Playing With CNN’s Chessboard

By Brian 

“This much is clear: CNN has some issues right now,” FishBowlDC concludes after Monday’s Bill Hemmer developments. “It seems like all the network is doing is move its existing players around on the chessboard–more Wolf Blitzer, shifting Novak/Carville/Begala, John King, Bill Hemmer, etc. If those players aren’t attracting viewers and eyeballs now, what makes CNN execs confidant that showing the same people in different places/times will be any more effective?”

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