They did a segment about the new CNN format. At one point they showed what was the actual CNN show. The new anchor people introduced themselves and the woman said “I’m so and so, if you don’t recognize me you must have been living in a cave for the last 8 months”. Apparently she is/was a star of some other show.
Did she really say this? Did anyone see the new CNN format when it first came out?
Knowing it was the Daily Show I thought that they might have dubbed this in.
Wow, if she did say this, I got me some flame to send.
“Andrea Thompson is an anchor for CNN Headline News based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta. Thompson joined the network in June, 2001. Before joining CNN, Thompson worked as a general assignment correspondent for KRQE-TV in Albuquerque, NM Previously, Thompson starred for four years on ABC’s award-winning drama NYPD Blue as detective Jill Kirkendall.”
The controversy was about her qualifications as a journalist (and there were those nude photos, too).
I wasn’t able to check out The Daily Show on the Comedy Central website just now. However, last night’s show should be on tonight at 7 pm.
The Daily Show also had three rejected slogans for the new CNN - my favorite rejected slogan.
Yes, she really said that on the air. It was the first thing out of her mouth when they debuted the new format.
Apparently she overestimated how much the public had been engrossed by the discussion of her dubious qualifications.
She came off as very full of herself, and I bet she regrets it.
– Greg, Atlanta
I saw her. Sometimes when they show clips, they dub the voice in so the speaker is saying something else, but when they do it’s always obvious. I think she really said that. I thought, “My, isn’t she full of herself?”
Plus, the new format is astoundingly bad. I can’t believe they think that this will work. The writing has been dumbed down from a 5th grade level to 2nd grade and the screen is now boxed up with scrolling bits filled with incredibly vague headlines and news “tidbits.”
I actually laughed out loud when I heard her say that. What a marvelous ego. She’s going to be eating those words in ten years.
The other thing I can’t stand about this new format is the reports with the anchor standing in front of the big screen TV. It looks like it was shot in someone’s rec room!
Also, has anyone noticed that they report highlights of TV shows on other networks… but only on Time-Warner owned ones?
I have watched CNN less and less as it has become less and less intelligent. I’ve gone back to CBS News and Jim Leherer on PBS, both of which I went away from years ago because when CNN started, it was professional, to-the-point and objective. Now it’s turning into the New York Post of television. The only news that I find even less tolerable is Fox News which is only objective in the sense that they don’t draw devil horns and fangs on people they don’t like.
Once upon a time, news was serious and about reporting facts. Now these channels like CNN and Fox News seem to think that news should be entertainment… so the anchors ad-lib (badly) things they think are funny. I remember seeing not too long ago a report on an upcoming Woody Allen film and the anchor started cracking pedophilia jokes! I was offended and shocked that they found that appropriate on a news program.
By the way, for those who didn’t get to see the (extremely funny and surprisingly MORE newsworthy than Headline News’ new format) Daily Show report, Comedy Central has graciously put it in RealVideo format at the top of this page:
