The Situation Room’s First Anniversary…
Paul Bedard’s Washington Whispers column notes the The Situation Room’s 1st Anniversary and features a mini-interview with Wolf Blitzer…
While the show is a fast-paced combination of hard news and gizmology, some worry it overexposes Blitzer, on TV at least 17 hours a week when you add in his Sunday talk show. The public’s reaction? They seem to want more: He’s much better rated than some of the programs previously in his time slots. And despite the hours, he’s still got time to phone and E-mail his family and pals during commercials and attend baseball and basketball games. “You try to have a balanced life,” he says, “and make sure you’re not just obsessed with one part of it.”
I can’t belive it has been a year already.
I have to say, that the idea of the mutimedia approach was not a bad idea. I was never big on his back to the camera, but it has been an interesting experiment.
Comment by Skippy — July 31, 2006 @ 3:10 pm
Even though I still feel myself thinking “is all this really necessary?” at a few times (but a lot less often than before), I’ve always really liked the show. It’s probably CNN’s best block of news coverage on a normal day.
Comment by Coreyback — July 31, 2006 @ 6:57 pm
I like it much more than I thought I would too. The format wouldn’t work with most anchors, but it does with him; and now with the addition of John Roberts, CNN has three gray haired guys that do the format well.
Comment by erljr — July 31, 2006 @ 11:02 pm
It took a little while to pick up, but TSR is really good news programming IMO. Good move by CNN.
Comment by Anonymous — July 31, 2006 @ 11:59 pm
I have come to enjoy it for the most part…….except Wolf’s droning voice at times…….when he kind of slurs the end of his words!
Comment by jan — August 1, 2006 @ 9:54 am