Saturday, August 27, 2005

 

CNN v Fox

Via National Ledger.

CNN president Jonathan Klein recently slammed Fox News and their coverage of the Natalee Holloway story as "easy and brainless" in a phone interview with the NY Times. It is, however, worth noting that Fox news regularly wallops CNN in the ratings game.

Now the NY Post's Richard Johnson makes an astute observation (or two) in a recent column:

CNN president Jon Klein should watch his own network before he complains to the New York Times about Fox News Channel being "meaningless nonsense." On Monday — the day before Klein was quoted in the Times — CNN's Larry King interviewed the multi-talented Pamela Anderson. King asked Anderson a whopping 13 questions about her breasts, including, "What size [are your breasts]?" and, "They expand on camera?"

Her answer--yes I think they do expand on camera and "D."

Larry astutely pointed out to Pam that a D-cup "is not average."

Transcript here.

The NY Post then cited a Fox insider that reportedly snickered, "King only got 926,000 viewers, proving that nothing on CNN can get a rating — news or trash. Maybe if Anderson would have taken her top off, they would have had higher ratings."

And in Canada, the CBC remains locked in a work stoppage.

Comments:
Jon Stewart had a fantastic piece re: this the other night.
 
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