CNN had Jamal Simmons on today as a commentator. He was on pretty much every day in 2008, hardly at all in 2012, and haven't seen him since. Liked him a lot in '08--hope he's back on a regular basis.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 January 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
CNN (TV news in general) gets pilloried around here--I do it all the time--but Jake Tapper's interview with Scott Cross, the victim who spoke out against Dennis Hastert, was as good as it gets. I missed the Hastert story completely, till today (he was just released from prison).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
Making this title available to the world for a book on modern-day media's (especially CNN, and especially during the pandemic) 24-hour breaking-news/panic addiction: No News Is Terrible News.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
I generally like Jim Acosta, but this morning, in the space of 10 seconds--prefacing both with "As I like to call it"--he said "bonfire of the insanities" and "lord of the lies." Ouch.
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 January 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
I guess Jeffrey Toobin has been reinstated.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/politics/supreme-court-first-amendment-cheerleader/index.html
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
CNN chief executive Chris Licht to leave network after weeks of criticismA tumultuous town hall with former president Donald Trump, a scathing article and ratings freefall preceded his downfall
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:22 (ten months ago) link
Just came to post that...Someone posted the Atlantic piece on a different thread; I downloaded it so it wouldn't disappear behind a paywall, planned to read it, now he's gone.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:24 (ten months ago) link
that don lemon thing with musk is just TOOOO rich if you hate don lemon.
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 March 2024 11:57 (one month ago) link