Kiran Chetry to CNN
This post has generated an unbelievable amount of traffic. While Kiran did a fine job, Gretchen Carlson is wonderful. E.D. Hill is still my favorite, but I really enjoy Fox and Friends. Kiran was really rather unethical. Check out all of the regular posts at Thespis Journal.
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For fans of Fox News from the New York Post…
February 17, 2007 — THE William Morris Agency tried to play hardball with the Fox News Channel, but it struck out big time – with its client, news cutie Kiran Chetry, getting cut from the network.
TVNewser reports William Morris super-agent John Ferriter – who’d recently started representing Chetry, co-host of “Fox & Friends” weekend shows – told the network to fire Gretchen Carlson, co-anchor of the higher-rated weekday “Fox & Friends,” so Chetry could take her place.
But the backstabbing request backfired on Thursday, when Fox executives fired off an angry letter to Ferriter saying they were terminating their contract with Chetry for the treachery.
Sources tell the Web site the dark-haired, Nepalese beauty had been pulling down $300,000-plus a year, and Fox offered to bump her salary to $400,000 in a new contract that could have started March 6. But Ferriter countered with a salary demand of more than $700,000, plus his insistence that Chetry take over the morning job from Carlson, a blond former Miss America.
In a letter dated Thursday, Fox legal and business affairs v.p. Dianne Brandi told Ferriter he had “treated Fox News with such arrogant disregard that we do not desire to do any further business with you . . .
“You and your client’s unprofessional demand that we include a clause in her agreement which would have been detrimental to other Fox talent, is simply not the way we do business. We had hoped that Ms. Chetry would have a bright future with the Fox News Channel, however this negotiation has now become more trouble than it is worth.”
Another Web site, FTVLive.com, cattily commented: “Looks like Ferriter tried to play hardball with [Fox News Chairman] Roger Ailes . . . And to think that some people say TV agents are bad. We know of one that certainly is.” A Fox spokeswoman confirmed the story to Page Six. Ferriter did not return a call for comment.
Meanwhile, fast-sinking, second-place CNN picked up top-rated Fox’s crumbs yesterday, signing Chetry as a substitute anchor and correspondent. One Fox insider scoffed: “Let’s see what happens. Remember, the last one they took from us was Paula Zahn, and look where she went.”
Fox News really screwed up when they fired Kiran Chetry. She was the ONE BRIGHT SPOT on the network. Very disappointing.!!!
I couldn’t agree more. Kiran was the MOST captivating woman on Fox & Friends. If Fox keeps messing up — they will be sinking next…
We are very disappointed that FOX couldn’t work something out with Karin Chetry. She was the reason we watched, I can’t stand Gretchen Carlson on FOX and Friends. The show is sinking fast! Was Steve Doucey on vacation or looking for a better job??
We, too, are extremely disappointed with the loss of Kiran Chetry on Fox & Friends. Guess we will be watching her on CNN now. Huge loss for Fox, but big gain for CNN. The reporter on F0X & Friends (Courtney) cannot compare to Kiran. Kiran is smart AND pretty. Too bad FOX could not work something out.
What a Diva! Think she learned her lesson? Or are we going to see a repeat of this when she makes similar demands of CNN?
Enjoy being CNN’s “fill in girl” Kiran. Something tells me you’re going to be there for a long, long time.
Kiran was outstanding … always bright, cheerful and insightful. She was an absolute pleasure to watch and one of the main reasons we tuned into Fox. Gretchen Carlson doesn’t hold a candle to Kiran and is certainly no replacement for E.D. Hill!
If Kiran asked Fox to fire Gretchen, she deserved to be fired. There are ethics in this world. However, Fox had a glowing star in their hand and did not recognize her and they replaced E.D. Hill with Gretchen. That was a mistake for FOX and an insult to Kiran.
Now they will have to live with their mistake. Kiran was the only reason I was watching Fox and friend weekend shows. I prefer CNN to FOX hundreds time over. Fox is so partial to Republicans it is sickening. Also, I do not think CNN is sinking! They are doing much better job than FOX.
I only watched Fox because of Kiran and Kelly, (Allyson and Brian, too). Shame on you Dianne, Kiran is smart, fair AND balanced and attractive. I woke up on weekends and immediately turned on Fox and Friends.
Trying to make up for the above with a beauty queen type just doesn’t cut it.
Kiran was the most beautiful anchor on Fox. I’ll be watching CNN from now on!
Yes, I agree Kiran was very pretty and I felt she did a good job. Like all the morning type shows, Fox & Friends was a little to talk show to me. But I did watch it if it was on.
To bad Kiran has to work for CNN (Clown News Network). They run to much anti-U.S. news it is disgusting and they are always playing up that phony global warming garbage.
Gretchen Carlson is not even close to being as good as Kiran.
I am only able to watch the evening news of Hume,Hannity & Colmes, Bill & Gretta.
King
Thanks for linking to the story on my blog, I have had a ton of traffic as well regarding this story. Now there are two people I watch on CNN-Kiran and Glenn Beck.
I’d like to know why E.D. Hill was ever switched? I thought she fit in better with the 2 guys better than Gretchen does. And the fact that there was no mention of E.D. going to another format on Fox was a little strange. It was like one day E.D. was there and the next Gretchen was in her spot.
I personally don’t think being a former Miss America gives you any special qualifications and once in a while they draw upon that bit of background info on Gretchen in the morning show. I liked Kiran fine, but I think it was a bit haughty of her to expect $700,000 a year. Many an “agent” has caused their client to lose their job when being a bit too “greedy”. There have been a number of actresses who have done the same thing, only to be axed out of a well-paying job due to jealousy and greed. Think Susanne Sommers.
fox made a big mistake–gretchen over kirun–what a joke
There was an announcement on E.D.’s last day that she wanted to move to a new time of day for her work.
Gretchen is doing well. I still miss E.D.
Kiran is a huge loss for Fox !! If she was that caty ,greedy and backstabbing it is a good thing she ended up on the Clinton News Network. I am disapointed that she is no longer of Fox ,but more disapointed she wasn’t the nice person most of us thought she was. Jim
I enjoyed watching Kiran interact with Brian and Steve, however, I also like Juliet Huddy and E.D Hill. You can’t expect them to stay around forever.
Negotiate for more money if you want but expect the consequences. I applaud Fox for not caving in to $$$ demands. I don’t know why Kiran didn’t replace E.D. Hill; I wasn’t part of the negotiation. I would have liked the decision because I was “comfortable” with Kiran.
I watch Fox News in the morning, maybe 1 hour of my day. I’m sure with time I will get use to Gretchen Carlson as I did with E.D. Hill when Juliet Huddy left the show.
As far a Kiran being a traitor, who cares, do really think everyone on Fox News walks locked step with Roger Ailes and his political beliefs. I believe they got the job and the $$ and while they are there they try to be “fair and balanced.”
The one thing I always thought when I watched Kirin was, wow what a well-grounded nice person she must be. She could read the cards, was a great sport when it came to doing the silly physical things the producers dreamed up, and her sense of humor was always witty but never at the expense of her co-workers. I think Brian and Steve have to find their chemistry with Gretchen. She isn’t as smooth with reading, and her humor doesn’t jive with the guys (nor did E.D.’s for that matter). A couple of times when Brian has said something wacky, we’ll see Gretchen just staring at him with a blank smile – or worse, making fun of him when he mispronounces a word or stumbles on a read. Steve does it too, but it seems more good-natured and benign. When Gretchen does it, it just makes me uncomfortable and I feel bad for Brian.
But who knows – at the end of the day, we viewers probably don’t know the half of what’s really going on. All I know is that I stopped having fun watching E.D. go after Brian, and now I get nothing from watching Gretchen and the guys. The best matchup for me was Allyson, Kirin and Kelley. But what do I know!
I am curious, does an Agent do anything without his clients knowledge, I would think not. I personally liked Kiren but not that much. She certainly was not worth $700,000 and let me add I do not think any newscaster is worth that. WHY is their job so much more special than my job? Anyway, I was curious what happened to Kiran, I guess she got what she deserved, I happen to agree with Fox about the termination, under those circumstances. I still miss E.D. on Fox and Friends. LET ME ADD, I am NOT a fan of the other new “beauty queen” on the weekend. Please can you not find a normal looking person and not all twiggy thin blondes!
I was hoping that Karen would replace Gretchen when you guys finally realized that Grethen has no personality. When I saw Karen on CNN I knew you guys messed up. Fox and Friend attitude lately is a littls smug and rough around the edges. I am wondering who is making decisions at the top. Love the Judge! Have you noticed that he makes his point without getting nasty!
This is just another strange spiral for a network that was doing so many good things. Excellent reporting, well rounded commentary and global coverage is slowly being discarded for the sensational, insensitive and salacious. When Fox has trouble over deciding which is more important; children losing their lives at school, players perishing on a highway or a slob like anna nicole smith….the loss of Kirin seems small. The biggest joke at Fox is the idea that Bill O’reilly thinks he’s the champion of children. He could help by keeping his mouth shut and do some more girls gone wild segments.
Puuuleze stop with the dumb blondes. They have no sense of timing or sense of humor. Leave your ego behind the door and re-hire Kiran. You are about to loose a “faithful fan”.
We love Megan Kelly and her fantastic sense of humor.
My wife and I always admired Karin – she had it all – brains and beauty!! We have always watched Fox & Friends – but my wife is totally put off by Gretchen – just too opinionated…..miss goody Miss Americal Two Shoes!! What a mistake keeping her and letting Karin go…I guess we’ll be tuning into CNN to catch Karin in the AM
We’ll still be watching Greta Van Sustern @10pm – please don’t do anything stupid when her contract comes up!!!
Leaving Fox for CNN was the best thing Kiran has ever done for her career. She has far too much talent for Fox. I just hope CNN won’t waste it on the same crap that fox had her doing… Reporting on panty less hookers Britney and Paris, instead of real issues that have an affect on life like taxes, or government waste. She deserves her own show like The Situation Room instead of Wolf. Or Kiran 360 instead of Anderson.
Hoping that Kiran can improve CNN is like hoping that Hitlery can tell the truth throughout her campaign for the Presidency: neither one will ever happen. Kiran is wonderful, but she played hardball and she lost.
We always enjoyed watching Karin. She was always so bright and bubbly everyday, which enlightened our day. She always seemed to be very intelligent and quick in her response to many things. We have missed her and her husband. We will tune in to CNN.
Kiran Chetry should have been offered the position on “Friends” when E.D.left. She deserved it and was great with the guys. I will not watch CNN but am very dissappointed with your decision to let her get away. If you would have made the right decision in the first place she would not have been forced into doing what she did. Too Bad–Everybody loses!
you are losing alot of fans for coming up with blondies that have to read cheat sheets or are sex models and not news personals
I soooooooooooooo miss Karin. She deserved better from Fos.
I always enjoyed watching Kiran in fox weekends and was looking forward to seeing her fill the full time weekday slot when it opened up. Huge mistake for Fox News. Who is Gretchen Carlson anyway? I don’t care for her she seems real fake and out of place.
Kiran sure was hot…but not as hot as Courtney Friel!
I too am very disappointed in Fox news. I’m a news junky but am too mad at Fox to keep watching. I like the “Kelly’s” but not enough to stay tuned. In fact the silly blondes they brought in were an insult to our intelligence. I have started watching a lot of CNN even though I’m pretty conservative, when they get to liberal I turn on network news. Kiran is smart and very personable, I felt like I lost a friend. It was a relief to know she got picked up by CNN. The story that Fox put out trying to make her look greedy is very sad. I hope CNN puts Kyran in a situation that will show her personality and intelligence. YOU GO GIRL!!!
I was very surprised to see Kiran on CNN. For years I felt I had “discovered” Fox News as I had grown tired of CNN tiresome reporting and FOX presented a wonderful alternative. I liked how the news issues were explored in depth and the news was being reported by “real” people. Fox had better watch out…too much Anne Nicole reporting and a general smugness is starting to be a turn off. I have loved Bill O’Reilly, but he seems to be getting high on himself and seems rude to his guests at times. Kiran was a definite bright spot as has been stated above. I have enjoyed the chemistry many of the FOX News personalities show. Personally, I think Gretchen is doing a great job. E.D. Hill seems a bit plastic in her new role. I, too will miss Kiran, but wish her well. I agree her negotiation demands sound a bit greedy and backstabbing, if this is true. Hey, what ever happened to Linda V.?
all i can tell you is i’ll be watching cnn more now, kiran is smart and hot a great combination, hell, i’ll give her 700k to stand in my office!
Kiran is where she has always wanted to be. I think she got tired of the conservative slant at Fox and wanted out. She is now at CNN where the politics and atmosphere will feel very comfortable to her.
I’m very disappointed by the action of Kiran Chetry though i’m really not surprised.I am surprized what she was payed. $400000.00 per annum. I think $100000.00 would have surficed considering it’s N.Y.C. I also want to congratulate Mr. Roger Ailes for his moral leadership. He is the main reason that Fox is # one. I’m not surprized she was picked up by CNN though. They are known for there smart moves NOT!!
I wonder if Kiran will be comfortable with the CNN ratings?
I will continue to watch Bill, I love the no spin zone. However, I will now go to CNN for everything else including Karin Chetry. I consider myself a smart person and I will seperate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to news. Your new person on fox, hell I can’t even remember her name, is like a bump on a log and appears not to be friendly at all. Turns me off and that turns fox off.
Ed Blaine
Desoto, MO 63020
E.D. was the best but Gretchen is so much better than Kiran. Could the girl have pushed the laptop screen down more to show her legs that no one really wanted to see anyway. You’d think the girl could have done something with the hair. CNN will take any reject.
Kiran was such a pleasant, beautiful, challenging, wonderful and interesting person to watch on the Fox News Channel. I think that Fox News has made a terrible mistake. It was a joy for me to wake up every morning, while dressing for work, to watch this show. Now you can certainly tell that someone is missing. I guess I will catch her on CNN.
It had to be humiliating for Kiran when they put Gretchen Carlson on in place of E. D. Hill. Carlson is horrible and will hopefully get replaced by Megyn Kelly soon. Now I switch between Imus and Mike & Mike in the morning. Kiran would have to be in a bikini for me to watch CNN.
I was wondering why i didn’t see Kiran. now that I know she is really gone, i’m sad. She was the best part of my morning. Besides being HOT, she was very smart, and I agreed with most of her comentary. WOW, i’ll miss her…I just can’t see watching CNN. I’ts back to local news! I’ll always miss Kiran.
This is really ironic. I vividly remember Kiran on a F&F Weekend program last fall discussing the outrageous decision by CNN to air the shooting and killing of a US soldier in Iraq. She said that she had talked about this with other FNC staffers in the newsroom, and they all agreed that Fox would never have shown something like this. While Kiran, Kelly and Alisyn were talking about America being outraged about CNN’s decision to air this video, Kiran adds that she doesn’t know if the viewers of AC 360 were outraged or not, sort of giving me the impression that she was saying that the CNN viewer probably wouldn’t be bothered by this type of thing. Kiran then went on to act like she was appalled that the footage had been aired several times on CNN, and at the time of their discussion of this story, was still on the CNN website even after all of the outcry.
Fast forward to now. Kiran loudly exclaimed on the day that she was hired at CNN “CNN is the gold standard when it comes to journalism”. Oh, I see, now CNN’s airing of a US soldier getting their head blown off is “gold standard”? Good grief, why on earth do people have to be so shallow?
I have not been happy with the new anchors at Fox since E.D. Hill switched to another time—–I really enjoyed Kiran and had hoped she would replace E.D. Just can’t get comfortable with Gretchen. Now that I know where Kiran is I will watch CNN in the morning—-Juliette and Mike (for those who missed it) now have a morning show on the Fox network (not the news network)—they come on at nine am eastern time—show is crazy and I get a kick out of it–they are as zany as ever.
fox is acting like cnn with backstabbing their employees i hate this because i have watched fox since 2000 but i dont like it anymore you guys get rid of the good like karin, briget quinn and loren green, guess they dont have enough clout or pull and they are the best
I REALLY MISS KIRAN SORRY SHES GONE —-MAN A WAY TO START
YOUR MORNING BY SEEING HER FRESH SMILE AND JUST HEARING HER
VOICE SHES REALLY COOL. GRETCHEN WILL NEVER BE AS PLEASANT
AS KIRAN AND IM SORRY FOX YOUR MORNING SHOW WILL NEVER BE THE SAME WITHOUT HER ——PS PLEASE BRING BACK JULIETTE
HER AND KIRAN WHERE THE BEST
I can’t believe FNC would let Kiran go. Gretchen is a bore. What a dumb mistake. Kiran will be a big star some day. I’m switching to CNN.
Loved Kiran but there was not a ton of intellect there, thats for sure. Sorry to say the female anchor position at all networks is more of a T/A thing that is a shame. Kiran was good and funny but since I never watch the Clinton News Network I will never see her again. Goodluck Kiran but if this story is true you should fire your agent.
Kiran was entertaining- a key word if you’re a news junkie. Glad she took her nerdy husband with her, bring back Juliet! Do more Courtney! Gretchen doesn’t have it so far but relationships need to be established so we need to give her some time!
Kiran was so much better with the guys – Gretchen doesn’t have it now and never will – the show was so much more fun with E.D. or Kiran when she filled in. Kiran has Larry King’s agent so don’t put it by him to force FN to dump Kiran so she could sign with CNN – she was hired within an hour!
I used to wake up to F&F – not anymore – I watch a local program. Steve and Brain(Brian)will be moving on soon – I would be willing to bet their ratings are tanking with Miss America on board
Kiran is a far better choice than Gretchen for Fox News. I don’t think her agent should have suggested firing Gretchen, but I think they made a poor choice by firing Kiran. Gretchen just doesn’t have the talent or appeal that Kiran has. Kiran didn’t look happy when I saw her on CNN…. you could see the strain in her face. I used to watch Fox News more, but they are getting so ’silly’ and unprofessional anymore. I tend to watch CNN more now, and especially since they put Gretchen in E.D.’s spot. What a poor choice to begin with…. Kiran would have been the best choice there. Steve is great… Kelly is great…. Brian is so-so…. Their ratings are dropping I’m sure.
Fox needs a woman on board with real personality. Gretchen is definitely NOT an asset to the program…
Moving E.D. was a horrible idea to begin with. She was great within the chatty format of Fox & Friends; but not so hot with the news. Gretchen…ewww. I just grit my teeth right along with her, is her jaw wired shut or something? What an insult to Kiran, being passed over for that. What were they thinking?
I got up for 6 years to watch fox & friends…….NO MORE! It went in the crapper when E.D. left and has been sinking deeper in the S_ _ T ever since. And now Kiran! Gretchen ??? I bet her husband is very familar with the phrase “she just laid there like a log”
I,too cannot stand Gretchen, get rid of this person who thinks she is a star. Fox really goofed when they let Kiran go.
Please get rid of Courtney and put Kiran back on the weekend show. I am searching for Kiran on CNN. I have never watched anything but Fox until now.
The two Kelleys are trying so hard to keep the show going, but even they are loosing it.
what a loss to fox first e.d. hill now karin chetry. the morning show isn’t the same. who’s next?steve or brian? why change what works?
Hi I think fox will continue to provide a poor alternative to CNN and will continue to loose good talent like Karin Chetry, I recieve Fox on Dtv in a caribbean country and sometimes cant believe how nasty the coments about non Americans are.”GO girl you are in with Real Journalist now do not blow it”,
I too am sorry that Kiran and Chris have left Fox. They both were my favorites on Fox & Friends staff, over a long time of watching the show. In any case, I wish both of them success wherever they land, and will try to keep up with the changes as they occur.
I am sorry that Kiran & Chris left Fox. I gave up watching CNN years ago, but will watch it now when Kiran is on. In my opinion, she was the best choice for Fox & Friends. Also, she should had been given more air time at Fox for she has an appealing personality & a great voice.
getting comment late….Fox is an idiot…hard sometimes to get up in am without looking forward to seeing her..she sort of became a family member…she was a natural…Kiran, if you see this, please drop your agent, make a call or so yourself…and help us start the day again somewhere…blessings….ps..never thought I would ever watch CNN..now I peek at it hoping to see you again…
I always liked Kiran and thought she was good for the show. I wondered why Fox didn’t give her the main slot with Steve and Brian. I’m surprised to learn how different she is when off the set. She sounds like a female version of T. Owens from then Eagles, now Cowboys.
Fox made a big mistake in letting Kiran go. She should have been a host on F&F after E.D. Hill moved on but CNN is also making a mistake in using her as a news reader and placing her behind a desk in a conservative suit or standing in those horid pants suits. They got the smartest and hotest Fox fox and then they waste her. They need to put her on a show where she can interact with others, show off her intelligence, personality and of course those great legs.
I used to look forward to watching Fox & Friends daily including weekends. But I am tired of them changing players every other day and never explaining it to me. E.D. moved. Juliette moved. Now Karin. I think I’m moving on as well. Fox needs to learn to respect their viewers.
I looked forward to watching Karin mornings as well. Gretchen seems to be trying too hard or something. It just isn’t as comfortable watching her as it was Karin with Steve and Brian. I have switched over to CNN when Karin is on as well. Too bad FOX didn’t have the foresight to sign Karin into that slot when E.D. moved.
It’s a sad thing to see Kiran go to the Caliphate News Network. Hopefully she can be the female version of G.Beck. a.k.a. someone who actually can say something good about America. She’ll probably get fired for rooting for the US at some point though.
I also miss E. D and Kiran. E.D. does not seem to fit into her new role. I like Kelly, Brian and Steve. I just think that Kiran’s Agent just informed her to do the wrong thing by asking for the amount of money. The one you should get rid of is Alan Colmes. He is so dumb and cannot argrue any point. If you told him he was black he would be white or the other way around. If you called him the devil he would be God with no reason other than to be to the left and what his reasons may be don’t make any sense whatsoever.
I Changed over to CNN and Kiran sure looked bad
I hardly ever watch FNC channel anymore. It just isn’t the same. This was a big mistake on FNC’s part. As soon as they find a regular spot for Kiran, I will switch to CNN.
I see that Kiran is filling in for Kira Phillips on the Cnn Newsroom program from one till four PM Eastern time this week.
I liked Kirin a lot and enjoyed watching her, but she’s not worth $700,000. Hopefully the same thing doesn’t happen to her that happened to Paula Zahn (she went nowhere). I don’t watch CNN and won’t just because Kirin’s there.
Too bad she got so greedy, it wasn’t like she was anchoring the news.
I’m not a big fan of Grechen’s but I like her better than E.D. To me E.D. wasn’t spontaneous enough for that show or attractive enough. She was always looking sideways at the camera as if she wanted to see if it was on her. Hopefully they find someone good. I really like Julie Banderas, but she’s got a great show already.
