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Great tagline-what can they do about Larry King. Unfortunately that windbag is from my homtown. i wanted to share a very funny commnet from oanother blog on your main topic:
Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN/U.S., said today that he and Mr. Brown had mutually agreed that Mr. Brown would leave the cable news network because the new CNN lineup left “no options” for a program that would include Mr. Brown. “It is, unfortunately, a zero-sum game,” Mr. Klein said.

I’m just glad that it was a mutual agreement. It would have been quite sad if Brown had been fired.
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/002343.html

Larry King is the #1 rated CNN host.

Not pensive – “smug” is more accurate.

I found Brown unbearable to watch; the pompous, unctuous, constantly self-congratulatory faux empathy, the endless “folksy reflections”, dripping with the contextual subtext of mock humility and actual self-aggrandizement. He was so captured by the story of *him*–and not the stories he was reporting.

I find few people impossible to watch. I am a liberal, and want to watch CNN, which can provide comparatively (e.g. as to FOX and often MSNBC) good coverage.

However, I could not watch CNN when Brown was on–even when I very much wanted to watch good news reporting on the events of the day. You simply could not get the news when Brown was on, unless you were willing to endure a torrent of this “personality”, in order to squeeze out the few bits of information that might escape from this presentation.

But at least he’s not Rick Sanchez. My god, what a fool.

The Kaus link needs fixing.

This must be the Kaus link.

The Kos Krowd doesn’t like it because they think it benefits Blitzer.

I liked Brown and did not feel he was “phoning it in” or smug, etc.

Why don’t the Kos kids like Blitzer? Did he once say something nice–or neutral–to a Republican?

Aaron Brown was a snotty-ass writer’s writer. Good writers should be hidden from view. You don’t see McEwan or Naipaul out whoring all over TV now do ya?

Why don’t the Kos kids like Blitzer? Did he once say something nice–or neutral–to a Republican?

Who knows? All it takes is one badly timed moment of clarity for a journalist to earn disfavor among that crowd. They don’t even think “Tweety” (Chris Matthews) is liberal enough.

Aaron Brown is a walking talking marketing tool for Prozac.

In total agreement with DC’s post: Aaron was unwatchable unless one was willing to “endure the torrent of [his] personality.”

Today’s eulogies for AB miss the point in seeking to compare him favorably against other network anchors. The better comparison is to CNN pre-AB, in the distinguished work of Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff. By elevating Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper, CNN is on the return to excellence.

I have admired Aaron Brown for years. Brown did his homework. He was widely read and well prepared for his interviews. I think his show was the best news show on television and one of very few worth watching. I have nothing against Anderson Cooper. I think he is a fine writer but I don’t care for his on air personality. Brown was a welcome guest in my living room. Cooper won’t be invited.

I like AC, but did nobody else see that in one of his segments from NO during Katrina he did a second take for the cameras smelling the bodies in a house. There was no pause, but it was clearly a second take with him holding his nose the second time. When shown over the air the folk at the home office at CNN probably didn’t realize they had two takes run back to back amid all the footage they had to edit. Authenticity? I think Anderson should be taken to the woodshed for a tanning.

I watched Aaron Brown. I thought he had a sarcastic humor and was well prepared. I liked the fact he was just being an anchor, not someone who is trying to make the news. I feel that Anderson Cooper and others like him want to be in the news. I miss the days of news being news and not a tabloid. I am sure I won’t be watching much of Anderson.

I am a HUGE fan of Mr. Brown and am very disappointed in Klein’s ridiculous decision to fire him. Don’t get me wrong…. I’m a HUGE fan of Mr. Blitzer and I do enjoy Anderson cooper, but I am floored as to why Klein continues to keep Larry King and the eminently annoying Paula Zhan on the air at CNN. I guess a network that could have Nancy Grace on television really can’t be taken too seriously any more… Thank God for Tivo/DVRs! I would really like to see more BLOGS and people voicing their praise for Mr. Brown and help start a national campaign to get him back on the air so wee can continue to see some intelligence in news. I’m so tired of these foolish reporters flying around in the middle of storms. So please rise up and let’s get Aaron Brown back on real TV (not cable) and SOON!

I am a huge fan of Mr. Aaron Brown. I like the way he conducted himself on TV. It saddened me so much that he will no longer be in CNN.

I admire his intelligence, talent and very nice personality. He is humble and has low-profile.
I would like and request to have him back on the air, please.
I will surely miss him on the air. Please have him back, soon.

I am 33 years old and I became a huge fan of NewsNight with Aaron Brown since his CNN debut on 9/11/01. I tuned in to this program every night just to see him and quirky behavior. I became hooked with the show and I would hurry home from my job so I can watch him. Since May 2003, I taped the program including breaking news using my VCR. I would watch them during my leisure and keep the best ones as archives.

