PLEASE SIGN MY 'BRING BACK AARON BROWN' PETITION!! !!! !!!! !!!!!

[isweetpotatol]

They got rid of Aaron Brown because of the new CNN Pres John Klein, who wanted to format the show in a more fox-ish style to combat Greta Van Susteren's rising ratings. We all have to admit-- compared to everyone else out there (save Keith Olbermann) Aaron Brown was the best. Here's a petition that is being presented to CNN in NY at the end of Nov. PLEASE SIGN!!!!!!

Bringbackaaronbrown.com


ps.
if you don't like aaron brown, please don't post a mean reply message to me. I have good intentions and don't mean to get anyone mad.

[sandnsea]

1. I signed

I like Aaron Brown. He always knew when stories were too important to spin and there isn't anybody else at CNN who knows that. I think CNN is making some awful decisions. Hard to believe it could be worse than it was last year, but it is.

[Radio_Lady]

78. OT: Kategabrielle, your watercolors are beautiful. Just an aside.

[Digit]

2. I signed

I am suffering from Wolf overload. Can't watch Wolf but in brief segments.

[isweetpotatol]

4. re: wolf

Is he too monotone or is it just me? if they are trying to boost ratings, i can kind of see adding more anderson cooper since he is charismatic, but more wolf blitzer? a bottle of flat soda has more charisma than him!

[Bluebear]

7. I just don't think CNN will respond to a petition

When the die is cast in the entertainment/news world, it is unfortunately cast. I am sorry you lost one of your favorites on the air though.

[texpatriot2004]

3. I signed. I like Aaron Brown. nm

[NNN0LHI]

5. No thanks. I didn't forget the 3 part series Brown...

...did about Kerry's "girlfriend" that was all BS right before the election last year.

Don

[Lex]

49. Yep.

I remember that.

[MaineDem]

6. How many of these have you posted?

I think I see three.

[isweetpotatol]

48. yes three

it was an accident, because my computer was loading slow, see my other post "oops"
sorry

[wellst0nev0ter]

8. I Never Forgot How He Carried Water For The War

If CNN wants to become more FAUX-lite, I'm not shedding a tear for them.

[Individualist]

43. Nor have I

forgotten the snarky replies he sent to some DUers who emailed him opposing the war.

[PA Democrat]

56. I was one of them

I won't miss Aaron Brown. He was arrogant in his defense of his reporting on the lead-up to the Iraq war, and ultimately, he was proved wrong.

[mod mom]

9. I signed and forwarded.

[NNN0LHI]

10. spam

[isweetpotatol]

11. REMINDERl Please sign aaron brown petition if you haven't already!

For anyone who wasn't awake at 2AM when the petition was started, this is just a notice that there is a 'Bring Back Aaron Brown' petition at http://www.bringbackaaronbrown.com >Bringbackaaronbrown.com.

If you are thinking to yourself that he wasn't that good, think harder about all of your alternatives (i.e. wolf blitzer, paula zahn from fox and daryn keagan, rush's girlfriend) and you'll want aaron brown back asap! Of all of the cnn personalities, he is perhaps the least right wing. (I'm not saying he is left wing, just the least right wing) and we need him back for balance, or we at least need to tell cnn that we supported him and now that they are going to route of fox we will not support them anymore.

please visit my petition at http://www.bringbackaaronbrown.com >Bringbackaaronbrown.com.


Thanks tons~

PS
if you hate aaron brown, please don't write a nasty reply to my post. I have good intentions and do not need to incite any anger. thanks!

[ananda]

12. your link doesn't work!

uh oh

[isweetpotatol]

16. www.bringbackaaronbrown.com

try this link and if it doesnt work, just type www.bringbackaaronbrown.com in your browser.

bringbackaaronbrown.com

[barb162]

23. Done; I like Aaron Brown a lot!

[saracat]

13. This won't open for me! I like Aaron and would like to sign this!

[isweetpotatol]

18. bringbackaaronbrown

try this link and if it doesnt work, just type www.bringbackaaronbrown.com in your browser.

bringbackaaronbrown.com

[isweetpotatol]

14. LINKS DIDN"T WORK

If my links didn't work, try these:

Bringbackaaronbrown.com

[NVMojo]

15. please get a better link! I will sign this!

[isweetpotatol]

17. bringbackaaronbrown.com

try this link and if it doesnt work, just type www.bringbackaaronbrown.com in your browser.

bringbackaaronbrown.com

[NNN0LHI]

19. Mods. This poster is spamming the board

General Discussion forum
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Really bummed about Aaron Brown...
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[Blue_In_AK]

20. Signed - thanks for the improved link. n/t

[CTD]

21. Can someone explain why we want him back?

Being less right-wing than a few other CNN blathering heads doesn't cut it with me. And he's definitely less liberal than the guy who replaced him, Anderson Cooper.

How soon we forget Aaron Brown's cheerleading during the early stages of the Iraq war. No questioning. Just blind cheerleading.

Less bad =/ good

[Sequoia]

22. Okay!

[Connie_Corleone]

24. You're spamming the board.

How many times are you going to post this?