Am truly sorry to heard that Kyran not longer with Fox & Friends. She’s is one of best. Fox need to dumb that stupid blubble head – Courtney, she’s a big capital “DUMB” & “BORING”. That’s not a single smart cel in her brain. Please bring Kyran and Alyson back, those girls and Kerry are the best match for Fox & Friends Weekend and even with Steve & Brian as well. All along, my husband & I only watch Fox, now we switch to CNN when Kyran is on. And as for Kyran, please fire that dumb & greedy agent of yours, hire one that truly represent you the best and for the best of you, present & future for your career. And yes, you, Kyran is far better than Gretchen & E.D. Hill, both ladies are too “rich” for common folks like us who watched Fox news. Good luck & many success to you, Kyran. Truly hope that Fox will offer you the job that you were after. You deserve it.
I wouldn’t say that Paula Zahn having her own show on CNN in primetime is going nowhere. I assume that she is now making more than $700,000 yearly. Kiran was the best of the Fox female anchors. Because of her wit, intelligence and personality she made it a pleasure to watch the Fox News Channel in the morning. Don’t buy into all of the b.s. coming out of the front office at Fox. Maybe now at CNN Kiran can be a real “fair and balanced” news anchor.
I am really quite disappointed that Kiran was let go from FNC, and disappointed overall with the direction of the network personalities they have brought on recently. While people like Kelly Wright and Greg Kelly and Megyn Kelly deserve to move up the ranks, and ED Hill deserves a better shift than getting up at 3am (with all her children), the morning show with Gretchen is just not the same, and – help me please – whoever that bimbo is on the weekend now – pulleease! I can’t watch F & F weekend edition anymore. I do not have anything against attractive women reading the news and being television personalities, but this woman on the weekend is the worst I have ever seen!
I hope things imrove at FNC soon – or there will be no cable news channel to watch any more!
I’m surprised somebody like CBS morning show didn’t come in and try to scoop up Kiran. That show has struggled for years to gain traction, and I think Kiran could have done a great job there. To me, that would have been a better fit, where she could better utilize her talents. The money she wanted, if true, is nothing compared to what Katie Couric gets. And, Kiran is a younger, prettier, more likeable Couric.
I really miss Kiran Chetry on Fox. She is the reason I watched Fox & Friends Weekend Edition. What’s up with Courtney Friel? She is horrible! I was very disappointed in Fox when they put Gretchen Carlson on F & F instead of Kiran. She tries too hard to be a goody-goody. Kiran definitely was a better fit with Steve and Brian. I wonder what the boys think about all of this? Fox’s folly is CNN’s gain. I will be looking for Kiran on CNN.
I have stopped watching FOX news, which I had done faithfully over the years, because of the firing of Kirin Chetry. I now watch CNN News.
The best thing that happend on F&F Weekends, was getting rid of Kiran Chetry, she drove me crazy, talking so fast, you couldn’t keep up with her, talking over her co-hosts constantly. She wasn’t what she wanted to appeared to be, fun, fresh and compatible with everyone. What she was, was greedy and self-centered, which proved to be true, when she had here agent demand this outrageous salary. She is where she belongs.
P.S. Love Gretchen Carlson, think she is doing a great job. Also liked E.D. Hill to and was sorry to see her leave Fox and Friends. However, hope they don’t keep changing anchors on these shows, at least for a while.
Kiren Chetry doesnt look like she is having as much fun at Cnn as she did on Fox, all she is know is a bland talking head
I am shocked when I walked into a Wal-Mart and saw Karen Chetry on CNN. What is that all about. I loved her and her husband on Fox. For I am addicted to Fox news but I see it also like the left wing is an embarrasment also. I don’t know the details and I really don’t want to, but firing Karen was a bad mistake. I was Fox news for all my information but I don’t want to be like O’Reilly says (drinking your kool-aid either). I am disappointed in Fox news for it backstabbing politics.
Thank you
Vern
It’s a shame she isn’t with Fox News Channel anymore. It’s a funny thing how these things go full circle. She could be just lobbying herself for the new channel Fox Business news channel which starts soon, Since she’s only doing fill in spots on CNN. They’ll be looking for full time anchors for that channel. Something to think about even if they did fire her. She’s so SEXY too !!!!!!!!!!!
Need a pretty face for a broker business channel.
I too, must join the thousands who miss Kiran. She was simply awesome to wake up to every morning. But what hurts the most is learning of the the circumstances. Fox should have had her take E.D.’s spot on Friends, but the greedy agent, and the demand that a fellow worker be fired, unfortunately trumps everything. FOX took the high ground, but they could have preempted all of this by giving Kiran a more prestigious slot. I would really like to smack her agent upside of the head. What a jerk.
Sorry to hear Kiran left. If it is true that she wanted to take Gretchen’s place I am really disappointed in her. Hate CNN and it’s still called communist network in my family. Talk about bias. They really are. Havenot watched them since the foreign correspondent showed a sniper shooting a soldier. An American soldier………….
Fox and Friends was the reason my husband and I started wathcing Fox News in the first place. Steve, E.D. and Brian were wonderful together and made us laugh. I never really liked the weekend segment until Kiran came on board to replace Juliet and Fox thankfully got rid of Julian Phillips and replaced him with the wonderful Kelly Wright. I am not convinced that I would have liked Kiran in place of E.D.(she was the best) but like most of America I have not really warmed up to Gretchen. She seems awkward and has not a clue how to deal with the antics and humor(or the lack therof) of Brian. However I had to agree with post number 20. My family lost a dear friend on March 2, 2007 when Cody Holp and his baseball team from Bluffton University where on board the bus that was taking their team to participate in their first tournament in Sarasota, Florida. As all Americans know the bus did not get beyond Atlanta, Georgia and Cody along with four other teammates and the bus driver and his wife lost their lives as the result of a terrible mistake. As I and the rest of our community waited for some news on the accident, I like many immediately tuned into Fox News and was sickened to see their cameras stuck in the Bahammas focusing on the funeral of Anna Nicole Smith. I then tuned into CNN and it was their top story in addition to the horror inflicted upon the families of the eight students who lost their lives due to a tornado stricking their high school. Occasionally I would flip back to Fox and again Anna Nicole Smith was the top story. I have started tuning into CNN more(words this person never thought she would utter) and now when I tune back to Fox, I can see where a lot of Americans displeasure with Fox comes from. Yes, they are more balamced then most, but they pick so few topics to discuss you get sick of hearing the story over and over again. I wish Kiran the best of luck at CNN. CNN’s gain is Fox News’s loss and I feel this is not the last loss we will see at Fox.
I don’t watch cnn so I didn’t know she was there. Good luck to her! I hate she got mixed up with an obviously unscrupulous lawyer. Foxnews, and especially Fox-n-Friends, is still going strong!
I’m now a major Fox junkie, having migrated there from CNN and MSNBC as each began to irritate me. I thought Fox was my last stop, and I wake each morning to Fox & Friends, but now E.D. Hill has changed time slots, Alisyn went out on maternity leave, and Kiran is gone. Steve and Brian are working really hard to keep me hooked, and although I like Gretchen alot, the chemistry isn’t there anymore. Kelly and Kelly are trying too hard, Courtney is a bit dim, and Kiran’s loss is just plain devastating to me. I’m still hooked, but it’s just not fun in the morning anymore. I so admire Kiran but I won’t watch CNN again, so if Alisyn doesn’t come back, I’m going to start working second shift and just sleep through Fox & Friends. Sorry, Steve and Brian…you guys are terrific, but you deserve E.D., Kiran, or Alisyn back. Megan Kelly will keep me hooked, too…can we work on that, Fox? I hate the second shift.
Look, I will be the first to admit Karin is unreal gorgeous (2nd to my live-in girlfriend/future wife), but going from 300,000 to 700,000 is a definite reason for an employer to decide whether or not to keep her or not. If I went to my boss and pulled that move – …don’t let the door hit me in the *ss on the way out. Good luck to Karin, but her hot looks will still not make me tune into CNN to hear a watered down version of world reality, especially because I have my woman to look at. There are many fish in the sea… Karin was great, but no reason to turn crazy and go to CNN.
One thing, I think we need to be very careful about the news we’re hearing about Kiran’s demands and how she’s not the person we all thought she was. Keep in mind, that spin is being put out there by the NYPost, a NYC tabloid, that is owned by Murdoch, who also happens to own FOX News. Is anybody really surprised that NYPost is putting out negative stuff on Kiran right now?
You got that right Josh. The Fox front office and the Post put out the same type of crap about Paula Zahn after she switched over to CNN. Even today to hear them talk in the Fox front office she has gone nowhere since leaving dispite having her own show in primetime on CNN. You need to take with a grain of salt anything coming from a Murdoch holding especially his “fair and balanced” news channel’s front office.
Six years ago (this month) I accidently stumbled across the fox & friends broadcast. I was hooked! The personality mix and friendly bantering kept me coming back for more and I was still kept informed on worldly issues. I had finally found my favorite news show! I felt like I lost a friend when E.D. changed broadcasts. I cannot understand why someone feels that Gretchen (who obviously lacks the personality that is required for this job) is a good fit. I find myself changing channels because of her. I love Steve and Brian but am I the only one who thinks Gretchen is looking in two directions at the same time? I have seen Kiran on CNN and now I find myself looking for either her or Christi Paul who is also on Headline News so I don’t have to be irritated by Miss America. Gretchen has always been and will always be a “fill in” in my opinion and I hope this is just a bad dream.
Gretchen’s far better than Kiran. I didn’t mind Kiran occasionally, but the childish banter was starting to get to me.
Moral of the story: If you want big bucks, you should act like you deserve it. Or you end up at CNN.
BTW – the measure of success for a news network is RATINGS. That’s why CNN is crashing, even though you libs think it’s great. Just keep rearranging the deck chairs.
Kiran at the Clinton News Network, or should that be the Cartoon News Network? Anyhow, what on earth led this juvenile acting NYC nightclubber to think that she was worthy of a $700,000 paycheck? It must really burn her up to see that life at FNC is carrying on without her, and even better than it ever was before. Ailes knows what he is doing, and I think he just showed this little Nepalese girl that the world doesn’t revolve around her. There are ethics, morals and rules in this society, and I think that Chetry wanted all of that to be thrown out the window so that she could be made Queen. Sorry dear, it didn’t happen.
Now that she’s at CNN, Chetry can now devote more of her time to the greatness of homosexual marriage (sounds like she really supports the gay lifestyle) and the value of throwing back some cold ones. Such a professional. Now, just who is Ms. Kiran going to demand be thrown down the stairs next?
I see that Fox had yet another fill in Fox girl on today. I guess that blonde cutie that they brought in from the west coast for Kiran didn’t work out. Maybe it’s beginning to sink in to the “know it all’s” in the Fox front office that they blew it big time when they lost Kiran. She was the best lady anchor that they had and they lost her to CNN. Kiran was a real Fox fox but it takes more than looks alone to make it as a news anchor and Kiran had it all, looks, intelligence, personallity and a quick wit. She made it fun to watch Fox News in the morning. Good luck to you at CNN Kiran. I’m sure that you will do well there. I’m also sure that you will bring a lot of former Fox viewers along with you.
Kiran is a unique personality that initially draws your attention to her beauty, but then keeps it by her intelligence and wit. I’m extremely disappointed she is at CNN. I’m not even sure when she can be seen. I don’t think she will do well in their unimaginative and ultraserious format. I hope Kiran does not drop from public veiw.
There is one good thing about Gretchen being on in the morning though. I now get to work on time because I don’t sit around all morning watching Fox and Friends. I miss Kiran too and always thought she didn’t want a bigger job at Fox. Aparently, she did and they just didn’t let her have it.
Loved…ah…what was her name? Oh…Kiran…yes, that was it. Well, we have Julie Banderas, and she’s worth watching!
Actually, I think Fox did the correct thing with demands like that. Also, too-high salary cost gets passed on to the advertiser, and they pass the cost on to us as buyers of the products. So, that was our money!
Couldn’t believe my eyes when I accidentaly tuned into CNN. I was wondering what happened to Kiren. Big loss for FNC. I’m not sure CNN appreciates what they have in Kiren, she’s too robotic, but that’s what CNN likes I guess. Also miss Lauren Green where is she? I too feel Gretchen is boring. I miss Juliet Huddy too, saw her on Channel 5 here in NY with Mike Jerrick, they’re very good together. Roger, you’re slipping up, however, if the story is true about Kiren’s agent wanting$ 700,000 that’s outrageous.
I have to guess that more viewers watch F&F than the other Fox shows, since most viewers work days. For me, Kiran, Juliet, and to some extent E.D. made the netwrok successful. Many have noted how comfortable they were with Kiran and how bad Gretchen is. It’s hard to tell what the network is trying to do but it sounds to me like Kiran and her agent wanted to be sure she moved on. I’ll be looking for Kiran on CNN in the morning and for Gretchens replacement. Why not Megan, E.D., or Juliet, why Gretchen?
Too bad for Kiren, been a personthat grew up in another country, i’m always proud for people that make it in this country and Kiran been from Nepal someone different some that was not pretty blond someone i could relate to, not a look a like, blondie and air heads like Gretchen, please give the viewers a brake. I don’t watch Fox & friends any more, Gretchen is so boring and the blondie on the weekends Courtney the biggest air head of them all,living in California you see women like her all over the place pretty face nice body but nothing en la cabeza. Hope you get a nice latino or hispanic woman, you know there is a lot darker people in the U.S.A. Than blondies, I feel that FOX is a racist station only blancos. No black women or latino and the ones you have act too white. I liked watching FFFFFFOX but no more. I guess I will start watching Univision or Telemundo from now on. CNN AND MSNBC SUCK, so I guess i won’t be seen Kiren again. Adios pendejos.
Like most of the people before me I feel that FOX made a big mistake. I think a discussion was in order with Kiran, and that everyone is entitled to negotiations. I can’t believe Karin would have someone threaten another persons job. Especially one that doesn’t have near the talent or beauty Kiran has. Kiran was a breath of fresh air and she and E.D were shinning stars on Fox and Friends. Steve and Brian are great but there is no carisma between them and Gretchen. I get tired of hearing she was a former beauty queen it sure doesn’t come across the screen. She doesn’t fit. Find myself switching channels to get away from her. We used to be a faithful Fox family! Please enough with the overflow of blondes! Being blonde doesn’t qualify you for E.D.’s shoes. Not happening!! The closest you came was with Kiran. Fix it please.
gretchen carslon isnt to smart in my opinion. she doesnt know what she is talking about most of the time. what a mistake for letting kiran leave. a super cute news gal and smart too. to bad for fox.
FoxNews should fire the attorney that fired Kiran. She obviously has no sense of what the fans of Fox&Friends want, nor does she have “sense of the pen.” Her letter responding to Kiran’s agent was definitely lacking a clear, thoughtful accounting of events that compelled her to hatchet Kiran so easily. Does the attorney have other hidden agenda in her career? I wonder.
I used to love Fox & Friends during the week, however, since Gretchen is on, I do not really care if I see it or not. I really wanted Kiran to take E.D.’s place. I really liked E.D., but I if she moved to another spot I was so hoping Kiran could take her place. I don’t have anything against Gretchen. She just doesn’t have what it takes for the show she is doing.
I really liked Kiran and had a chance to have my picture with her outside your studio the weekend before Thanksgiving. She was very nice and cordial not to mention easy on the eyes.I watched your show because it was entertaining and fun.I now struggle to watch because it is not as light as it used to be.To be frank,I watched the show because she was in it and added the touch that it took to make me a veiwer.She was smart and pretty and un-offencive.I think you may have dropped the ball on this one! I guess I will now be looking for her on CNN!!
WOW WHAT A SHOCKER, WE ENJOYED WATCHING FOX WITH Kiran Chetry AS PART OF THE TEAM, THEY ALL SEEMED SO NATURAL AND SEEMED TO GET A LONG SO WELL WHICH MADE THE NEWS ENTERTAINING. WE WISH HER WELL AND WE WILL HOP OVER TO CNN AND CHECK HER OUT THERE. FOX ….ITS YOUR LOSS.
Sorry to see Kiran go really liked her as part of the family. Also sorry her and her agent went for more and more dollars,because she was better then that. And Gretchen is boring and no fun in her person.Way too bad all parties need to remember we are attached to our news family. What one will do for large amounts of money is very sad to go to cnn hope her bottom of that barrel has a basement for her!!!!!!!
I would love to see their ratings over the next couple of months. I know the weekend show has suffered because of Kiran’s absence. She was passed over for the weekday job and had every right to ask for more or walk. Gretchen is second best to Kiran.
Does anyone know the cnn schedule for Kiran Chetry.
I sure miss her on Fox News. That show will not be the
same without her!! Big mistake by her agent and Fox News.
I’m following Kiran to cnn. You guys made a bad mistake. I would dump Greta, Steve, and your Miss America.
It was a huge mistake for Fox in allowing Kiran to leave. Gretchen is a stiff. It is true that many males watched F+F because of Kiran’s beauty, but she was very good and a great fit with the guys in the morning, and made getting up at 6:00 AM much easier. I will follow her to CNN.
I think everyone is missing the picture of what really happened to E.D.Hill. She was taking of Fox and Friends. Brian might be to blame. She’s not happy and didn’t even know it was going to happen. Now she has been moved again,I’m sure when her contract is up she will leave. Fox is really stupid and deserve lower ratings. I do not watch anymore and used to be hooked on the program every morning.
Bring E.D. Hill back to Fox & Friends. No one has been the same since she left. Do not enjoy Kelly’s reporting at all. Kiran should not have tried to pull that littl stunt, just was not nice!!!! Good to see Fox has ethics even when it hurts a little. The majority of your reporters are simply super. Just hate to see changes in the spots that we really enjoy! Foz is wonderful!
M.S.
I’m sorry but Gretchen Carlson sucks. I don’t even watch Fox & Friends anymore.
Whoever’s in charge of Fox & Friends has to be a stiff. I mean come on, … if you fill a vacancy with Gretchen Carlson, you have to be a stiff (because stiffs like stiffs, … they like their own boring kind).
I can see if Gretchen were quick-witted, lively, smart, and beautiful, … but she’s not. She’s just smart, that’s about it. T.V. Personalities need much more.
In my personal opionion, you need to bring E.D. Hill back to Fox & Friends. Karen was okay, but she was not up on the facts like E.D. Hill is. E.D., Brian and Steve all had good chemistry together. I miss her so much on the morning news. I am a Fox News fan, but I find myself turning the morning news over to one of our local stations in the mornings now. I get bored with what is happening. You really need to desperately bring E.D. Hill back. I am unhappy that Karen left Fox for CNN. I thought she would be wiser in her decision making. Money isn’t everything. She is okay but not worth $700,000 yearly. I think fox made a good decision, but please bring E.D. back.
As a long time follower of Fox & Friends and Karin Chetry, it saddens me that their working relationship has ended… Her wit, humor, and great chemistry she had with every situation she was in, will be missed… I hope CNN will find out soon what a gem they have in Karin and use it to promote what I think will be in time, will be a tremendous following… To you Karin and Chris, I wish you all the best…
No matter our opinion of Kiran, it would be nice if everyone would take the time to spell her name correctly:
It is spelled KIRAN. NOT KAREN, KIERAN OR KIRIN.
FOX News blew it by letting Kirin go..I wish I knew the exact reasons for that mistake, but irregardless, I’ll be
following her career now on CNN.
Kiran will be filling in for Paula next Monday and Friday nights, and doing special reports for American Morning all next week, as well. They’re keeping her busy.(:
Kiran Chetry has witt and charm, why lose her to CNN?
Get her back and soon!!! Steve & Brian will look better too!They lost a real pal, she’s so pretty, smart and cute!!
You want us to watch CNN???
I say go for the gusto and put Julie Banderas on weekday mornings…and Courtney Friel on weekends…that’s enough for any man.
Kirin, Juliet, Julian, Mike, and Linda Vester were the best things that ever happened to FOX, but the network has seen fit to axt all of them. FOX is on it’s way down hill.
I believe that if CNN were to go after the contracts of Juliet Huddy and Mike Jerrick then make a show running in the same time slot as Fox and Friends with Mike, Juliet, and Karin they would kill Fox and Friends in the ratings war. Fox and Friends weekend edition has really gone down hill since the three of them left.
One other thing, if some of those anchors on network televion can get as high as 10 million then Karin is every bit woth at least a million.
One other thing, if some of those anchors on network televion can get as high as 10 million then Karin is every bit worth at least a million.
Bring E.D. Hill back to F&F Weekdays!! Gretchen has no personality and lacks E.D.’s quick, well-informed wit. Steve and Brian look like they’ve lost their best friends, and I share their pain!
Vern, that’s a great idea. Putting Kiran, Mike and Juliet back together on the same show would kill Fox & Friends especially if they used the same format and let the three anchors adlib, joke, tease and interact with each other the way that they did on Fox & Friends. At least at CNN they could truly be “fair and balanced” news anchors. It look’s to me like in the near future we will not be hearing them blowing off at Fox about how great their ratings are. I tune in to the weekend show long enough to see who the anchors are and I have seen three different replacement anchors for Kiran in the last three weeks. Maybe that stupid attorney in the Fox front office is beginning to realize what they lost when she told Kiran to take a walk. It really doesn’t matter to me anyway as I switched over to CNN when Kiran left.
What about eye candy? No one cared about E.D. Hills’ wit…jeez…
Julie and Courtney are where it’s at…news isn’t the issue, we can get news instantly anywhere…I want beauty, and Julie Banderas is a goddess…
Sad but true. Ailes knows that Fox’s audience is by far male. Attractive women who can read a teleprompter is all they need. Heck, that’s why I watch. Fox runs the same headline stories over and over. It is not my constant source for news. What do you think they would have to offer CNN for Solidad? Just wishfull thinking.
How do you know when Kiran will be on? I have been looking for her every morning but there is no schedule. I no longer bother with Fox and Friends. Their new choices are not people with whom I want to be friends. They are a total waste of time.
I can’t stand Gretchen Carlson – it’s really too bad that Kiran wasn’t named as the female anchor for Fox & Friends. Watching Carlson is like watching one of those big-eyed, hyperactive, yipping mini dogs – according to science, it has a brain but never seems to display much intelligence. I used to watch Fox & Friends from 6am – 7am, but since Carlson is now on everyday at 6AM, I’ve had to get my morning news elsewhere. Shame on Fox!
Many of you guys on here talk of how you miss Kiran, and that’s okay. The thing is, you don’t miss the real Kiran, just the Kiran that she presented herself as on Fox News Channel. In my opinion, she appeared to not take sides and tried to come off as neutral, selling herself as this sweet girl, but I kinda think she just did what she had to do at Fox to make her life there a little easier until she could break ranks someday. Now that she’s at CNN, watch and see just how fair and unbiased Kiran turns out to be. She’s a liberal and will report the news with that slant, just watch and see. It’s probably true that the conservative environment at Fox got to be too much for Kiran. She’s a smart girl, and I don’t think that her move to CNN was a last minute manuever on her part. I think she desired it and planned it far ahead of time, wanting to make a big splash and controversy about it all. I think it was all a ruse.
love Kiran, GREAT LOSS TO FOX & FRIENDS. They need her back!!!!!!!!!!!
I started watching FOX news a few years ago because of Page Hopkins. I soon realized there was a small legion of leggetes, with “Page” as the “Leading Lady, of FOX News’ Legion of International Leggy Correspondants.
