The wife of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is a Legal Analyst for CNN. And over at MSNBC:
NBC has hired a long-time “Friend of Bill” to take over as President of its ratings-challenged MSNBC. Rick Kaplan, who ran CNN from 1997 to 2000, after a multi-decade career with ABC News, had re-joined ABC News last year as Senior Vice President, the number two slot.While serving as President of CNN, Kaplan played golf with President Clinton, stayed overnight in the Lincoln Bedroom and participated in a mock debate session with Al Gore. When he was Executive Producer of Nightline in 1992 he advised presidential candidate Bill Clinton on how to handle the Gennifer Flowers revelation and later as Executive Producer of World News Tonight he blocked anti-Clinton stories from getting onto that newscast.
Spin, spin, spin, all day long. That's why the No Spin Zone ratings keep going up and up. And CNN's keep going down and down. And for GE-owned MSNBC, they're so far down in Number 3 it's pathetic.
When business icon Jack Welch was running GE, there was a firm rule that all GE businesses has to be either Number 1 or Number 2 in their markets. Maybe it's time for the new GE CEO Jeff Immelt to dust off that rule and apply it to MSNBC. I mean, how much more embarrassing does it need to get?
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