At a time when American media has lost their ability to have a meaningful dialogue on any political issue, you have decided to remain neutral. And each and every day that passes, you lose another viewer.
Face it: The industry you created and once lead has stolen your viewers and your ratings out from underneath you. Whether it is the illusion that Glenn Beck actually believes he is Thomas Paine incarnate or Keith Olbermann trying to be the new Edward R. Murrow of the 21st century, you have lost the product you created when you cancelled your debate show Crossfire and chose to just casually and separately talk to both sides about how they feel. I feel like I’m watching Toyota lose the Prius.
Your new motto “the truth isn’t red or blue” is making me blue from what I know your product use to be. You were the breaking-news leader. You were the place for politics. You had the investigative reports. Now all you are is fair and balanced.
Now that you’ve successfully hijacked the Fox News Channel’s motto, you are wondering why you don’t have the Fox News’ ratings. Since adopting your new place in the world as the fair media outlet, your ratings have dropped on average for every show by 40 percent.
I’ve heard some of the solutions to your problem are hiring MSNBC reporters and having a live studio audience during Anderson Cooper 360. Well aside from bringing liberalism to your fair station, Making the Silver Fox the next equivalent to late night Oprah isn’t going to save your ratings.
People don’t want more Glenn Becks, Sean Hannitys, Keith Olbermanns, Rachel Maddows and Chris Matthewses. These people are not journalists. Punditry is a popular profession, but it has killed this nation’s ability to communicate and get solid news.
People want opinion with their news, and you know it. Unfortunately, all we get is opinion and no real news unless something blows up, and then all you and the other two guys do is cover it like flies on a piece of picnic barbecue in the hot summer sun. You had the solution, and you gave it up so Wolf Blitzer could tell us the situation in his high tech room.
Stop it! Bring back Crossfire! Bring back debate!
Nothing will better soothe this nation’s spirit of debate (and to your ratings) than a daily public debate in which two people from the left and the right can let out their one liners to those liberal commies and right wing nut jobs. Not only that, the fact that both sides share jokes with each other and shake hands at the end of the show would be a good symbol of hope for positive dialogue that this country needs to badly.
I remember growing up with a fair political debate. That’s not to say James Carville, Paul Begala, Robert Novak and Tucker Carlson had some insulting one-liners they slung back and forth to each other but the fact that I could watch both sides of the issue being discussed without having to go back an forth between the channels.
Talk about innovation! I can get the opinion of someone like Glenn Beck at the same time I can hear someone like Rachel Maddow! Holy crap! I’d pay money to see that! Then again, my parents did, and it was highly beneficial to not only America but to my own personal development.
CNN, please bring back Crossfire. America needs it. Journalists demand it, and your ratings cry for it.
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TheJeff 2 years, 1 month ago
Good job, you watched the Daily Show last week. I appreciate that CNN is different fro MSNBC and Fox.
Terminate_Damnation 2 years, 1 month ago
Well Ricky, you've got John Stewart to blame for this situation:
Jon Stewart on Crossfire by atvartist
And has it not been drilled into you from all of our journalism classes that Crossfire wasn't really a good thing? Of course what we have now is similar or worse, but Crossfire was more about screaming at each other and entertainment than it was decent debate. Debate is good, but let's not resurrect Crossfire.
Flips88 2 years, 1 month ago
Jon Stewart killed Crossfire because it was just as bad as anything we have right now. Putting two blowhards on one show does not an informative media make. Hannity and Colmes sucked as much as just Hannity does.
Jon Stewart on Crossfire by atvartist
JJanowiak 2 years, 1 month ago
Crossfire... Crossfire.... CROSSFIIIRREEEEEE! That's what we're talking about, right? Good!