CNN's (Aaron) Brown Out

Aaron Brown is out at CNN, and Anderson Cooper will take over Brown’s 10 p.m. time slot, effective Monday.

The shakeup comes as a result of some prime time scheduling moves that CNN made official Wednesday. Cooper will take his 7 p.m. showcase, Anderson Cooper 360°, to the 10-midnight spot, formerly occupied by Brown’s NewsNight. Cooper’s old spot will be filled by an additional hour of The Situation Room, hosted by Wolf Blitzer.

In a memo to staffers, CNN president Jon Klein said the veteran anchor “will be leaving CNN and is very much looking forward to some well-deserved time off with his family.”

Brown joined CNN in 2001 and first came to prominence with his on-air reporting from New York on Sept. 11 of that year. Cooper joined CNN as a weekend anchor in December 2001 and began hosting Anderson Cooper 360° in March 2003.

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oh well?

...that Bush asked HIM to resign to save himself from another scandal?

he will be VP of Outside Opportunities.

I think that is why they had to split them up again and put AC in the field cuz Aaron was gonna kicka his assa

Aaron will pop up again, but where?? Surely not Fox (I hope not).. I doubt that MSRNC would hire him.. They have their "quota" with Keith :)

The sad thing is this.. There is PLENTY opf room at CNN for Aaron.. Why not give these people a ONE hour show eah, and GET some more liberals to balance things out :).um nevermind we all know why

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/260783p-223242c.html
Co-op board chairman Richard Cohen - a real estate developer married to CNN newswoman Paula Zahn - was emerging as a villain in the avian eviction.

I always KNEW she was a b#$%h! LOL

I will never trust a word out of her lying mouth.

...as did Tweety's new footsoldier, David Shuster.

Some are just in it for the dough, others are idiots who have slurped the kool-aid.

She's useless with her puff pieces. Reminds me of the sob sister journalism long ago.

Give Brown her time slot and let him do his thing without restraint.

Like that would ever happen.

For god's sake, bury that damn corpse, it's stinking up the place!

Doesn't make a very good group protest chant does it.

He said King looked like Father Time.

He sounds like he's on his last leg, not too inspiring. "Take Ester-C!" OMG...I always laugh when I hear those!

Don't they want to be with their families?

:)

Brown may have been hit or miss, but when he was on, he was good. And all this shake up has done is hand another hour over to The Bearded One.

Aw, cripes.

anchor figure doling out the news?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

He's probably trying to save what journalistic integrity he still has left.

Brown had been doing the show together recently (since the hurricanes) but sometimes, I really did like Brown. Wonder what happened. The usual "time off with family" really doesn't wash. Paula Zahn should be outta there.

Really like AAron. Paula is just soooooooo dumb...

I sure do miss that. I liked him when he was on ABC.

I used to watch World News Now with him and whatever cohost when I was in college staying up all night studying. No one was watching, they did all sorts of silly stuff. It wasn't quite amateur hour, but I always had the feeling that someone said 'you've got the news department from 2am to 5am, do whatever the hell you want." The closing graphic at the end of the broadcast was the best. A closeup of someone's eyeball with the glow of a TV in it, and the standard ABC announcer of the time:

"ABC News, where more insomniacs get their news than from any other source."

:hi:

I religiously watched the original WNN when it came on, and it hasn't been the same since Aaron and Lisa left..

for hours...it seemed like it began at midnight (possibly later) and didn't end until 4 AM...the neverending news program, with a touch of humor; the whole thing seemed a bit off beat.

This was circa 1999-2000, I remember getting the coverage of the "war" against Serbia (re Kosovo) from that source.

Sure as hell beat the coverage of local Gainesville, FL TV news...not to mention that RW shill of a newspaper out of Jacksonville (I remember spending hunting down for newstands that carried the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and shelling out $2+ to help fixate my news tooth).

More entertaining then USA today as well.

Dammit all to hell! Aaron Brown is one of the few out there without an agenda, though I've long suspected that he might be a closet liberal... So this makes sense. Damn! Damn! Damn! Paging John Conyers!:grr:

CNN may be reigning in the troops with a high profile dumping. Katrina had people going off-message. On the other hand, they may see the chimp's days as numbered and are bending with the wind.

Elevating Anderson Cooper seems to make the second hypothesis marginally more probable to me.

Yes, he's got an expanded time slot, but it's not exactly prime time. How many newspeople covet being on from 10-12?

I guess it could be seen more as elevating Blitzer, since he gets the 7:00 o'clock slot vacated by Cooper. This is all reminiscent of Kremlinology - CNNology, I suppose.

It's AFTER prime time, and BEFORE Letterman.