[apollo56]

59. I HOPE THIS IS A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

We got rid of him in the Pacific Northwest and now CNN! His program is the same night after night and gets boring but it is a good show to nod off on! He refused to work any overtime when he was needed and would not change his program to make it interesting. Thank goodness he is gone - maybe he will go to Fox!

[isweetpotatol]

25. PLEASE SIGN MY 'BRING BACK AARON BROWN' PETITION!! !!! !!!! !!!!!

They got rid of Aaron Brown because of the new CNN Pres John Klein, who wanted to format the show in a more fox-ish style to combat Greta Van Susteren's rising ratings. We all have to admit-- compared to everyone else out there (save Keith Olbermann) Aaron Brown was the best. Here's a petition that is being presented to CNN in NY at the end of Nov. PLEASE SIGN!!!!!!

Bringbackaaronbrown.com


ps.
if you don't like aaron brown, please don't post a mean reply message to me. I have good intentions and don't mean to get anyone mad.

[otohara]

26. Hate To Break This To You

but once a network makes a major programming decision like this, nothing will change their minds.

They know they will get angry e-mails and just like Bush, they don't care what we think. People will get over it and life goes on at the network.

I know it sucks, but this was not something they decided today. I to worked in evil radio giant and saw talent get axed many times. Lots of secrecy and planning goes into axing a talent. They are the last to know and are completely surprised.

These over paid broadcasting executives, along with their consultants, out of control egos will never reverse a decision like this one.

[isweetpotatol]

27. re:hate to break this to you

it still doesn't hurt to be a little optomistic in such an overly cynical world. I'm not stupid, i'm just naive

besides, in my view at least this will show aaron brown that we support him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Will be far more effective if people just stop watching Period

the MSM is corrupt and right now they are fighting over increasingly smaller slices... and CNN for some reason beleives can go after the FOX audience... after all it worked great for MSNBC

That said, I wish AB ends up in either of the three networks

On and on edit, chances are AB will never see this

But I will sign it... (for the record I don't watch MSM)

And how do you boycott soemthing you are already boycotting?

[isweetpotatol]

30. re: boycott something you're already boycotting

I'm the opposite-- i have e-mailed cnn and msnbc probably ten million times already to say i am boycotting their stations but i can't help but watch. alas, I am addicted to 24 hour news. where else could I get my daily dose of hypertension?

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. I watch TDS

but we don't watch MSM, except local coverage, mostly we need to know what is going on here

Ever since I stopped, I am far better informed... and yes it is an adiction, I went cold turkey

[otohara]

34. Just Sharing

my experience at evil radio giant. I sent e-mail to Mr. Brown - He was a nice guy. CNN doesn't deserve our viewership.

P.S. Aaron Brown will land on his feet somewhere else. That's another thing about broadcasting...someone else will hire him. Screw CNN.

[aquart]

28. NO! I want him back on network TV. For me.

Lotta anchor jobs available this year. Not to mention Nightline. Lotta work for an experienced man.

[Carla in Ca]

66. I read today that he has been offered to

replace Peter Jennings on World News Tonight.

[Radio_Lady]

76. Carla, where did you read this? So far, I have not been able to

track down any source for this. Please advise ----

[rodeodance]

31. I will sign. I am sad to see him go.

[SammyBlue]

32. You have to understand the business

It's a business I am trying to break into with with three completed screenplays, treatments for 12 others and the first 8 episodes of an animated series completed.

Execs don't care about their talent, care less about their employees and care nothing for the viewer. The only thing that execs care about is how much money they will make on the backs of the people working for them.

Complaining, unless you are an extremely vocal group, like the PTC or the FRC (minority, but vocal), will do very little.

Execs hire consultants to decide what America wants. These people are so far removed from everyday life and regular people it's amazing.

Trust me. . .I'm a writer. Breaking into this business is hard enough. The infotainment news business is even rougher because all infotainers pander to the emotions of their viewers/listeners. Rush, Sean, Savage. . .even AAR does it to a certain extent.

Infotainment doesn't care what we think, unless ratings dip. In this day and age of news making market share and not informing, all that matters is some executive is making money. Even Tucker Carlson's show makes money for some pencil neck, no talent failure network exec.

A writing guru put it this way. Network execs are insanely jealous of talent. Actors/anchors/journalists can report the news effectively. Directors can direct. Producers can raise money. Writers can create something out of nothing and put it to paper coherently. Network execs are failures at all four and have small egos and inferiority complexs. They are dumbasses of the worst kind.

He finished up by saying: "People grow up wanting to write, or act, or direct or produce. No one grows up saying "I want to be a network executive. It just doesn't happen."

Aaron Brown is gone from CNN. You may have good intentions (something about hell and roads and pavement come to mind), but the best thing to do is move one and watch Olbermann, Cooper, Stewart, Cafferty or Colbert.

[Bluebear]

33. good post.

[Armstead]

44. Why doncha keep your cold water to yourself?

Maybe you're right, but there's no reason to try and pour cold water on the efforts of people to try and have a voice in something they care about.

Taking your arguments and applying it to life, might as well say there's no sense in doing anything, because we're all going to die someday anyway.

The road to hell is also paved with cynical defeatism.