Kirin soon became a staple (not as in centerfold, but-why not!)
Fox has many angry men and women on their night shows. Why not let Gretchen join them? She really does not fit in with the morning crew-constantly trying to overtalk everyone, and considering how fast Brian talks thats something!
Steve Doucey is just fine, and when Kiren was their, things went smooth!
Please bring Kiren back.
You at least did something right by getting rid of the ‘trailer’ correspondent!
….ummm why doesn’t Fox News consider bringing on ‘Maria Quiban’ as a weather personality if not at least a news reader?!
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FOX NEWS-Please get it together!…….I will also switch stations if Kiren does not come back. (…or if Maria is not hired!)
hmmmph
I never see Kiran Chetry on cnn. Did she get a show or is she a regular on another show. I hear all this talk about salary and talent but never see her
I never see Karin Chetry’s husband Chris Knowles on fox anymore
I watched Paula Zahn’s show last night which Kiran hosted.
Kiran did a great job and looked great as well but I was disapointed that they didn’t put her on the stool that Paula often uses so we guys once again could check out her beautiful legs. Oh well, she will be on again Friday. Maybe she will use the stool on that show.
Here’s an excerpt from the transcript of last night’s “Paula Zahn Now” show which Kiran hosted.
Liberal slant? I don’t think so:
CHETRY: “Out in the Open” tonight, cold, hard cash that’s fuelling the race for the White House. In the campaign leading up to the 2008 elections, money may be more important than the issues or ideas for Republicans and Democrats alike. But isn’t it ironic that the Democrats, the party championing the interest of the poor, the working class, are hobnobbing with the rich and super rich to fill their campaign coffers”
I’ve been wondering what happened to Kirin for the last few weeks and was stunned to see her last night filling in for Paula Zahn on CNN as I was channel surfing. I was stunned. I loved Kirin. As a blonde female, I can honestly say that I am sick of all of the blonde females on Fox. Kirin was personality plus. As a former guest on F&F’s several years ago, I will share with you that E.D.Hill could not have been more of an ice princess. Being from Texas, the producer assured me that she loved guests from Texas…she never even said hello to me before the cameras started taping. Needless, to say, I was glad to see her go.
Kiran Chetry and Meagan Kelly are captivating. CNN sucks but I will watch just to see Miss Chetry. FOX should make every effort to get Kiran back.
After reading far too many of these comments I can’t fail to notice that many of these individuals “appalled” by the departure of Ms. Chetry from FNC to CNN don’t even know how to spell her name. Pay attention now…it’s KIRAN.
I too am disappointed with FNC as of late and find myself watching less and less. F&F has become intolerable as both Steve and Brian seem to know very little of what they are discussing and the blonde du jour is of little help to either.
I too am not happy with the changes on F&F especially on the week-ends. Kiran was a favorite and enjoyable to watch and listen to. I couldn’t believe when she wasn’t there anymore. I have been surfing mornings to CNN (which I hate to admit!) and have caught Kiran on there doing special journal bits.
People watch FNC in the mornings because it “used to have” personality and spunk with the news. Too many changes. We don’t get a chance to make a “friend” anymore on FNF.
Also, what happened to Loren Green?
While I also found Kiran ‘easy on the eyes’ as some have said, my wife was the one that pointed out some serious weaknesses of her on air presence. Kiran is not good at interviewing, rarely letting a guest finish a statement before jumping back in. Also, when it appeared that another host had the responsibility for a series of announcements or comments, she often inserted herself into the mix, interrupting the flow.
I dismissed these comments at first, but when I got to listen to the broadcasts on XM, I realized how observant my wife had been. Kiran is not a good listener. She could use some schooling by listening to her own tapes with a critical ear.
I have a sneaking suspicion that both she and her agent wer guilty of that most notorious of sins – believing their own press clippings – the ones they wrote!
Doocey and Kilmeade are so bad at their attempts at humor that as much as I liked to look at Kiran, I couldn’t keep watching. CNN is about as bad as they come but getting better since putting Glenn Beck on. I check the local news in the AM and leave my Fox Watching to O’Reilly at night. That lousy excuse for an Agent Kiran has should be run out of town on a rail.
I just saw it posted by Mike M on another web site that Kiran will be filling in for Soladad all next week on American Morning. Check her out there Monday-Friday 6am-9am Eastern time.
I sure hope that they take her out from behind that desk and give her the tall stool that Paula often uses on her show so we can check out those great legs again. It’s been a long time.
American Morning on CNN has to be the most BORING
I guess I hit submit on my comment above before I was ready. As I was saying, American Morning is duller than watching paint dry. I tried watching it for the full three hours one day, and they recycled the same old junk over andn over again, even replaying some interviews from their own program that had taken place in the hour before! There’s nothing spontaneous or light. Yeah, it is “the most news in the morning” because that’s all you’ll get on that show. If you ask me, most people want a little something to laugh and smile about at that early hour, and I think this is why the ratings are so “in the tank” for this sorry excuse for a morning show.
It is really funny to read how Kiran was so excited to work for CNN. She even called them GOLD STANDARD. Heck, just a few weeks before she left Fox she was exhibiting her disgust at CNN’s decision to air sniper shootings of US soldiers. I guess that when $$$$$$$ are your top motive in life, disgust suddenly turns to GOLD STANDARD. I guess that Kiran is no longer bothered by CNN’s stomach-turning agenda. Being rich and becoming a big star makes one’s conscience a little bit less of a player when push comes to shove. I hope she’s happy being in the basement of the ratings world!
That’s good news DonDeAgo. I just wish that they had more of an informal, unscripted format at CNN like she had on Fox and Friends that would let Kiran’s personality, charm and quick wit come out more.
I totally agree, John B.
I’ve watched her a few times now on CNN, but still miss
the person WE all knew on F&F.
Why is everyone blaming Fox for losing Kiran? Why don’t we start putting the blame where it belongs, and that is with Kiran Chetry. She is the one who hired this unscrupulous and unethical top-gun agent, hoping that he would be able to use his bullying tactics to bulldoze right over Roger Ailes. Her agent, Mr. Ferriter, has a history of brazen and dirty tactics such as this, and Kiran should take full responsibility because she hired him and must have approved of whatever measures he went to the bargaining table with in her behalf. I think she figured she could hide behind her agent and still come out smelling like the sweet little rose that she wants everyone to believe she is. It backfired. She’s made her bed and should be willing to lay in it.
Kep:
From the sound of your last few e-mails I would suppect that you must work in the Fox front office. Maybe you are married to or related somehow to that idiot attorney in the Fox office that told Kiran to “take a hike”. Kiran was the best female anchor that Fox had and she deserved to be paid and treated as such. Anyway she’s a lot better off now working for a real “fair and balanced” network. It worked out well for Paula and I’m sure it will for Kiran too.
Right on John B!
You must have been reading my mind. Those are my thought’s exactly and I would have said so but you beat me to the punch. From what I’ve seen of KP or KEP’s post he seem’s to be nothing more than a shill for the Fox Network (see posts 42,89,128,143,146). You’re right, Kiran is a lot better off. Now she really can be fair and balanced. If most of the anchors at Fox leaned any farther to the right their chairs would tip over.
CNN is FAIR AND BALANCED?!!! WHAT A JOKE! CNN is hard left, but of course you left-wing pinkos don’t see it. I’ll admit that Fox leans a bit to the right, but let’s not refuse to also concede that CNN is for the liberal Dems.
Okay, a question. If a person hires an agent to represent them, are they not ultimately responsible for the tactics and demands that the agent uses to do their client’s bidding? If Kiran had cared so much about being ethical and above board, she would have checked this loser out before hiring him in the first place, and also she could have paid a little more attention to what he was demanding on her behalf. She had a different agent a while ago and then switched to this dude just a short time ago, probably thinking that he had more power and could get her what she wanted. No one is every satisfied to get some of what they want. Kiran had a career more successful than most people could ever dream of, yet it wasn’t good enough. Now, I’ll admit that she’ll no doubt be happier with the culture at CNN, but her star value and visibility will suffer greatly over there. She had it good at Fox and wasn’t satisfied. At least she had a visible personality at Fox, but at CNN she’s duller than dishwater. What a shame.
Yeah! Alisyn C. is returning back to F&F Monday morning!
All is not lost. I bet she’ll take the middle seat within a few months; without a high powered agent.
Kiran, I wish you had just given it some time. It would have no doubt been yours.
Fox leans “a bit” to the right? About as much as Rush Limbaugh leans a bit to the right. Look at most of their anchors. Hannity, O’Reilly Mike Gahlagher, Napolatano (the judge)even Brian Kilmeade are so far right that it has to be an inside joke when they call themselves fair and balanced.
Last night O’Reilly was bad mouthing Rosy and also The View and ABC for giving her the forum to attack the Bush administration and the far right wing in general suggesting that the network should censure her or better yet have her fired or suffer the consequenses(right wing boycott). He then said that they should bring on Ann Coulter to even things out. This is the same obnoxious, vile person that said in her last book that the 911 widows were self-obsessed and enjoying their husbands deaths. She wrote that the 911 widows acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. She also wrote that I’ve never seen women enjoying their husbands deaths so much. She is the same person that refered to John Edwards as a fag a couple of weeks ago. Ann Coulter continues to appear on O’Reilly’s program numerious times a year. Perhaps he should censure his own program before he gets on his bandwagon and goes after other shows.
Anybody with a brain knows that they take their cues from Ailes and the big boss Rupert Murdock and we all know how fair and balanced they are.
It should be clear from the last election that the people have spoken and it’s all over for Bush and his right wing wacko backers. Fox is backing a dead horse if they continue to support the far right.
Mike G.
I agree with most of what you say about Fox but it seems that we are getting too political and off track here. I believe that this is still the place for Kiran Chetry posts. I think what Kep and the rest of us should do here is take what is coming out of the Fox front office with a grain of salt, not the gospel truth. They put out the same type of info on Paula Zahn when she left them for CNN. Even today to hear them tell it in the Fox front office Paula has gone nowhere since leaving them despite the fact that she has her own show on in primetime at CNN.
Speaking of Paula I watched Kiran host her show tonight. She did a good job but it was much more fun watching her kid around on F&F. Hopefully CNN will come up with a similar show for her in the near future.
Has anyone had the thought that Fox & Friends et al, Fox News has a destiny with the curbside soon?
What the hell these guys think is beyond us, for 6 years we’ve watched the highs and lows, mostly the last two years, the lows. The only things keeping them afloat, is the garbage CNN/ MSNBC puts out. They’re a whole nother comment box.
All I can say is bye to Kiran and we’ll miss you.
At this rate, they’ll all be competing in the mud with NPR and PBS. All we want is good, truthful and accurant news in the morning – that’s all!
It’s a shame it’s so hard to come by
I happenend to catch Kiran as an evening anchor on CNN. What a mistake on CNN’s part. It this stilted format and garb which they relegated her to, she became just another talking head. Do not watch their morning show, but hopefully there she can be granted a bit more freedom. Otherwise, the move will go down with the shift of Katie Couric from a.m. to anchor as one of the broadcasting blunders of the year
I am very sad to hear why Kiran left Fox news. I turned off F&F weekend this morning because of Courtney – she is an insult to anyone’s intelligence. Since Fox leased that huge billboard in Manhattan, it seems they have brought in the blond beauties, and forgotten we listen also.
The offer by William & Morris “on behalf” of Kiran was ludicrous. You don’t get ahead by demanding that someone is fired. What a scandal/disaster that would have been for any network!! What was her agent thinking?? This whole thing is unfortunate, because like many who have posted here, I will miss Kiran. AND I refuse to watch CNN.
CNN newscasters are 95% leftists, as is their news agenda. At least Fox will have on a a liberal and conservative to debate almost all issues. What you see on CNN are two or more liberals ganging up to demonizing Bush and the conservatives. Only on Fox are we able to hear both sides of an issue presented MOST of the time.
But I will sincerly miss Kiran.
I really miss Kieran and Chris Knowles , but I will continue to watch Fox. I agree with Yvonne about CNN newscasters and their agenda. I really like Greg Kelly and Kelly Wright on the weekend show, but does anyone know what happened to Julian Phillips? He and Kieran were great when they were on.
Yvonne & Karen:
How can you watch all of the far right Fox anchors and say that they are fair & Balanced. What a joke. I remember one time they were discussing drug use by Obama and other people running for office when they were younger and Kiran mentioned that Bush used cocaine a few times in college and you would have thought Steve and The Judge were going to have a heart attack. Also F&F repeatedly has that right wing idiot Mike Gallagher on as a guest host. How fair and balanced is that?
Anytime that I have watched CNN and they were discussing a political issue they always had both a Democrat and Republican on to represent both sides of the issue. CNN certainly doesn’t have anchors like Bill O’Reilly that will shout over and cut off any guest that he disagrees with.
Wise up ladies Fox News is owned by Rupert Murdoch and run by Roger Ailes and you can bet that they are anything but fair and balanced. Kiran is better off getting away from that group of Bush lovers.
Oh yeah, anyone is better off getting away from Fox and hooking up with the Ted Turner/Hanoi Jane crowd. They are so fair and balanced. Did anyone happen to see a couple of the CNN Newsroom anchors a couple of days ago-the male anchor was Don Lemon and the female was some blonde-well anyway, they played some clip of Senator Boxer and Senator Inhofe talking about Global Warming at some Senate hearing. She was running her mouth at him, telling him how the Dems were in control now, etc., and when the camera came back on the anchors they were making comments in reference to Boxer, saying “she got a couple of good stingers in” and “good for her”. Now, does that sound like perhaps these anchors might have had just the slightest bias in favor of Barbara Boxer?
Look, why don’t we all simply admit that those of us who lean to the right don’t see a right-wing bias in the news that we like to watch, and those who lean to the left don’t see a left-wing bias in the news that they like to watch. Now, we all know that Fox leans to the right and every other news channel leans to the left. I don’t see the sin in one channel being a little different, although I know you lefties want a complete monopoly of the tv and airwaves. You may have most of the tv stations, but radio just doesn’t seem to be a real cozy place for the pinko crowd. Anyone ever hear of the huge success of Air America?!! Good grief, what a joke!
Anyway, All I can say is that I hope all of the bad press that Kiran has gotten out of all of this has been worth it to her. You know what they say-bad press is better than no press at all.
I miss Karin’s energy, personality and appearance. She took my mind off the democrats and the lower majority of the population who follows them blindly down a very dangerous path that the productive citizens will eventually have to cortrect with the usual contributions.
Polititions are at an all time disgrace level. The war in Iraq is being executed efficiently and effectively, nothing like Korea or Vietnam, and the democrats and their followers are embarrassed by the success. Bring Karin Chetry back. Life was more tolerable watching her.
Albert:
This must be an April Fool’s day joke, right?
Anyone else notice how gaunt Kiran looks these days? or am
I wrong?
She just doesn’t look very healthy to me.
A.M.
Yes, I have noticed it lately. I was hoping that it was just me not seeing her sitting behind the coffee table that they used on F&F that made her look that way. What ever is causing the apparent strain in her life I hope she get’s it corrected soon. I haven’t heard anything about her husband since he left Fox. I hope everything’s okay at home with her family life.
Maybe Kiran started smoking again. This could explain why it looks like she has lost some weight lately. I have a co-worker who started smoking again after many years and he has lost a lot of weight.
If Kiran ever smoked I never heard about it. I don’t think smoking would cause a weight loss as rapid as Kiran seem’s to be. She seem’s to clean cut and intelligent to ever take that dirty, unhealthy habit up. Has anyone here ever heard her say that she once smoked?
If you’ve watched Kiran on Fox for the past few years, you would know that she was a smoker up until October of 2003. She once mentioned wanting to quit as a New Year’s Resolution back in early 2003 while on Fox and Friends. Since that time, she has talked about being a “former smoker” on more than one occasion. She once commented that her dad would slip notes inside of her cigarette packs with warnings on them about the dangers of smoking. Pretty clever idea by her dad I must say. She indicated that the fact that the bars in NYC didn’t allow smoking anymore made it easier for her to quit because she didn’t want to go out in the freezing cold to smoke. She has said all of this while on either Fox News Live-with Dr. Rosenfeld or Fox and Friends.
Kiran will be missed, but ughh…her husband will be missed more! Anchors are anchors really, they seem to go from network to network, but 700k? Were they kidding?? Id fire the agent and wouldnt get too comfy at CNN if I were her. The first time she accidentally says something pro-US she’ll be canned there too…good luck Kiran!
Kiran should not only fire her agent, she should
sue him for misrepresenting her.
If she doesn’t do so, and soon, it’s more likely she was
well aware of the demands he was making to FNC..wanting
Gretchen fired so she could take her place.
That’s not the kind of reputation anybody would want
in the workplace, especially in the broadcast news business.
A.M.
I find it hard to believe that you and a lot of other people take the P.R. coming out of the front office at Fox as fact. Fox spread the same kind of garbage information about Paula Zahn after she left them for CNN a few years ago.
Don’t forget to check Kiran out tomorrow on CNN, American Morning, six to nine am eastern time.
Don,
I forgot to add: Of course, if FNC concocted the whole story
to besmirch Kiran’s character, then she and her agent should
get together and sue FOX.
Anyway, According to some reports, Kiran and John Roberts’ will be taking over “American Morning” soon. If true, it’s a good move on CNN’s part..and I’ll be getting my morning news from both Fox and CNN from then on.
The camera doesn’t lie; She’s a good person.
Best wishes to Kiran.
It’s being reported that Kiran Chetry and John Roberts will be replacing Soledad O’Brien and Miles O’Brien on American Morning within the next 2-3 weeks. Both of the O’Briens will apparently remain at CNN.
Well, Kiran was on a mission and finally achieved it. She got someone fired so she could have their job. Congrats.
Aloha, like everybody else, I was wondering why I did not see Karin on Fox. Then with a sense of total shock and sadness, I happened to be surfing on the cable news networks and saw her on CNN. There is no question in my mind that Karin had an unusual sense of intuitive sharing and people who listened to her found her insightful, articulate, and balanced. She had something special and when I did not see her on Fox, I realized how much respect I had for her. She was unusually charismatic and being on CNN was a shock for me. I wish her well. I can tell already on watching CNN that the others on that station must be realizing her talent and skill. I watch Fox a lot and go to CNN and MSNBC when I am “conservative-out.” But, the loss of Karin Chetry from Fox is a major loss that people who watch Fox News can attest to. There was something “deep” about this young lady and from a Christian perspective, there was an unusual “anointing” upon her even while she spoke. She was more than a news anchor or a co-host. I am not sure what more she was, but those of us who watched for an extended time know that her departure from Fox was a major disappointment. Another shocker was to see Juliett and Mike on another station as well. Wow! How sad!
Even though Kiran will be sorely missed on Fox & Friends weekend and occasionally when she subbed on weekday mornings, she should have been placed fulltime on the morning spot now occupied by Gretchen Carlson (a real nothing compared to E.D. or Kiran, or Allison), and to hire that Super-ditz Courtney Friel tells me that FNC has really done themselves a stinky deal. Courtney is the epitome of the “dumb blond” jokes.
“There’s no stronger class of news anchor,” Klein said, of Roberts.
So what’s he doing anchoring a cable morning news show w/ only 300,000 or so, viewers?
I find it hard to believe Roberts would be thrilled about his new assignment. Afterall, just a few months ago, it was
assumed by many, he’d take over Rather’s anchor position.
Perhaps, he has no pride and/or ambition..I’m not sure what to make of it.
I think he really deserves better.
jmo
I read on one of the web sites that Klien said that the shows main format will not be changed and remain centered on news only. If that’s what they do at CNN Kiran nor anyone else will be able to pull the show’s ratings up. They may as well just stick to Miles and Soladad if that’s what they have in mind.
As most have stated, I watched Fox News for one reason: Kiran Chetry. She is an extrodinary beauty. But something else unexpectedly happened. I took an interest in the news. I am more informed than I have ever been.
If CNN fails to exploit Kiran’s charms in a format suited for her, what a waste!
Chetry, for her part, talked about the importance of “water cooler” topics. “There are lots of big and daunting issues, but there’s also the quirky side of life, and we’re not going to ignore that either,” she said. “As long as there’s a healthy mix, hopefully people will tune in.”
No doubt about it.
CNN should listen to Kiran. Nobody knows her audience better than her.
I miss her great laugh..Is laughing on CNN permitted?
Kira has stayed true to her roots, no bleach bottle for her. As far as complaining about her asking for 700,000, well some actually deserve it, it will probably be proved out she is worth it. CNN’s gain, Fox’s loss.
Kiran was the best part of FOX News. She is such a real person. She should have taken E.D.Hill’s place.What a mistake
CBS left over Gretchen,what a wet fish not in the real world.
CNN here I come. FOX you lose!!!!!
Kiran is one of the best. I like Kiran and Juliet H. I am glad Kiran has moved to CNN and I am glad Juliet H is no longer work with Fox News. Now they can really be fair and balance, instead that misleading phrase used by Fox News. I can’t stand that Gretchen. I never like E.D. Hill, but I would rather see E.D. in the a.m. than that Gretchen. No big deal really because I will always have IMUS and CNN with Kiran in the a.m., as I am not a fan of F&F, anyways. They all look guilty and phony giving their bias, one-sided views (fair and balance, how can that be?), you can see it on their faces. Allyson C. she is alright. She is like that guy, Stanley, in the hotel commercial. Everyone likes her. She can say what she wants. I believe on the inside that she is a really nice person and, in general, seems that way on the outside. No surprise, though, seeing these changes, typically how it has been for conservatives over the last several years[falling apart], especially since November 2006.
To imagine that both Karin and Juliett are no longer with FNC, wow, what a loss! Karin had a unique style. . . she was informative and charismatic, not starchy like many of the other female anchors. She was relaxed and seemingly very secure with herself and authentic, something that made Karin Chetry very impressive as a person. Juliett was the same way. Both girls are excellent and an asset no matter where they are and with which stations, but sad for FNC and hooray for the others.
Kiran left Fox and is now with CNN and will be co-hosting American Morning from six to nine am but Juliet along with Mike Jerrick just moved from Fox News to the regular Fox program channel. They are doing a morning show available on some of the larger Fox affiliates but not the one in my area. Still the Fox News Channel has lost Kiran, Juliet and E.D. Hill in the past few months. I think that they were three of the best lady anchors on TV. It look’s like they are going down hill fast. Maybe the next big shake up should be in their front office.
I think you’re probably right about Fox going down the tubes Dondeago but if CNN waste Kiran’s talents by just making her a news reader sitting behind that stupid desk they won’t be catching up with Fox and Friends anytime soon.
Kiran’s got it all, wit, intelligence and personality. Little of this come’s out in the dull CNN format but what I miss most of all are those beautiful leg shots.
I would never have thought I would tune in CNN. Thanks to Kiran leaving Fox I watch CNN now. I still watch F&F some.Now get rid of Alyson and I will stop watching you at all, Fox news
you guys don’t understand. i like kiran also but fox offered her 400k and it was refused. she wanted 700k. if they gave her 700k, all the other people would have quit. if most of you miss her for her legs or whatever, that’s rediculous. look at it from fox’s point of view.
by the way, i saw ED. Hill on fox yesterday doing the news.
