My fiance heard someone from CNN say Jon Stewart was right

[AllyCat]

and they will not go the way of the non-debate forum of Crossfire, etc.

Did anyone else hear this? I googled it and couldn't find it. He couldn't remember where he'd heard it.

[MSgt213]

1. I remember hearing this too. I think it came from some big wig at CNN

Can't remember who though

[AllyCat]

2. Wouldn't that be awesome if true?

Of course, he'll probably be arrested tomorrow.

[MSgt213]

4. Here ya go

Many will recall Carlson's heated exchange with Jon Stewart, the liberal host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," last fall in the midst of the presidential campaign. Stewart accused Carlson of "partisan hackery" that fails to advance democracy. Carlson retorted by calling Stewart a sellout for openly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry.

Klein responded to this fight between Carlson and Stewart by stating to the Associated Press that he is "firmly in the Jon Stewart camp."

Continuing the argument made by Stewart, Klein said there is too much arguing over political issues on all of the cable networks, including CNN, and that he wants better, more compelling programming to replace what has become the norm for political news.

"I doubt that when the president sits down with his advisers they scream at him to bring him up to date on all of the issues," Klein exclaimed. "I don't know why we don't treat the audience with the same respect."

Carlson was given one last opportunity to fill in for newsman Aaron Brown last week to see how he would do in a different format. Yet, Klein said it was obvious that Carlson had other ideas in mind regarding his future in television.

Klein said his decision to release Carlson had nothing to do with his decision to change the way political news is covered by CNN.

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/january/0106_cnn_crossfire_cancelled.shtml

[AllyCat]

9. And good riddance, eh?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. I'm not sure I understand. Are they conceding that Xfire was crap (which

it was) and that's why they axed it, and will not create a similar show again?

[Bluebear]

5. On the firing of Tucker Carlson....

But ultimately CNN's new president, Jonathan Klein, decided that Carlson didn't fit in and let him go. The parting was said to be amicable.

"His career aspirations and our programming needs just don't synch up," Klein told the Associated Press. "He wants to host his own nighttime show and we don't see that in the cards here. Out of respect for him and his talent, we thought it would be best to let him explore opportunities elsewhere.

Klein says CNN will get back to more round-the-clock news coverage and avoid the partisan bickering that had come to dominate much of its programming in the wake of stiff competition from Fox News.

"I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp," said Klein, referring to the Daily Show host's knock that Crossfire and its ilk don't fully inform viewers and are ultimately divisive.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/eo/20050106/en_tv_eo/15648

[AllyCat]

7. Thank you BlueBear!

This sounds too good to be true.

Waiting for the other shoe to drop....

[tanyev]

8. LOL!

When this story first came out, I totally missed that Klein's quote about "come down more firmly in the JS camp" referred to the show. I thought he was agreeing with JS that Tucker Carlson was a dick!

[AllyCat]

10. Maybe he was and couldn't really say that on the news

:evilgrin:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Crossfire = Morton Downey Jr. show of politics.

[EVDebs]

11. I guess the public wasn't as simple as CNN thought !

A format of right vs. left with both sides claiming to have 'all the right answers' when, clearly, the left has screwed some things up and at present the right is doing a bang up job all by themselves--was just bound to lead to Stewart's outing of their 'debate' society.

The fact that nobody had any screamers, as with the hysterically funny McLaughlin Group and Elinor whatzernames shreeking to get a word in edgewise...well, just lucky I guess.

The world is changing. Used to be the Republicans were the party that was looking out for you economically and the Democrats were the spend-it-like-its-water party. Now they are in complete role reversal and I'm getting a laugh out of these hypocrite fat-cats squirming around trying to justify Bush's deficits and poor economic judgement.