:(

was up when they moved Anderson Cooper up to equal footing with him and made him share the spotlight. You don't do that with a star anchor whom you think is still holding his own (for whatever reason). Everyman is out at CNN. And DAMN I wish they'd jettison paula zahn. Followed by wolfie. I'm sure they could get very well-paying jobs at some conservative think tank or Pox "news" or even maybe the White House. The White House is on such shaky ground that there might be some openings there, too, anyway, and those two are already well-known water-carrying shills.

A democrat who is sometimes duped by FOX. He loves Aaron Brown but if Aaron's not on he usually switches it to FOX.

they will snap him up as their evening anchor! Wouldn't that be great!

Good Luck Aaron - you were loved by many! You will land on your feet!

CNN is pathetic......you will be better off without them!

Bama

The urgency and hype in his voice drives me crazy.

ick.

What 's next, Situation Room from 6 a.m. till midnight? Whopee, 18 hours of Leslie!:sarcasm:

I always tune in just for that.

:loveya:

I wish I got CNN.

It's all a big revolving door between the 3 cable networks now.

Rita Clear-Your-Throat. Or as Jon Stewart called her - "Throaty McHuskington." Although I must say I do a pretty good impersonation of her...

I'll have to write her a fan letter.

Anc probably had spray bottles of water to keep the look fresh...

I wouldn't have to turn the channel so quickly.

utter a word. It's gotten to be a family tradition. I can't understand why anyone would hire her. Her voice is extremely annoying, and her intellect is lacking.

Aaron Brown will definitely be missed. I never watched him prior to Katrina, but I have learned to respect his manner. He will not show up on Faux and MSNBC seems doubtful because they don't want to upset Cheney or his staff. I hope this isn't a RW makeover, but if it is their rating will continue to head south.

I am also fearful of our beloved KO. He is often absent and I wonder if his style and reporting will upset the military industrial complex.

except it's my husband diving for the remote.

It's the only show where we don't just turn it off - we actively scramble to kill it before a word comes out of her mouth.

and dive for the remote when the new Newsnight came on. No, I don't usually watch Larry King. Gave me pleasure to hit the off button.

Cosby would be much better. I just got my tv cable back and couldn't believe it when I saw her. I wonder who was responsible for hiring her. She is truly the worst I have ever seen.

On last Friday's Indictment Night, Fucker kept repeating on MSNBC, "There's something really WEIRD going on here." He looked absolutely confused.

What a moron. He's got a feeling something else is going on besides the one indictment but just can't quite put his finger on it. Your buddies are CRIMINALS, Tucker, and they're running a criminal corporate enterprise out of the White House and VP's office.

to her

Anyone vaguely interesting or more celebrity crap? If I wanted that stuff, I'd watch E.

And not only that irritating voice. There's NO substance to her shows. It's as bad as Larry King as gotten with the celebrity crap and the latest court case of the week nonsense.

I cannot stand that woman. She really, really needs to go.

What is wrong with news channels actually providing the public with news?

Must have been too liberal for them...

I never cared for him, he didn't seem to have any balls, should I say, guts?

Also, he was more reflective than most anchoring the Irag war coverage along with Wesley Clark.

Oddly enough, those two made a fine pairing, though I doubt we'll see a new Brown-Clark Newshour ;)

Totally!

UGH!

at least he was two years ago when I used to watch CNN, and the MSM

to keep his job?

One more hour of Wolfie :puke:

So what's up with the dumping of Brown?

He's sounds like a trained barking seal! I get so tired of his voice in about 5 minutes.

Besides he was an ass on the Amy Goodman interview where she was saying that in the war coverage they always had General A v. General B in the debates and no peace/anti-war voices at all. He was saying a peace point of view was irrelevant and all sorts of crap....pissed me off....I hated how he always the Chicago weather joke in the end, BOR---ING....

His whole delivery was so Daily Show.

he was very condescending about why CNN didn't cover the march. It was the same weekend has Hurricane Rita and even though the storm had already passed, according to Aaron, that was the bigger news and tough luck.

have someone worth watching but turned out to be disapointing. CNN cannot seem to find good people anymore. There is sneaky Dobbs, Paula Zahn, sigh, and Wolf Blitzers voice and momotone gets on my nerve--Then over to Rita Cosby ? Lord, but she is awful. There is just no one worth watching except Keith.Cooper probably has another 6 months.But Wolfie will die on his feet in the situation room.

I love Anderson, but I'm sorry to see Aaron go. The two of them did a good job together in the 10 p.m. spot.

I had barely started watching CNN when Anderson Cooper's show looked interesting. Sorry, CNN, you almost had me back as a viewer, but you lost me again.

Why don't they pull Scarborough

n/t

Thats probably why he got canned. They want another Bill Oreilly to push the Reicht wing way.

