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CNN Cancels Crossfire

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the jon-stewart-victorious dept.

blonde rser writes "Three months after Jon Stewart appeared on (and lambasted) CNN's Crossfire the Globe and Mail reports that CNN is dumping Tucker Carlson. It appears that Crossfire is being canceled and Carlson's contract is not being renewed. As to whether Stewart's opinion had any affect on the decision there is this quote from Jonathan Klein, CEO of CNN's US network: 'I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.'"

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  1. Re:Thank God they're getting rid of Tucker by (trb001) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Okay, you have no clue what you're talking about. Bush is about as close to the opposite of a socialist that you can get. Reducing taxes and privitizing social security alone would disprove what you said, but his pro-capitalism tax/corporate agenda go even further. His backing of Medicare is about the only thing socialistic about him.

    I mean, really, look at Canada or some European countries for much closer examples of socialism. We're nowhere close and getting further away.

    --trb

  2. transcript by Sogol · · Score: 2, Informative

    Link to the transcript of John Stewarts appearance on crossfire:

    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf. 01.html

  3. Re:AKA "Carlson gets a better, more visible job" by Alomex · · Score: 3, Informative


    Mod parent down. The poster and the editor did read the article and summarized it properly.

    Crossfire was cancelled and Carlson did not get a more visible job. CNN has about twice as many viewers as MSNBC in America

  4. Re:Tucker on PBS, Jon S by Lennavan · · Score: 2, Informative

    This was the funny (yet sad) part about Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire. He clearly admits that his show is a comedy show, duh its on a network called Comedy Central. People don't tune into his show to become informed on the news, they tune in to laugh.

    Crossfire does attempt to be a news show and does a terrible job at it. They're on CNN, a news network that people turn on to learn about the news. Go figure?

    Stewart was attacked for doing a bad job or reporting the news on his comedy show? I say we blame Stewie on The Family Guy next for not informing me more about civil rights.

    Stewart attacked Crossfire for doing a bad job of reporting news on their news show. The sad part is that they, and you, don't seem to understand this.

  5. Re:CNN is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    When you look at FoxNews, keep in mind that some of the programs you see are news analysis type programs. Their "hard news" segments are just that - pure unbiased news.

    The numbers speak for themselves. The American people love "fair and balanced news".
    CABLE NEWS RACE
    WED, JAN 05, 2005


    FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2.3 [RATING]
    FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 1.7
    FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 1.6
    FOXNEWS GRETA 1.4
    CNN LARRY KING 1.1
    COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1.1
    CNN WAVE SPECIAL 0.8
    MSNBC HARDBALL 0.5
    MSNBC AMBER FREY 0.6
    MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 0.4
    MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.3
    CNBC MILLER 0.1


    Kinda blows CNN and the xNBCers out of the water, huh?

  6. misunderstanding steward by elbarrio · · Score: 3, Informative

    From what I gather, this is a total misunderstanding of what Jon Stewart was trying to say. As I understood it, he was trying to say that the problem is that we refuse to have real debate. crossfire, as Jon sees it (so I think), engages in theatre, not debate. The criticism of the media is that they fake being even handed, and by doing so don't actually provide meaningful analysis. The interpretation that debate in all forms should go is way off. Debating an issue and reading the party-line propaganda are two completely different things.