CNN Convention Site Tour

Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash, Erin Burnett, Jim Acosta, Candy Crowley and Anderson Cooper gave viewers a quick overview of the set up at the Tampa Convention Center for delegates, guests and members of the media during Sunday night's America's Choice 2012: Countdown to the Republican National Convention.

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Piling On

It seems everyone is getting in on the CNN bashing lately. A few more articles you might find of interest.

The WashingtonTimes.com had an article yesterday on what has happened to CNN.

Today......CNN has grown into something quite different. It draws on 45 bureaus, staffed by full-time reporters and an array of competent stringers. And its jaunty international coverage outperforms the expensive suits from New York, especially on big, running stories such as elections and wars.

But CNN’s international prowess gets truncated on the domestic service to make room for fragmentary news coverage, a barrage of commercials, plus warm and fuzzy features like this lead-in to an item recently announced by anchor Wolf Blitzer: “When we come back, a dog that got caught in a cactus!” Wolf’s dancing eyebrows provided the exclamation point.
And there's much more, just follow the link.

Also TVNewser published an article today trying to put a positive spin on Erin Burnett's OutFront. It's hard to spin her numbers but they gave it the good old college try.

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CNN After Dark

Tom Foreman took a look at late night election coverage by the Best Political Team on Television for AC360 Tuesday night. Enjoy!

Anderson Cooper had it right when he said The Daily Show would be mocking CNN's weeble technology. Here's Jon Stewart's Moment of Zen Wednesday night.





But I think the funniest look back at CNN's Iowa Caucus coverage with Stephen Colbert's take on Erin Burnett's flicking.



On Thursday night Ms. Burnett had the last word? Well maybe......



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The Premiere of Out Front with Erin Burnett

We'll leave the opinions to you the viewer. Here is a sampling of segments from the premiere of Out Front.

Tonight's opening segments, topics from the Wall Street protests to Gov. Cristie:

Seriously Protesters?



Leon Panetta interview:

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Part 2:



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Here's Your Chance.....

We're curious if any of you will email a resume. If you do good luck and remember us when you hit the big time!

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EP Named for Erin Burnett

WILSON SURRATT NAMED EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF
CNN’S NEW PROGRAM WITH ERIN BURNETT

CNN’s executive vice president Ken Jautz announced today that Wilson Surratt will rejoin the network as executive producer of its upcoming weekday general news program with Erin Burnett. Surratt’s appointment is effective immediately and will be based in New York.

“Wil has spent 17 years in newsrooms, control rooms and in the field and he is one of the most inventive and accomplished producers in the television news business,” said Jautz. “We are delighted that he is returning to the CNN family.”
Since 2009, Surratt has been the executive producer of WPIX’s 10 p.m. newscast in New York. Before that, he worked with Burnett on Street Signs at CNBC, where he also oversaw The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. From 2002-2006, Surratt worked at CNN as executive producer of American Morning and NewsNight with Aaron Brown.
“Who wouldn’t jump at an opportunity to create a brand new program with an exciting and globally respected journalist like Erin on the world’s greatest news platforms? It’s simply a dream job,” said Surratt.
Said Burnett, “I am thrilled to be reunited with Wil, whose talent and drive are legendary and inspiring. We are ready to create an exciting new program together.”
While at CNN, Surratt was a producer during the Katrina disaster coverage for which the network won a distinguished Peabody Award. CNN and its executive producers also won the DuPont-Columbia award for coverage of the South Asia Tsunami disaster. He also directed American Morning’s coverage of the 2004 presidential election and the network’s coverage of the second Gulf War which included the fall of Baghdad in April, 2003.
He created and served as the executive producer for the Emmy award-winning WB11 Morning News for WPIX in 2000. Before coming to New York, Surratt was in Los Angeles at KTLA-TV, where he worked as a senior producer for several shows, including the KTLA Morning News, News at Ten and the station’s entertainment and variety talk show, The Live Show. He began his television career at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., where he got started as a production assistant and was promoted to writer and producer.
He founded South of Broad Productions, producing content for cable, broadband and international networks. He sold a broadband webisode entitled Bailout, produced a pilot for MY Entertainment/SPIKE, developed a political strip show for RTTV and served as a news consultant on a book with Kiernan Ventures.
Surratt earned a bachelor’s degree from Duke University where he majored in English and religion and also holds a master’s degree in television from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1993, Surratt lived in Los Angeles as a fellow at the American Film Institute. He currently lives in the New York City area with his wife Jodi, and their two daughters, Katie and Brooke.

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Erin Burnett Joins CNN Worldwide

Erin Burnett will join CNN Worldwide as anchor and chief business and economics correspondent, it was announced today by Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide. Burnett will anchor a weekday general news program and will contribute to CNN’s coverage of national and international breaking news events and contribute reporting to CNN.com.
Burnett will begin in June and will be based in CNN’s New York Headquarters.

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