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A Boston Gal

A Boston Gal

Agreed!!! Both Wolf and Don Lemon are horrible news anchors/reporters.   I would rather watch Wolf over Don though.... Don Lemon just pisses me off when I watch him.

 

But --- I do love Anderson Cooper!!  He's one of the only reasons I watch CNN.

And Christine Amanpour when she's on. 

PS: I can't be alone in my Chris Cuomo hate, can I? He makes every story seem it's about him and his reactions to it, even if he never says so explicitly.

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magdalene
magdalene

Wolf Blitzer was going on  how Trump has better "trust worthy" numbers than Clinton.  Something is very wrong when a con man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and who has been using the s

Padma
Padma

I can't either. They really have some awful commentators. Watching Blitzer interviewing this afternoon brought home to me what I hate about cable news. They bring in a professional (maybe a repor

Padma
Padma

I don't even understand why that's okay, to leak ten years of a PRIVATE CITIZEN'S email and have his privacy invaded by the press. Podesta wasn't in government, isn't in government. Why do they t

Constantinople

Constantinople

How many hours is CNN going to devote to Trump's asinine anti-Muslim BS?

I've lost track.  But I turned it off because they're giving him the free publicity he feeds on.

Based on the few times Trump's been pushed off CNN airwaves since this summer, I'd say CNN's news priorities are

 

  1. The first few days after a double or triple digit mass murder (Paris/San Bernardino)
  2. A papal visit to the US
  3. Trump
  4. Everything else
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Foghorn Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn

Between Brooke's monotone droning voice and Carol Costellos's whiny voice, I don't know why they're each on  two hours a day.  Do they have stellar ratings?

 

Agree!  I keep waiting for Costello to burst into tears after EVERY.SINGLE.INTERVIEW.  She wrinkles her forehead and gets this concerned look on her face while she whines her comments.  I have been enjoying her absence this week.  I wish we had more Pamela Brown and Brianne.  

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mythoughtis

mythoughtis

Anyone else not a Kathy Griffin fan?  I would love to be able to watch a CNN New Year's Eve, but I just can't watch her antics for more than 5 minutes.  The faster and louder she talks, the tighter my nerves get.

 

Also, CNN, I know 2016 is an election year - but you've been the Trump Channel for the last 7 or 8 months.  How is 2016 going to be any different?

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MissT

MissT

Anyone else not a Kathy Griffin fan?  I would love to be able to watch a CNN New Year's Eve, but I just can't watch her antics for more than 5 minutes.  The faster and louder she talks, the tighter my nerves get.

 

Also, CNN, I know 2016 is an election year - but you've been the Trump Channel for the last 7 or 8 months.  How is 2016 going to be any different?

I am totally an Anderson Cooper fan.   I love him..but Kathy Griffin gets on my last nerve.   I think if they just find him a different side-kick on new years it would be a great show.  

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ratgirlagogo

ratgirlagogo

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I like Kathy Griffin just fine,  and we record this show every year. I enjoy not just her teasing, but that all the giggling aside, Anderson's goat is not really gettable.  But I do think that three and a half hours (!!!????!!) is way too much of a good thing.   It was more enjoyable  when it was 90 minutes or so.  Also, what happened with the drag queen dropping into the shoe in Key West  -  they didn't show that this year, or did I just miss it somehow?

 

I mean, it's sad when a trainwreck-drunk CNN anchor is more memorably fun than Kathy and Anderson.  I did like the forced spray tanning - the spoons were the best part - the game way he just grabbed them and placed them over his eyes.  So funny..

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Thumper

Thumper

Finally found some comments about CNN's NYE show. I really dislike all the "boring location stuff" mentioned above, as well as all the going down to Times Square to interview random people. Yawn. If they shortened it up to include just entertainment and Kathy and Anderson, I'd like it better. Not sure I'll tune in next year. Oh yeah -- I'd like Kathy to keep her clothes on too. She has a great shape, but please -- stawp it!!

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Medicine Crow

Medicine Crow

If you never saw the PBS American Experience episode The Silicon Valley, it's well worth watching if it's repeated or on another form of media.

This is a subject that's as dry as Steve Jobs but so well put together, I watched it twice,

I watched the CNN show about Steve Jobs & found it quite boring, but it was interesting to see what a jerk he was in real life.  Thanks for the heads-up on the PBS episode.

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stormy

stormy

Wolf is an idiot. In The Situation Room today, he interviewed Secretary of State John Kerry.

Besides the fact that he did an awful job and continually interrupted him, he had the nerve to say to John Kerry, "Donald Trump says you're the worse negotiator." What do you say?

John Kerry laughed it off even as Wolf pressed him a couple of more times.

I turned the channel to TV Land to watch Andy Griffith.

