No More Talk Radio Hosts on CNN? - Jon Klein edict

Exclusive: TVNewser has learned, and a CNN spokesperson confirms, that in his morning editorial meeting today, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts. "Complex issues require world class reporting," Klein is quoted as saying, adding that talk radio hosts too often add to the noise, and that what they say is "all too predictable."

One of CNN's longtime show hosts, Lou Dobbs, hosts a daily radio show. A few political contributors also host radio shows including Bill Bennett and Roland Martin. They are presumably not affected by this.

But this means other talk radio hosts who appear regularly on CNN, probably won't in the near future including names like Stephanie Miller, Michael Medved, and Ben Ferguson.

> Update: Roland Martin stopped hosting his show on WVON last October when he became senior analyst for the "Tom Joyner Morning Show."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/no_more_talk_radio_hosts_on_cnn_124031.asp

Okay Jon - time to fire Lou Dobbs!

I wonder how many of the RW talking heads had a rapidly spreading puddle of yellow under their chairs, though, by the time Stephanie Miller got done with them...

:woohoo:

We'll see just how long this deathless resolve lasts when some lazy producer realizes he or she has to fill 10 minutes in the next hour, and the Rolodex bulging with the numbers for conservative radio hosts beckons.

KFWB in LA, no longer all news---*Dr* Laura and the other Laura-goof ( (Ingraham) will be on for 3 hrs each---guess i won't have that set on my car radio any longer!