Kiran was the best lady anchor that Fox had and she should have been paid and treated as such. If CNN could afford Kiran I’m sure that Fox could have also. I don’t think that what CNN is paying her is going to make anyone else there quit.
Now with F&F losing Kiran plus Juliet Huddy and E.D. Hill moving on to other programs this is a great oppritunity for CNN to close the ratings gap. CNN made a smart move giving Kiran an anchor job on American Morning. Now if they are smart enough to change their dull, repetitive format to one similar to Fox and Friends they will clean up.
Putting Doocey, Alisyn and James Rosen in the
seats, w/Rudi Bakhtiar giving the news updates..would
be F & F’s version of “shock and awe” on American Morning.,imo
Who really knows what will happen, though?
FNC just hired Joel Cheatwood, so we can expect something sensational coming to F & F.
If the Fox version of “shock and awe” work’s as well as Bush’s version CNN has nothing to worry about.
John B.
LOL! Touche
kiran was so beautiful and smart…. im really going to miss her… she was… oh i have to go to work now bye
I wonder if Kiran was making 400k in NYC did she have to move to Atlanta? I bet the Atlanta equivelent of 400k is about 60k. I think her career is over, caused by her agent. She was good but not real smart, she will never have the chance at CNN as she did at FOX. And yes, it was funny watching her push down the laptop so the public could look at those fantastic gams…If Playboy ever does the babes of CNN she will have the cover shot no doubt. And she will need the cash.
First of all Tom, Kiran didn’t move to Atlanta. She still works in NYC a short walk from her old job at Fox. Second, I wouldn’t think that anyone could say that her career was over after she just got the co-anchor job on CNN’s American Morning. Third, I would assume as a co-anchor on the CNN morning show she will be making a lot more money than she did as a weekend anchor at Fox and Friends. I just hope that when she starts her new job Monday morning she starts it with a new set and format similar to Fox & Friends.
You got that right Mike. Just like Paula Zahn before her Kiran will do just fine with CNN. As you wrote in your post I just hope that they lighten the show up like they do on Fox and Friends to show off Kiran’s great personality, wit and humor. Also, last but not least I hope CNN come’s up with an F&F type set so us guys can check out those great legs once again. It’s been a long time.
Kiran wanted to play hardball and struck out, I hardly think going to CNN is a step up in her career. Fox seems to be a good judge at who should stay and who should go. I always thought letting Zahn go was bad but she has gone nowhere at CNN, I highly doubt Kiran will either.
Newshound:
I don’t know how you can say that having your own show on in prime time is going nowhere (Paula Zahn Now). Paula is doing better now than she ever did at Fox. As for Kiran, she was the best lady anchor that they had at Fox and they blew it big time and lost her to CNN. Now watch what happens to the ratings on F&F in the next couple of months when they go up against her as a new co-anchor on CNN’s morning show. If CNN is smart enough to change their format American Morning will blow Fox & Friends away.
I no longer watch Fox news on the the weekend. I also turn it off as soon as my husband leaves. I’m also dissapointed that you added “another” blonde to the mixture. Kiran was a breath of fresh air. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, fire your V.P. and bring Kiran back. Sounds like she was willing to take the lesser money for her rightful spot but you brought stuffy Gretchen in instead. I have nothing against her but she is boring.
I must say CNN has turned my head in the morning since finding out Kiran was based there. I’m bouncing back and forth…um! She was a bright spot and the chemistry worked between those two guys. Nothing was better since ED Hill. I agree with DonDeAgo. CNN has a chance to change for the better with a new format. Fox & Friends has become too tabloid these days which is a great dissapointment when looking for news fair and balanced. Thank God they still have Studio B!
Don and Mike…no way…its all about viewership and ratings and the last time I looked (admittedly some time ago) CNN morning was behind Imus and Fox and only had about
five percent of the other two combined…Don’t try to sell this as a good deal for her. I’m not buying it. Newhound has it exactly right…she will do this for a six months and then she will disapear. I’ll bet she is making 1/2 or 1/3 of what she was doing at F&F. Rumor has it Brian is the next to go.
Tom.
I don’t know where you’re getting these far out numbers but at the time CNN hired Kiran and John Roberts I read that the main reason for this was F&F had around 690+ Thousand viewers, CNN around 385 thousand and Imus about 340+ thousand. The article said that Imus had grown the most in the past year, about 35% with CNN moving up around 10% and F&F up about 3%. None of this is even close to the rediculiously low figure that you quoted for CNN of 5% of the other two. Where were you getting those figures? The Fox front office? Anyway the article went on to say that even though CNN had grown faster than F&F over the past year the CNN front office thought that the gap was still to wide and the morning show needed to be changed.
As far as her salary is concerned there is no way that a full time co-anchor on CNN’s morning show makes only half the money that one of the three weekend anchors on F&F does. My guess would be she makes double her old pay at Fox or very close to it.
As far as the Imus figures. I doubt that he will be around much longer and even if he did somehow survive his ratings are sure to take a dive.
My husband and I are both disappointed with the removal of Kiran Chetry. She was not only personable, but knowledgeable on a multitude of subjects. We had been away for a week and when we returned and didn’t see Kiran, we assumed she was either sick, on vacation or perhaps the baby was ill. Several inquiries as to her absence were made to Fox News; however, no information was forthcoming. Finally, I “googled” her name and discovered the reason for her absence. Although, we have nothing against Ms. Carlson, she seems ill-at-ease frequently. They should have let her remain in her original spot and replaced Ms. Hill with Kiran or at least given Kiran a “trial run”. We sorely miss her on Fox and Friends Weekend. The combo of Kiran, Allyson and Kelly was great. When Allyson returned from maternity leave, she should have been returned to her former place on Fox and Friends Weekend or if not, Allyson, then Paige. The “new girl in town” just doesn’t seem to be politically astute, though pretty she is.
Fox and Friends Weekend seems a bit on the “flat” side now. Although, we are not crazy about CNN, we will give it another try during Kiran’s program.
John B.
I saw similar figures either on the internet or in the newspaper when CNN announced the hiring of John Roberts and Kiran. Tom may be way off on his viewer statistics but I hope that he’s right about Brian. CNN can pick him up, put him on with Kiran and John Roberts, Call it CNN & Friends and clean up on Fox.
Tom…
I agree. Not with Kiran’s salary, that’s all conjecture, but with the part of Kiran having to deliver for CNN.
I have no doubt that Klein hired Kiran for the sole purpose of co-anchoring American
Morning (no matter what he says) to bring over some of her fans from F & F. It’ll be up to her, after the initial viewer spike , to hold them/us…Not an easy task..I can only imagine the pressure she’s under.
Hopefully, CNN will help out and provide her with the right
format to operate.
I have a feeling it’ll be similar to Fox’s “America’s Newsroom”, anchored by Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly,(Fox’s new rising star). A great show, btw.
Good luck, Kiran!
Kiran would have been every dollar of the 7K…
You’re right BC. Kiran is worth every bit of 700K and I hope that she’s getting it at her new job. Those cheap idiots in the Fox office will regret losing her everyday when F&F starts losing millions in revenue and thousands of viewers to CNN’s new morning show.
Go get em Kiran!
John B. I was citing all viewership which included viewership on network and all categories. I think you focused on the talk information data. My data looked at ESPN sports center and ESPN News as well as GMA, Today etc. CNN was at the tail end of the ratings…F&F was in the lead of all cable shows ahead of Imus.
Gretchen rocks my world! SOOOOOoooooo gorgeous!
And Kiran, all the talk of money and CNN vs. FNC aside, why don’t you go to the gym and put some meat on those sad little toothpicks of yours? A short skirt alone does not sexy legs make!
Hey everybody go to Reportervote.com and give Kiran your vote for hottest, coolest and most credible reporter. Kiran is now running third.
BTW I didn’t see Gretchen Carlson in the list at all which numbered over 50 women. I guess Gotch will need to vote for her as a write in candidate.
Am looking forward to seeing Kiran on CNN. I find I’m no longer watching F&F on the weekend. It lacks the life that Karin brought to the show. I wonder if Chris Knowles is going to move to CNN also?
Has anyone here heard anything about Chris Knowles? I haven’t seen or heard anything about him since he and Kiran left Fox. Maybe Kiran will mention on her new show sometime what’s going on with him at home since they left their old jobs.
Has Alisyn Camerota replaced Gretchen, or is she “on vacation”?
I thought it was unprofessional and rude of soledad this morning when she signed off not mention Kiran or Roberts names as “The New Team” taking over Monday morning. She just said The new team…meow!
Meanwhile, Fox is promoting like crazy that Elizabeth Hasselbeck will be co-hosting F & F Monday morning…hmmmm
Coincidence?
Has anyone considered that since E.D. was replaced by Gretchen without consideration for Kiran that maybe the salary request and other things was a way for Kiran to get out of her contract quickly?
I have never been able to figure out why Kiran wasn’t the first one considered for E.D.’s old seat on F&F since she was well known and popular with the viewers, had great chemistry with her co-hosts and had already proven herself doing F&F weekends and filling in on the weekday show to be as good an anchor as any that Fox had. That said I really don’t think that was why the talks with the Fox front office fell apart.
Now as far as the money she wanted and a gaurantee that she would be eventually offered a chair on the F&F weekday show that may be true but I don’t believe that crap coming out of the Fox front office by “unnamed sources” that she asked for Gretchen to be fired and by a certain, specified date.
I remember when Paula Zahn signed with CNN Fox immediately dumped her before her contract expired with them and came out with garbage about her also from “unnamed sources” in their front office. To this day Fox still says that she has gone nowhere since leaving even though she has her own show on in prime time at CNN (Paula Zahn Now).
I guess none of us will ever know what really happened but like Paula before her I’m sure that Kiran will do a great job at CNN.
I can’t believe all the people that say that they will change networks just because one “hot” anchor left. Gee whiz, I thought FNC viewers were more loyal than that and less shallow! I do agree, however, that Gretchen is no good and the Courtney girl is awful on the weekend, I won’t even turn it on. Actually, I’ve never really been a fan of any of the women in the mornings, the guys have always been great. All of the F&F women come off snooty. If I had to pick a favorite though, it would have been Kiran which is why I looked her up tonight when I saw her on 360 while channel surfing. I’m an avid FNC watcher, but I hadn’t noticed her absence! We’ll see if I check her out on Monday morning, but I am interested in Elisabeth Hasselbeck, maybe she should take the F&F slot, at least we know where she stands morally and politically. Megyn Kelly and Julie Banderas are the best, no one can top Greta, but she’s missing the beauty and spunk if that’s what floats your boat! At least those 3 are very intelligent.
Shannon.
I think the reason they make remotes is so that if you don’t care for the program or the people on it you can just watch another channel. The only reason that I ever started watching F&F was because of Kiran and Juliet Huddy. They were both cute, smart and sexy. I thought that Brian and Mike Jerrick were funny but Brian, Steve and especially Napolitano (the judge) lean way too far right to be calling themselves “fair and balanced”. My TV’s have over 200 channels and I certainly am not going to be stuck on one of them.
If CNN gives Kiran a more informal set and format that allows her to adlib and kid around like they do on F&F CNN will pick up millions of former Fox viewers. At least there she can trully be fair and balanced.
As for Elizabeth Hasselbeck, that bimbo blonde let’s Rosie O’Donald run all over her on The View. It’s obvious that she leans in the RIGHT direction for Fox and she may be kind of cute but she’s not very bright and doesn’t have the personality of a Kiran or Juliet.
Turned on F&F this morning to see who is hosting the show. Nice to see Paige as a cohost. Wonder if it is temporary, or Courtney is being replaced? If so, I do wish her well. Am looking forward to Karin Monday morning on CNN. Love her personality and vivaciousness. Nice way to start the work day.
Jane
Kiran I have found you. After a short leavefrom the cable, I looked for you on Fox, so much interested in where you are. I am disappointed in the AM Fox now, I will see you on CNN. You have a lot going for you and one of the most beauiful women there is.
It’s hard to keep reading all those comments about how great Kiren was. I’m so pleased that finally she is taking a back seat — It’s about time! I didn’t think anyone could take E.D.s place — but what a find — Gretchen is great — I didn’t see how you could find a replacement – Congratulations. I like E.D.s new job and change is good. FOX certainly does a good job of keeping up. I had to buy Serius radio because I need FOX.
Gaylen, Gotch and Gretchen. I guess your name needs to start with a G to be a Gretchen fan.
I don’t see how being the new co-host on American Morning is taking a back seat to anyone at Fox. With Gretchen on Fox & Friends and Imus gone CNN will undoubtably be picking up millions of their former viewers.
Sorry about that. I meant CNN would be picking up thousands of their viewers costing them millions in advertising revenue.
I watched Kiran on American Morning today. She was terrific. I will not watch Fox & Friends anymore.
I used to sit through the numerous commercial breaks to watch Fox and Friends until I started seeing each one of the people I liked on the show disappear, and the one I didn’t like stayed the longest. He must have been a real bargain. I find real fair, and balanced news by flipping news channels & reading.I like Kiran and will watch her on CNN. My taxes don’t pay her salary so what do I care what she makes? It’s a free country. I don’t think the Fox & friends show knows what they want, are doing a little too many silly stories,instead of real news,and more, and more commercial breaks, and are losing tallented people, and viewers as a result. TB
I watched our girl on “American Morning” this morning.
F & F is in BIG trouble, imo!
Choosing Gretchen over Kiran has got be be one of the
biggest blunders ever made in the annals of cable news…and I’ll continue to write FNC to remind them
of it..:)
Watch out Fox. You are in real trouble now.
The new version of American Morning with Kiran and John Roberts is going to blow Fox & Friends away.
Kiran did a great job and I liked the new format especially the red chairs. I thought that it was hilarious when Kiran told Larry King that she had never seen the chairs before and she thought that they brought them out just for him. Sure, everybody really wanted to check out his boney knees. The lady just doesn’t realize what a real fox she is. I was worried that the new show would be to stiff and stuffy but though it had more serious news stories than F&F it still allowed Kiran’s great personality and charisma to come out.
I don’t think that you will ever see Kiran kidding around with the other anchors and crew like she did on F&F but this was pretty close.
Kiran was right at home on CNN this morning. You should have seen the big grin on her face after Paul Begala suggested that all of the racist right wingers should be the next to get fired from their radio jobs. Ms. Chetry is in liberal heaven at CNN. No wonder she was so eager to join Clinton News Network. It was funny when John Roberts equated Kiran to Meredith Vieira, as he said the two of them are very similar. Yeah, isn’t Meredith the anti-war activist and Planned Parenthood supporter? Well, that pretty much explains things.
Get over it Kep.
I have been watching Kiran on Fox and now at CNN for the past four years or so and one of the many things that I always admired about her was that she didn’t lean so far to the right like most of the others at Fox do. She really did seem fair & balanced.
Paul Bagala was right. Some of the garbage that has come out of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth doesn’t belong on the air anywhere. The remark that he made on ESPN about black quarterbacks and those sickening comments and that sick shaking imatation that he did of Michael J. Fox are a couple of examples that come to mind. Ann Coulter is another right wing garbage mouth. That vile fag remark that she made about John Edwards was bad enough but what she wrote in her book about the 9-11 widows was even worse.
I’m really glad things worked out the way they they did. Kiran was too good for Fox. She now has a better job and will be happier and a lot better off than she ever would have been on F&F.
Now she’s where she can trully be fair & balanced.
I too will be wathcing CNN in the morning. I do think she was great on Fox. I do not like the combinations of females they have on weekdays or weekends. Does anyone know where Kiran’s husband is?
I fully agree with you RJP but you didn’t respond to Kep’s comment about Meredith Vieira so I will. She certainly is a big improvement over Katie Couric.
I never forgave NBC and the Today Show for the way that they treated Deborah Norville. She was a great anchor who like Kiran brought a lot of energy and personality to the program. She deserved better than to be dumped by NBC for “cute little Katie”.
As far as Meredith’s views on family planning or anything personel for that matter. That’s her business, not Kep’s, mine or anyone else’s and if she’s against that war that Bush started she’s certainly in the vast majority.
I’ll bet Kep actualy does think that Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdock and The Fox Network really are fair and balanced.
I loved it with Karin,Juliet,and Mike were all on…Now it has lost the only ones that made the show…I will have to watch CNN now..Fox has gone way down without these people…There the ones who made the show….To bad Fox
Kiran got what she deserved. News reporters are not worth that type of money. I am shocked at how many people this day in time complain that they do not make enough money. If you can’t live on 300,000 a year, you have some serious problems in your life.
I don’t know where you are from Nick but I was surprised that Kiran was only making $300 thousand as the anchor on a world wide network and living in NYC to boot. If Katie Couric is worth 15 million Kiran certainly is worth much more than Fox was paying her. You can bet that she is making a lot more than that now as a co-host of American Morning. Now that Kiran is going up against F&F head to head this is bound to cost F&F the lost of thousands of viewers and Fox millions of dollars in advertising revenue.
As I saw it said in another post Kiran was to good for Fox. She’s a lot better off where she is now.
I haven’t read through all the posts, but did those who criticized Kiran’s agent ever ask for a raise &/or a promotion? She had been there for some time and was very well liked by viewers. I can understand her wanting the weekday anchor position. Also, if Fox was offering her $400k as the weekend anchor + spot duty, then it would seem reasonable to ask for $700k as a weekday anchor (the position she wanted). According to reports I read, Kiran’s agent merely wanted a date by which Fox had to decide whether she would be given the weekday anchor position. I don’t find that position unreasonable. What if Kiran had been strung along by Fox for that position? Why should she let herself get locked into a contract that didn’t include protection for her position. Fox had their own protections (salary matching). I don’t see a problem with her looking out for her career, especially after they brought Gretchen in ahead of her.
I find it pretty sad that so many people posted comments and are so opinionated when they don’t even know how to spell her name. It’s written correctly all over the page!
Kep, way to advocate limiting speech you disagree with. I don’t agree with the statements you mentioned (not including the 9/11 widows), but let the marketplace decide, not censorship. You libs can’t stand that you no longer have a monopoly on disseminating information.
Mike, please don’t even try to claim that the reporters don’t filter the news through their own biases. I’m willing to admit that Fox has many reporters and personalities with conservative beliefs, why can’t you admit almost all CNN reporters and personalities are liberal to leftist? Study after study have shown the media in general is liberal (around 90% of media people). It’s not even at issue.
The sad part is that even I’ll be watching a lot more CNN in the morning, at least until Fox gets new talent or something changes.
I really liked Kiran. I also like Gretchen and ED Hill. They are all fantastic.
Kiran your agent screwed up. Fire your agent and and ask Fox to take you back. I was shocked to see you today on CNN covering the VA Tech massacre. You look so out of place there. Fox is where you belong. You need Fox and Fox needs you. Fox is where its at. CNN is a loser channel. Please make up and go back.
Centreville John.
Kiran need’s Fox like she need’s smallpox.
Like I said in my post above Kiran’s too good for Fox. She really is fair and balanced and now she’s where she can show it.
She’s doing a great job as a co-anchor on CNN and it’s going to cost Fox thousaands of viewers and millions in add revenue. That stupid attorney in the Fox front office that told Kiran and her agent to take a hike is going to rue the day that she pulled that boner. Ailes will be telling her to hit the road when ratings come in.
I never watched morning news till I spotted Kiren once.
She will not be missed because I am switching to CNN.
This is a big step, because I CAN NOT stand CNN.
Her agent was aking $700,000. Did Fox offer $500,000?
I am certain she would have accepted it if she would have been offered the right spot that she deserved!!!
I am sure Fox will survive, but it will not be the same.
karin had no class. dressed like a thrift shop. and that stringy hair. talked like she had too much caffien.let cnn have another body yhat can read the news. fox news is the best.
June.
It’s a good thing that Kiran can talk a lot better than you can spell and haven’t you ever heard of capitol letters? I always thought that Kiran sounded cute, like a female David Brinkley.
As far as her hair and clothes that is taken care of by the people in the wardrobe room at Fox the same as it is for every other on screen anchor. Maybe Fox shops for clothes and brings their hair dressers in from Wal-Mart.
Well said Judy.
Only a classless woman (certainly no man) would ever made vile remarks like that about a nice girl like Kiran.
This will sound very petty ; but Gretchen
has an extremely irratating laugh. As if fake
and forced.
It has been so nice watching Kiran on CNN this week. She is very classy, in addition to being smart, beautiful, and very professional. “Stringy hair and thrift shop clothing?” Those comments don’t dignify a response. I hope CNN hires her husband as well.
Mostly what I see on Fox and Friends is a group of gossipy people who constantly put down Democrats. Of course everything is scripted and the owner controls everything that is said……I quit watching it long ago but missed Kiran. Now I can watch her on my favorite – CNN.
Christie-Kiran never put down democrats, and if I remember correctly she is a democrat herself, a social liberal. She will fit in much better at Cnn. She can go to all of the hot parties that she never got invited to while at fox, and with her new big-dollar contract, can start living like a real celebrity. She never would have had that opportunity if she’d stayed where she was.
You can hear a recent interview with Kiran:
Google: js online podcast…She mentions that her
husband Chris is attending classes to recieve a
Meteorologist license.
Interesting to read the various comments. Bottom line, CNN needed to do something to get off of dead center. Watching Soledad and Miles was getting to be like watching paint dry….pretty boring. Kiran brings a rush to the program as does John. However, the real proof is 4,5,6 months down the road. We will all still be watching? Will they replace Fox as #1 in the AM? All interesting questions. Lets all watch and find out.
Kiran was great. A huge loss for Fox.
Gretchen( so borrowing!) shouldn’t replace E.D.Hill, who was great.
Ethics is subjective in this world.
It’s sad that Fox had a glowing star Kiran in their hand and did not recognize her. Now Fox and Friends is not fun at all! Two BOYS are trying very hard to keep going!!! They are doing fine.. I give them a credit!
Interesting that I watched a week of Kiren on CNN she got about 10% of the airtime that she got on FOX. Major step backwards for her. The end of her career, no doubt. But FOX does seem to be ruthless, look at the departures, Kiren, Julien Phillips, Jareck, Huddey, Hill, Lauren, Knowles, Gotta be more?…If I’m Kelly Wright I’ve gotta be asking for 500k. The man has talent and is working seven days a week.
Still, it always amazes me that the on air people make so much money. What else can these people do. If it weren’t for morning Cable TV news programs, just think how nicely dressed and how much makeup your garbage’people’ would have. I don’t know what other jobs these people could do? They would last 20 minutes where I work
10% of the time? It seems to me that Kiran is on CNN 10% of their entire TV air time, day and night. I see her shows and clips of her shows on about any time of day that I happen to be watching. She appears to be the rising new star at CNN.
As far as Mike Jerrick, Juliet Huddy and E.D. Hill they are now on other Fox programs. The Mike & Juliet show is on the regular Fox channel every morning and E.D. has a daily news program also every morning on the FNC.
It’s a HUGE loss for FOX by letting Kiran go, especially to CNN. Having watched her (briefly) on CNN, she has no “life” to her anymore. One thing about FOX, I think they do give their people the ability to be free-thinkers. Once during an interview with Gretta Van Sustern on FOX’s 10 year anniversary, she said she has never laughed so much in her life since coming to FOX. If you ever notice, the ones who have come from CNN to FOX, they are so comfortable and able to freely speak and they SMILE–something I never noticed on CNN–just like Kiran is now that she is at CNN–almost puppet-like in her reporting. SURE HOPE FOX BRINGS HER BACK!
Come on now Debra.
Kiran has brought new life to CNN’s morning show. She smiles, laughs and jokes all the time there. Now she’s where she can trully be fair and balanced. You say Fox gives their anchors the ability to be free thinkers? Come on now. When was the last time that you heard any anchor on F&F say anything negative about Bush?
Go back to Fox after the way that they bad mouthed her? Not is a million years. Kiran is now at a Network that truly appreciates her and has given her the anchor job on their morning show to prove it.
Kiran can now smile all the way to the bank. She needs Fox like she needs smallpox.
RJP,
Have you ever watched John Gibson, Shep Smith, Alan Colmes, E.D. Hill, Geraldo Rivera, etc. on FNC? If you have, then you should know better than to make a silly comment like the one you made about Fox News anchors never saying a bad or critical thing about President Bush. Did you not watch during Hurricane Katrina, when Bush was being raked over the coals for his “good job, Brownie” fiasco? How about the Dubai Ports Deal? And I’m sure that if you watched Fox News enough you would also realize that Baghdad has a bombing every ten seconds and the US Military has apparently tried to cover up the death of Pat Tillman. Fox News is more balanced than the Clinton News Network could ever hope to be. So, how much coverage did CNN give to that Sandy Berger thingy? That man should have gotten 20 years for what he did. Oh, and another thing….FNC did a special on that, and not only did it center on Berger’s crimes, but it also brought up the fact that it was Bush’s Justice Department that declined to truly make him pay for what he had done. How many negative stories have you seen lately about Queen Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid? How about that crook from Louisiana, Rep. Jefferson, who had $90,000 in his freezer? I see that the dear old Dems (the party that claims to be free of corruption)has seen fit to give Mr. Jefferson a seat on one of their congressional committees. So, I gather that you never caught any of John Roberts’ political hit pieces on Republicans and George Bush during his days at CBS and most recently, CNN. Why don’t you just admit that CNN has a bias of its own, just like you claim that Fox has. Don’t give me this nonsense about CNN having no bias. They’ve all got a bias, sir. Get real. You are happy that Kiran has jumped to liberal la la land. Good for her. If she wants to rub elbows with a bunch of left-wing anti-war pinkos, then so be it. She will no longer be a breath of fresh air and will join the hundreds of other defeatist, left-wing naysayers who occupy every other news station. She’s one more voice for the “America is to blame” chorus.
Kep.
First of all I said the anchors on Fox & Friends not no anchor on any Fox program ever made a negative comment about Bush when I was watching. Brian and “The Judge” are way out there with Steve trying to stay a little more to the middle. Then there’s that frequent guest host Mike Gall-agher. That Bozo is so far out to the right that his own wife and mother-in-law won’t listen to his program. You call having him on as a host fair and balanced. He makes Rush Hi-baugh look like a moderate. There are a few like Geraldo that are more centered in their opinions but not that many. Look at Bill “disagree with me and I’ll cut you off or out shout you” O’Reilly. How about Sean “Bush can do no wrong” Hannity? As far as E.D. Hill, I never once heard her make a negative remark about Bush.
Why do you think that the Dems pulled out of the TV debate when the Fox Channel was going to be the one to air it? Everyone knows that Fox and their owner Rupert Murdoc is just another tool of the far right GOP.
Kep:
I think that you’ve been watching the GOP network a little too long and it’s frying your brain. You even seem to think that this war of Bush’s was a good idea (anti-war pinkos).
According to you Kiran was fine and a breath of fresh air when she was on F&F but now that she’s on CNN she’s a defeatest left wing naysayer.
You need help.
If you send me a mailing address I will send you a care package consisting of a couple of DVD movies, Outfoxed and Fahrenheit 9/11. Maybe I’ll throw in Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth to boot.
Maybe there’s still hope for you if we can get to you fast enough.
To tell you all the truth CNN, FOX, MSNBC, to me, are all in disarray at this point and time. First CNN, I love Kiran, but she does not fit in on CNN and I do not think she is well liked by some of colleagues at CNN because she came from FOX and you know there has got be some envy in that setting. Secondly, FOX do not look stable because of the musical chairs that they have been running in that CENTER SEAT during the early a.m. shows on the weekdays and weekends, and it is very uncomfortable trying to watch those two guys on the FOX weekends cover up for that airhead blonde. It is uncomfortable to watch and I know it is the same for them when she opens her mouth. Actually, FOX Friends fell apart when Mike, Juliet and Julian left. And Finally, MSNBC, my preferred channel I used to watch during the weekdays before the I-MAN (D. Imus)was blackballed and ousted,they really look lost and out of palce these days,especially in the mornings. MSNBC has nothing going for them now. And some of those guests, mainly the libs, are really out in the cold now because they have no real platform to vent freely like they did on the Imus show. They are really lost these days. I see them on the Oberman show and Scarborough Country and they look sick. I am too embarrased to watch them anymore, shame on them MSNBC (not Oberman and Scarborough). So, you see, CNN, FOX, and MSNBC are all dysfunctional and disarray at this time. None of these networks, especially in the a.m., got it together at this time.
DonDeAgo:
Do you really expect the majority of mainstream Americans to buy into the Outfoxed, Fahrenheit 9/11 and An Inconvenient Truth nonsense? For heavens sake, CNN really has a problem on its hands if you and your far-left beliefs are an accurate description of the average CNN viewer! You have really proven my point. This is the type of stuff that CNN broadcasts on a daily basis, and I think that the low ratings that they get proves that most Americans don’t want to listen to that conspiracy nutcase nonsense. Have you started using the one square of toilet tissue that Sheryl Crow has been touting lately on her crusade of “Going Green”? This is too funny! And do you believe that 9/11 was actually carried out by the Bush Administration? I can only guess you’d probably say “yes” to these questions, and so it really comes as no surprise that CNN is your favorite network! I hope Kiran feels proud to be a star on the channel that all of the conspiracy theorists, anti-war activists and global warming freaks watch. Happy viewing.
Kep:
I think that the majority of American viewers if they watched the Inconvenient Truth and Outfoxed videos would agree with them, even you if you took the time to watch them before you offer an opinion. Hell, Al Gore may even win a Pulitzer Prize and has already won an Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth.
If you still think that Bush’s war in Iraq was a good idea and if you are still in denial that global warming exists and is a major problem them maybe you are already to far gone for help.
You right wing wackos are something else. Now you say if a person thinks that the Bush bunch are deceitful, incompetent, disfunctional jerks that have started a war, bankrupted our country, tapped our phones and trampled on our constitution and bill of rights we are all conspiracy theorists.
Wise up, Bush’s approval rating is around 30% and falling. If you still think that he’s doing a good job you are not in the mainstream you are way out there to the right with Rush Pillbaugh and Gall-agher.
The only reason that I ever watched F&F in the first place was Kiran and Juliet Huddy. I thought they were cute, sexy and smart with great personalities. Now that they have moved on to other shows F&F is in serious trouble.
Kiran is a rising star at CNN and she along with Paula Zahn are both better off now than they ever were at Fox.
Come on over and check out a real fair and balanced network.
Well said Dondeago.
I am thinking that CNN ratings will really soar in the AM if and when they decide to get Kiran out from behind the desk. Really, isn’t that what cable news is really about, the legs and letting us see them. If we want news, we can watch NBC or even Couric, but if we want legs, we need to watch CNN in the AM. Now, if we could only get Kiran in HD. mmmmmm wouldn’t that be something!!
DonDeAgo,
Check out Inside Cable for Monday’s morning show ratings. Now that the big breaking news events are over and the regular viewers are the only ones tuning in, it’s pretty easy to see that Fox is in no danger of getting beat by Kiran and CNN. American Morning had a 25-54 Demo of 91,000. Yeah, Kiran is really causing Roger Ailes to have some sleepless nights.
I think I know why more viewers watch Fox in the morning, and it’s probably because many people like to see that it’s okay to laugh and smile once in a while. Liberals wouldn’t know a good time if they stepped in it. Everything offends them, everyone is racist, bigoted and out to get them. I say, loosen up.
Kep. I thought that this was a Kiran Chetry discussion site,
not a political one. If you don’t really like Kiran and are rooting for Fox to beat her out I think that you are in the wrong discussion site.
I think that Ailes knows Fox and Friends is in a downward spiral at this time and has some real competition coming from Kiran and CNN. Watch the ratings over the next few months and I think you will see CNN picking up a substantial number of former Fox viewers.
F&F’s format and co-hosts allowed Kiran’s personality to shine. Pretty faces are a dime a dozen, it was her personality that separated her. Time will tell whether her personality is allowed to set the tone at CNN or it is stifled.
I find it humorous that everyone praises Kiran for being fair and balanced, but they don’t give Fox credit for having someone so fair and balanced on their programs. If she wasn’t able to show her ability to be fair and balanced at Fox, then how do you know she is? To the contrary, anchors/hosts on Fox have great freedom to express their views, from what I can tell. Mike and Juliet demonstrated that point pretty well. Neither of them seemed conservative, especially socially. Moreover, Julian freely expressed more liberal and differing opinions.
It’s a business! CNN and Fox have and will continue to battle for many personalities. Kiran wanted a promotion with a corresponding pay raise, and an escape clause if the promotion didn’t materialize within a certain timeframe. Can anyone really fault her for that, even if that necessarily meant Gretchen had to go? Fox wasn’t prepared to give her what she wanted. Fox made a decision to keep Gretchen over Kiran. Fox knew Kiran had a strong following so they tried to prevent a backlash from not signing her. If what I read about what Kiran asked for, shame on Fox for publishing anything from the negotiations. I hope Kiran a long and prosperous career.
For those who stated CNN is centered &/or fair and balanced need a dose of reality.
I have no problem recognizing that the weekday F&F’s anchors have a conservative slant. They criticize President Bush & his administration, but for different reasons than the libs would.
RJP, Geraldo is not centered. He is far left and has been since the 70’s. The fact that you think he is centered shows how leftist you are. I agree with about O’Reilly. But, Hannity commonly disagrees with President Bush. Again, it’s just that he’s more conservative than President Bush, so you don’t want to recognize those disagreements, apparently. The dems pulled out of the debate, because they don’t like a fair network preventing them and the liberal media from having their monopoly on information dissemination. They have to marginalize Fox as much as they can so they won’t be accountable for their statements and actions.
Don, most Americans know beforehand that the political hit pieces you referred to have no credibility. If that’s your idea of unbiased information, it is you that is probably too far gone for help.
John B., why point out Kep’s political posts, but not others that he was responding to?
Kiran has talent. I like Grethen (marvelous legs, smart). F&F is not mean to offer hard hitting journalism, it is what it is. Although hot, Courtney Friel does not come off as being too bright. That said, I wish them all well and they are well compensated.
Jim.
You sound like Kep’s long lost twin brother.
You call a movie that won an Oscar and who’s creator is up for the Pulitzer Prize a political hit piece that has no credibility? Also, I think that if you took the time to watch Outfoxed even you would agree with many of the things that it points out about the Fox Network but I think that John B is right we are all getting too political and off track here so maybe we should lighten up.
Boy, it look’s like Kiran left that Mickey Mouse Fox outfit in the nick of time to keep her integrity.
Did you all hear about the ham sandwitch story that was a joke but reported by the anchors on Fox & Friends as true during several different segments of the program? With that story The Fox Noise Channel sank to new all time lows in TV journalism.
If any of you missed it go to this address to see and hear it yourself. Http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/fox-parody/
The FCC should charge them with impersonating a news channel.
MikeG,
I hate to tell you this, but Lou Dobbs of CNN also included this on his show. CNN has plenty of slip ups in its broadcasting history, so I wouldn’t boast too much about their integrity. I guess it means nothing to you that CNN knew firsthand of Saddam Hussein’s atrocities a few years ago, yet they kept quiet so that they could remain in their Baghdad news bureau. And, how about a little story several years back called “Operation Tailwind”? How about the terrorist footage of US Soldiers being shot in the head? You may think this is quality journalism-I think it’s
callous.
Wake up and smell the coffee. CNN is just as hungry to land that juicy story and that blood-spattered war footage as anyone else. They have no more integrity than Fox or any of the other countless news outlets. It’s all about ratings and money, and your libs over at CNN have just as much interest in those two things as those hated conservatives over at FNC. That’s reality.
Yes, Kiran left Fox so that she could be recognized for her talent, but if you’ll notice she’s still parading herself around in those floozy looking short skirts. Another feminist trying to have it both ways.
I always thought that it was Fox that invented the low, low crotch shots of their anchor women in their short, short skirts. I saw a video clip of Gretchen a while back that she could have been busted for. It was not a pretty sight.
Come on Kep, floozy looking short skirts? I never saw Kiran look or act like anything but the classy lady that she is.
Thank’s Mike. I heard about the Fox blunder on that ham sandwich story but this is the first time that I actually saw the video. As far as I know they have yet to apologize for featuring that story over and over on their program and I doubt that they ever will.
Kiran may be a classy lady, but she’s giving people the wrong idea when she wears these short skirts. I have no problem with skirts, but they don’t have to be that short. Is there any such thing as modesty anymore?
Kiran’s skirts are no shorter than just about any the so called Fox foxes wear everyday. Hell, I thought that was a Fox uniform for all of the lady anchors there. Kiran and Juliet and their sexy short skirts are what got me watching F&F in the first place. The more that I watched the more I realized what a sweetheart Kiran really was. She made it fun to watch the news in the morning.
If anyone here want’s to vote for Kiran in the Reporter Vote Poll go to this address and cast your ballet.
http://www.reportervote.com/voteone.php?id=565
I know that a lot of you guys like to check out Kiran’s legs but the reason that I watched her on Fox and now on CNN is that she is a really fine anchor with wit and a great personality that makes any program that she is on lighter, brighter and more fun.
DonDeAgo-Of course the short skirts were a staple at Fox, but Kiran wanted to go to a channel where she would be known for her skills as a reporter and interviewer, not for her short skirts. Any woman who thinks that she isn’t going to be noticed first for her short or tight clothing is living in a dream world. All I can say is, if you don’t want people to place so much attention on body parts or the appropriateness of the clothing, try wearing something a little more on the modest side. I’ll say it again-feminist women want it both ways. They willingly wear provocative clothing and then complain when people notice that they’re wearing it! They want to be known for their brains even though they are sitting on the set, wearing a skirt that looks so tight and so short that it doesn’t even look comfortable. Doesn’t really make sense to me.
Kep.
I think that I should comment on this.
I am in sales and marketing and consider myself a sales professional yet I prefer to wear nice clothes and short skirts. I suppose that you think women should all dress like nuns? Maybe we could wear veils too.
Come on now it’s the 21st century. Give us a break!
I guess I struck a nerve with you Judy. No, I don’t think that women should dress like nuns unless they are one. You are stretching what I’ve said, and you know it. I’ve seen Kiran Chetry wear some nice skirts that aren’t too short, and I’ve also seen her wear many that are too short. Women wear short skirts and tight clothing so that men will notice them. I think we can all agree on that, because I can’t imagine a person wearing that stuff because they feel comfortable in it. A lot of professional women complain when men make comments about their butt, legs, boobs, etc, when they are at the office. I’m simply saying that these types of remarks could be minimized if somewhat more modest attire was worn. It’s like a mixed message-i hope you guys notice my tight skirt, but I don’t want you to think any improper thoughts. I’m all business. Sorry, it seems a little hypocritical to me. Just my opinion.
Well Judy, it look’s like Kep has decided to join the fashion police. I guess we had better send him a tape measure so he can make sure that everyone’s skirt is the proper length.
Come to think of it, that’s a job I wouldn’t mind doing.
I wonder if they have any openings at CNN.
Lets face it, the only reason we watch CCN now in the morning is for the segment that has Kiran wearing a short skirt, sitting in a chair that allows her to lean back, cross her legs and let us get a couple of 3-5 second side shots of her fantastic gams. If I could only be THAT cameraman!!!!
I see that Inside Cable News has CNN’s American Morning picking up 154,000 viewers while Fox & Friends was down 148,000 in the past week.
I wonder what Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch think about those numbers.
They have big time problems at Fox & Friends. It’s going to be interesting to see what they do next to try and get the program back on track. You will know that they are desperate if they resort to bringing back Juliet or E.D. Hill.
I doubt that you will be hearing anymore of that garbage talk coming from “unnamed sources” in their front office about “just like Paula Zahn, Kiran has gone nowhere since leaving Fox.
It is true that I watch American Morning now rather than Fox and Friends. American Morning has gotten better now that Kiran is there. I also wonder how many of those viewers American Morning has picked up are like me and switch back to FOX as soon as American Morning is over.
I think Kiran has brought some laughter to CNN that wasn’t there before. The anchors are stating to like they are having fun where before they were stiff and never had a smile on their faces.
John Roberts also made the comment that when he became an American citizen they were told that it was their duty to defend their new country. When Kiran was interviewing two CNN reporters from Iraq she asked them what would happen if America left. They both responded real fast with the comment that it would be total chaos. That is a new attitude at CNN. Before Kiran they were anti-American with made up stories of Americans using nerve gas in Vietnam to kill American deserters in Laos.
Way to go Kiran – extortion at Fox News?
You should have known better.
I’ll miss your talent on Fox, but I sure as hell will not follow you to Commie News Network.
The sad irony in this though, and what just floors me is the fact that you tried to bully your way (by proxy) into a career-position that would have been handed to you on a silver platter within the next 6 – 8 months anyway.
Your star was rising well enough on its own – and then you had to start reading your own press.
You should be featured in the “G-Block”
Good Bye.
David & Vern.
Are you guys really that niave that you buy into that Faux Network fair & balanced nonsense?
David, I see that you bought into that garbage put out about Kiran by “unnamed sources” in the Faux front office hook, line & sinker. They did the same thing to Paula Zahn when she left for CNN.
Vern, do you really believe that CNN or any of the other major networks are really anti American?
The only made up story coming from a “news channel” that I have heard lately was that stupid one that Steve and Brian kept repeating about the ham sandwitch in the college cafe.
What a bunch of idiots!
Like Paula Zahn before her, the best thing that ever happened to Kiran was moving to CNN.
Thank’s for the ratings info Dondiego. It look’s like CNN has F&F on the run.
Hey MikeG,
Your ignorance is stunning. Why don’t you try googling “Operation Tailwind” sometime? Your precious “lily white” CNN has a few blemishes of its own. And while you’re at it, why don’t you think about that despicable footage that CNN aired of US soldiers being gunned down by terrorist snipers? I’m sure they couldn’t wait to get that tape on the air. If you ask me, Michael Ware is a little too cozy with these cutthroats. CNN-gold standard. Yeah, gold standard for the hate-America crowd.
A nice little article:
http://www.health.com/health/article/0,23414,1613801,00.html
Thank’s A.M.
That was a nice little article about Kiran and her mom.
Thank’s for the reminder.
Kiran is what this page is or should be all about.
Point taken.
I think its awful what happened to Chris Knowles, Karin’ husband. Chris was an intricate part in the success of Sheppard Smith, in that he wrote and produced his show. I am sure he will come out ahead and karin will stick by him. I am also a great fan of Karin and her talents, not just good looks, and followed her to CNN. What a great show,American Morning.
Kirin was the girl next door,charming bright & engageing. Fox& friends was on a slippery slope of just down right mean journalism. I am glad that she has move away from that twisted enviorment. I now enjoy her on a network that I have not watched in ten years. She is still a breath of fresh air.
I still watch F&F First, because I love Alisyn Camerota. But when F&F starts and the Gretch comes on, I turn to CNN & watch Kiran! I think Kiran is very good, and I hope that CNN realizes what a gem they have! I find it amazing that I actually watch a program on CNN – because I have never liked CNN at all. Go Kiran!
I have been watching CNN since Kiran is there. I too think that Fox messed up. I do not understand why they are keeping Gretch on Fox and Friends. She looks so out of place. Sat. F&F seems to be better if they keep Courtney off. I seldom see her anymore. By the way where is the Judge? I flip back occasionally but I never see him. Nor do I see him on any other show. I do hope that Chris gets a break he deserves. I like Kiran’s new look. She and John make a good match. Hope the rtings continue upward.
American Morning’s ratings have been slipping with the 25 – 54 demos.
While Alisyn’s ratings for her show F&F First, have been skyrocketing.
My wife and I are very disappointed that that Kiran is no longer on Fox & Friends. I did not realized she now employed by CNN until reading this website report. My wife nor I ever watch CNN (that will not change), but we do miss Kiran’s smiling face. If someone should be fired, it should be Alisyn.
Bob, You should watch American Morning with Kiran just once. She and John Roberts are good. I continue to watch some of Fox programs at night. I can’t watch Gretchen on Fox and Friends. I do miss Steve and Brian. A.M. where do you get the ratings for CNN and Fox?
Sheila,
Here ya go:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/may07ranker.pdf
I may be a bit late with this observation, but Fox & Friends has taken a major and serious nose dive. First of all Steve (buy my book) “Duce” is a total idiot and makes watching the show very difficult. I was an avid F&F watcher. I am a single dad and was able to watch the entire 3 hours as I prepared myself and my daughter for our day. I will admit, I can no longer tolerate watching the show. I will tune in for the first hour, just to catch Allyson (she is Awesome). Whenever the Judge (Andrew N.) is on the show my interest goes through the roof. He gives the show instant credit and interest. After that, I turn the channel over to something my daughter will enjoy. In the beginning, I totally hated Gretchen, but I have warmed up to her. She has completely shown that Steve and Brian are not so good, especially Steve. Courtney does NOT cut it folks… What happened to Lauren Green? She is great too. Is Fox morning dead set on going down the crapper? Kiran was the main reason for tuning in. She’s insightful, intelligent, and very easy to look at. I often think as I briefly watch the failing line ups, what would be the best F&F morning team? I would have to say Kelly Wright, Allyson (need I say more), Marthha MacCallum, Andrew Napolitano, and Lauren Green (if she’s still on the network). Any combination of those will win me back over for life. The Judge is a MUST. I guess asking for Megyn Kelly is too much. Why make it a lock by adding her? Regardless, Fox needs to seriously look at it’s morning line up or end up being third rate garbage.
Swan.
I agree with you about F&F going down the tubes in the past few months but I never could stand the Judge and his far right bias and I don’t think Martha, Megyn, Lauren or Allyson are going to pull that show out.
The only reason that I started watching F&F in the first place was I enjoyed watching Kiran and Juliet Huddy in their sexy short skirts kiding around with the guys on the program. Both ladies were smart, cute and sexy and made the news fun to watch. As for the guys I liked Mike, Brian and even Steve as long as Napolatano or that jerk, guest host Mike Gallagher wasn’t on. Gallagher is so far out there that he makes Rush Limbaugh look like a liberal. Talk about fair and balanced, what a joke.