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Foghorn Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn

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Wolf is an idiot. In The Situation Room today, he interviewed Secretary of State John Kerry.

Besides the fact that he did an awful job and continually interrupted him, he had the nerve to say to John Kerry, "Donald Trump says you're the worse negotiator." What do you say?

John Kerry laughed it off even as Wolf pressed him a couple of more times.

I turned the channel to TV Land to watch Andy Griffith.

 

OMG funny you should make this comment because I said almost the exact same words to a friend minutes ago!!!  Wolf is an ass, asks stupid questions with a straight poker face like that makes it newsworthy or something!  And he also asks questions it is premature to know yet like when it really is breaking news and a shooter has taken hostages, no idea why, no idea who he is but sharp Wolf asks "do we know who it is and do we have a motive?"  He is as dumb as a bag of rocks!

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Dirtybubble

Dirtybubble

I tried several times last night to watch Anderson who I love but Griffin for 3.5 hours too??!!  GMAB. She is too obnoxious for me for any length of time.  I do like how she brings out his silly side but I don't want to watch Anderson giggling for that length of time either.  

I know I'm late to the party for this but I have to agree with previous posters about the Anderson & Griffin duo on NYE.  GAH Cathy Griffin so damn obnoxious IMO I just can't stand more than a few minutes of her.  There are several videos of him and her on youtube where she is in Anderson's house just behaving like a goof.  The videos are only 5-7 minutes long but lawd I can't even sit through that.  I watch though because I just adore A.C. AND speaking of him....

 

Did any of you guys see the special "The Person Who Changed My Life"?  On CNN Sunday?  Since I don't really give a toot about the other anchors I FF thru A LOT of it but loved the piece done on Anderson's dad!  yay.  And did I hear correctly he and his mom did a documentary and book on his life??  I will have to keep a look out for that.

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junemeatcleaver

junemeatcleaver

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And did I hear correctly he and his mom did a documentary and book on his life??  I will have to keep a look out for that.

 

Don't know about their book, but Anderson and Gloria Vanderbilt's documentary, Nothing Left Unsaid, will be on HBO in April.  I'm sure CNN will reair it, they have shown other HBO docs before.

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Dirtybubble

Dirtybubble

 

Don't know about their book, but Anderson and Gloria Vanderbilt's documentary, Nothing Left Unsaid, will be on HBO in April.  I'm sure CNN will reair it, they have shown other HBO docs before.

Thanks for the T!  And yeah CNN will air it later in month as well which is good because I don't have HBO.  Here's a little more tidbits on it. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/01/07/anderson-cooper-and-mom-gloria-vanderbilt-publish-joint-memoir/78422364/

 

They have spent way too much time discussing Donald Trump not coming to the debate.  It's 30 minutes tops to discuss the situation... then move on.  They didn't cover Rand Paul to that extent when he refused to come to the undercard debate.   When there's nothing new to report, we don't need it discussed all day long.

WORD!  But it's not just CNN--I switch channels between GMA and CBS This Morning and both were non stop gab about the Donald. 

 

 

 

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Padma

Padma

Did CNN broadcast Trump's event last night? At least Rachel Maddow had a great piece about his lack of integrity re: giving money to veterans back in September--choosing a guy, not even a group, in  a very fishy situation. Nothing about that from CNN that I can see.  And it sounds from people they interviewed "switching between Trump and the debate" that they were watching his "event" on free CNN broadcast. Who else gets this kind of treatment?

 

And today they seemed determined to make it seem that the "second lowest ratings" for a debate was some kind of success  for Trump's boycott.   (To me that could have just as easily been interpreted as a failure for Trump's boycott. People STILL tuned in, even without him. Also, content-wise, it was so much better. But it was still "all Trump, all the time" today. Disgraceful. 

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Dirtybubble

Dirtybubble

 

Are you guys gonna watch the Iowa caucus tonight on CNN?  I will make a point to tune in to CNN just because I adore A.C. and would listen to anything he has to say =)  I think they are doing nonstop airing of the results while the local channels will just be checking in every now and then between the regular t.v. show.  *sigh* that's A LOT of repeat stuff though...

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MissT

MissT

Change of subject here ---  Did anyone watch the documentary on the two part special on the The Eagles.   I watched the entire 4 hour special on Saturday night and let me tell you, it was fantastic.  I was raised in the 70's/80's and love The Eagles.   Don Henley and Glenn Fry were great song writers.   Lot's of tension between the band members.  They talked about how successful Henley/Fry were in the 80's era and the the band's comeback in the 90's.   I would highly recommend everyone to watch it when they air it again.    No one makes music or writes songs like that anymore.... it brought back a lot of memories for me.     My only regret was that I never saw them in concert. 

