Zucker is stamping his image all over CNN: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/jeff-zuckers-cnn-86911.html
"In the last 24 hours, CNN has poached yet another big name from ABC News, dropped one top executive and saw the departure of three well-known contributors, and announced the launch of a new morning program that, according to network sources, will have ripple effects on the primetime programming." Chris Cuomo from ABC’s 20/20, to co-host a new morning show (status of Soledad O’Brien unknown). James Carville and Mary Matalin, out after 20 years; Red State blogger Erick Erickson out; executive vice president and managing editor Mark Whitaker stepping down. These changes in addition to recent announcements of addition of ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper, “Good Morning America” senior Washington producer Virginia Moseley, and of course sports reporter Rachel Nichols from ESPN. I don't disagree with Zucker's vision of something more like an old newspaper for CNN, rather than just a front page. I don't see how his desire to great personality-based programming is really going to set him apart from FN and MSNBC, nor how his new team has interesting enough personalities to compete even if this was a good idea. It might be nice if he announced beefing up the foreign desk at CNN, which really should be part of its defining brand in the cable news universe. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