Anyway Kiran, Juliet and Mike have all moved on and so have I. Maybe the next shake up at Fox should come in their front office.
Kiran has now entered the big leagues. She’s a rising star on CNN. She will now enjoy the fame and prestige that she was denied at Fox News. I wonder how long the marriage to Mr. Knowles will last. He’s no investment banker, real estate mogul or top line agent. She married the dude before she ever went to Fox News. He’s a weatherman she met in some small market tv station. It will be interesting to see if they stay together.
I love Gretchen; she’s gorgeous, smart, and funny! Of course I miss Kieran… but I absolutely will not watch CNN; it is HORRIBLE. Fox and Friends is my favorite morning show hands down; I’ve been watching for years and it’s just as good (and funny)as ever!
Can’t find any additional info about Chris Knowles. I heard he is going to school to be meteorogist. Any thing new about him going to Cnn or his relationship with Kiran. Is it just as hot as it use to be?
I haven’t watched Fox and Friends since Karin left. She is doing a fantistic job at CNN’s morning show. I do believe she is rubing off onto some of the others because they are starting to act as if they are enjoying their jobs for a change. They used to be stiff. I do switch back to FOX after Karin’s show is finished.
Alright, I’ll have to admit that I too watched F&F because I was caught up in Chetry’s beauty and charm. But if it is true that she tried through her agent to oust Gretchen, then she got what she deserved, “CANNED”. While I would agree that Gretchen is certainly not the draw that Chetry was, we should cut her a little slack. I think that those two undertaker looking stiffs that sit on either side of her should go! Will I be switching to the Crap News Network to watch Kiran? ABSOLUTELY!! She’s so FINE!!!
Saul, So, you think Kiran is unethical and unscrupulous, but you will be racing to your tv to watch her? Well that certainly says it all. Gretch is getting good ratings, and Miss Kiran is getting clobbered by FOX & Friends. It looks like Klein may have decided to bring in Veronica De La Cruz to try to bolster the ratings on American Morning. And John Roberts is so darn dry. His dull personality is about the only consistency that this program has. They keep positioning the people on the set differently, switching financial reporters and meteorologists every few days. People like familiarity and consistency, and when you turn on the tv and you keep seeing different people, it turns viewers off. This show is a disaster.
I went to CNN when Kiran left fox. I get tired of the antics of Doocy and Kilmeade and feel Gretchen adds nothing. I also pitty Chris Knowles, he had a nice career before all this happened.
For all you Kiran fans out there, here’s a wonderful
note Kiran recently wrote to her supporters:
“Hello Everyone!
“I just received the congratulations card that was signed by so many of
you and I want to say ‘thanks!’
It really warmed my heart to know how much support you have given me as
I launch this new adventure.
Please know that each and every day I set out to do the very best I can
to bring you news, information, guest analysis and sometimes, a good
laugh. It’s truly an honor to know I have people like you who take the
time to show you appreciate it. I certainly appreciate you!
God bless,
Kiran ”
Is she not the best?
btw, Kiran was at the White House this morning conducting a live interview with the Firsat Lady.
You go Girl!!!
I too have switched to CNN to watch Kiran…Watched Fox for 6 years prior…Do miss the 3 person casual talk-style format of FOX, but worth it to watch & listen to Kiran’s style…Kiran should have replaced ED..Will we ever know why not?
Kiran was not conservative enough for the FOX and Friends weekday hosting job. She was okay for the younger and more hip weekend crowd, but there’s no way she would have ever been a good choice for weekdays. I don’t think FOX wants a Hindu for their main female host. Wikipedia has her listed in a category of American Hindus. FOX probably only wants Christians for their more popular programs. If you hear most of the anchors talk, they are almost all Catholics at that network.
Kep.
Your far out remarks get more rediculous everyday.
First of all Kiran’s mother is a blonde, white average american. Just because her father is of Indian decent has absolutly nothing to do with her position at F&F.
Kiran may not lean as far to the right as Fox would like and most there do but I think if they had it to do over knowing what they know now she would be in that middle seat today.
As far as fox being consistant and keeping the same people after Kiran departed they had a different anchor in her old chair every weekend for a couple of months.
Leaving Fox was the best thing that ever happened to Kiran. She had an exclusive interview with Laura Bush today at The White House. Who did Steve, Brian and Gretchen interview? Rush Limbaugh perhaps?
Kiran’s dad is not of Indian descent, he is Nepalese. Why would FOX want her in the middle seat? Their show is killing Kiran’s on CNN. If Kiran had stayed, she would have dragged FOX’s show down big time. I stand by my statement that a good majority of on camera personnel at FOX are Catholic. Wikipedia has Kiran listed as an American Hindu. The other hosts talk about their church activities and Christian faith, and what was Chetry going to say? Would she start referring to her swami? It wouldn’t fit on that show, I’m sorry. Oh, and every one of the FOX hosts have done interviews with either Pres. Bush or First Lady Laura. I’ve never seen Rush on FOX and Friends.
Kep.
Where do you think Nepal is? It’s between India and China and the people there lean more toward the Indian culture.
I never heard Kiran say what her religion is and could care less but it could just as well be the same as her mother, father or neither one. I know Fox likes their anchors to express right wing views but I don’t think that Rupert Murdoc or Roger Ailes care much about what church their anchors attend. Brian and the judge are italian so they probably are Catholic but I don’t think that many of the other F&F hosts are (Lauren, E.D., Juliet, Kelly, Steve, Julian, Mike, etc).
As far as dragging Fox down Kiran and Juliet Huddy were the hottest and best lady anchors they ever had.
I know the last few times I tuned in to F&F I ended up switching to another program after a short time. It’s just not the fun show with the sexy lady anchors anymore.
Does anyone still think that the move to CNN was not the best that Kiran ever made? She went from playing with pogo sticks, roller skates and hula hoops on F&F to interviewing Laura Bush at the White House.
Kiran willingly joined in on that stupid stuff while she was at FOX. In fact, she instigated a lot of it. The rollerblading contest between her and Julian-so, according to you, she was forced by her superiors to do it? Her boss made her rollerblade while pregnant? How about taking gum out of her mouth and giving it to Mike Jerrick to chew? How about Kiran putting on that poker face while plugging her appearance at a celebrity poker match a few years ago? What about her Pisanki-Easter egg coloring demonstration? What about inviting a family on the set to promote the fact that they named their child after her? And her Angelina Jolie impersonation at Halloween, she was forced into that too. How about her tasteless Britney Spears skit while pregnant? I guess Kiran was made to do all of this childish stuff. Yeah, right. Oh, and her husband was forced to act like a dunce too. Attention is attention, and I get the feeling that Chetry likes to be the center of it. The whole move to Cnn was a manufactured PR scheme. Common sense tells you that she already had everything but her name signed on the dotted line for Cnn. She demanded something of FOX the she knew she wouldn’t get, would be fired, and thus the big media frenzy. I can’t say that it’s improved her ratings any, though.
I must say that Kiran was very impressive with the interview with Laura Bush. I think that John isn’t as stiff as he once was. I think they make a good combination. I am looking forward seeing her at the presidental conventions and then the nignt of nights. I watch Fox at night but I haven’t seen or heard the name Judge. Is he still with Fox? I think Lauren Green is still with Fox. She has special assignments. I see her very little tho. How do I write Kiran? I do think she is very down to earth.
Kep.
The roller skating contest with Julian was obviously an idea of the Fox producers ( they didn’t know she was pregnant at the time) the same as the hoops contest was between Julian and juliet before. They are always coming up with some stupid far out skit or challenge of one kind or another. The same goes for the Angelina costume. I don’t know who picked it out but who’s idea do you think it was for everyone there to wear a Halloween costume? As for the chewing gum, I know Mike can be a little wacky but I’d chew Kiran’s gum any day.
As for Kiran deliberatly pushing Fox into cutting her loose from her contract that’s about as absurd (and stupid) an idea as you have ever come up with. It wasn’t Kiran it was Fox that made it into such a big media deal by bad mouthing Kiran and her agent when they parted ways. They did the same thing to Paula Zahn when she left them for CNN.
Sheila.
I too am looking forward to watching Kiran in the upcoming primary and general elections and the conventions and for many more to come. This lady is just getting started and will be around long after Steve, Brian, Alisyn and Gretchen have departed the news scene. As for the judge, the less I see of him the better.
DonDeAgo,
I’ll bet you can’t wait for Kiran to cover the Democrat Convention. She is surely on the side of the Michael Moore, Code Pink, NARAL, Planned Parenthood agenda that will be dominating the Dem’s big party next summer. It must be flattering to have Chetry on your side. What a proud platform.
Chetry signed with Cnn within 1 hour of FOX cutting her loose from her contract. It’s obvious that she had been talking to Mr. Klein for some time, probably violating the terms of her contract. Do you blame FOX for treating her as they did? It looks to me like she was negotiating with Cnn for far longer than her contract terms allowed. If you employ a person and then they turn around and stab you in the back, don’t you think that’s grounds for termination? She all but said I love Cnn, and FOX, you suck. Don’t you think Klein would do the same thing if one of his employees was talking to FOX when they weren’t supposed to be? Who would want to keep an employee that really wanted to be somewhere else. She’s a Democrat, she belongs at Cnn. FOX was never the place for her.
Better on the side of Michael Moore than George Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of those war criminals in the White House. Michael Moore tried his best in 2004 to end this war and the corrupt, inept and deceitful adminstration that started it. Now he is trying to bring national health care to all of our citizens. Bush on the other hand want’s to make sure that no embryo’s are destroyed for the sake of science but he pushes on with the unending war that he started that has killed tens of thousands of people including 3500 plus of our american soldiers.
Secret prisons that hold people that Bush has deemed enemy combatants without access to attorneys or trial. Tapping the phones and e-mail of our citizens without obtaining warrants issued by the courts to do so. Starting a war using trumped up threats and intelligence. As I read in the paper the other day everyone knows now that you impeach a president for lying about sex. This president should be tried for treason.
With his approval rating at 28% and dropping even Fox is going to need to start criticizing Bush and his administration soon.
DonDeAgo,
You have recited the Cnn talking points perfectly. Now that Kiran is helping to write those Cnn talking points, I’m sure you believe them all the more. I’ll say this, at least the network has someone with a little more personality working for them now. That’s refreshing. A question-Is it okay that Kiran is a biased Democrat for Cnn, but it isn’t okay for those at FOX to be biased towards conservatives? Are you really stupid enough to believe that the majority of the press is liberal, yet they don’t let any of their personal feelings creep into their reporting? 90%+ of those in the press are liberals and contribute to Democrats politically. Can you concede that? If a few conservative members of the press want to give money to Republicans, is that okay with you? Or, should it only be legal for Democrats? Those little angel Democrats of yours, they never do anything wrong. They never have a bias or get a fact wrong. And Kiran wasn’t greedy and self absorbed. Yeah right.
Don & Kep.
DonDeAgo, I agree with you about the war and that Bush has been a lousy and deceitful president but why don’t we keep this a Kiran discussion site not a political one.
Kep, just because Kiran took the opportunity to switch to a better job at CNN does not mean all at once she is no longer a “fair and balanced” news reporter.
Why don’t we all just keep this site confined to a little more Kiran and a lot less politics.
For those of you who might be interested in what Kiran’s husband Chris Knowles has been doing, well, I just read that he’s been hired as the weekend weatherman for NYC’s CW11, WPIX!!
I know it’s not the biggest gig in town, but hey, it’s a start and I’m sure Kiran is very proud of him!
Kiran will be even more proud of him when he gets on Cnn. Is she going to demand that one of the Cnn meteorologists be fired so that her hubby can have the spot? John Roberts did say the other day that Kiran always gets what she wants. He should know-he works with her.
Thanks A.M. for the heads up on Chris Knowles new job. What a bad break for he was well like by Shepard Smith as a writer and producers of Fox News. Hope his marriage holds up for he gave up a lot, and it would really suck in Kiran would ditch him.
What’s your problem Kep? Kiran is one of the nicest people on TV today and all you can do is make nasty, nagative remarks about her. If you really like Gretchen, Page, Courtney and the other ladies at Fox better why don’t you quit wasting your time here and join one their sites?
I miss Kiran! Brian, Steve, Julian and Kiran would have been awesome! They’re my favorites besides Mike and Juliet! Gretchen is boring…at least bring E.D back to Fox and Friends, she’s a ton better to listen to than Gretchen will ever be.
Judy, here’s the deal: I don’t care whether it’s Kiran Chetry or any other person who is working for a business these days-when someone gets a big head and thinks the universe revolves around them, then they deserve whatever criticism they get. She made a big fuss because she wasn’t getting the kind of attention she thought she deserved. There are thousands and thousands of good reporters and anchors in the news business, yet most of them will never be household names or superstars in their field. Do they all act this way, just because they can’t always have what they want? Some spend their whole careers on the bench, yet they still love what they do. She could have accepted that she wasn’t the best anchor or journalist in town and been happy to have had the substantial role that she had at FOX. There are others who had been with FOX much longer than Kiran yet didn’t have the exposure or airtime that she was afforded. Now, she’s at Cnn, still hundreds of thousands of viewers behind FOX & Friends. If she was that big of a draw, she would be stealing FOX viewers by the thousands. She was good on the weekend show for FOX, and I don’t see what was wrong with her staying there. Kiran is too young, too liberal and doesn’t present the image that FOX would want for the weekday show. She appeals to a much younger, hipper, socially liberal crowd than e.d. or Gretchen. I think she overestimated her star power a little bit, but that’s just me.
Apparently CNN disagrees with you and so do I. The only reason that I started watching F&F in the first place was Juliet Huddy and Kiran. I thought that they were smart, cute and sexy bouncing around the set in their sexy short skirts.
Kiran’s almost 33 years old and as far as her politics I never heard her say one way or another. At least at CNN she is allowed to critique the Bush administration from time to time. Something I never saw of heard on F&F.
As for what happened when she left Fox don’t believe everthing you hear coming from their front office. Kiran’s not the first one that they bad mouthed when they departed there.
Kep, If you don’t like Kiran,why are you watching her on CNN? Maybe you need to watch Fox and Friends and Gretchen. I think there are more of us that think Kiran is doing a great job on CNN. She seems fair and balanced on CNN. I agree with Don and Judy.
I hope Kiran doesn’t lose her morning anchor position to Alma (Campbell) Brown..There’s talk that Lou Dobbs may take
over Paula Z’s time slot. That would leave open the 6 pm News hour…And who would be better than JB for that spot?
Anyway, it’ll be very interesting to see how this all plays out.
I stopped watching Fox and Friends when they dumped
E.D. How Gretch got the spot over Kiran and Alison
is beyond me.
Gretchie needs to move on. Get behind the sceens and put some young talent up front to match wit with the two guys east and west of her. She needs a job it should be behind the camera
Just thought of something. During the past year, there has been 3 major hosting changes on FOX & Friends. Julian, E.D. and Kiran are no longer on the show, and guess what? All 3 of them are Democrats.
Kiran is very very cute and will be missed on Fox. But I do see her on CNN. I hope the best for her
So, you’re the one.
FNC should have kept Kiran and Chris. They’re good people!
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200707/fortmiles072007.html
I am so glad that I found this website. I too left F&F when Kiran left. Gretchen is a “disaster” and it looks like Steve never even acknowledges her! I am also glad to know what Chris is doing. My best of luck to two up and coming very successful people.
And here I thought you were watching the show for information not because of who delivers it. Yes I liked Kiren. I also like the others at the network. I thought Juliet was great. But you won’t see me switching to CNN for information just because Kiren (or any other personality) is there. The content has not changed.
I also see comments on how so-n-so was passed over. Maybe Alison or Paige or Lauren were looking for something else.
On the subject of Gretchen being a bueaty queen and therefore a bubblehead, Lauren Green was also a beauty queen. We had a local weather forecaster as well as an anchor here who were former beauty queens. Do you see a pattern ?
Since Karin Chetry has moved to CNN everybody over there has lightened up and actually laugh from time to time. They were always so stiff before.
I haven’t watched Fox and Friends since she has left, I switched over to CNN for the morning sho and never miss it. However just as soon as her show is over I switch back to FOX. It is a much better station, but Fox and Friends has been going down hill ever since Juliet and Mike went to Dayside. Since Dayside is no longer on the air that time slot has gone down hill to. FOX should bring back Linda Vester to do an audience participation show during that time slot. I read that Karin likes working at CNN, but would really like to be a weekday hostess on Fox and Friends and misses working with that format.
I wonder if Kiran misses us as much as we miss her?
A.M., How on earth can anyone miss Kiran? She’s on 5 days a week, 3 hours a day! If you miss her, why don’t you turn on Cnn and watch? For Kiran’s part, I doubt she misses her former life at FOX at all. She now makes gobs of money and is with the best news operation in the world. Plus, she doesn’t have to hang around with who she probably considers to be conservative nutjobs like those found on FOX. She’s with the cool crowd now. The majority. The enlightened. The always compassionate and concerned libs. She’s as happy as a lark. According to some interview, her parents are finally proud of her because she has found ultimate success in Cnn.
Kep.
It look’s like you have finaly seen the light and wised up. Kiran is so much better off now than she ever was at Fox. She now is free to criticize Bush, (the worst president in our history) when the occasion calls for it without “The Judge”, Brian or Steve trying to talk over her and cover for the creep. Your’re right about that too Kep. I’m sure she doesn’t miss those three right wing yo yo’s.
Kiran has it all now. Recognition as co-host of CNN’s morning news program, more money than she ever asked for from Fox and she can now be a truly “fair and balanced” news reporter, not another right wing mouth piece for Rupert Murdoch.
I too am having problems with the morning slot left by E.D. Gretchen is having problems connecting with Steve and Brian. She is making the show uncomfortable to watch. I do think of all the woman…..Allyson is the only one that has that connection with Brian and Steve. It is very hard to watch Gretchen who comes across like she is better than anyone. The jokes etc. go right over her head. As for the weekend show it just doesn’t work. I do not watch this show since Juliette and Mike left. Greg Kelly is the best of the crew but he cannot carry the show alone. I know people need to move on but the replacements are not adding anything to the shows.
I only started watching the Fox morning news shows because of Kiran and Juliet. I thought that they were cute, witty and sexy. It was fun to watch them bouncing around on the set and kidding around with the guys and flashing their legs at us sitting in those low chairs and table in their tight, short skirts. I also thought that E.D. did a good job too and there was nothing wrong with her legs either. Once Juliet and E.D. moved on to the new programs I assumed that Kiran would move to the E.D.’s old spot as the regular weekday lady anchor. I still don’t know what they were thinking in the front office when they gave that job to Gretchen but it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to Kiran.
What a great talk show it would be if CNN could somehow get Mike Jerrick, Juliet and Kiran together. Now that would be one fun show to watch.
It would be much easier, imo, to get Mike, Juliet and Kiran back together at “F&F”, since both Mike and Juliet are still employed by FOX..
Write your letters to R. Ailes @ FOX and let him know how you feel..
After the way Fox bad mouthed Kiran when she left them for CNN I would think Hell would freeze over before she talked to anyone in their front office about a job.
I was only fantasizing. CNN is not about to start a talk show with Kiran, Juliet and Mike and there is no way that Kiran would leave her present position as co-anchor of American Morning for anything that Fox could or would offer.
Fox’s loss is CNN’s gain. I love to watch Kiran. I don’care what the news is.
Anybody that thinks Karin is a Liberal hasn’t been watching her on CNN. Those that say they miss her, but won’t go over to CNN should do it some time. American Morning has become a good show whereas it was horrible before. The people laugh and joke around now. Before they were as stiff as boards. I enjoy watching it and have not watched FOX and Friends since Karin left. I do switch back to FOX once American Morning is over. FOX has better news reporters. FOX and Friends started going downhill when Mike and Juliet went to Dayside.
I never fail to let a week go by without emailing FOX and telling them that I have switched over for my morning show, but will return when they bring back Mike, Juliet, and Karin. They used to start my day with a smile and that’s something the new crew can’t seem to get right. They act as if they are trying to make the show what it used to be, but know they are failing.
Has anybody heard anything about the morning ratings lately?
Vern.
Google Inside Cable News and check out their web page.
They have the daily ratings posted and also a lot of other news on cable programming.
Today F&F had a little over one million viewers and American Morning a little over 1/2 million. That’s a big improvement over the less than 1/3 total viewers that American Morning had compared to F&F before Kiran came aboard.
Ditto, Vern.
I tune in to F&F First only because of Alisyn.
If I’m not mistaken, the Sr. Producer who hired
Gretchen over Kiran in Sept. was shown his/her
walking papers.
Kiran’s morning show has been doing very well since JR’s
been on vacation..It’s clearly her show now! Hopefully, CNN will bring in a new younger co-host.
I would not watch the left wing nut jobs on CNN if Kiran was doing the show nude. What losers they are. Poor Kiran. Hope they treat you better than they did Paula but I doubt it
Check out the ratings for American Morning for last summer during the Middle East conflict. Soledad and Miles had very similar ratings, if not better, during times of big news events. So, Kiran’s improved ratings have more to do with the busy news cycle as of late than any new trend for her program. Check out the archives on Inside Cable back to July and August of 2006 and you’ll see what I mean. Having said that, Kiran is doing much better than her early days at Cnn and has polished herself into one of the media elite. She is part of a much different circle than she was at FOX. I look for her to win many awards for her reporting and to rival Katie Couric as a celebrity and major household name. Could appearances on David Letterman and the Daily Show be far behind?
Well Bonnie I don’t think that Kiran would impress you doing the show nude. Now maybe if your name was Barry, Bobby or Buddy it might.
At least at CNN they are free to criticize Bush and Cheney when they misslead, misspeak or downright lie to the American people.
You would think that Bush was actually doing a good job to hear those far right wing bimbo’s at the Fox Noise Channel.
Fair and balanced. What a joke.
As far as CNN’s treatment of Paula Zahn. I don’t think that giving Paula her own show for the past two or three years is treating her badly and just like they did to Kiran Fox bad mouthed Paula when she left them for CNN.
Wise up Bonnie and start watching a real fair and balanced news channel. Maybe by watching CNN you can actually learn something.
I think Kiran is incapable of ever becoming an elitist snob.
Wow,,,,I guess Wallace didn’t get the memo…You know, the
one that says go easy on the GOP?…
Doesn’t Howard work for CNN?
Howard Kurtz: I saw two of the three interviews Rove did Sunday. NYT television critic Alessandra Stanley said that Fox’s Chris Wallace actually gave Rove the hardest time, resulting in the testiest interview, compared to David Gregory on Meet the Press and Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation. At one point in the discussion of Rove’s cooperation with Capitol Hill inquiries, Rove accused Wallace of acting like an agent of Congress.
RJP, Open your mind…There’s BS sometimes on all News Networks..
