CNN-HN replacing Glenn Beck with a Rachel Maddow-esque anchor?

[Lex]

I only say that because the Glenn Beck's replacement is an out lesbian. Pretty much that's where the similarities end. Interesting move on CNN - HN's part though.

From TV Newser:

Friday, Oct 17
Jane Velez Mitchell to Anchor HLN's 7pmET Hour

Headline News has placed Jane Velez Mitchell in the 7pmET slot being left vacant by Glenn Beck. Velez Mitchell is being brought on as interim anchor for the hour. How interim, is not known.

The program to be called Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell premieres live tonight at 7pmET. Beck's final Headline News show aired last night, hours after the announcement he was joining Fox News Channel.

Executive VP of CNN Worldwide Ken Jautz calls Velez Mitchell "a known and proven quantity to the Headline News audience." Jautz tells TVNewser, "The fact that she's Nancy's principal sub host will help us with improved audience flow between the shows. That's been one of our weaknesses."

Jautz met with the Beck staff today, all of whom will be kept on to produce the Velez Mitchell hour. Conway Cliff continues on as executive producer. Says Jautz, "the show will be similarly formatted to the Glenn Beck show which is a point-of-view discussion on topical events. It's not our intention to be a crime show or solely political show but a topical event-driven show."

From her wiki entry:

Jane Velez-Mitchell (b. September 29, 1955) is a television news journalist, often seen commenting on high-profile cases for CNN, MSNBC, Court TV, Fox News, E! and other national cable TV shows. She also frequently guest hosts for Nancy Grace on her CNN Headline News Show. Velez-Mitchell reported for the nationally syndicated Warner Brothers/Telepictures show Celebrity Justice.

In the courtroom for the entire Michael Jackson molestation trial, Velez-Mitchell appeared daily on Nancy Grace. She was featured on CNN’s Larry King Live on several occasions, including the evening of the verdict.

Velez-Mitchell previously spent more than a decade anchoring and reporting for KCAL-TV in Los Angeles. Prior to her role on Celebrity Justice and after leaving KCAL, she was a reporter and occasional fill-in anchor for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. She also served as a reporter/anchor for eight years at WCBS-TV in New York City.

She is the recipient of a Los Angeles Emmy Award and a New York Emmy Award. The KCAL-TV newscasts she co-anchored won three Southern California Golden Mike Awards and an Emmy. She also wrote, directed and produced “Dancing Through Life,” an award-winning documentary.

Velez-Mitchell wrote Secrets Can Be Murder: What America’s Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves, which delves into the secrets unearthed in more than twenty of the most widely covered murder cases of recent times. The book's premise is that, by studying the secrecy and deceit embedded in these tragic scenarios, we can learn to opt for honesty in our own lives and avoid similar outcomes.

Velez-Mitchell is openly lesbian<1> and is well known as an animal rights advocate, a vegan and an environmentalist. While working at Celebrity Justice, Velez-Mitchell’s reporting on animal cruelty earned the show two Genesis Awards from the Humane Society of the United States.

I'm guessing she will be a vast improvement on that hack right wingnut Beck.

[chelsea0011]

1. Anything will be better but a frequent guest on Nancy Grace?

Ouch!

[Lex]

14. yeah, that's too bad

maybe she can overcome that LOL

[chknltl]

2. Tokyo Rose would be an improvement over Glen Bleck

I'll not be tuning in to CNN regardless. Jack Cafferty, imo is the only one worth watching over there. I like Christian Amanpour too but truth be told, I rarely if ever watch TV news outside of Rachel Maddow and Kieth Olberman....(and sometimes Tweety)

[itsrobert]

3. Time for Ed Schultz or Steph Miller

to get their own network show.

I think Ed would be interesting. Even with his faults.

[Old and In the Way]

4. I suspect that Beck was let go. Probably gave him time to cut a deal with

the Republican News Network. Once that was done, Velez-Mitchell was waiting in the wings to take that slot over. Beck's show was a joke and a ratings loser for CNN. He'll do much better on Fox where he can reflect the moronic views of his natural audience.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Oh yeah.

Beck's share numbers were in the single digits. Numbers like that don't attract advertisers, and with the apparent political shift in the nation, advertisers are not gonna take to being bundled onto Beck's show. Frankly, right wing frothers from radio just don't cut the ice on TV. Just ask Pigboy. They all have a face for radio.

[Lex]

11. LOL

:rofl:

[dkofos]

5. Just glad to see beck gone.

[rucky]

6. Sounds promising. n/t

[Reform]

8. They should have gave it to....

Jack Cafferty

[Lex]

10. it could be he doesn't want a full time show just yet

considering

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[Lex]

12. Ummm

:thumbsdown:

[Greyskye]

13. that's considered 'hate speech' around here

But welcome to DU?

[anigbrowl]

15. Meh

Anyone from the Nancy Grace show is not much better than Beck. I loathe that daily exploitation show and Nancy Grace herself. I iwsh CNN would get rid of both her and Lou Dobbs, and all of their waaaahmbulance-chasing apprentices.

[Lex]

16. A live shot of a dog turd for an hour would be better than Beck.

nt

[David Zephyr]

17. I thought CNN had just renewed Beck's contract for millions of dollars.

What gives?

[CitizenPatriot]

18. oh, Glenn. not the best career move.

you had to know the winds were going AWAY from Fox. They are at risk of losing all credibility, nay, pretense of being a news show.

You deserve this.

[Lex]

19. He does deserve it. So much.

I hope he was actually fired by CNN.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. I have been watching Velez-Mitchell and for years never knew she was a lesbian.

Of course, I will be watching closer now ...

Heh heh.