Jeff Greenfield to CBS…
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz scoops that Jeff Greenfield is leaving CNN for CBS…
Jeff Greenfield, a senior political analyst for the cable network for nine years, has agreed to join CBS as the presidential campaign gears up. CBS recently hired general assignment reporter Kelly Wallace and technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg away from CNN, and has made CNN anchor Anderson Cooper a “60 Minutes contributor.”
If CBS wanted to increase its audience would it not make sense for it to hire a conservative commentator? My perception is that is one segment of the audience that is under represented on CBS. What is the logic of hiring someone whose general point of view is already well represented on CBS?
Comment by steve L — March 30, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
Greenfield was an answer on Jeopardy this week and nobody knew who he was. The category was “Jeff’s”, and there were three completely blank stares when his name was revealed by Alex Trebek. Priceless.
Comment by TT — March 30, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
The sooner Anderson goes to CBS full-time the better.
Comment by Cooperite — March 30, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
So to all of you (and you know who you are) who bash Fox management whenever somebody departs, most recently Kiran Chetry, what do you think of CNN management losing three quality correspondents?
Maybe CNN isn’t such a good place to work, eh?
Comment by Ira — March 30, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
Doesn’t surprise me to see Jeff Greenfield leave as he hasn’t been on air much lately. I’ve always liked Jeff and hope he does well at CBS
Ira, it’s how FNC management has treated some of their departing staff that I find appalling.
Comment by myview — March 30, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
Doesn’t Dr. Gupta work for CBS also?
Kiran didn’t depart from Fox, she was fired. Klein thought it was going to be something he could stick to Fox to “steal” her but you can’t steal someone who has already been terminated. And where is she now?
Comment by Cooperite — March 30, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
it’s how FNC management has treated some of their departing staff that I find appalling.
myview: That is what I call media bull!
Considering how few people leave, FNC/News Corp. looks like a nice place to work.
Cooperite: I won’t rehash the story but Kiran was offered a nice raise, very reasonable for a B-team player. But in her contract negotiations, she and her agent pulled a Terrell Owens! Bye bye Kiran!
Anyway, it appears that Chetry is getting more airtime at CNN so perhaps everybody wins on her move.
Comment by Ira — March 30, 2007 @ 8:26 pm
Greenfield would be a good addition to FNC. He does a good job mixing it up with Imus and would be very entertaining. Moreover, he would pull in some new viewers for FNC.
Comment by Steve L — March 30, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
steve L nails it in his 1st post. The MSM, by branding FNC the conservative network, has created a self-fulfilling prophecy. The big liberal guns are going to where they are most comfortable; and the conservative big guns are gravitating to FNC.
FNC, after spending ten years on the fence, has recently started two not-so fair and balanced conservative shows. And the MSM keeps it’s good conservative contributors (Bill Bennett - CNN) away from the cameras, while pitting it’s weak conservative voices (J.C. Watts - CNN) up against it’s strongest liberal contributors (Paul Begala - CNN). All the while, FNC is forbidden from hosting Democratic debabtes.
The left created the divide in this country, and it keeps pushing. It’s scary.
Comment by erljr — March 30, 2007 @ 10:19 pm
FNC is the one that chose NOT to associate and be in the same line as all the others. FNC chooses NOT to concentrate its efforts on news but on pushin the republican talking points. the right is for all the rich crazy people…the left is for the workin, middle class and the poor. For some reason the right just dont give a you know what that there are people out here barely making it everyday. The right does things that dont make any sense..the left…it’s a little better on that side. AND just like ya’ll (repubs) think fnc is a news channel…IT AIN’T!
Comment by Me — March 30, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
Me: Your same old sh*t get real old in a hurry!
Take a time out, a LONG time out!
Comment by Ira — March 31, 2007 @ 12:06 am
“The left created the divide in this country, and it keeps pushing. It’s scary.”
Excuse me, but were you asleep during the eight years Clinton was President. Are you old enough to remember the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston? Who coined the term ‘culture war’? *Hint - hardly a ‘leftie’.)
Do you remember Newt Gingrich? Remember his little memo? “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control”?
Here’s just some of the words Newt recommends using when referring to Democrats: “decay… failure (fail)… collapse(ing)… deeper… crisis…urgent(cy)… destructive… destroy… sick… pathetic… lie…liberal… they/them… unionized bureaucracy… “compassion” is notenough… betray… consequences… limit(s)… shallow…traitors… sensationalists…”
Oh, yeah… *roll eyes* the left created the divide in this country… as long as the country you are referring to is in the alternate reality that only exists in the minds of many Fox viewers.
Comment by Arthur — March 31, 2007 @ 12:57 am
Arthur - If you want to understand what I am talking about, you need look no furthur than Me’s incoherent rant(#10). I respect your opinion; I do not respect Me’s. You and I can keep going back in time to prove who it was that started it. For the record, I do agree that the Republicans were on a partisan witch hunt in the last four years of Bill Clinton’s Presidency.
