This Comes As A Shock To No One: CNN No. 1 In Bin Laden Death Coverage

[DToTheJ]

...Could this be because they're in "Sin Francisco" and Berkley? ...

Get it right, dude. That's "Sin Francisco," and "Berzerkeley" ;D

Or as Michael Savage calls the former, "San Fran-sicko". : (No wonder he can't hold onto a radio affiliate there... )

 

[LKellerIII]

...Could this be because they're in "Sin Francisco" and Berkley? ...

Get it right, dude. That's "Sin Francisco," and "Berzerkeley" ;D

Or as Michael Savage calls the former, "San Fran-sicko". : (No wonder he can't hold onto a radio affiliate there... )

Actually - Michael Savage's radio career started in San Francisco - for Disney/ABC. He first appeared as a fill-in on KGO. Later, when ABC bought KSFO and turned it into conservative Hot Talk - Savage had his first regular gig. The Bay Area may be the liberal capital of America, but there are still plenty of conservatives here to make the careers of people like Savage.

After his show was syndicated, it was Savage (or his people) who moved him off KSFO - supposedly for a better deal. He ended up on minor talk stations with overall low ratings. He can only blame himself, or his handlers. His latest Bay Area station (KTRB) went into bankruptcy.

Savage was supposedly a huge a**hole, and hard to work with. Fellow KSFO conservative talk host Jim Eason reportedly despised him, and was credited with nick-naming him "the Savage Weiner" ...Weiner being his real last name, though I'm unsure of the spelling.

 

[Nate Wesley]

I think its been pretty well debated and established that both MSNBC and Fox News are "infotainment" channels, where people go to get opinions mixed with news and be entertained, all while not being offended by viewpoints dissimilar from their own.

CNN seems like the natural fit when more than the usual "news" junkies tune in for a breaking story.

Per your point, its worth noting just how big CNN is compared to FNC and MSNBC; CNN's presence obviously predated both of those channels. (To recap, there's US-based CNN, HLN aka Headline News, CNN International, CNN en Espanol, CNN-IBN for India, CNN Chile, and CNN Turk in Turkey. n-TV, the German TV news channel that Time Warner helped found, remains a CNN affiliate also.)

Before primetime punditry became en vogue and the biggest source of domestic cable news profits, Turner & Time Warner actually went out and established news bureaus for [*gasp*] journalism and news gathering. Not only that, but CNN's former position at the dominant news network led to a lot of basic cable coverage in not-so-obscure channel positions, not to mention captive arrangements like the CNN Airport Network for travelers.

Even with NBC News' overseas bureaus and Fox's use of Sky News and other News Corp properties, CNN isn't likely to get scooped or topped in that often in major international news.