The interview Chetry did with John McCain the other day was interesting. She was asking him about Rudy Guiliani and that fact that he was the only Republican Candidate who was “willing to say he was pro-choice” when questioned about it during one of the Republican Presidential debates. Um, maybe Rudy was the only one “willing” to say he was pro-choice because the others are pro-life! Kiran’s phrasing of the question tries to imply that all of them are pro-choice but afraid to say so. Maybe Kiran and other liberals like her don’t like to think that there are actually pro-lifers out here. You can tell when a woman newscaster has a pro-choice bias, and this is just another example.
Kep.
Just when I think you are beginning to come around and see that CNN is the real fair and balanced network you go off on another imaginary tangent about a simple question that Kiran asked one of the candidates.
How would you have her pharaze it? She asked a question as simple and directly as possible to try and get a simple direct answer and you read into it her politics. Even Sigmund Freud could not have done that.
MikeG, I’ve always thought Chetry had a bias towards the pro-choice side, and most of that is based on how she phrases questions that center around that issue. She did it at Fox and now she’s doing it at Cnn. I can remember Chetry laughing when discussing a nominee for the Supreme Court-I think Alito, and how his mom told reporters that he was pro-life. Couple years ago I think. Look, I don’t blame professional women for having the opinion that they do on this subject, and they probably don’t even realize that they are letting their feelings show in their reporting and questioning. The fact is that it does show. Just a reality in that business. Show me a professional career woman that doesn’t get riled and defensive when abortion is brought up and I’ll sell you this expensive penthouse that I now own!
Okay, so how would I have posed that question to McCain about Giuliani? Well, I wouldn’t have used the word “willing” in the question to start with. If Giuliani was “willing”, then I guess it means that the other candidates were “unwilling”. I take that to mean that the others might have been pro-choice but were not “willing” to come out and express it for fear of a conservative backlash. My point is that maybe the other candidates are pro-life in their hearts and so that’s why they didn’t proclaim a pro-choice view….not because they were not “willing” to express it. Chetry used a poor choice of words, at the very least. I tend to think it was just her own feelings getting in the way. She’s not the first in her field to do it, believe me.
Kep,
Excellent find. I’m disappointed that Kiran would phrase a question that way..”willing to say he was pro-choice” what the f***? I have to believe the procducer handed her that question and she just read it the way it was written.
Do you remember how the question came up in the actual debate? How was the question asked? Was it, “raise your hand if you”…?
If so, in that case, Rudy was the only canidate willing to raise or not raise his hand…d***, why did she say “willing”, though…It just comes off elitist..I hope Huckabee or one of the other canidates caught it and bring it up to her some time.
I’m not saying I’m pro-choice or pro-life. I’m just saying, the way she phrased that question was belittling to all GOP voters who “are” pro-life.
A.M., You can read the transcript of this interview on the Cnn website. I think what Kiran meant was that Giuliani was the only candidate to stand up for a woman’s right to an abortion. He’s the only one with true courage to stand up for what’s right, in her opinion. That’s how I read it.
Back in her Fox days, Chetry told a little story of how she walked around her NYC neighborhood for hours, looking for some veterinary facility that would take in a wounded bird that she had found on the sidewalk. These liberals are too much. Walk around for hours, fretting about a bird and its fragility, yet when faced with the horror of little unborn children having their extremities ripped from their bodies, skin being burned with a caustic solution and their skulls punctured by blunt instruments, they jump up and down about it being “their right”. I want to understand why liberals feel this way. If someone is against the death penalty and also against abortion, I can understand that. But I don’t understand those who oppose the killing of convicted murderers and child molesters while at the same time demanding their right to kill a defenseless child in the womb. I want to understand the reasoning to all this, but I haven’t heard a good explanation yet. Look, Kiran is just a part of the liberal media culture. She has her views like anyone else, and it just so happens that she is now with a network that represents her views more accurately. She was liberal at Fox too, but wasn’t as free to show it.
Kep & A.M.
I agree with Mike on this one. Whether Kiran got the question through her earpiece, read it off a teleprompter or just asked it on her own You are both being too sensitive and reading way too much into what started out to be a simple question that deserved a simple answer.
Don, When have you ever agreed with me on anything anyway?
Does Kiran suddenly expect Republican candidates to all come out and say “oh, Roe V. Wade is just great and think it should be the law of the land forever?” Where has she been for the last 30 or so years? Pretty much ever since the early 1980’s, the Republican Party has had a pro-life party platform. Why ask McCain why Giuliani is the only one to support abortion rights? I mean, can’t she figure it out? It’s largely a pro-life party, for goodness sakes! And she’s acting sort of surprised that Giuliani is the only one of the bunch that admits he will do nothing to try to help unborn babies have a little better chance at making it out of the womb. The noble and oh so caring Giuliani. Every liberal’s favorite.
Now Kep.
I completely agreed with a post of yours from a couple of weeks ago about Kiran being happy getting away from those nut jobs at Fox, making more money with the top news organazation in the world, and finally making her family proud.
DonDeAgo
“and finally making her family proud.”
I’m willing to bet the farm Kiran has been making
her family proud for a very long time…
How do you know she’s making more money now? Wasn’t Kiran
out of a job at the time Jon Klein hired her. That’s hardly a strong position to be in when negotiating.
You have to admit the “willing” part of her question
to McCain was a bit lame..
A.M.
Those quotes were Kep’s from a couple of weeks ago, not mine. I was simply pointing out to him that I agreed with him on occasion when he veered a little more toward being a moderate, not a far right wing wacko. I assume that he was being facetious but we can hope that he may be coming around after seeing what Bush has done to our country the past 6 1/2 years.
As far as Kiran’s income that was Kep’s quote too but I again agree with him. There is no way that one of three weekend anchors on F&F can be making what the co-host of American Morning’s regular weekday program makes.
Next time I’ll try and remember to use quotation marks but I knew Kep would know what I was referring to.
I still think that you both are taking a simple question and making way too much out of it.
A.M., It’s only my opinion, but something tells me that Kiran had been negotiating with Cnn for quite some time, and it’s my hunch that Fox didn’t take too kindly to that.
Kiran is the typical feminist liberal. Too bad, because she has lots of talent and a sweet personality. But, in my opinion, that pretty smile and pleasant disposition are tarnished when I ponder the high probability that Chetry is for the continued legalization of the barbaric and inhumane practice of abortion. Expressing horror over the mistreatment of animals (and Chetry has done this many times) while at the same time supporting “a woman’s right to choose” seems like very twisted and illogical thinking to me. I don’t understand it.
Kep.
CNN had been talking with Kiran a short time before her fall out with Fox. Joe Klien said that they had talked with her during her window for exploring other employment oppurtunities and were very impressed but thought that there was little chance that she would be leaving Fox when her contract expired.
He said that when her agent called he couldn’t believe she was available and after contacting CNN President Jim Walton and CNN exec Joel Cheatwood he and Walton closed the deal with Kiran’s agent. Klien said the whole deal was over in less than an hour and Kiran was filling in on American Morning the next day. Klien said that in over 30 years in the business he never saw anything like that happen and he couldn’t believe the deal that had dropped into his lap.
Kep,
Isn’t Kiran or her family or something Hindu?
Anyway, fwiw:
Hinduism teaches that abortion, like any other act of violence, thwarts a soul in its progress toward God. Why does the Hindu community seem silent on the abortion issue? Dr. K. S. Krishnan of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Kerala, India, offered this explanation for the apparent silence: “Personally, I feel that a sannyassi [monk] should have no chance of discussing the private life of a lady. That can only happen when a lady approaches him to become a disciple.” (3)
Nevertheless, Hindu scriptures and tradition have from the earliest of times condemned the practice of abortion, except when the life of the mother is in danger. Hinduism teaches that the fetus is a living, conscious person needing and deserving protection. Hindu scriptures refer to abortion as garha-batta (womb killing) and bhroona hathya (killing the undeveloped soul). A hymn in the Rig Veda (7.36.9, RvP, 2469) begs for protection of fetuses. The Kaushitaki Upanishad (3.1 UpR, 774) draws a parallel between abortion and the killing of one’s parents. The Atharva Veda (6.113.2 HE, 43) remarks that the fetus slayer, or brunaghni, is among the greatest of sinners (6.113.2). (4)
A.M., I saw something on Wikipedia that said Kiran was Hindu, but now it’s been changed to Christian. I have no idea whether she’s either one quite frankly.
Look, all I can say is this-Any human being that can look at pictures of what happens to an unborn baby in an abortion, read descriptions of what is done, and still not be convinced that something very wrong and wicked is taking place……I say shame on them. This shouldn’t be happening in a civilized society. So, the next time I hear Ms. Chetry recounting a sad story about abused or tortured felines, canines, birds or any such creature (and yes, they are precious as well), I will always wonder why the unborn babies should receive any less sympathy or legal protection. There are more legal protections for animals than there are for living humans in the womb. It doesn’t make sense.
Kiran doesn’t talk about her religion much but I did read that her father was Hindu and her mother Christian. she said that she is Christian but has great respect for her father’s religion as well.
Why don’t we just leave religion out of this forum as everyone has their own ideas on that subject.
The main thing is Kiran is a classy, intelligent, witty and beautiful woman with a personality second to none who is doing a great job at CNN.
I don’t care what her religion is. I was trying to make a point that she posed a question to Mr. McCain that indicated an intolerance of those who do not subscribe to a pro-choice belief. When Kiran said that Giuliani was the only candidate who was “willing” to support abortion rights, that indicates to me that she thinks the others were “unwilling”, or wrong, in other words. I’ve heard enough of these pro-abortion news anchors to recognize when they are allowing their personal feelings to become a part of the interview and also when they have an agenda to push. Chetry is no different than Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira or Joy Behar. Give them any other topic to speak about and they may be able to hide their personal feelings for the sake of an interview, but when it comes to abortion and their guaranteed right to have it, there’s no hiding how they feel.
Meredith Viera and Joy Behar were on a program called The View where they were supposed to express their personal view points. Remember Rosey v Bush, The Donald & Elizabeth. Kiran is a news reporter and I don’t think that you will ever hear her express her personal feelings either for or against abortion (Roe v Wade) or anything else in politics.
I think that Kiran has really done an excellant job this past week without John R. I like him but Kiran has really come out and has been so at ease with Rick S. I understand he will be back this week. Am looking forward seeing them both again. Does anyone else feel the same way I do. I agree with Judy W., Kiran is a very classy and intelligent woman with much talent. How can one e-mail her?
I have searched for Kiran’s email, but found nothing. Anyone? Let us know.
Kiran is doing a wonderful job!
I miss Chetry too, but Fox, by not caving in to her agents demands , has shown loyalty to it’s other employees. I feel sorry for Chetry, because she’ll probably go the way of Zahn, but Fox New Channel will continue thrive.
Thespis & Sheila.
To e-mail Kiran just go to CNN’s American Morning web site. The address is http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/american.morning/
Sheila.
It seem’s that Kiran can work well with just about anyone. I guess she picked that up working with the wacky co-anchors she had at Fox.
I agree with you and Thespis. Kiran is doing a great job. She just keep’s getting smoother and more comfortable as time goes by.
Eugenie.
Take a look at the newest cable ratings and you will see that Kiran and American Morning have already cut into F&F’s ratings substantially and I’m sure they will continue to do so. You certainly don’t need to feel sorry for Kiran. She is CNN’s newest star and you will be seeing a lot of this lady in the years to come.
As far as Paula Zahn goes CNN gave her her own program in primetime for over three years. I would not call that treating her badly. Fox is the one’s that bad mouthed Paula when she left them for CNN just as they did to Kiran. They are noted for doing that.
DonDeAgo,
Cnn is no different than any other network when it comes to playing this game. The way I see it, Chetry was “cheating” on FOX, having an affair with Time Warner while still at NewsCorp. What do you think Cnn would do if Anderson Cooper was playing a little footsie with FOX while still on their airwaves? Things like this will get a person booted from a network.
I don’t think that all of the blame for this nasty divorce should be placed solely on the shoulders of Roger Ailes. Chetry may have been justified in wanting a chance at that center chair M-F, but that doesn’t mean you use unethical means to achieve it. She comes out of this looking like a spoiled child who, after not getting what she wanted from Mama (FOX), runs straight over to Daddy (Cnn), knowing she will get her way there. And from the way things turned out, she knew exactly what she was doing.
Look, Paula Zahn is getting up there in years. If you or anyone else thinks that Cnn doesn’t consider looks and age when they put someone on the air, you are living in a dream world. She’d been on for 3 years and they were tired of her, plain and simple. Cnn let Paula’s show die a slow death. Sure, they had such nice words for her as she went out the door. Of course, she was leaving, they were getting rid of her. She “resigned”, remember? Now, what do you think Cnn would have done if Zahn had protested, resisted? Maybe she would have refused to give up her show-then what? You think old Klein would still have those same mushy words for Zahn? Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. The world of cable news isn’t beanbag, and let me tell you, FOX aint the only network who knows how to play hardball.
Kep.
I shouldn’t need to be redundant but I posted (355) the story of Kiran leaving Fox that came from Jon Klien and Inside Cable News.
CNN had talked with Kiran during her window to explore other job offers, were impressed with her but thought they had no chance of signing her away from Fox until her agent called after Fox told her to take a walk.
Klien said he called CNN President Jim Walton and CNN exec Joel Cheatwood and he and Walton closed the deal with Kiran’s agent in less than an hour and she was filling in on American Morning the next day.
Klien said in thirty years in the business he had never seen anything like this happen and he couldn’t believe the deal that had fallen into his lap.
I read that today is Kiran’s 33rd birthday if anyone want’s to drop her an e-mail at CNN. You can clik on the address that DonDeAgo posted to send her a birthday greeting. (Post 364)
Don, one question. Okay, if Chetry and her agent did not behave in the way that FOX has portrayed, then why such silence from Kiran? Has she ever denied that she wanted Gretchen fired? I know that if someone lied about me like that, and especially in such a public forum, I would want the world to know my side of the story. Kiran hasn’t said a thing. I suppose there might be some sort of legal thingy that prevents her from discussing her departure from FOX until a certain amount of time has passed. I can only imagine the dirt she will try and dish about FOX when that right time comes!
Kep.
Kiran has to much class to ever wallow in the mud with Murdoch, Ailes and the rest of those mud slinging creeps in the front office at Fox. Stooping to their level a lady like Kiran just wouldn’t do.
The best way to pay those low lifes off is to make them pay in the wallet with lower ratings.
By the way I read that Kiran’s agent said that what he had asked for from Fox was that if Kiran was not a weekday co-host by a specified date she would again be free to seek employment elsewhere not that anyone at Fox be fired. That seem’s like a reasonable request to me that wouldn’t have locked her into the weekend job the entire length of her new contract.
Lighten up Kep and send Kiran a nice birthday note at CNN.
Well said Judy.
I can’t think of a thing to add to that except to say that I also read that statement from Kiran’s agent. I probably saw it in Inside Cable News.
“Has she ever denied that she wanted Gretchen fired?”
answer: yes
“By the way I read that Kiran’s agent said that what he had asked for from Fox was that if Kiran was not a weekday co-host by a specified date she would again be free to seek employment elsewhere not that anyone at Fox be fired.”
That statement and asking for Gretchen to be fired are basically saying the same thing. IMO, Kiran deserved that middle chair after E.D. left and someday soon FNC will regret not giving it to her!; If they don’t already.
BTW, Kiran’s birthday is this Tue., the 28th of August.
A contract is made to protect both the employer and the employee. A contract that states that an employee may seek employment elsewhere rather than be stuck in a job for several years is not like asking that someone be fired. It merely frees the person to look elsewhere for a better job. Everyone should have the right to better themselves if the opportunity arises.
By the way. I don’t know if it’s true but I read in another post that the person that was responsible for hiring Gretchen over Kiran is no longer working in the Fox front office.
Kep & A.M.
To read the scoop on what happened when Kiran left Fox and joined CNN click on the path below.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i00c30daf8fb3b8f1b92c68de6362e363/
Opps. There seem’s to be a mistake in the path that I posted.
Just go to The Hollywood Reporter web page and I’m sure that you will be able to find the article. The story ran on February 17th.
I wonder if Kiran has any friends left in the business? She totally insulted her colleagues at FOX by basically saying FOX was a second rate organization compared to CNN. Then, she’s at CNN for just a month and she takes Soledad’s job,,I bet some of the female anchors there, especially the one’s who’ve been there awhile, thought they deserved the job..
It was a brilliant move by her agent to get her out of her contract w/FOX..jmo
A.M.
You know as well as everyone else, especialy the other female anchors at CNN that Kiran was hired by Jon Klien to replace Soladad certainly not to be a fill in jack of all anchors. As for offending those right wing dork’s at Fox so be it. Comparred to CNN, the original 24 hour world wide news channel Fox is a second rate organazation.
John B.
Yeah, I agree that that is what Kiran was hired for, however, that doesn’t mean the female anchors have to be thrilled about it. Afterall, when you think about, in FOX’s mind, Kiran wasn’t good enough for their morning show, yet she’s hired immediately to anchor CNN’s morning show. The suits at CNN obviously don’t think too much of their present talent..They even go outside to find a replacement for Paula Zzzzz.
CNN would hire most of those right wing dork’s you speak of in a minute, or perhaps I should say, an hour…
A.M.
Come on now. Do you really think that Jon Klien & CNN would go after Gretchen if she were avaialble? You know that Fox screwed up big time when they hired her and let Kiran slip away to CNN. You also don’t really think that Jon Klien and CNN would have any interest in the three dorks, Steve, Brian or God forbid, The Judge do you?
I think of all of the on air employees at Fox maybe Chris Wallace would be a good fit at CNN. He would no doubt make his father proud to finally be working with a real news channel (in Paula’s old spot perhaps).
Instead of responding to this post A.M. Why don’t you send Kiran a nice birthday greeting at American Morning telling her how glad we all are to have her at CNN to brighten up our mornings.
That’s a good idea John B.
I already set her a birthday card at CNN this past Sunday telling her what a great job she was doing and how like she did on Fox & Friends she made the mornings at CNN more fun to wake up to.
“Do you really think that Jon Klien & CNN would go after Gretchen if she were avaialble?”
I suppose it would depend on how much pressure Gretchen’s husband could apply.
P.S. I’ll send a belated message to Kiran tomorrow when she’s back from vacation.
John B.
The three dorks. That’s a good name for those clowns but wheather you call them dorks, bozo’s, clowns or right wing wacko’s they are in no danger of being known as top rate newsmen. Kiran sure made the right move getting away from that bunch.
Thank’s for the path to CNN Don D. I too sent Kiran a birthday card.
You know, it’s kind of sad when people refer to those who believe in a traditional family and the protection of innocent human life as wackos.
Think about this one. Michael Vick is going to prison, his reputation and career tarnished. He did wrong, no question about that.
Contrast Vick’s situation with that of an abortion provider. The abortion “doctor” goes to his facility each day and, in a premeditated and deliberate fashion, dismembers a human unborn child and throws the parts in a trash can. To show for his lucrative practice, he has a nice house, cars, the respect of his neighbors and community and most of all, his freedom. This goes on thousands of times a day in this country, yet I don’t hear any outrage. Of course, abortion is legal, but that doesn’t make it right. A panel of US Supreme Court justices signed a death warrant for millions of the unborn.
Yeah, Kiran fits right in at Cnn. The pro-choice crowd there must be happy to have her.
Kep:
It seems to me that You’ve gone off the deep end on the abortion issue. It almost looks like you think that Eric Randolph was a good guy, fighting the good fight. I never heard Kiran state her opinion on Roe v Wade or any other political issue and I’m sure that I never will. It’s just your hate of abortion that has clouded your judgement to the point of reading that into her simple question to a political candidate.
Likewise, the comments that I made in my last post had nothing to do with abortion but the general far right wing views that those three (you pick the adjective) seem to advocate.
RJP, I am a mild mannered person who would never espouse violence. Eric Rudolph, not Randolph, is a nutcase and is the kind of person that sets the pro-life movement back, in my opinion. Yes, I do hate abortion. I’m disappointed that you would find a problem with that.
Cnn and most of the other news networks are sympathetic to the pro-choice movement. FOX could also be lumped in with that group as well, but I believe they at least allow opinion on that network that is pro-life. FOX has a few pro-lifers. How many at Cnn? Are they even allowed?
None of these news anchors will go as far as to say they support abortion in such clear terms, but the content of their questions tells the viewer a lot.
So, I’m a nutcase because I think killing defenseless babies while still in the womb is horrific. And when I see the way the media tries to normalize it or sweep the ugly realities of it under the rug and out of public view, it saddens me. Maybe if more women could see the reality of it, they would choose to give life instead of take it. Life is so full of potential! Let those little babies live!
Well Kep, it looks like you managed to kill this Kiran forum by jumping in, inserting your moral and political views and changing it to an anti-abortion forum.
I never heard Kiran voice an opinion on abortion and don’t think that I ever will but as a new mother she certainly doesn’t seem to advocate it.
Why don’t we all leave our personal politics over at Fox and make this a true Kiran forum, not a political one.
DonDeAgo,
I think that anytime a news anchor reports on a topic or asks questions of a guest, their performance and any possible agenda or slant should be fair game for discussion. I think Kiran is pro-choice based on the tone and content of the questions she asks on the subject. That’s my opinion. It doesn’t mean that anyone else has to see it that way. I’ve always noticed how Kiran makes it quite obvious that she is extremely uncomfortable when something happens to an animal. She’s always seemed really sensitive to that sort of thing, and it just kind of hits you in the face when the attitude towards unborn babies doesn’t appear to be quite the same as it is for dogs and cats. That’s the point I’m making. When animals are abused or killed, it’s horrible, criminal, and when it happens to an unborn child, it’s simply a choice. I have a hard time trying to comprehend that mentality. Lot’s of people hold that belief, but I don’t quite understand it, that’s all. Consistency, that’s really all I’m looking for.
Kep:
At the risk of being redundant, there you go again.
You are ruining this website by continuously inserting you own political and moral view points into this forum. RJP was right. You have let your strong anti-abortion viewpoints cloud your judgement to the point of reading into questions things that just are not there. Hell, the question that seems to bother you so much was probably given her by a producer in her earphone or read off of a teleprompter anyway.
Give the rest of us here a break. I’m sure that there are plenty of anti-abortion forums where you can vent your views on this matter.
Let’s keep this a Kiran forum, pleeease.
DonDeAgo, You are so right on this. Let me try to introduce some remarks that have a little substance to them. Kiran looked great today. Loved her hair and tight skirt. Wish they’d get better camera angles. Love those legs.
See, all better. The discussion is back on course!
Amen Brother! She did look great.
You’re right. Nice hair but they were tight pants.
Me too. But Kiran has no bad camera angles.
Oh yeah! Let’s never forget those legs.
Welcome back Kep.
Karin Chetry is not only beautiful but has a great speaking voice and a sunshine quality. I left fox when she left as I’m sure many fox fans did
On F&F this morning they showed a jibjab bit w/Steve,Gretchen,Brian and Alisyn as the stars.. I was only thinking how great it would be if Kiran too was included..
Kiran made F&F so much fun to watch.