Aaron Brown will forever me remembered as the man who beamed "great fun, great fun" the night the United States began dropping bombs in Iraq. "Great Fun" Brown is no loss to journalism.

Once Anderson Cooper began sharing billing on Brown's own show while Cooper kept his own time slot still to himself, it was obvious that Brown was being pushed out.

And of course, Brown's broadcast put down of Larry King one evening when King was obviously pissed didn't help his situation either.

Good bye and good riddance.

I can now say "Great Fun".

He is one of the very few to ask tough questions, a FOLLOWUP question, and didn't follow the talking points. He is one of the anchors out there could tell it like it is and tell the real facts. It sucks this is effective immediately. This is lame. So lame. I'm really dissapointed.

Aaron Brown was a cheerleader for the War in Iraq and carried water for the White House for the entire year leading up to the war.

His conduct on the night of the invasion was reprhensible. His glee at the bombs dropping was sick.

:hi:

Just doesn't strike me as a journalist.

More like, Geraldo with a pretty face.

IMHO, Cooper was the star of the whole Katrina mess. Remember when he shot his mought off and wanted to know where the help was? His angry ourburst was so (wonderfully) shocking to numbed out RW'ers.
I was thinking then: A Star is Born!

You always have a spot on Seattle TV and Hey!!! maybe we can grab a cup of Star-Bs and catch up on old times....


Yes Aaron is an old personal freind of mine.

KING,KIRO and KOMO have a spot for you.

Anderson gave to a Republican in the past, btw.

Cooper, Anderson
New York, NY 10011
American Broadcasting Corporation/R ELSER, H RICHTER (R)
House (CT 03)
ELSER FOR CONGRESS $250
primary 12/11/01

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NY&last=cooper&first=anderson

his "sentimental" version of journalism, for lack of a better phrase.

Call me old fashioned but I like my news without opinions. Give me the facts, I'll form my own opinion, thanks.

Yesterday, I think, he was teasing Blitzer about being on the air so long on Friday and he said, "I heard CNN is going to fire all the hosts and you are going to do ALL the shows." Blitzer laughed uncomfortably and went, "Um...well..." and changed the subject.

Now it makes sense, and it's not funny at all. Cafferty knew.

He has been pretty pissed about the WMD lies while shills like Blitzer and Bill Schneider downplay it. BTW, Cafferty is no liberal!

Aaron Brown was one of my favorites for a long time. He was fair and asked tough questions. He is a good human being, unlike Blizty...I liked him and Anderson Cooper together too. I thought they made a good team. Aaron you will be missed by me. But then you might actually get to return to your beloved NW and play a few astroid games down at the local pub again.

Just read it in Yahoo. Don't know how to link, sorry.

Well, Curb Appeal on HGTV works for me.

CNN ousted its longtime prime-time anchor, Aaron Brown, today in favor of Anderson Cooper, who has received extensive media attention in the wake of his widely publicized coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN/U.S., said today that he and Mr. Brown had mutually agreed that Mr. Brown would leave the cable news network because the new CNN lineup left "no options" for a program that would include Mr. Brown. "It is, unfortunately, a zero-sum game," Mr. Klein said.

The realigned CNN lineup will place Mr. Cooper's program "360," which had previously run at 7 p.m. Eastern time weeknights, in the 10 p.m. time period that had been occupied for the last four years by Mr. Brown's program, "Newsnight." Mr. Cooper's program will also expand to two hours, from 10 until midnight. CNN has experimented with that two-hour format over the past month, with Mr. Cooper joining Mr. Brown to serve as co-anchor of the program.

The audience levels for that program have increased markedly in the last month, a development that CNN attributed to Mr. Cooper's presence. In the 7 p.m. hour, where Mr. Cooper had previously worked, CNN will insert the final hour of its three-hour-long "Situation Room" program with Wolf Blitzer. That program has been running from 3 to 6 p.m. Eastern time each weekday. Now it will run from 4 to 6 p.m., leading into an hourlong newscast anchored by Lou Dobbs, with Mr. Blitzer coming back at 7 p.m. for one more hour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/business/media/02cnd-cnn.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130973833-0lX1MI0w57NvAz3jgkoIAg

Cooper may have "enhanced" Newsnight, but he can't carry it.

(With any luck, M$NBC will get a clue and put Brown on after Olbermann.)

was one of the better CNN staffers. Agreed I'd watch him over Rita any night of the week.

a useless and overpaid bottle blonde.

He's completely repugnant.

but Aaron Brown has been the best thing about CNN for a long time.

CNN- insert head into ass.

and more of Leslie, too.

Although I do like our gay correspondent Anderson Cooper a lot, he had his own show. Brown was the best anchor that CNN had.

