Jon Klein To The Stockholder's Meeting, Please

Oh yeah, that'll work.CNN, we're irrelevant and broke but balanced. So there! lol

Brown is not only losing to O’Reilly and a partisan on the left, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, but also to Nancy Grace, who hosts a more tabloidy show at the same time on sister-network, HLN.

CNN president Jon Klein says he knows why those approaches work, and he’s not going to go there. “It’s the oldest trick in the book to trot out over-the-top hosts and put them on a cable-news show,” Klein told POLITICO in May.

Comments

[Jimmie]

CNN could capture a significant audience if it would actually just report the news, without fear or favor. I guarantee that if Klein went full speed ahead with an evenhanded and aggressive approach to finding news wherever it is and reporting it regardless of which party is in power, its audience would skyrocket.

[Rick Caird]

"It’s the oldest trick in the book to trot out over-the-top hosts and put them on a cable-news show"? Really? CNN was the first news station in 1980. So, even if they started with the "oldest trick in the world", that trick is only 30 years old. Klein is a pretty strange guy.

Rick

[mojo]

In actuality, the oldest trick in the book is dropping a rock on somebody's head.

Caveman humor.