A.M., Yeah, but look how much better Kiran is doing with her career at present. While Steve, Gretchen, Brian and Alisyn are featured on jibjab, Kiran is one of the media elite, doing the big stories and serious news. She’s rubbing elbows and probably going to cocktail parties with John Roberts, Larry King and Christiane Amanpour. Kiran is getting respect while those at FOX are getting laughs. You’ll notice how she didn’t waste any time in calling her former employer second rate the minute that Jon Klein had signed her on the dotted line. She used to say how she loved working at FOX. She changed her tune in a hurry!
You’re right again Kep.
Kiran did change her tune and she ain’t just whistling Dixie.
She left that second rate network that calls themselves a “fair and balanced” news channel and the three stooges that work there, Brian, Steve and The Judge and joined the original 24 hour news network. Now that she’s dumped those right wing pin heads only the sky’s the limit.
Only the sky was the limit for the O’briens, Paula ZZs and Bill Hemmer as well. Although Bill eventually opted for job security.
Kiran entered CNN at a time when they’re cost cutting, eg. dumpng reuters as their news gatherer…How long will it take for Klein to figure out American Morning could get the same ratings w/o the high priced Kiran and Roberts?
I wish Kiran well, I really do, but those are the facts.
It seems obvious to me that Kiran is CNN’s rising star. Her future sure looks bright there and I’m not just whistling Dixie either.
As for Paula CNN tripled her Fox salary when they hired her and gave her her own program in primetime for three years so she did alright. I see she’s suing her ex husband for miss-managing 25 million of her money so shes made a few dollars.
I like Miles and think that he could have worked just as well with Kiran as Roberts but Soledad just didn’t have Kiran’s bright, outgoing personality. The shows a lot more fun to watch now. I still like watching Miles when he covers NASA news and space shuttle events or fills in on other CNN programs and hope that he continues to do so.
As far as Bill Hemmer goes, he always bored me and they should send him back to Fox.
Has anyone been able to see Kiran’s husband Chris Knowles doing the weather on WPIX? I heard he’s the weekend weatherman there. He was really good at FOX. I enjoyed his humor. Kiran and Chris are an interesting couple. I remember once when he was on FOX, he was talking to radio talk show host Mike Gallagher about his book called Surrounded By Idiots (referring to liberal lunacy), and Chris said that the book was good and that he had bought it for his dad. He also stood outside the FOX studios in front of Mike’s bus, holding one of Gallagher’s t-shirts. I got a teensy little impression that Knowles might be a Gallagher fan, so I was always quite intrigued that he would be married to Kiran. Is she part of the liberal lunacy that Gallagher refers to? I know that actually quite a few married couples are very different when it comes to politics, and Mike Gallagher is a great example himself. His wife is a liberal Democrat and he is a conservative Republican. Don’t know how that kind of thing works, because if husband and wife hold differing core values, it must be very difficult to remain a couple and to raise children. Oh well, just a thought!
I always thought that Kiran’s husband was a goody, goody two shoes, wishey, washey jerk and never did see what a hot chick like Kiran saw in him.
A Mike Gallagher fan? What an idiot. That guy is so far out there that I heard him say his own wife and mother-in-law won’t listen to his stupid program.
It use to gall me when Fox kept calling themselves fair and balanced and then would repeatedly have that far right wing idiot on as a guest host on F&F. Gallagher’s so far to the right that he makes Rush Limbaugh look like a moderate. His book should be titled I Am An Idiot.
There you go again Kep bringing politics into this forum.
You keep assuming Kiran’s politics and I guess by your way of thinking God help any of their children that didn’t have your right wing “core values”.
As for Kiran’s husband I agree with Mike. That guys a real dork.
What’s so wrong with discussing someone’s views? These reporters are human like everyone else. They do have opinions, and sometimes their human nature allows for those views to become a part of their jobs. It’s very hard for many in journalism to avoid, and I’m including both liberals and conservatives here. And you completely misunderstand my comments about “core values”. I’m just trying to make the point that I would think a married couple would have an easier time of it, especially if they are raising children, to be of the same faith and values system. That can be liberal or conservative. That means two liberals or two conservatives. I would think it a challenge to have one parent believing one thing and the other going in the opposite direction with their values. That’s all I was trying to get across. Kiran and Chris make a good couple, and I think they adore one another. I don’t know Chris’ politics. I just said that he mentioned liking Gallagher’s book and buying it for his Dad.
Does anybody here watch F&F anymore?
Kiran, Juliet Huddy and E.D. Hill were what got me watching them in the first place and now they have all moved on. I thought that all three ladies were smart, cute and sexy bouncing around on the set in their tight, short skirts or sitting behind that low table with the great camera angles to show off their assets. It was fun in the morning watching them kid around with the three stooges, Brian, Steve and even The Judge. The women that are there now just don’t have the wit, looks or personalities of Kiran, Juliet and E.D.
The know it alls in the Fox front office sure have that program heading in the wrong direction.
I thought that it was cute when the woman came on the program today to talk about the biological reasons that single people check out the good looking people more when they enter a party or roomful of people and they used Kiran’s photo as an example of someone the men would look over. Kiran seemed a little embarrassed and John got chocked up laughing about it.
It’s apparent that everyone at CNN realizes what a real babe she is. I’m glad for Kiran but I still can’t figure out how Fox let her get away. Kiran’s worth more than all of the Gretchins, Alisyn’s, and Pages’ put together.
You guys are enamored by her and I am glad she left FOX. She revealed to everyone that she is unethical, backstabbing pweson who deserves to be with her kind: everyone at CNN. I think you are making a big deal about her looks, I do not even think she is pretty. I would not call her ugly, but she is not even I would say is a pretty woman. She is a fake and you can see it by her fake smile and her conceited full of herself attitude. I am glas she left FOX I could not stand her. I can not stand her now!
Well Mary, it looks like you are a brainwashed as most of the F&F fans and that you bought into that hogwash crap that came out of the Fox front office when Kiran left there. If you want to know what really happened when Kiran left Fox, Google or go to the February 17th posting of Inside Cable News and read about it. It’s also obvious that you don’t see Kiran as men do. She is one hot tamale. But it’s more than looks alone. Kiran has it all, a quick wit, looks, intelligence and that great personality that lights up the TV screen.
Don’s right in his post above yours when he says Kiran’s worth more than all of the Gretchens, Alisyns, and Pages put together. He could have added the Ainsleys and Courtneys too. He’s also right when he said that now that she has gotten away from those three stooges, Brian, Steve and The Judge only the sky’s the limit.
FOX said Kiran wanted Gretchen fired and Kiran and her agent claim she did nothing of the sort. It’s their word against hers. None of us were there so I guess we really don’t know what happened. Kiran is a news personality that we see on tv, but we don’t know her personally and therefore cannot say for certain that she didn’t become a person who was difficult to deal with as a co-worker at FOX. If Kiran is the sweetheart and talented hardworking anchor that many viewers perceive her to be, I find it really hard to believe that FOX would suddenly go out of its way to treat her so badly. I don’t believe people just treat someone this way for no reason. It makes no sense. Most of the FOX anchors stay there for years, many times renewing their contracts. I think it’s a place that most of the employees enjoy working at. Kiran used to say she loved it at FOX, and it remains puzzling as to what made all of that change. We may never know.
Mary.
If you want to read the story of how Kiran landed up at CNN read my post number 355 or 367 or you can read it yourself in Inside Cable News.
Jon Klein, the president of CNN in the U.S. said that in over 30 years in the business he had never had a deal like that drop in his lap.
Well John, the numbers don’t lie! Why don’t you load your brain first before you shoot your mouth off? Take a look at the ratings which are an objective finding and you will see that F&F out-rates AM daily. Kyran may be hot tamale for you but evidently not to the most of Americans out there watching. Sure she may have taken some fan viewers with her, personally, I never watched F&F for because of her, in fact, I watched it not liking her style. I must be fair and say that I do not think Gretchen has the personality for that show either, I think she is dry (I prefer Alysyn). However, AM has fallen from grace since Paula Z. years and years ago and it will never recover. Face it, they are a has been in the ratings.
It is career suicide to go from the number 1 cable news network to anything other than the number 1. People do not make those downward career moves willingly, not when you are egotistic (which is why they like to be on TV.)and compete to be the “prettiest” of the news anchors. The fact of the matter is She was fired and that will always remain in her resume. Kudos to FOX for not giving in to demands of that sort, they obviously didn’t feel they were losing their BIG star.
Mary.
You appear to be the typical Fox fan. Someone with their head in the sand that believes everything that Fox puts out of their front office. I’ll bet you even buy into that fair & balanced bull that is nothing more than an inside joke among the people that work in the news business?
Kiran has gone from one of three weekend anchors on F&F to the full time co-anchor on American Morning at CNN, the original 24 hour news channel. She’s gone from bouncing around on pogo sticks and stupid rolorblade racing contests to interviewing world leaders from around the world. She has left those clowns on F&F behind and now works with a real newsman.
If you really want to be objective why don’t you read the article in Inside Cable News that I mentioned in my post above not rely on the Fox p.r. department for your facts?
C’mon Mary.
It’s time to pull your head out of that “Fox” hole and come up for air.
Oh John, I am a FOX viewer because I choose to be. Last time I checked I had free will and and could decide for myself. I do not always agree with everything I hear, but I watch becasue I want to. Regardless of what you say, FOX is #1 and CNN “original news channel” or not, is still second fiddle.
Now, how does it help anyone’s career (ie.Kyran) to go from being exposed to a MUCH, MUCH, larger audience to a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH smaller audience? Perhaps she should go back to her math basics. Oh! I know! CNN has brainwashed her and now all of the sudden she believes that numbers don’t matter, yes, that must be it. Yes, of course, you must have attended the same CNN University where they call one third the new 1.
I will not read your article because I choose not to. I perceive that it is full of opinion and not facts, because if it were soley facts, you would know the ratings put FOX ahead of ALL other news channels, and that John, is undeniable, even for you who “need not come up for air”. These are not FOX numbers, these are the AP numbers, John.
You should take a closer look in the mirror, it seems that you were describing yourself in your comment above (the one with the head in the CNN hole who needs to come up for air).
John B.
You may as well quit wasting your time on Mary.
She obviously is another far right Fox & Fiend viewer that isn’t interested in reading Inside Cable News or anything else that doesn’t come out of that right wing propaganda house they call the Fox front office. I’ll bet that she still think’s that war that Bush started was a good idea and the right thing to do. After all you never hear any of the F&F people question how Bush miss-led the country into it.
I also notice that she seems to equate the number of viewers F&F has with the quality of the program. The two have nothing to do with each other. Fox is a variety show with the three stooges, Brian, Steve and The Judge as the hosts.
CNN is a real news channel.
As I said in my post above (401) the only reason that I ever took the time to watch F&F in the first place was Kiran, Juliet and E.D. Hill. Now all of them have moved on and so have I.
By the way. I see that Maxim mens magazine voted Kiran the hottest news babe in the U.S.
Don, If Cnn is a real news channel, then why are they spending so much time on this O’Reilly thing that was dug up by the left-wing George Soros crowd? Now, before you go off on a tangent about how FOX does a lot of stories on this non-news type stuff, I want to say that you would be correct. FOX does carry a lot of fluff, but let’s remember, Cnn is above all of that. Cnn is not quite as left-wing as they used to be, but they do spend an awful lot of air time trying to stir up racial tensions in this country. Their “Out in the Open” program talks about race every single night of the week. Do they want everyone to go around thinking about race 24/7, wondering if their next door neighbor is a closet racist? Talk about race baiting. And Ms. Kiran looked so smug the other day, getting the opportunity to take a few shots at Bill O’Reilly and FOX. Wow, that ought to bring up their dismal ratings by a couple of viewers at least. While at FOX, she would say bad things about Cnn, now at Cnn, she throws mud at FOX. These news folks are nothing more than a bunch of bought and paid for phoney baloneys. You know what these news people are really loyal to? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Kep.
What CNN and every other news channel should want to know is with all of the things that are wrong in this country today why are the Republicans making such a big deal out of an ad run in a newspaper by Move On. Our do nothing congress even wasted the little time that they are in session to vote their disaproval of it. I think that we all know the answer to that question. The people that are complaining the most are the same hypocrites that were behind the smear ads that were run against John McCain and John Kerry a few years ago when they were running against Bush. They are the same low lifes that slimed Max Cleland, a man that lost an arm and two legs fighting in Vietnam by placing him in an ad with Osama bin laden.
Bill O’Reilly is an overbearing, pompous, conceited, self centered, arrogant (did I leave anything out) jerk. He tries to bully and intimidate any guest that disagrees with him or any court, judge, mayor or state that doesn’t inforce the law the way that he think’s that they should. He reminds me of Joe McCarthy in a lot of ways and that scares me. He will probably make CNN his next crusade. I never heard Kiran take any shots at Fox or O’Reilly but I did hear her ask Roland Martin if this was O’Reilly’s Don Imus moment. It wasn’t but he will surely have one someday.
I haven’t watched the program Out In The Open yet but I will check it out.
I think that JJ did a great job of pointing out to O’Reilly that all of the media attention about this unimportant incident was drawing attention away from the much more important 50th anniversery of Little Rock 9. I’m sure that O’Reilly being so self centered and into himself didn’t agree.
DonDeAgo,
You are obviously a far left winger who believes all that goes wrong with the left is a “Far Right Wing Conspiracy” and nothing CNN does is wrong. Have you ever heard of the Halo Effect? Because it is clear they have that effect over you.
I wouldn’t consider myself a far left winger. To me a far left winger believes that the Bush bunch either are behind what happened on 9-11-01 or that they knew about it and let it happen thereby murdering over 3,000 of their own citizens. I believe that they are responsible for the deaths of over 3,000 of their own citizens by starting and continuing the war in Iraq.
I could point out dozens of things that Bush and his low life cronies have done in the last six plus years that has taken our country down the tubes and lost us the respect of the rest of the world but I don’t want to turn this into a anti-Bush forum.
Let’s get back to Kiran and her move to CNN.
Blah, Blah, Blah, is that all you liberals, far leftists or centrics fall-back on? Unfortunately, someday (sooner than later) we will see major attacks on our homeland, but or now, thank GOd that our troops are fighting them in their homeland. However, once they come home, so will the muslim extremists. So perhaps you should show a little bit more gratitude for their sacrifices so that you and I can enjoy the freedoms of expressing ourselves and “voicing” our opinions.
Now, regarding Kiran, I was watching FOX this morning and only after a commercial break I went to CNN and it just so hapenned that John and Kira were introducing the stories coming up, and when it came turn for Kira, she chicked up! She started coughing and had to walk away from the stage. Fortunately for her, John was there to pick up her pieces. Imagined if she had been there by herself? So see, I watched just long enough to show them the “would be rating” went to their nemisis, FOX News Channel.
I watch in the mornings, F&F and I smile through the entire program becasue of the hosts and many times, it gets me laughing because they are so light hearted and their personalities shine through, it is just pleasant to watch certainly it lightens it up before getting started on a busy day. But with CNN, it is drab, boring, lacks interest, enthusiasm, and exitement and now, Kiran is an all too much a oart of that. Kudos to her!
I can’t believe it. In Mary I actually have found someone dumb enough to buy into that Bush bull of “if we don’t fight them there we will be fighting them here” crap. Because of Bush invading Iraq, stirring up the whole Middle East and turning them against us we probably will be fighting them here someday soon.
Mary. If you want comedy in the morning instead of news why don’t you just watch cartoons not those clowns on F&F? It sure doesn’t take much to please you. I bet you even think Rush Limpbrain is funny.
RJP.
Give Mary a break.
She can’t help it that she’s been brainwashed by Fox and the Bushies.
Let’s get back to Kiran.
Mary. I didn’t see that part of the show I was probably in the shower but if Kiran had another choughing spell this morning that makes three days in a row that she’s had that problem. I’m beginning to be a little concerned.
Don, Hey, maybe Kiran is back smoking those cigarettes again. Smokers do have a tendency to relapse. If I had to work with John Roberts I’d start smoking too.
Better to work with John than the three stooges, Brian, Steve and The Judge.
Thanks but no thanks. I need not defending. I am not brainwashed and I CHOOSE (get it people? CHOOSE to watch F&F. Why does that make me less of a “smart” person than anyone of you out there? So is my intelligence dependent on what I choose to watch? I beg to differ. I happen to hold two Bachelor of Science degrees, I hope that defines my intelligence rather than what I watch or not watch.
Anyway, now I understand why Kiran said what she said this morning when she started coughing. She looked at John and uttered “Murphy’s Law” as she turned around and gave her back to the camera and put her nad over her mouth. John quickly asked her, “Should I take it from here?” (or something similar) and she notted “yes” and exited the stage. That’s when John read her script. This is the only time I have seen her cough, but if this was the third time in as many days, then it is an indication that she is choking up and it doesn’t look good on her. Who knows what could happen…..
Mary, Kiran’s coughing I’m sure could be caused by many things, but there’s one thing I’ve noticed. It always happens at either the top or bottom of the hour when she is supposed to read headlines or quick hits, never in the middle of an interview. Who knows, maybe it’s something that’s planned, you know, to make the show a little more lively. I can’t believe that she wouldn’t be taking something to control a tickle in the throat, especially considering her job. Or, it could be a little tobacco in the throat or maybe an allergy. One thing is for sure, it comes off as looking unprofessional. I can’t see Soledad doing something like that.
Mary.
We all believe that you’re smarter than Bush. Does that make you feel better? Maybe not.
You stick with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest along with Fox & Friends, Ann Coulter, Rush and perhaps Mike Galgher too. At least you are loyal and true blue. Don’t cut and run. Stay the course and hope for the best. That’s what we did in Vietnam and you see how well that worked out. As Rush would say Kudos to you too.
The best thing that Kiran ever did was to get away from Fox and move to CNN. You will see her covering the conventions for them next year and she will truly do it in a fair and balanced way.
MikeG, I can picture Kiran covering the Dems Convention. Will she be one of the women holding up one of those pro-choice signs?
Kep:
Lets see if we can figure this problem with Kiran’s coughing out.
It always happens at the top or bottom of the hour. That takes up most of the time, all but the quarter of the hour. Maybe they will do the quarter hours on Monday.
How about theory number two. They do it to liven up the program. I guess it would liven up the program as much as Brian or Steve’s stupid jokes do on F&F.
Theory three. A little tobacco. After seeing what happened to Peter Jennings a short time after he started smoking again I doubt that Kiran or any other news person would resume smoking once they had stopped especially a new mother with a baby in her home.
Theory four. An allergy. I’m sure that Soledad is to professional to ever let a common alergy effect the way that she did her job. Shame on Kiran!
I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we bring in Dr. Sanja Gupta and let him figure it all out.
No Kep. She’s to fair and balanced for that.
She will be the one interviewing the women that are holding up the pro choice signs.
MikeG, Oh, and I can’t wait to see Ms. Chetry’s demeanor when she interviews them! I bet she will be lovin’ every minute of it.
Don, Lots of people know smoking is dangerous, but millions continue to do it anyway, and I know several people who quit smoking for many years, only to take it up again. It does happen. It’s called addiction. I’m not saying that is the reason for Kiran’s coughing, choking, whatever we want to call it, I’m just saying it’s one possibility. Just one. She used to smoke, that’s a fact admitted by Kiran herself. She found it easier to quit because she could no longer smoke in bars in NYC. Shep Smith at FOX smokes, as does Lou Dobbs at Cnn. Lots of smokers in the news business. Very high stress with lots of deadlines and irregular working and eating hours.
“Kiran looked so smug the other day, getting the opportunity to take a few shots at Bill O’Reilly and FOX”
Tough. O’Reilly had it coming for calling Kiran “Karen Chetney” not once, but
twice (holding up two fingers) on his show last year.
In fact, they should have Kiran anchor a “Special Investigaions Unit” presentation
into this whole matter of O’Reilly and his racist beliefs. Ridiculous? You decide.
(tongue in cheek).
A.M., Yeah, I forgot about O’Reilly pronouncing her name wrong when she was on his show. That would probably give her a little added incentive to go after him! Of course, when Kiran first joined Cnn, Larry King called her Chetney and then said something about her name sounding like Chutney, a spice of some kind. I wonder if she’s ticked at him too?
I didn’t hear any cuts at O’Reilly when Kiran interviewed Roland Martin the other day but I thought that Jesse Jackson stopped O’Reilly in his tracks when he was on his program and said to him in a quiet mannor you’ve told everyone here how you feel about it now let me talk. He then said it’s really to bad that something so uninportant as the O’Reilly at Sylvia’s incident was being discussed more than the 50th anniversery of the Little Rock 9 desegragation.
I’m sure O’Reilly being the conceited self centered jerk that he is though otherwise.
O’Reilly talks about how CNN has been slimeing him for ratings when he’s the one devoting all of the air time to it. I haven’t heard Kiran or John mention it since her interview with Martin.
Don, Have you not heard of Rick Sanchez? I believe he devoted a lot of time to the O’Reilly story this past week, and even allowed a guest of his to call Juan Williams a “happy negro” twice on his program, totally unchallenged. Now, let’s be truthful about this. Would a white conservative get away with calling a black person a “happy negro”. Why is it that conservatives are jumped on for every little thing they say, and yet one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party, Robert Byrd of WV, is a former member of the KKK? Seems no one has a problem with him, and he was a klansman!
In regards to Kiran, I just want Cnn to live up to that gold standard of “the most news” that she couldn’t wait to talk about the minute she was hired at Cnn. I’m sure she hated the petty stuff that was discussed on FOX & Friends and couldn’t wait to get away from it, so I would be really interested to hear just how she feels about this kind of crap being a part of that quality morning program of theirs. If you want my opinion on the whole thing, I’m sick and tired of both sides playing these games, parsing every single sentence that comes out of someone’s mouth. So what, someone said something offensive. I marvel at how these media types rant and rave about someone uttering an offensive word about someone, but then they’ll go home and watch some trashy sitcom or go to the comedy club and listen to someone cussing a blue streak. Kiran loves hip hop like 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg. How on earth can she point fingers at anyone else and something they may have said when she obviously doesn’t have a problem with that crap. Oh, that’s right, I forgot, black people can use that language, it’s okay when they do it.
Oh, and I forgot to add Eminem to the list of Kiran’s favorites. And I might as well throw in Chris Rock for good measure. She is a fan of all of this kind of stuff, yet she finds fault with O’Reilly’s words? We will probably find out any day that she is a huge fan of Bill Maher.
This is all just typical liberal double standards. They can do it but we cannot. We are racists and they are not. I know how it works.
You people that call yourselves conservatives kill me.
Your almighty leader Reagan ran up a bigger debt during his time in office that all of the former presidents in our history combined. This debt was not to pay for any programs that would benefit our citizens but to pad the pockets of his wealthy friends. After Bush Sr continued this program President Clinton turned everything around and dispite having a hostile congress to deal with for six of his eight years in office. He turned in the first budget surpluss since LBJ. Then came Bush Jr and his tax cuts, runaway spending policies and fiscal disaster. CONSERVATIVES? Need to say more?
Now with all of our problems today