What’s Hot/What’s Not: 05/30/10
What’s Hot:
What to do about CNN – More articles hit the press this week on CNN and its primetime fortunes. CNN responded in an uncharacteristic manner by giving a presentation covering how it makes money, which tried to underscore that primetime is only a small piece of the puzzle.
Shepard Smith makes analogy to 9/11 in regards to BP spill – And a lot of people, myself included, felt Smith’s comments went a bit too far.
Geri Willis – It was announced that Willis would host “The Willis Report” on FBN at 5pm M-Fr…
Sestak-gate – It made a lot of noise this week. Whether there’s any substance to said noise is still an open question however. That didn’t stop FNC and others from breathlessly running the story (or non-story) into the ground in short order…
What’s Not:
Much ado about nothing – A bruhaha erupted over alleged FNC tampering with a video of Obama addressing the West Point graduation. Specifically, it was claimed that FNC cut out the audio of the cadets applauding in order to make Obama look bad. ICN figured out that what happened was two pieces of video destined for on air use were spliced together, but without removing the “dead air” parts.
Dennis Kneale – Kneale gave a very forthcoming interview to The Business Insider. A little too forthcoming it seems as Kneale openly “complained” about CNBC execs maybe not even watching his show. Not very smart…
Larry King – The New York Times featured an article that was not at all favorable towards King and his future at CNN…
