Tuesday, April 12
Ah those 'morally relativistic' liberals
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm

CNN has another new network president, its fifth in four years. Jonathan Klein's mission: take back the million-plus viewers CNN has lost to Fox News Channel in fewer than four years. Take ever-important prime-time numbers (7 to 11 p.m.), as examined by Nielsen Media Research -- CNN: 775,000 viewers (Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Paula Zahn, Aaron Brown); Fox: 2 million viewers (Shephard Smith, Sean Hannity & Alan Colmes, Bill O'Reilly).Mr. Klein's assessment of his competition? "They've tapped into an outrage that's lurking among a certain small segment of the population, mostly angry white men, and those men tend to be rabid," the new CNN chief tells Charlie Rose of PBS. "They tend to be habitual. They tend to like to have their points of view reinforced." And CNN? "And a, quote-unquote, 'progressive' or 'liberal' network probably couldn't reach the same sort of an audience, because liberals tend to like to sample a lot of opinions," Mr. Klein continues. "They pride themselves on that. And you know, they don't get too worked up about anything. And they're pretty morally relativistic. And so, you know, they allow for a lot of that stuff. You know, Fox is very appealing to people who like to get worked up over things."

*clears throat* "Bush is Hitler!!!! No More Blood For Oil!!!! Tell DeLay to go kill himself!!!" Yup, no one getting worked up over on the left one little bit. On the bright side, it's good to see CNN's president admitting that the network is absurdly liberal. It's the first step toward recovery.
 
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