Jonathan Klein Interview…
Mediaite’s Steve Krakauer does a pretty good job interviewing Jonathan Klein. I particularly liked this…
Mediaite: Anderson Cooper has been slipping in the ratings – he just had his second lowest quarter ever this past quarter. There was also a live audience experiment recently. Do you expect in the new prime time that his show will remain at 10pm, in the same format?
Klein: I don’t know. I just don’t know. I tune in every night at 10 and see the best newscast on TV, night in and night out. That’s all I ask of Anderson and his team.
I’m more than a little surprised that Klein didn’t either issue a flat out shootdown denial of the Piers Morgan stories or admit there was smoke to that fire and instead he bobbed and weaved and tried to parry away from Krakauer’s line of questioning. It just makes the whole situation hang over CNN.
Update: Another part of the interview which I noticed but passed on in favor of the above quote, concerned a jab Klein threw at MSNBC for being too quick to cancel Dan Abrams’ program. Well Abrams responded in the Mediaite comments…
June 30, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Is there anything Klein is good at? ‘Cause interviews and running a network aren’t it.
June 30, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Well Abrams responded in the Mediaite comments…
With a nice response to that from Our Spud. Abrams can be sweet about it all day long, but he got screwed after much legwork for MSNBC. His last show was pretty good..certainly more entertaining than O’Donnell’s is bound to be.
June 30, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Sidebar: Abram’s reporting on the Don Siegelman case was frankly appalling. Some of the worst journalism I’ve ever seen.
Absolutely a joke.
Had to get that off my chest.
June 30, 2010 at 6:09 pm
-Abrams can be sweet about it all day long, but he got screwed –
Getting screwed is probably a standard clause in most network anchor contracts. Mr. Abrams wisely realises that there’s no profit in bad-mouthing former employers.
June 30, 2010 at 6:20 pm
^Or sort-of-current ones, but I digress..