I watched more CNN in the past 6 months than I have probably watched in the last 8 years combined. I’ve got issues with their biased coverage, but it’s the best you can get versus the reactionaries on Fox News and the communists on MSNBC. I wish CNBC had some news coverage instead of cycling reruns of their shows for west coast auds – I like their crew and they’ve got the hottest people on TV (is there anything better than waking up to Erin Burnett who makes Maria Bartiromo look like a slightly more youthful Bea Arthur?).
What kills me about CNN recently though is the D.L. Hughley Breaks the News. Seriously, I cannot imagine a worse idea and the show comes in slightly above the Chevy Chase Show and just below the soon to be disaster Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I can just see some douchebag programmer at CNN pitching this idea to the other knuckleheads and donkeys at Turner:
“Hey guys, the Daily Show is huge – it’s how most “young people” today get their news on TV – and black people are hot right now! Let’s combine these two unstoppable forces and drive our demographics out of the retirement home and into the clubs – Axe Body Spray commercials here we come!”
Terrible. The show is just terrible. D.L. Hughley isn’t even the funniest black comedian of his generation – he barely breaks the top 10! If you’re going to mix black people + daily show, can you at least go to the absurd (Tracy Morgan Breaks the News! ) or do it right (Dave Chapelle Breaks the News!)? Memo to CNN brass: Just because he played the socially progressive and articulate Simon on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip doesn’t mean he’s a sharp dude! It’s easy to sound smart when you’ve got the writer of the West Wing and A Few Good Men writing your lines!
Also – what’s up with the suits; you look like Michael Irvin on Sunday NFL countdown! Can you add a tilted top hat to that look?
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