"We are not going to try to boost numbers during fallow news periods by running cartoons, as our competitors do," Klein said. "We're going to cover th...
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
If Dobbs won't end his association with FAIR, which the Southern Policy Law Center has designated as a hate group, CNN should do the right thing and end its association with Dobbs.
Eric E. Burns | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
No matter what progressive issue you pick, conservatives are working to turn it into nothing less than sedition, carried out by an illegal president. The conservative media is their megaphone.
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
It looks like CNN president John Klein's laissez faire attitude about Lou Dobbs "birther" obsession is about to be tested. Yesterday we noted that CN...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Backing the "Birthers" may be a good way to gain notoriety and attract criticism, but it's proving to be ratings poison for Lou Dobbs. The New York O...
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
Last Tuesday, CNN host Lou Dobbs, became a focal point of the "birthers" brouhaha, when he hypothesized on his radio show that Obama may not be a pro...
Eric E. Burns | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
On July 23, CNN president Jon Klein acted like the head of a serious news network. On July 24, he acted like an intern for Lou Dobbs.
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
UPDATE 2:30 PM, July 25 MSNBC president Phil Griffin called the claim that President Obama is a foreigner, which has received significant media cover...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media
Much has been made of CNN's problems in primetime — in March, the network finished third for the first time ever, and it's currently running fou...
Politico | Anne Schroeder Mullins | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media
CNN President Jon Klein joked that Fox News chairman Roger Ailes was his biggest problem in an interview conducted Monday by The Kalb Report's Marvin ...
Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media
CNN President Jon Klein didn't go light on the praise for John King this afternoon, shortly after the premiere of his new show, "State of the Union." ...
Chez Pazienza | Posted 03.06.2009 | Entertainment
Well, it could've been worse. As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.29.2009 | Media
As 2008 comes to a close, each of the cable news networks has reason to celebrate: Fox News maintains its #1 ratings slot, MSNBC is growing faster tha...
Chez Pazienza | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who's been screwed as thoroughly and with as much sheer audacity by CNN over the past few years as Miles O'Brien.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.29.2008 | Media
CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein is about to hit his four-year anniversary at the helm of the news network, with one full Presidential election cycle unde...
New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 12.20.2008 | Media
Along the way, CNN sponsored seven debates (by contrast, CBS, the Tiffany network, threw exactly none). In the run-up to the election, it piled up a r...
Broadcasting & Cable | Marisa Guthrie | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media
After several primetime speakers at this week's Republican National Convention unleashed a barrage of attacks on the news media for their coverage of ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media
....and I get to take credit for it! I cajoled him into signing up over breakfast at the CNN Grille — well, breakfasts, both of them mine (at th...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media
Here is a fact of life: If you are having a conversation with someone about Obama and Osama, there is a very good chance that someone will slip up somewhere. But honestly, it's really no big deal.
TVNewser | Chris Ariens | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
With two more debates next week, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein is confident his political team has found the formula for success. "Letting the candidat...
Los Angeles Times, | Matea Gold | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media