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Fox News Crushes CNN, MSNBC on Election Night

It more than doubles nearest rival in prime time

(Newser) - Last night's big victory for the right extended to the cable airwaves: Nielsen ratings show Fox News obliterated CNN and MSNBC in prime time, reports the LA Times . Fox averaged 6.96 million viewers, while CNN got 2.42 million and MSNBC 1.94 million. Compared to the midterms in... More »

CNN Clip Confuses Larry King

He thought Julian Assange was walking off again

(Newser) - Larry King is taking a ribbing today over confusion on last night's show. He had on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, along with Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, when CNN rolled a clip of Assange walking out on a previous interview. King thought it was live, notes the Daily Intel... More »

Julian Assange Walks Out of CNN Interview

He calls questions about his personal life 'completely disgusting'

(Newser) - Fall's hottest media move is shaping up to be the interview walk-out. Julian Assange " pulled a Whoopi " during a CNN interview yesterday about WikiLeaks' latest file release. When Atika Shubert began poking at his personal legal issues , Assange immediately shut down, calling her questions "completely disgusting" and... More »

Jon Stewart Calls CNN 'Terrible'— While on CNN

Larry King seems a bit offended

(Newser) - Jon Stewart pulled no punches in an occasionally cringe-worthy interview with Larry King last night, telling the departing host that his network was awful. “You’re the last guy out of a burning building, my friend,” Stewart said to open the interview. “By the way, I think... More »

Rick Sanchez Apologizes for 'Tired' Words

Says he has no hard feelings toward CNN or Jon Stewart

(Newser) - Rick Sanchez wants everyone to know that he meant no offense with his comments about Jews running the media , that he bears no ill will toward CNN or Jon Stewart, and that you can still buy his book. "On October 4th, I had a very good conversation with... More »

Stewart Bids Adieu to Rick Sanchez

'I'm not even sure Sanchez believes what he's saying'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart hasn't got Rick Sanchez's Rick's List to poke fun at anymore, but the Daily Show host showed some old clips while bidding the CNN anchor an almost-fond farewell. The host compared Sanchez— fired for calling Stewart a bigot and suggesting Jews control the media —to The Office's... More »

Critics Spit on Spitzer TV Debut

Parker Spitzer 'a load of obnoxious, self-important noise'

(Newser) - Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer's CNN talkfest Parker Spitzer made its debut last night and critics say the program by the former New York governor and Washington Post columnist is as bad as predicted.
  • The pacing, and the whole show, seems weird, complains Max Read at Gawker . Guests, including columnist
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James O'Keefe Owes Supporters an Explanation Over CNN Plot

Andrew Breitbart: Scheme was 'gross and offensive'

(Newser) - The weird plot by James O'Keefe (aka ACORN pimp) to seduce a CNN reporter and secretly film it is too much even for one of his biggest supporters. "From what I’ve read about this script, though not executed, it is patently gross and offensive," writes Andrew Breitbart... More »

CNN Fires Rick Sanchez

He's canned a day after comments about Jews running the network

(Newser) - CNN has had enough of Rick Sanchez. The network fired the afternoon anchor today, a day after he made controversial comments about Jews and Jon Stewart during a radio interview, reports the Huffington Post . A terse company statement: “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick... More »

CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart a 'Bigot'

Then suggests Jews run all the networks

(Newser) - This one may not die quietly: CNN's Rick Sanchez yesterday called Jon Stewart a "bigot," though he later changed that to "prejudicial" and "uninformed." Then he seemed to suggest that CNN and other networks are run by Jews: "I'm telling you that everybody who... More »

Anderson Cooper Gets Daytime Talk Show

But he'll keep his nightly show on CNN

(Newser) - Maybe Anderson Cooper can fill Oprah's void in daytime TV? The CNN anchor is getting his own daytime talk show next fall. (No name yet.) It will be distributed by Warner Bros.—parent company Time Warner also owns CNN—and syndicated nationally. Plenty of slots should be available... More »

Fake Pimp Who Burned ACORN Tried to Punk CNN Reporter

Allegedly planned to woo her on boat, film it

(Newser) - The right-wing activist who tricked ACORN in an undercover video sting tried it again—but with a CNN correspondent, the network says. James O'Keefe planned to seduce Abbie Boudreau on a "love boat" filled with sexual props and covertly record the encounter, reports CNN . He told associates he intended... More »

Jeff Zucker Will Leave NBC

CEO explains Comcast's decision in email, interview

(Newser) - Oft-criticized NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker will leave the company when its acquisition by Comcast becomes official. Zucker made his decision public this morning in an email to NBC employees acquired by the Wall Street Journal . Though he says it wasn’t his choice to leave, he calls... More »

Spitzer, Parker Hone Their 'Flirtatious Bickering'

Will Tracy-Hepburn routine have legs for upcoming CNN show?

(Newser) - Can the man known as a "scowling attorney general" and a "grimacing governor" (not to speak of call-girl customer) really morph into a cable TV charmer? In their first joint interview, Eliot Spitzer and his CNN co-host Kathleen Parker entertain a pair of Wall Street Journal reporters with... More »

CNN Picks Piers Morgan to Replace Larry King

He'll start in January

(Newser) - No surprises here: Piers Morgan will be Larry King's replacement on CNN. Both the network and Morgan confirmed the news today after endless rounds of speculation, reports the LA Times . Morgan, a judge on America's Got Talent (he's expected to keep that gig) and a former British tab editor, will... More »

Spitzer's CNN Show Looks ... Bad

Promo for 'Parker Spitzer' is a bit awkward, to say the least

(Newser) - CNN released its first promo for Eliot Spitzer's new show with Kathleen Parker, and it's called...Parker Spitzer. That "would be a good name for a sitcom that took place at a wacky law firm. Or a bad name for a hotel," writes Alex Pareene on Salon . And... More »

Candy Crowley: Little Glitz, Big Respect

But can an unflashy host succeed on cable?

(Newser) - The Washington Post checks in on Candy Crowley's short run so far as host of CNN's Sunday morning State of the Union with a flattering profile (she's "beloved in the halls of CNN and roundly respected in official Washington") that nonetheless makes clear her show's long-term success is... More »

Next to Go at CNN: John King

Insiders only too happy to bash low ratings, high ego

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch gleefully takes another pot shot at CNN with the news that John King will be the next one ousted from the network. “Since King replaced Lou Dobbs, he's lost more than half his audience,” an insider tells Murdoch’s New York Post . “If it were... More »

CNN Fires Mideast Editor Over Tweet

Octavia Nasr's Hezbollah comments doomed her

(Newser) - Twitter isn't big on context, and CNN reporter and editor Octavia Nasr is paying the price. The network is dropping her after she caused an uproar by tweeting "respect" for a notorious Hezbollah figure upon hearing news of his death, reports Mediaite . Nasr, a 20-year CNN veteran, tried to... More »

Larry King: Last of Cable's Nice Guys

CNN's aiming for viciousness

(Newser) - Without Larry King, CNN’s going to be a much nastier place. King was the last of cable news’ gentlemen, laments Tom Shales of the Washington Post . His show “got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and... More »

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