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Medicine Crow

Medicine Crow

Change of subject here ---  Did anyone watch the documentary on the two part special on the The Eagles.   I watched the entire 4 hour special on Saturday night and let me tell you, it was fantastic.  I was raised in the 70's/80's and love The Eagles.   Don Henley and Glenn Fry were great song writers.   Lot's of tension between the band members.  They talked about how successful Henley/Fry were in the 80's era and the the band's comeback in the 90's.   I would highly recommend everyone to watch it when they air it again.    No one makes music or writes songs like that anymore.... it brought back a lot of memories for me.     My only regret was that I never saw them in concert. 

Yes MissT, I recorded both parts & watched Part 1.  It was excellent & I learned a lot about The Eagles that I didn't know.  I'll be watching Part 2 tonight.  I would have liked to see them in concert too, but the opportunity never presented itself. 

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Constantinople

Constantinople

Change of subject here ---  Did anyone watch the documentary on the two part special on the The Eagles.   I watched the entire 4 hour special on Saturday night and let me tell you, it was fantastic.  I was raised in the 70's/80's and love The Eagles.   Don Henley and Glenn Fry were great song writers.   Lot's of tension between the band members.  They talked about how successful Henley/Fry were in the 80's era and the the band's comeback in the 90's.   I would highly recommend everyone to watch it when they air it again.    No one makes music or writes songs like that anymore.... it brought back a lot of memories for me.     My only regret was that I never saw them in concert. 

 

FYI

 

PTV recap of the History of the Eagles when it first aired on Showtime

 

PTV thread for the documentary.

Padma

Padma

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I couldn't stand David Gregory on MTP and throughout the Bush years. Such softballs for Republicans while trying to show how "tough" he was whenever a Democrat came on. I know a lot of people still don't like Chuck Todd, but I've actually gotten to like him since he's been the host there--he's a lot more knowledgeable than Gregory and fairer as well.

 

Good to know David Gregory has landed at CNN where I'll probably never see him. (I tried watching some of the CNN election coverage last night--enjoyed the Iowa map and demographics, but had to turn back to MSNBC during the discussions--which weren't helped at all by having another former MSNBC-er there, SE.Cupp. Plus, there were just too many on their panel. What was it? 8? 10? Plus all the CNN people. Not enough time for most of the panelists to say much of anything once someone more aggressive (like Cupp or Begaa) grabbed the floor.

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Dirtybubble

Dirtybubble

I remember David Gregory from when he filled in for Matt Lauer on the Today show.  Liked him a lot and thought he held his own against Meredith Vera. 

 

Good to know David Gregory has landed at CNN where I'll probably never see him. (I tried watching some of the CNN election coverage last night--enjoyed the Iowa map and demographics, but had to turn back to MSNBC during the discussions--which weren't helped at all by having another former MSNBC-er there, SE.Cupp. Plus, there were just too many on their panel. What was it? 8? 10? Plus all the CNN people. Not enough time for most of the panelists to say much of anything once someone more aggressive (like Cupp or Begaa) grabbed the floor.

Yeah it was kinda a goobly gook of people up there but enh I mostly tuned in simply to see who was in the lead, etc.  I don't watch CNN that much so I am unclear as the how they handle these big things but I was kinda bummed the didn't give A.C. more to do.  Every time I tuned in he was just kinda standing there listening to everyone else yammer on about this and that.  Didn't get to hear his opinions.....or is he just there to moderate and not really join in the discussion?  *shrug*  But like I said I didn't watch all 18 hours of the coverage either (!!)

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Jaded

Jaded

I was flipping through the TV channels a few weeks ago and David Gregory was on Charlie Rose's PBS show. He was starting to talk about some religious journey he's been on since leaving NBC. I didn't stick around to find out much more since I've never been one of his fans. I was surprised to see him being interviewed which is why I stopped to watch for those couple minutes. After googling I see he wrote a book called “How’s Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey”.

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shok

shok

I couldn't stand David Gregory on MTP and throughout the Bush years. Such softballs for Republicans while trying to show how "tough" he was whenever a Democrat came on. I know a lot of people still don't like Chuck Todd, but I've actually gotten to like him since he's been the host there--he's a lot more knowledgeable than Gregory and fairer as well.

 

 

Well, less blatantly right wing than Gregory was but not sure I'd go as far as 'fair'.  I watched a couple of minutes of Gregory on CNN and disliked him just as much as I had on NBC so it was channel change time for me.

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shok

shok

Watched a bit of their post debate coverage tonight and was ashamed of myself for even tuning in for that small amount of time.  The media is equally as responsible as Trump is for this disgraceful primary season. He stood up there on that stage tonight and acted worse than my three year old nephew with his tantrums and name calling and sneering (several of the other candidates weren't much better) and most of the CNN panel thought he had a great debate! I can't. I just can't with so many people thinking this kind of behaviour is acceptable in a civilized society.

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