Re: CNN

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

Wolf was anchoring early evening coverage yesterday.  They had Aaron Brown
on for awhile in the afternoon then Wolf was on from around 4 to 8, then
they brought back Brown.  I remember seeing Wolf on some during the week,
but they seemed to be trying to feature the new guy, Brown, during
prime-time most of the week.  IMHO, this crisis is not making him into the
next Bernard Shaw.

During the Gulf War, I think it was the general consensus that CNN had the
best coverage.  They had more people on the ground overseas and had the
advantage of a having a bigger international infrastructure.  With the
events this week in this country, they do not have that advantage.   In some
ways, they are at a disadvantage because the networks are headquartered in
NY, while CNN's main operations are in Atlanta and Washington.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Saloway" <saloway@bu.edu>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: CNN


> Here's a dumb question - and I admit I haven't been watching CNN 24/7 -
> but where has Wolf Blitzer been hiding? Maybe I just haven't seen him, but
> you'd think their supposed big-gun would be out doing something. (They did
> give him his own prime-time news show - he must be important to the
> network.)