People making political capital out of other peoples misery?..

Surely not.....

As i recall, it was about the time Larry King was retiring and going off the air that they started promoting Piers Morgan. Larry King is fairly iconic and has interviewed 1/2 the worlds leaders from kings to dictators among everything else and his popularity spans generations and is somewhat global so i can imagine it was a huge problem for CNN. I was traveling i think and kept finding myself in a hotel room seeing all these commercials on CNN for Piers.

I would say this as an analogy... Sit back and pretend you have zero clue who Graham Norton is. All you see are these constant commercials "he's coming" and its all presented in this sort of James Bond, he's a hard hitting, tough interviewer and its going to be brutal as he puts every crazy dictator in the hot seat and asks the questions no one has the balls to ask. So in these commercials, Graham never talks. He just stares seriously into the camera as this voice over is talking about what a bad ass he is. As someone who has no clue who he is, you are thinking "hm... this could be good... should be interesting... British people always sound super smart to Americans... so lets see what happens" .

Then... you happen to catch a show. He's interviewing someone you don't know in his brand new show in prime time on CNN and his first question is basically "so, tell me about this shirt, i love it" and he's basically Graham Norton, doing Graham Norton. He's really effeminate, very soft and weak looking, talks with a sort of "uncertain" quality in his voice and so on.

Imagine how confusing and weird that that would be. That basically sums up my personal experience. Going from "hmm.. this should be really good, lets see what this guy is about" to "wait.. what the hell?! is this some sort of parody or sketch comedy?"

Then he's interviewing people and the guests are basically responding with things like "didn't you prepare at all?", "didn't you read my book... doesn't appear you did" and putting him on the defensive the whole time and the guests often run the show.

I don't think Larry King really "retired". He was kinda pushed off because of his age.

He still does a show here: http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow

CNN just thought they could get better ratings with someone else. Boy did they make a big mistake with Piers Morgan.

Larry King also here: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...rt-164941.html

You all seem to know that you don't like Piers - Yet you all seem to know a lot about him and his interviews...

Think about it.....

I think I have seen a mere handful of his CNN shows but you can be familiar with somebody's work and base your opinions on that. His credibility as a journalist is remarkably low. I'm not sure how somebody who knows his work in the UK could argue differently.

I base him being a cunt on him being a woolwich fan* - I only ever saw the gazza interview, I couldn't let even Piers stop me watching that :)



*I don't *really* base it on that, though it certainly doesn't help his cause, and I like to get a snidey remark about woolwich as often as I can :D

Ah... i forgot about that. I was thinking when you mentioned this that really, it would be very difficult, if not impossible to think of any show on tv today or in tv history that decided "we need to make some changes because...." that ever ended up better off as a result.

the old "new and improved" that never, ever, is :thumbsup

He is a horses ass - We both know that - However, CNN is not run by stupid people...

I don't know if it is the train wreck effect or if people like him - Either way he seems to do well for CNN - They are not a charity for washed up UK celebs.....

If they thought they could do better, they would...

So now we no longer need evidence, we just assume. Got it.

CNN has gone so down hill that it isn't even funny. It can be just as painful as Faux News at times.

lol..as a former Thamemead-ian ...I can appreciate a Woolwich jab.

they need to bring larry king back

Ill take piers over Larry king who always lulled me to sleep.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that nobody in real life uses "evidence" when making an educated assumption. :)

I believe this shows it around 3:40
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu6Yvzs4Ls#at=605

then screen shots with him talking about it

Send him to Yemen with a target on his back.

You are right, they are state run media. So stupid is not even an issue :thumbsup

it was 3 black kids beating on a younger white kid (may have been 2 black and a Hispanic)


but I don't see everyone calling this a race beating like when trayvon was killed..

An "educated assumption" is not fact.

of course not. I'm sure someone will be here to call you a racist for that statement though.