Cable news nets take aim at one another

[Beaverhausen]

Cable nets take aim at one another

Newsies go for the gut with criticisms

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973431.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

The gloves have come off.

The cable news wars are getting more personal as Fox News, CNN and MSNBC increasingly take aim at one another, feeding off controversies, real and imagined.

The latest salvo took place Thursday morning when Fox News' "Fox and Friends" crew threw a slap at CNN's "God's Warriors" series.

Two days after calling the series "anti-Semitic," Fox News' morning crew piled on the series, which first aired in August.

"There have been a number of religious organizations who said that CNN absolutely got this story completely wrong," said co-anchor Steve Doocy.

Gretchen Carlson crowed that one group "is asking people to call CNN, even urging them -- they are giving out the phone numbers of one of the top people of CNN, president of CNN Worldwide."

The CNN series, part of an ambitious slate of docs rolled out at the TCA press tour over the summer, provided the news net with a rare ratings bright spot, beating Fox News all three nights it aired.

The series, whose three segments were "God's Jewish Warriors," "God's Muslim Warriors" and "God's Christian Warriors," averaged 2 million viewers per night.

Since then, Fox News has reported on criticism of the series for implying a moral equivalency between acts of violence committed in the name of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

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[ThomWV]

1. And Keith keeps on creeping right on up there, eating into their ratings nightly

[RavensChick]

4. Exactly!

And he's watching them slug it out and laughing all the way to the bank!!!!!

[annabanana]

2. I loved that series. (Still sitting on my Tivo)

.."one group "is asking people to call CNN, even urging them -- they are giving out the phone numbers of one of the top people of CNN, president of CNN Worldwide."

Anyone know which group? Anyone got the list? They deserve to hear from people who "get it"...

[babylonsister]

3. Steve Doocy vs. Christiane Amanpour=no contest/sour grapes? He

wishes he had her chops and credibility.