ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police are investigating after a CNN anchor reported that her iPhone was snatched from her hand as she strolled down a street in the city’s midtown section. Police tell WSB-TV that Carol Costello was talking on the phone while walking around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when two teenagers ran up from behind […]
Dead air. It’s the bane of a broadcaster’s existence. Dead air is that pause that is too long, that allows listeners or viewers to change stations, that costs a station advertising and ratings points. Engineers, producers, news directors, reporters who allow dead air on their station or network are looking at termination. And so in […]
CNN’s John King has taken to Twitter to further explain his erroneous report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing. “Source of that description was a senior government official. And I asked, are you sure? But I’m responsible. What I am not is racist,” the anchor wrote Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A […]
CNN’s John King showed the worst kind of journalism Wednesday when he made controversial racial assumptions and falsely reported on-air that the suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings was a “dark-skinned male.” King was wrong and irresponsible. Law enforcement officials immediately refuted King’s report and, in fact, CBS News reported that the suspect is […]
It’s official: Roland Martin is out at CNN. After a six-year run on CNN, Martin tweeted that the “new boss wants his own peeps.” The “boss” Martin referred to is CNN President Jeff Zucker who chose not to renew Martin’s contract as a CNN commentator. Martin’s contract ends April 6. “Roland I am really missing […]
If you’re tuning in regularly to watch your favorite black voices on CNN, they won’t be on the air much longer. CNN is parting ways with long-established voices of Soledad O’Brien and Roland Martin and the network may also be planning to say goodbye to Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and CNN’s only African American […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC News to host a new morning show at CNN, where new boss Jeff Zucker is moving fast to try to turn around the cable news pioneer that has fallen on hard times. Network managing editor Mark Whitaker announced he was quitting Tuesday, officially Zucker’s seventh day […]
CNN is shooting down claims that their host Candy Crowley is an Obama supporter. While many people are praising Crowley for her stern yet easy-going approach in moderating last night’s debate, others believe that her fact checking was attached to a partisan agenda. “They want to make all of the publicity over Candy just go […]
If you were wondering why T.J. Holmes gave up his CNN post to head over to BET, the answer will be revealed on October 1 at 11 p.m. Holmes will debut his new show “Don’t Sleep” a nighttime talk and news show that will put him directly against local news programming around the country. Airing […]
Rihanna showed up at the MTV Video Music Awards last week with a new cropped hairstyle that immediately became a trending topic on Twitter. Piers Morgan of CNN got wind of it when she performed during the closing ceremony of the Paralympics Games in London over the weekend, and he wasn’t a fan. The journalist […]
CNN’s second quarter ratings dropped tremendously this year, making it the network’s lowest since 1991. Viewership on all three news networks- MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, were dramatically lower this year between March 26 and June 22 when compared to last year’s ratings. During primetime hours CNN attracted approximately 446,000 viewers with 129,000 viewers categorized […]