[NNN0LHI]

35. spam

[Walt Starr]

36. No thanks, don't feel like giving you my personal info

No way. How do I know you aren't fishing for email addresses and snail mail addresses to later sell? Tehre is no privacy statement on your site.

[phusion]

37. How many of these do you have to post?

You should kick your old thread (reply to it yourself) instead of creating new ones.

[isweetpotatol]

51. it was a mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry i really have no idea how to post stuff. And when i posted it three times to begin with, it was because i accidently hit the 'post' button too many times because my computer was slow to load. it was a mistake and i really didnt mean to get everyone mad at me

[phusion]

58. No worries...

I thought you might be having some trouble.

Welcome to DU!

[isweetpotatol]

They got rid of Aaron Brown because of the new CNN Pres John Klein, who wanted to format the show in a more fox-ish style to combat Greta Van Susteren's rising ratings. We all have to admit-- compared to everyone else out there (save Keith Olbermann) Aaron Brown was the best. Here's a petition that is being presented to CNN in NY at the end of Nov. PLEASE SIGN!!!!!!

Bringbackaaronbrown.com


ps.
if you don't like aaron brown, please don't post a mean reply message to me. I have good intentions and don't mean to get anyone mad.

[Roxy66]

38. Signed...thanks for the thread

I will miss him....even if he doesnt go back to CNN...lets let them know they screw with people we like....we will make sure they hear about it.

[lpbk2713]

39. I wish it were not so.

I hate to see him leave.

[NNN0LHI]

40. spam

[Avalux]

41. Thanks, I signed it.

[question everything]

45. Done.

[David Zephyr]

46. The DU is now championing an Iraqi War cheerleader like Brown?

This is a day for certain. And this is not a "mean" reply to your post. However, I am truly baffled as to why anyone here would feel compelled to champion the cause of Aaron Brown.

Aaron Brown spent an entire year leading up to Bush's war in cheer leading for the war.

Everyone who thinks Aaron Brown is such a swell guy, please look at how he covered the night we began the bombing in Iraq, how gleeful he was, and how he kept crowing, "Great fun, great fun!"

[faithnotgreed]

47. agreed but since wolf is getting another hour on cnn

i think most would agree aaron at least has (gained) some measure of sanity
i know anderson is replacing aaron but given that wolf gets another hour because of this move then i dont blame people here for trying to stop that train

terrible choice yes but that is the state of corporate media (which must be changed of course)
we shouldnt settle for these choices but it does look like this is another move towards fox lite and thus aaron sadly takes on a better glow in the light of the alternative

[Lex]

50. Wolf's not replacing Brown at 10pm. Anderson Cooper is.

n/t

[faithnotgreed]

53. yes - but wolf is taking over andersons 7pm slot

so actually wolf is receiving an additional hour

i will edit my wording because its true that anderson is replacing aaron which i dont think too many people care about
its the additional hour of wolf propaganda that many have noticed

[Lex]

54. Yes, the extra hour given to Wolf is nauseating.

[DeepModem Mom]

52. You want Rick Sanchez, guys? He was on last night. I'll go for Aaron --

thanks for this effort.

[Avalux]

55. Please note: several duplicate threads have been combined here

Chalk it up to a new member needing some guidance. Spamming was not intentional.

[WiseButAngrySara]

57. K & R. I signed. And I applaud your good intentions! ....n/t

[shayes51]

60. done

[redwitch]

61. I signed

I like Aaron Brown.

[isweetpotatol]

62. kick

hope im doing this right--

kick?

[isweetpotatol]

63. thanks to everyone :)

thanks all who signed so far--

I have almost 200 signatures now! thanks so much!
kate

ps-
again, im sorry for apparently spamming in my novice attempts at posting-- and ihope no one holds it against me in the future

[isweetpotatol]

64. kick

[isweetpotatol]

65. kick

[Nikki Stone 1]

67. Done

[isweetpotatol]

68. kick

[Bluebear]

69. I believe he is replacing Jennings at ABC

if it's any consolation.

[Radio_Lady]

71. Really! Do you have a source for this news?

That would be a big break for him. I hope you are right.

[Bluebear]

73. Hi RL....

I will admit I am passing on 'news' that I heard at Du a few days ago, although now no news search verifies this.

[Radio_Lady]

74. OK. Let's just keep it as a rumor for right now. No problem --

someone else said Aaron Brown was being considered for Dan Rather's slot.

[Radio_Lady]

70. Anderson Cooper is doing a retrospective on Aaron Brown --

I don't think I've ever seen a replacement anchor do this. It has to be a first! Very interesting...

[upi402]

77. What, no sexiest former anchorman poll?

Freedom's on the march....AWAY!

[0007]

72. Fuck CNN!

[upi402]

75. Huh? I must be lost in a time space continuum

WTF?

yellow line
dead armadillo
Aaron Brown

huh?
AMY GOODMAN!Now I'd sign THAT petition.

[jillan]

79. Done!

Aaron Brown was the only reason I watch CNN - or should I say
'watched'.

[raysr]

80. Brown's name was appropiate

but it should have "nose" after it! No thank's. He got his start here in Seattle and I didn't like him then.