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Keep Dobbs, get rid of King and get rid of Brown. Put in a Hannity and Colmes style format with two charismatic hosts and try to do actual straight news. To compete with the Fox report they should throw in a tabloid journalism show for the 7 o’clock hour. Something similar to the old Inside Edition and Hard Copy shows of the early ’90s.

Someone mentioned they should pull more from their Atlanta roots, I agree with this. Southernize the station a bit, make it something different. If they can actually put out straight news with a Georgian flavor, people may tune in. They should also try and steal Scarborough from MSNBC, he is a straight shooter and one of the few Republicans out there who called out Bush and the then GOP controlled congress on deficit spending and earmarks.

On another note, I have to say that Hannity’s new show is surprisingly entertaining. He recites his usual talking points for the first half hour, but then has a pretty balanced panel for the second half hour and it makes for a fast paced and fun show. I have to admit I am surprised, it is much more enjoyable than his radio show.

Proof that America just doesn’t want to be lied to.

Murdoch’s network and newspaper would say otherwise.

Ash on March 29, 2009 at 5:28 PM

You forgot Lou Dobbs.

More Wolf Blitzer!

Firebird on March 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM

AND more cow bell!

In case I didn’t make myself clear, I don’t watch CNN, and I don’t think intelligent people watch any of the cable news networks.

DaveS on March 28, 2009 at 2:52 PM

So … which televised news programs DO YOU watch?
Shades of Palin’s, “Which magazines do you read?” question.

In a way, that already happens in the industry.

How so? In no way do I see it currently. I see everyone in journalism giving impartiality lip-service.

The problem with that is that would be removing freedoms from journalists.

What I’m talking about is living the life of extreme impartiality in order to become a true journalist. Of course, most people would not want to give that up in order to pursue a career.

In one way, it’d get in the way of doing their job.

I disagree completely. If someone was to assume a position of total impartiality and without any personal political positions at all, it would go a long way to establishing themselves as a true journalist; someone who is a disconnected and impartial observer, investigator and reporter of the facts that does not have any personal political positions.

By the way, some of the folks from Murdoch’s kind make some good-sized Democrat political contributions.

sethstorm on March 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM

Exactly my point of why there needs to be an independent standards body that enforces apolitical positions.

“How would it be enforced?”, you may ask. By the market. If you have an organization that refuses to adhere to the standard, they don’t get the certifying body’s stamp of approval.

meh, all this typing is for naught. No one in that industry in the truth anymore.

John Stossel is the only one that comes to mind that is the closest to what I’m talking about. (And he is far from perfect of course.)

There’s a guy on my street corner who keeps spouting off about one-world government. Has he been booked yet?

YYZ on March 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM

I have no idea. I don’t do the booking for either show.

I think CNN and crew will most likely head left since that is where their hearts lie anyway. Can’t wait for my next agonizing airport layover in CNN indoctrination land.

And I would add John Roberts’ name to the list of insufferable lefties at CNN.

mossberg500 on March 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM

How many times did they get cut off?

sethstorm on March 29, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Are they supposed to agree with them?

There’s a guy on my street corner who keeps spouting off about one-world government. Has he been booked yet?

YYZ on March 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM

Sounds like a good program. That guy can come on right after the global-warming kooks.

Glenn Beck interviewed the head of the communist party in the US(Sam Webb), and Sean Hannity interviewed Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party.

mossberg500 on March 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM

There’s a guy on my street corner who keeps spouting off about one-world government. Has he been booked yet?

They won’t let anyone on who could actually shut their hosts up on Murdoch’s networks.

sethstorm on March 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM

Well no duh! Doesn’t that kind of go for everybody? I mean really now, who wants to be pwned on air at their own game, never mind if they lean right or left?

How many times did they get cut off?

sethstorm on March 29, 2009 at 1:41 PM

As many times as they refused to answer the questions directly, and went off on some other tangent.

mossberg500 on March 29, 2009 at 1:40 PM

How many times did they get cut off?

2. Require all employees to agree to a contract requiring them to become politically-agnostic, and swear an oath to remain so. The employee should suspend their voting rights while they are employed as a journalist and they can not participate in any way in any PAC, political function or be a member of any political party.

In a way, that already happens in the industry. The problem with that is that would be removing freedoms from journalists. In one way, it’d get in the way of doing their job.

By the way, some of the folks from Murdoch’s kind make some good-sized Democrat political contributions.

Has Glen Beck ever hosted a lefty? How about a one-on-one interview with a liberal on Hannity?

Glenn Beck interviewed the head of the communist party in the US(Sam Webb), and Sean Hannity interviewed Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party.