Campbell Brown Leaving CNN

The anchor of CNN’s 8 PM ET broadcast has reportedly had enough of her nightly ratings war with FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC; she’s asked to be released from her contract with the network, The New York Times said Tuesday.

Brown’s departure, first reported by the blog Mediaite, comes as the network has suffered deep losses in its prime-time viewership since its 2008 political ratings surge. A source familiar with the situation confirmed that Brown has been in talks for some time with the network about making a change. She sought to have her program moved an hour earlier, to the time slot anchored by Lou Dobbs, until he abruptly left the network, but that hour went to John King.

Brown made a big splash when she joined CNN from NBC, but was not able to draw ratings on a par with the opinion-oriented shows hosted by her rivals. So far this year, her viewership is down 38% compared with the same period last year.

Campbell Brown will step down as CNN’s 8PM news anchor due to low ratings, the NY Times has confirmed.
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Austin plane crash

Joseph Andrew Stack has been identified as the pilot who crashed into the Austin Government building. Reports are surfacing that prior to taking off, he set his own house on fire, plus he had an ongoing feud with the IRS – the government agency located in the building in which the plane crashed.

The pilot of the single-engined plane that hit the seven-storey office has been named as Joseph Andrew Stack.

Most employees were evacuated but one person remains unaccounted for, a spokesman for the Austin fire department said.

The White House said the crash did not appear to be an act of terrorism.

While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.

How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand.

CNN taps Candy Crowley to lead reconfigured Sunday show

Crowley will be starting on Sunday, February 7th, replacing John King, who launched the State of the Union just over a year ago. King will move to host the CNN on the day of the week at 7 pm

CNN) new Sunday lineup will feature State of the Union in a new block of one hour (instead of 4 hours of original) at 9 am, followed by Fareed Zakaria GPS at 10 am and reliable sources at 11 am

Below is a complete declaration of CNN:

Candy Crowley to take the President of Anchor CNN’s State of the Union
CNN Announces New Sunday lineup Begin to 7 February at 9 am

Senior political correspondent Candy Crowley was appointed anchor of CNN on Sunday morning political program, and the State of the Union, was announced today by Jonathan Klein, director of CNN / US Crowley will take the reins of power at the beginning of the program Sunday, February 7th 9 am to 10 m). The program will continue the tradition of hosting an hour ofpolitical newsmaker interviews together with the analysis of the week the most important issues.

“Candy for the rare combination of wise insight and a healthy disregard for politicians play games and make it one of the most honored journalists andpolitical personalities, one of CNN viewers,” said Klein. “Every day one of Washington has said it will translate words into English and clear that every American can understand, because they were doing better than any reporter to overcome decades of time.”

Veteran CNN correspondent Candy Crowley will be host of the network’s Sunday morning political talk show.

Crowley replaces John King, who is leaving the show he started after one year. King has a new weekday evening show that’s expected to debut on CNN soon. Her appointment was announced on the air Sunday.

The hour-long show airs at 9 a.m. ET, and is repeated with updates three hours later. Crowley has been with CNN since 1987. She has covered all but one of the national political conventions since the nomination of Jimmy Carter in 1976.