THIS IS CNN: Don Lemon goes berserker on Kaitlan Collins

Yep.

 

So does this mean the Chuck Barkley and Gayle King thing isn't happening?

Really how DO you fix CNN outside of having a couple of anchors holed up in a hotel room ahead of a military invasion?

 

Beware the Scud Stud.

 

Maybe they could stage another Baby Jessica.

 

As is seen by its incessant use of the phrase, CNN's main means of grabbing a sizable audience was and is BREAKING NEWS!!!! There are two big problems with that. One is that as everyone who's ever been in the news business knows, there are more, many more, slow news days than big story days. So the missing Malaysian jetliner becomes BREAKING NEWS for a month. The other problem is even worse for CNN and cable news in general -- technological obsolescence. Social media and the smartphone make just about anyone on earth a source of instant BREAKING NEWS no cable network can match. I first had that thought when U heard about the Pakistani guy who was just dicking around on his phone and wound up live tweeting the raid that got bin Laden. What used to be television news's unique asset, immediacy, is now the opposite of unique.

 

We had only had cable for two months when that happened. My mom, who always said she didn’t watch it and only got cable so her sports insane son could watch baseball, immediately saw the value in this when ww watched the live coverage that Friday night or McClure being removed from the well.

 

Breaking news is also expensive to cover correctly.

 

I recall that being the lead story on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.

 

The main suspect in the Natalie Holoway disappearance was extradited to the U.S. today, so there's ya go.

 

What was that guy's name, Arthur Kent?

 

Absolutely. Journalism is expensive, TV journalism most of all. Talking heads on the other hand are cheap. But putting Mike Pence on the air for an hour is not exactly a ratings grabber.

 

Empasis: Breaking news. That was clearly stated. Thanks for the tutorial, though.

Reminds me, watched one of the "Big 3" evening newscasts last weekend (cannot remember which, but think ABC). Two different packages (one was weather in Texas and Florida). Both reporters' closing standups were on a NYC sidewalk. That's cheap. But begs the question: why even do closing standups when you nowhere close to the scene?