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CNN's CROSSFIRE returns with Newt Gingrich

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I bet Evans & Novack are spinning in their Graves?

On the Left, Al Sharpton, On the right Newt Gingrich. Just sounds plain wrong!
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It's official—CNN is bringing back "Crossfire."

After months of speculation, the network announced on Wednesday that the debate program will return with four new hosts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...es-stephanie-cutter_n_3502660.html?1372254506
 
This isn't 'Crossfire', it's just another 'Talking heads shouting each other down' show. Reverting to two hosts, with a guest, would be 'Crossfire'.
 
onairb said:
This isn't 'Crossfire', it's just another 'Talking heads shouting each other down' show. Reverting to two hosts, with a guest, would be 'Crossfire'.
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Wasn't the old Crossfire two hosts with two guests? Two hosts, with a guest lasting one segment at most, sticking to the hosts the rest of the time, would be the show I'd want to see, and would be a lot closer to Pardon the Interruption than Crossfire. Ideally they'd try to find two hosts that could have the chemistry of Tony and Mike, yet could still credibly and passionately represent the left and the right to each side's partisans (which killed their old Parker Spitzer show from a few years back that was way too genteel and drew criticism from conservatives that Kathleen Parker wasn't conservative enough... a problem that, judging from TVNewser comments, SE Cupp might bring even more of).
 
Does CNN really think that the problem with their network is that they don't have enough hours of pundits shouting at each other? Jon Stewart nailed it years ago when he was a guest on the old "Crossfire" and told them, among other things, that they were "ruining America". The show was gone very shortly after that.

Sadly, American news networks have since resorted to the overuse of screaming pundits and "strategists", a cheaper option than sending reporters such as Christine Amapour into international hellholes where news is actually being made. The reason their ratings are crap is because they forgot that such reporting is what made them successful in the first place. This is why I welcome Al Jazeera America with open arms.
 
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