The fact remains(in my opinion), there is a widening divide in this country which is being fueled, exponentially, by the internet and cable news; and since cable news and the internet are not going away any time soon, it is more important than ever that people stay informed and learn all sides of the issues. I think you would agree that it is easy for someone to get their news from only one source, and thus believe only that script.
The left may not have created the divide in this country, but they are the ones fueling it right now. Remember, we are supposed to be the United States of America, not the Divided States of America.
Comment by erljr — March 31, 2007 @ 2:15 am
erljr — I read Authur’s comment, I got interrupted and came back to type my thoughts. Your comment had then said much of what I was thinking. Authur has some very good points, I had thought so on another thread but he had too much hate speach in that comment for me to say I even partially agreed with him. I most likely predate Authur and when Jimmy Carter came on the scene I lived in a democrat world, I even visited Plains, GA. — To make a long story short Carter’s, four disastrous years and “OUR WORLD” was forever changed. So “WHICH CAME FIRST THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG”? — “WHO KNOWS” — Author has a view which I can understand, yet I have a view also. I like to listen to everyone’s opinion, I care and I think it helps me grow and learn. The EXTREME RIGHT WING and the EXTREME LEFT WING is killing us all. The Democrat Party is allowing itself to be run by MoveOn.Org in the same way that Pat Robertson had Republicans catering to him. The MSM leans left and FOX News leans right. I say FOX is important to this balance, it reflects what half the people in this country believe, just regular people happily living their lives. We need the left leaning views that reflect the other half of our population. What we DO NOT need is the EXTREMES to prevail.
Comment by Aunt Mary — March 31, 2007 @ 3:45 am
elrjr - “The left may not have created the divide in this country, but they are the ones fueling it right now.”
They are learning at the knees of the masters. The GOP taught the world how easy it is to manipulate the easily-led with carefully crafted messages. I go back to the fact that although George Bush never once said Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, a significant minority of the US population not only believes that he was, but that George Bush confirmed it. That is no accident - the GOP are past masters at getting people to believe things that are not only not true, but that are not in their best interests. It continues to boggle my mind that middle- and lower-class votes in red states think the GOP is looking out for their interests. If you don’t own stock in an oil company or Citigroup, you are not registering on GOP radars.
Aunt Mary - “I most likely predate Authur”
I cast my first presidential ballot for George McGovern - well, against Nixon, anyway. You?
Comment by Arthur — March 31, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
A significant minority believe the President used his influence to get out of the draft. A significant minority believe he and Dick Cheney have admitted to steering contracts to Haliburton. A significant minority believe the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were funded by the President’s reelection campaign. A significant minority believe the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were allied with Swift Boat Veteran John F. Kerry and against the President. And a significant minority believe President Clinton was impeached for adultery. Your argument falls apart, Arthur.
The GOP needs to learn at the knees of the masters.
We can go at it all day, all night, all year, Arthur. And I I’d win; I know my history.
By the way, I cast my first presidential ballot for Jimmy Carter. George McGovern did vote in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, but he was one of the first to admit he was wrong. He also had some great ideas that were never tested or implemented, and would still work today. If only the Democrats had a candidate like George McGovern today, our political climate would be saner and healthier, and our world and our country would be a better place.
Comment by erljr — March 31, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
“If only the Democrats had a candidate like George McGovern today, our political climate would be saner and healthier, and our world and our country would be a better place.”
Al Gore.
Comment by Arthur — March 31, 2007 @ 2:58 pm
Really??? If Gore really said that, I’m sorry I didn’t give him credit.
Comment by erljr — March 31, 2007 @ 4:23 pm
I think Arthur means if Al Gore had won in 2000…
Comment by Spud — March 31, 2007 @ 7:22 pm
No, I meant the Dems HAD a candidate today (if he could only be persuaded to run) who “had some great ideas that were never tested or implemented, and would still work today.”
Comment by Arthur — March 31, 2007 @ 11:35 pm
He really should run. He could give out bumper stickers saying “Reelect Al Gore.” Priceless.
Comment by erljr — March 31, 2007 @ 11:50 pm
erljr - when Mark Warner was running against John Warner in the VA Senate race, he had a small number of bumperstickers that said “Mark, not John”. I had one on my car and people always thought I was making some obscure point about which of the Apostles I thought was definitive.
Comment by Arthur — April 1, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
Geting back to topic, sort of, TV Newser is reporting that tonight John Seigenthaler departed NBC News. He also appears on MSNBC, primarily on the “doc block.”
So I’ll repeat my Post #4 above, only substitute NBC/MSNBC for CNN. Was Seigenthaler treated fairly or, unlike FNC which is blamed for every departure, does NBC/MSNBC management automatically get a pass?
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