# Ask the CNN reporter **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107 "2003-04-30T10:57:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/21 "2003-04-30T20:21:14Z")
OOPS, I forgot my question to the reporter. Can one be a CNN reporter with just an Associates in General Ed? ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/22 "2003-04-30T21:26:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pantellerite \* > \*\*CNN practically invented modern war news coverage–so why did Fox News get better ratings on their coverage? \*\* [Mildly disturbing](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-war-fox11apr11,0,6789602.story?coll=la-headlines-nation), depending on your POV. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/23 "2003-04-30T21:35:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > \*\*OOPS, I forgot my question to the reporter. > > Can one be a CNN reporter with just an Associates in General Ed? \*\* I’m pretty sure a high-school diploma or GED, as well as a couple semesters working on the school newspaper are all that’s necessary. So, **Lib** , how many CNN reporter’s _does_ it take to screw in a lightbulb? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/24 "2003-04-30T23:23:10Z")
What is the favorite drink of choice for feild reporters? Why is it the women of CNN look like they just came off the pages of Maxim and the guys are…well…so frickin’ lacking when in comparison. I’ll take Shepard Smith any day. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/25 "2003-05-01T02:49:08Z")
Dear CNN reporter: Do you, when you sit at the newsdesk, really use an anchor? ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/26 "2003-05-01T05:38:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pantellerite \* > \*\*CNN practically invented modern war news coverage–so why did Fox News get better ratings on their coverage? \*\* Because Fox’s embedded reporters got to Baghdad first? ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/27 "2003-05-01T06:02:52Z")
When Aaron Brown keeps interrupting an interview that’s already confusing because of a delayed feed or lack of picture in order to speculate on something which may or may not be happening in one of the three open ‘windows’ of visual feeds, and then, after two or three minutes of fruitless guessing on what is happening in the visual and then resummarizing (again, at least once a minute) what all those feeds are from and who he’s talking to, or, rather was talking to, and then goes back to his guest, only to immediately interrupt the interview again because it looks like something may be happening in one of those other visual feeds… Anyway, the question is, is this Aaron Brown’s own delighful style of anchoring, or is this a CCN policy for anchors? Oh, one other question… do the male anchors choose those feminine colors of lipstick (I’m looking at you, Anderson) for themselves, or is that CNN’s policy? ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107/28 "2003-05-01T12:30:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Why is it the women of CNN look like they just came off the pages of Maxim and the guys are…well…so frickin’ lacking when in comparison. I have heard things like this before, and do not concur. About the women, I mean. I’m actually more tired of CNN because of their “professionalism” than anything else. I can take only so much of every single person on an entire channel staring unfeelingly into the camera and _droning._ [I’m lookin’ at you, Blitzer!] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-cnn-reporter/172107.md?page=1)