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CNN Chief: We Will Not Air Cartoons Like Our Competitors

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In an article in the L.A. Times, CNN president Jon Klein is quoted as saying: "We are not going to try to boost numbers during fallow news periods by running cartoons, as our competitors do. We’re going to cover the news and we’ll attract an ever more loyal audience as the result of it."

Is he insinuating that Fox News and MSNBC air cartoons?

I guess he's talking about the networks his channel currently competes with. This link has some ratings demo breakdowns, including one that shows CNN trailing Animal Planet during daytime viewership:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/08/who-is-cnn-comparable-to-anyway/32863
 
Could the cartoons be a reference to the opinion programming Fixed Noise and MSNBC air. If so...CNN is also airing a cartoon program...Lou Dobbs (and word is he may be gone soon).

He also may have taken a quiet indirect jab at The Weather Channel for their recent decision to air movies.

I will give Klein credit though. It sounds like he is going to try to prevent the "jumping off the rails" that has occurred at other networks (MTV, The Weather Channel, etc.).
 
CNN should just dump everything and start from scratch. Better yet just start airing CNN International all the time or let Americans have BBC World News.
 
jal41 said:
Could the cartoons be a reference to the opinion programming Fixed Noise and MSNBC air. If so...CNN is also airing a cartoon program...Lou Dobbs (and word is he may be gone soon).
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Fixed Noise? Isn't there a better nickname for Fox News than that? ::)

If Lou Dobbs is consider to be too cartoony, shouldn't Nancy Grace and other programs that CNN's sister network HLN airs also be in that same category?
 
What about "Weazel News", a parody of Fox News from the game GTA 4? That's my favorite nickname for Fox News. Faux News and Pox News are also good but Fixed Noise sounds too lame.

johnnyu said:
How about PMSNC?? ::)
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PMSNBC for MSNBC works better. CNN could also equal Communist News Network or even Clinton News Network if this was the '90s. I don't know any nicknames for HLN or CNBC.
 
I've also heard "MSDNC" for the Olbermann network...

And let's not forget the first common crack amongst cable news network, from competing cable and broadcast networks who didn't think much of the then-new kid on the block, not very intimidated by CNN, whom they dubbed, "Chicken Noodle News."

And now, they get beat 25-54 by a network that shows chickens. My, how times have changed.
 
BlueWanderer said:
CNN could also equal... Clinton News Network if this was the '90s.
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I remember Rush Limbaugh calling CNN Clinton News Network in the mid-90's

BlueWanderer said:
I don't know any nicknames for HLN or CNBC.
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Not important/relevant enough to have nicknames? ???
 
If the right loves to call NBC the National Barack Channel, why can't MSNBC be the Mega Super National Barack Channel.

As for CNN, kudos to Klein for trying to be more or less down the middle, even if opinionated programming is the popular norm for cable news these days.
 
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