Anchor Aaron Brown's Star Appears to Fade

NEW YORK — CNN rented an elegant ballroom a few weeks ago, feeding breakfast to top advertisers and filling them in on 2004 election coverage plans. Virtually all the network's big names were there. Except Aaron Brown, whose star appears to be fading in the CNN firmament.

But there's talk within CNN, and some of it surfaced in a New York Daily News gossip column, that Brown may not have appeared partly because he was upset about not playing a prominent role on the California recall Election Night.

Brown anchored his usual 10 p.m. newscast from New York that night and, when it ended, CNN began election coverage from Los Angeles with Wolf Blitzer as anchor.

One night out of the anchor chair wouldn't necessarily matter too much, unless you considered it a foreshadowing of how other big political nights were going to be handled in the upcoming election year.

Brown declined to talk to The Associated Press for this article, and his executive producer didn't return a phone message.


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I have to think that this is penalty for him not being whorish enough.

but like you said it seems he has more integrity than Blitzer, etc...

or maybe since i was usually half asleep when i was watching, i was easily amused.

interview? Even a low-achieving media whore is still a pretty bad media whore.

And you better believe he'll be replaced with a Full-Blown Media Whore, too!

Sad.

There seem to be none left on the cable stations. I guess the guy on MSNBC is around every now and then, but they have even cut him back drastically. I know that Leon Harris is now doing local news in Washington, but there don't seem to be any up and coming Black anchormen.

If I was given carte blance authority over CNN it'd be a veritable purge. Honestly, there are times when I watch CNN that I actually physically feel myself getting sick. There is some kind of strange vapid soulessness that has infected most of their hosts. Their broadcasts are joyless corporate products that have little relation to reality. It seems that no one is having any fun over there, it's all drudgery for them. Honestly, Brown was no hero, but it at least seems that he enjoys what he's doing. Blitzer and Woodruff look like their in the dentist's office...get rid of those worn out posers!!!

I agree. They do appear anemic and hollow. Most of the press seems humiliated and dispirited. Maybe because they're afraid to speak out. If they do, they lose whatever limited access they had. So, they play along to get along and are spoon-fed the corporate Bushie lines. It's sad. We need fearless journalists. Not poodles.

Hint: Paula Zahn started that same day.

I believe.

Helped get us through that day, I thought.

:boring:

time to watch. Bu$h Inc. was getting ready to start their war crime. And all Brown could do was talk about Ritters sex life. Bu$h`s corporate handlers must just be tired of the way he whores. Because he is nothing but a media whore. That interview on itself was proof enough for me. Even though I had seen him before and after that interview. I did not realize he was not in line with the Bu$h propaganda status quo. Sure seemed like it to me.
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Al Gore is My President

He really pissed me off before the invasion
by discounting opposition to the war .

However I've noticed a change in him, as casualties
grow . I wonder what he thinks about before bed .
seems like a guy with a consience :shrug:

Plastic Paula is completely in love with Poppy and the BFEE. IICR, she spent an entire week on Poppy .. strolling through the mountains, long walks.. very romantic. :puke:

Brown is boring but he plays it down the middle, IMO. I think he's pretty fair.

her ratings absolutely stink.

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/cnn/1003/09billboard.html