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| Jake Tapper and Bill Weir get Piers job | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 8 2014, 05:54 PM (340 Views) | |
| Guest | Mar 8 2014, 05:54 PM Post #1 |
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Piers Morgan will end his show in three weeks and at the end of March will temporarily be replaced by a rotating team of hosts Jake Tapper and Bill Weir, announced CNN. Unfortunately, despite being off to strong start with his show Piers Morgan Live, the British host was never really able to build an American audience. Morgan said in an interview with The New York Times that he has never really been able to connect with Americans. 'It’s been a painful period, and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings,' Morgan said. Morgan is also known for disputing the U.S. Constitution, namely the 2nd amendment of the constitution which gives Americans, 'the right to bear arms.' 'Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it,' Morgan said. 'That’s run its course, and Jeff and I have been talking for some time about different ways of using me.' Breitbart reports that CNN is testing both Jake Tapper and Bill Weir as well as a few other mystery hosts to see if they will be able to build and audience for the hour. Tapper is a former ABC Senior White House Correspondent and Weir was a former ABC anchor on Nightline. 'Bill Weir was not brought to CNN to replace Piers Morgan,' CNN officials said late last year. Now Weir is simply auditioning for Piers Morgan's place on television. There have even been rumors that CNN is talking about giving Jay Leno his own evening show. Piers Morgan has claimed the imminent end of his much-vaunted nightly show on CNN will actually allow him to do the kind of interviews he always wanted to do on the cable network. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576370/Piers-Morgans-end-three-weeks-replaced-potential-hosts-Jake-Tapper-Bill-Weir.html __________________________________________________- Can't stand Tapper, his show has no ratings so Weir better shine. Is this the best CNN can do? They should have been training Piers replacement before announcing his leaving. |
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| Tybee | Mar 8 2014, 06:21 PM Post #2 |
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I haven't the slightest idea who Jake Tapper or Bill Weir are. |
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| Guest | Mar 8 2014, 08:30 PM Post #3 |
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![]() Jake Tapper CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper joined the network in January 2013. His one-hour weekday program The Lead with Jake Tapper debuted in March 2013. The program seeks to examine and advance stories that demonstrate Tapper’s own curiosities and interests with headlines from around the country and the globe, from politics to money, and sports to popular culture. Tapper has been a widely-respected reporter in the nation’s capital for more than 14 years. His most recent book, The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, debuted in the top 10 on The New York Times best seller list. Tapper joined CNN from ABC News, where he most recently served as senior White House correspondent, a position he was named to immediately following the 2008 presidential election. In this role, Tapper contributed regularly to Good Morning America, Nightline and World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, in addition to serving as substitute host of This Week and writing for his blog, Political Punch on ABCNews.com. Tapper has earned the coveted Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage from the White House Correspondents’ Association an unprecedented three consecutive times. He also played a key role in ABC News’ Emmy award winning coverage of the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, and its Murrow-Award winning coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden. In his more than nine years at ABC News, Tapper covered a wide range of stories, visiting remote corners of Afghanistan, covering the war in Iraq from Baghdad, and spending time in New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levee system. In 2008, he served as the lead political reporter for the coverage of the presidential election. He traveled to early voting states across the country for interviews with the candidates, including the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees, then-Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. Prior to joining ABC News, Tapper served as Washington correspondent, then national correspondent, for Salon.com. He began his journalism career at the Washington City Paper and his reporting has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Weekly Standard, among others. He has drawn caricatures and illustrations for the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and his comic strip, “Capitol Hell,” appeared in Roll Call from 1994 to 2003. In 2001, he hosted the CNN show Take 5, a weekend program that featured young journalists talking about politics and pop culture. Tapper is the author of three books, including The Outpost, Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, which was published in 2001, and Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story, which was published in 1999. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 1991 and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, daughter, son, dog, and two cats. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/tapper.jake.html _________________________________________________________ Weir is so new he doesn't have a profile yet. Both are from ABC and Weir did Nightline. The one thing I don't want to hear is the hosts opinion, just draw out the guest. Have plenty of booze in the green room.......lol |
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| Tybee | Mar 8 2014, 09:12 PM Post #4 |
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I'm afraid neither one will get my viewership. I've completely given up on television news. Or what they try to pass off as TV news these days. Chet Huntley and David Brinkley must both be rolling over in their graves. |
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