves storytelling."
Whatever that means, it sounds like a good idea to me.
(via Crooked Timber)
You forgot the "unless it doesn't work" caveat. I am not all that optimistic. Nor have I seen a particular change in CNN's coverage of late.
Posted by: Hillary at January 7, 2005 08:25 AMWell, the idea at least sounds good. There is all kinds of coverage of this and related sotries over at TVNewser, where they note that CNN's "Capital Gang" is going to be canceled as well:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/archive/2005_01_06_archive.asp#110502866147902582
Hmmm, Carlson gone, Novak loses a show, presumably we'll see less Carville...
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