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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:01 PM
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Rumors that Paul Zahn Now is no more
Zahn Is Losing 'Now;' Dobbs Could Get New Timeslot As Campbell Brown Joins CNN

Campbell Brown is definitely leaving NBC News for a prominent position at CNN, TVNewser has confirmed.

Brown's contract with NBC expires at the end of this month. News of her new job is reverberating throughout newsrooms today.

Drudge says the announcement is "imminent as final deal points are being completed."

Among those points, an unimpeachable source tells TVNewser: Paula Zahn is losing her 8pm nightly broadcast.

A schedule shakeup looks likely. Lou Dobbs could be moving to 7 or 8pm...



http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/zahn_is_losing_now_dobbs_could_get_new_timeslot_as_campbell_brown_joins_cnn_61101.asp

A Lou Dobbs move to 8pm could spell bad news for Olbermann who will have to really fight to maintain second place.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:03 PM
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1. I wonder about Olbermann vs. Dobbs
Seems to me they would have seperate, opposite audiences.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:04 PM
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2. Yes, but his nightly average is bigger than Olbermann's
So if you figure hed bring his audience with him, he would average higher numbers than KO.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:22 PM
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6. I don't know, I think the general audience is the same...
people who are pissed off at the government, though of course those who watch Dobbs are a *little* more reichwing than Olbermann.
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:08 PM
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3. Are they getting rid of Glen Beck?
Edited on Fri Jun-15-07 02:09 PM by rox63
Please oh please...

Edit: Never mind, he's on CNN Headline News.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:17 PM
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4. She was so young...
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:39 PM
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9. What?
Zahn's been around for ages. She was a cub reporter here in Houston in the late 70s and early 80s. She's like 50ish.

So don't say she WAS young. She's still young.

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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:44 PM
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10. A little joke. In response to the headline "Paula Zahn now is no more".
Thank you, Cleveland, I'm here all week!... (crickets)
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:17 PM
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5. Oh goodie! Another WH shill on CNN. She's married to Dan Senor Senor, a Republican strategist
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:28 PM
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7. Her demeanor is smug...condescending... boring
How she managed to get and maintain her own TV show this long is baffling to me.

I think CNN should give Nancy Grace a show instead, because she has lots of personality. The compromise could be that Grace covers real news, or at least partially real news (although I find her shows devoted to Paris Hilton's special treatment to be quite hilarious).
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:34 PM
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8. Paula Zahn occasionally covers news without the slant (but can't control interrupters)
Campbell Brown just isn't very watchable. I don't think she can carry a show. I suspect her "star" status at CNN will be short lived.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:44 PM
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11. As long as this doesn't lead to more time for Wolf Blitzer, I'm okay with it
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 02:44 PM
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12. Campbell Brown is married to neo-con Dan Senor
The spokesman for the "Coalitional Provisional Authority", the fake government that ran Iraq right after the invasion. She has no credibility.

I'm not a hugh Paula Ka-Zahn fan either, but she is not as bad as Campbell Brown.
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 03:19 PM
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13. I'll still be watching Countdown. What happens on CNN matters not to me.
If something major happens, I may turn it on just to get the jest of it. Then, back to the blogs.
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 04:41 PM
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14. Zahn was never much to begin with and KO isn't threatened by any CNN time shift.
He has something they don't, the truth. Oh, and he doesn't carry water for lying murderers either.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 04:46 PM
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15. One Media Whore replaced by another Media Whore.......
by any name.....is still one in a stable of Media Whores on CNN.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-15-07 04:55 PM
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16. Nothing could make me happier, well maybe if Faux lost their broadcasting liscense.
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