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Offline Hawkgirl

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CNN Turns 30, Quietly and Without Fanfare
« on: June 01, 2010, 07:46:49 PM »
"Ted Turner's ambitious Cable News Network aired its first broadcast on June 1, 1980, with a report by co-anchors David Walker and Lois Hart. In 2000, the network threw a huge party to celebrate its 20th birthday, but this time the network is passing the day without much fanfare"

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Nonpartisan news reporting has gone the way of the Dodo. Ratings have plunged to new lows this year, with CNN's main hosts, Larry King and Anderson Cooper, shedding nearly half their audiences, according the New York Times.

The exodus of viewers has even cost the network one of its rising stars, Campbell Brown, who announced May 18 that "not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that they can try something else."

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Hey CNN, keep leaning to the left...it's worked out so well for you so far.... :loser:

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Offline The Village Idiot

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Re: CNN Turns 30, Quietly and Without Fanfare
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2010, 09:06:08 PM »
Anderson Cooper and Larry King barely alive are their main hosts??

*gasp* *gag* *giggle*