CNN should have canned Paula Zahn instead of Brown. Zahn is a useless and overpaid bottle blonde whose skills lie in giving fellatio to her corporate bosses and in displacing peregrine falcon nests from her Manhattan condominium.

On edit:

The above message is exactly what I sent to CNN's viewer services.

Brown may be weak at times (and good at others) but Blitzer has long been a winger talkingpoint man.

Will never forget his coverage of the Wellstone crash - when within hours he does a spot with Sen. Kennedy and makes a point of focusing on the high (mourning) emotions of Kennedy as if intended to make Kennedy look weak.

I would take Brown over Wolfie in a minute. But would love Anderson doing the political commentary instead of Blitzer.

emails. I think that showed that he listened to what the viewers thought about his program, even if he didn't agree (or perhaps wasn't *allowed* to agree).

This is sad.

I tried CNN. (NOT watching Scarborough or any of the other right-wingers they've tried).

It took a little getting used to the gentler pace and voice, but the guy grew on me.

I like Cooper just fine, but I don't understand this move at all. He seemed fairly intelligent, asked some good questions, couldn't really be categorized as taking one point of view or another (except perhaps for some warranted impatience with stupidity or lies).

I couldn't watch last night with Zahn. She's just not good.

and disclosed that CNN was putting Freeper Wolfie on, followed by fellatio-queen Paula Zahn, and followed by walking cadaver Larry King. Cooper will get the 10 PM slot.

news show on cable. Klein dismantled that first; made Brown report a higher % of non news; made it much worse so that from a must see it became worth watching sometimes, and now this... If MSNBC is smart -- and he is willing -- there may be future for him there. I am really pissed. Cooper is good in some situations but he is no Aaron Brown, and I hardly ever watch 360° and now will do so even less because I resent the switch.

Here you can write your comment which is directly about Brown -- he is still listed there:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?3

Brown was much too smarmy for my taste. Couldn't watch him. Cooper at least I can watch without immediately changing channel.

Colbert said it perfectly when he said Aaron's specialty was "mulling". "Nobody mulls like Aaron Brown." His tisking and affectations were too much for me.

IF somebody, say, killed a puppy live on tv Aaron would find some positive, and some negative, and purse his lips and just marvel at the curious world in which we find ourselves then shrug it off and move on to the latest girl disappearance.

Wouldn't surprise me.

Big drama queen he is.

Aaron was one of the worst of the "cheerleaders" for the war on Iraq. He excused the abuses of Iraqi prisoners-of-war while condemning the broadcast of American prisoners-of-war. When the editor of Al-Jazeera challenged him on it, he began raising his voice and attempting to drown out the editor. He was visibly orgasmic while watching "embedded" reporters give their accounts of the death and destruction our military was inflicting on the residents of Baghdad. I'm glad Brown is out--what a sad example of American "journalism."

I watched many hours of his late night coverage w/General Clark at the start of the war and I also thought he also did a good job on 9/11. But overall when I'm watching him, he usually leaves me feeling exactly as Darrell Hammond said: "Hello, I'm Aaron Brown and I'm better than you."

And CNN seriously pissed me off today with this decision. This is what I emailed them an hour ago:



Then invited him to speak at my school. Damn CNN for being stupid, like giving Blitzer and Zhahn airtime and now this. Humbug.

Bill Hemmer was as cute as a new born kitty with its eyes still shut. Oh how I miss the "mew mew--mew mew" in the morning.

Brown is always fair, Zahn- is not. Did you catch her during the election last year? Extremely one sided toward's Bush. Those town hall meetings in Ohio she hosted were so biased it was a disgrace. She needs to go back to Fox News.

( I can't say that I would tune in to hear
more of Wolf's monotone deliverances...)

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cnn3nov03,1,6636304.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true

CNN Anchor Brown to Exit
Rising star Anderson Cooper will fill the flagship prime-time slot. Wolf Blitzer also gets a bigger role.

By Matea Gold, Times Staff Writer

NEW YORK — CNN "NewsNight" anchor Aaron Brown is leaving the network after executives decided to give his flagship 10 p.m. broadcast to Anderson Cooper and create an expanded role for Wolf Blitzer in prime time, CNN announced Wednesday.

With the programming changes, Brown — who had anchored the 10 p.m. EST hour for the last four years — was in effect elbowed out.

"There weren't that many options left that made sense for someone of Aaron's stature," CNN/U.S. President Jonathan Klein said in an interview, calling Brown's departure "a mutual decision."

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However, some viewed him as "almost too pensive for television news," said former CNN correspondent Charles Bierbauer, now dean of the University of South Carolina's College of Mass Communications and Information Studies.

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