Well this should be an interesting combination:
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host a new hour long CNN primetime news program starting in the fall as the nation prepares for the 2010 midterm election, the network announced Wednesday morning.
The yet-to-be-named “roundtable discussion” program will air at 8 p.m. ET replacing Campbell Brown.
CNN isn’t hiding their intentions either:
“Other cable news channels force-feed viewers one narrow, predictable point of view; in contrast, CNN will be offering a lively roundup of all the best ideas – presented by two of the most intelligent and outspoken figures in the country,” Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S., said in a statement released by the network. “Eliot and Kathleen are beholden to no vested interest – in fact, quite the opposite: they are renowned for taking on the most powerful targets and most important causes.”
Color me crazy, but this could just work out. People have been force to one side or the other at the 8pm hour. I’m one of those people who love hearing both sides, and this show should give us a chance at that.
I know I’ll give it a chance.
There is one big question that remains. Now that MSNBC will have a new show on at the 10pm hour, hosted by Lawrence O’Donnell, will this new CNN show end up hurting Olbermann? As it is now people could watch the CNN show then catch Olbermann at 10. Once O’Donnell’s show starts, then people would have to wait until 11pm to catch the Olbermann rerun, and that is local news time for a lot of people.