On Wednesday, November 2, I saw the Associated Press headline stated “CNN’s Aaron Brown Leaving the Network.” I felt shock and disbelief. I printed articles from newspaper and media websites across the US including Minneapolis and Seattle via Google. I felt like a boyfriend abruptly breaks up with his girlfriend after four years.

I hope Aaron finds another anchor job so I can tape his new news program.

I agree with several others here – I cannot believe they got rid of Aaron and kept Larry King. At least NewsNight had some substance. Larry King is so often just celebrity fluff, and sometimes borders on becoming an infomercial. I’m very disappointed to find that they’re playing the ratings game at the expense of actual journalism. I just hope Aaron gets on some program that’s looking for a reporter, not an entertainer.

My wife and I consider Aaron Brown to be the best thing we have ever seen on television. Many of the comments have it right in describing him and his honest reaction to the news. I like Anderson Cooper but his blowing in the wind was just too much crap. I wish CNN had a better sense of substance. Let idiots watch FOX. I am not sure what we will watch now, but we hope Aaron finds something better soon.

Aaron Brown was too articulate and eloquent for CNN. The CNN approach is typified by Erica Hill, whose rapid-fire news blots interrupted his show. Now she interrupts Anderson Cooper’s dazed, boyish spleens.

Here is a piece on the subject:

Newscasters

I wondered about the decline. I thought that it was just part of the deterioration that is occurring in giant strides. But there seems to be method behind it. A BBC man in Vienna explained it this way. Previously newscasters talked down to you, but now they talk directly to you.

The announcers of yore spoke mellifluous English of either the British or American variety. They had information to convey to you, their descriptions had a literary quality and they brought a warm sense of humor into play. And God knows, humor is needed to make this struggle-torn world bearable!

Some people might appreciate learning and being entertained, but others might not feel comfortable having to perk up their ears things while listening. An articulate and eloquent man or women might make you feel inferior if you lacked his or her verbal dexterity.

Egalitarianism if the way of the future.

Don’t think that nepotism is responsible for bad pronunciation or bad delivery!

Here’s how the new batch are being hired. Scouts are sent to search for them on the streets. If they see someone who looks like he’s never turned the pages of a book, he or she is stopped and asked: “Sir (or madam), have you ever read a book? If the answer is no, the pitch is made. ”We’ve got a wonderful job for you!”

Interviewers are picked the following way: Scouts get the telephone numbers of housewives who are homebodies. They make their calls, and if the homebody has enough curiosity to receive them, they enter the premises make their pitch. A high, squeaky voice is no deterrent, nor is non-geographical accent. A legitimate accent or a brogue is, of course, an impediment. If they see an open book on a table, they high-tale it out.

However, once in a while, some humor does creep in, albeit involuntarily. Just recently a new type announcer said that the Rolling Stones had gone down in the ”anals“ of rock history. She may mispronounced annals, but by doing so, she got to the core of rock – and provided a chuckle.
Herbert Kuhner | 11.12.05 – 6:38 am | #

I was completely devastated at the ousting of Aaron Brown. His show was the only thing on television worth watching. I hope he resurfaces again soon.

I miss his reporting. Anderson is good. But does that mean we have to get rid of Aaron? Too bad. Aaron had real feeling in his reporting. Just miss him.

Sick of trying to understand Cooper. He talks too fast for me. Not too interesting. I think he was best while hunkering down in hurricane. Our other channels were off on New Years Eve and guess who was on CNN.Arent’they afraid of over exposure. Come back Aaron wherever you are. Hope he turns up elsewhere so that I can get back to watching news at 10 again.

Honestly, what was CNN thinking when firing Aaron Brown – he is the most intelligent, experienced, calm and warm anchor CNN had for years. He was trustworthy in a mediaworld less and less concerned with in depth journalism. We loved Aaron Brown in Europe, he was a brilliant counter-weight to all the fast-speaking, superficial news-reporting that CNN usually provides for the viewers. But I guess the rest of the world outside of USA don’t count? You always got a little wiser by listening to Aaron. Mr. Brown will be missed, and I will have to go to bed one hour earlier every night.
Shame on CNN.

Its been over two months and I still miss Aaron Brown. For one thing he brought some perspective and history to his presentation. He was not an “adrenalin junky” – a term that fits so many hyped newscasters. I liked that he brought a little midwestern “wait and see” to the media. If he was detached in a shared taxi as above perhaps his mind was else where or did not like the guy he was sharing with!
Meanwhile I have quit watching CNN and the shrill voices of the other newscaster on that end of the dial have driven me back to the major networks and PBS. One more shrill blondy interrupting every one and I may give up on tv news all together!

I miss Mr. Aaron Brown. Please let us know where he is now. I will watch him. Thank you very much.
A Canadian avid fan.