CNN to air John King Decade Review Special…

CNN announced it will be airing a one our special with John King that looks at the the biggest stories of the past decade.

TIMEFrames: A John King Special to Explore the Most Extraordinary Stories of the Decade

TV Special Coincides with the Publication of TIME Magazine’s TimeFrames Issue

CNN and TIME will collaborate to produce a one-hour television show, TIMEFrames: A John King Special, hosted by CNN chief national correspondent and anchor John King. The special, which features an interview with TIME’s managing editor Richard Stengel, will draw heavily on TIME’s forthcoming TimeFrames issue. The magazine, on sale Friday, Nov. 26, will analyze how the world has changed over the first decade of the twenty-first century. The CNN special and single-topic issue of TIME will both showcase the decade’s world-changing events and key personalities and examine how our understanding of those stories has changed with the passage of time.The special will premiere on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 25 at 2 p.m. and re-air at 5 p.m.

TIMEFrames: A John King Special will include appearances by CNN & TIME’s Fareed Zakaria, TIME’s Joe Klein and David Von Drehle. Other special guests will include Donald Trump and Sir Richard Branson.

Kathleen Parker Profile

NewsMax Magazine’s Merideth Nelson profiles CNN’s Kathleen Parker…

“Busier than a one-armed paper hanger” is how Kathleen Parker describes herself these days. The apt phrase references a career spike that brought the scrappy Southern newsie from syndicated columnist to Pulitzer Prize winner to national TV journalist in just short of half a year.

“I’ve always been the girl-next-door columnist,” Parker says, adding, “My readers are what people in New York and Washington call ‘ordinary’ Americans,” she says, hastening to assure us that she has never once herself used that adjective to describe anyone who follows her maverick yet common-sense approach to the political conundrums of the day.

“I think that’s why CNN brought me in,” Parker says of her new job as the top-billed half of CNN’s Parker Spitzer, a news and political chat show that debuted Oct. 4 in the boutique spot at 8 p.m. on weeknights. “As a voice for the people who don’t feel well-represented. The over-50 crowd in Arizona deserves to have a voice on TV too.”

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Roger Ailes Interview…

The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz has Part 2 of his interview with Roger Ailes…

But Stewart played clips of MSNBC as well as Fox at his Washington rally last month, casting them as part of the “24-hour politico, pundit, perpetual panic conflictinator.” He says his concern is the not the ideology of cable channels but the tone of the discourse.

“Oh, horseshit,” Ailes shot back. “Look what he does to Sarah Palin.” If Stewart wants to go after cable hosts for the entertainment value, fine, “but don’t give me a social speech on the steps of the Washington Monument. Don’t lapse into non-comedy.”

The onetime Republican strategist is a man of strong opinions, in case that wasn’t clear, and he also puts his money where his mouth is. When Juan Williams was fired by National Public Radio for remarks he made on Fox about fearing airplane passengers in Muslim garb, Ailes rushed to award him a three-year, $2 million contract.

“A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence,” Ailes says. Calling Williams “a pure liberal,” Ailes says he wanted to compensate the pundit for his losses because he was “mad” and “I didn’t want him to have to call his wife and say we lost money.”