Obviously a lot more could be said about Crossfire than this,
I really think everything that needs to be said about Crossfire was
said by Jon Stewart:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bljonstewartcrossfire.htm
Though maybe it was different in the early days...
-enp
On Sep 16, 2009, at 7:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
The center-right cable format was born in 1982 with the premiere of
CNN 's Crossfire. Explicitly marketed as a primetime face-off
between one host "from the right" and another "from the left," with
corresponding guests from each side, Crossfire set the standard for
debates pitting proxy progressives against committed conservatives
(see Extra!, 7-8/90). The show's original hosts: from the right,
arch-conservative presidential aide Pat Buchanan, and from the left,
Tom Braden—whose CIA career included supervising covert operations
against Western Europe's left. Crossfire guest Timothy Leary once
described the show's spectrum as "the left wing of the CIA debating
the right wing of the CIA" (Rolling Stone , 12/14/89). New Republic
editor and self-described "wishy-washy moderate" Michael Kinsley
(American Journalism Review, 1-2/96) followed Braden into Crossfire
's left seat.
descried in FAIR website for September / October 2004
aka Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Obviously a lot more could be said about Crossfire than this, And we
really must add
the " McLaughlin Group " for hard hitting debate as well.
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