Aaron Brown resurfaces

[Catshrink]

I haven't heard a peep about him since he got canned from CNN. He will be teaching a class at ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism this spring. No news about whether he'll end up back on network or cable news -- just about the teaching gig. I know a lot of DUers didn't like him, but I did.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=83559

[knowbody0]

1. i like him as well

and was sorry to see him leave. thanks for posting this.

[brettdale]

2. I remember getting an email from him in 2004

I wrote, "why did CNN call the first debate between Bush and Kerry a tie, when most media outlets called it for hands down for Kerry."

He wrote back

"Different people see things differently"

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. harrumph

Look where his "diplomacy" got him. I like him too, I met him once when he was just an anchor in Seattle and he was as he is on the air - thoughtful. But I wish he'd taken more of a stand when he had the chance.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. That guy ALWAYS responded to my emails

He just liked getting into email debates, I guess. Interesting cat. I'm sure he's ashamed of the part he played in pumping up the Bush admin, although it was clearly CNN policy at the time.

[LSparkle]

5. He had Greg Palast on as a guest once -- I respect him

I'd love to see him back on TV news. ("Now"? Frontline?)

[UTUSN]

6. Amazing how THIS dude can be disappeared from the air, but Rick SANCHEZ keeps

getting rehired and rehired despite being a TOTAL FOOL!!1

[AlCzervik]

7. i guess Aaron should have just asked to be tasered and to stand out in hurricaines

and not think or question and then he'd still have a job at CNN.

[Catshrink]

12. no kidding

KO has zinged AC a few times. AC is definitely lightweight -- CNN's version of Rita Crosby. I've watched CNN very little since Aaron Brown left -- and they hired that Beck fascist.

[Duppers]

13. I Like Anderson Copper!!! And I loved Aaron Brown...both good people

Have you read much about him or listened to him very much.....his coverage of New Orleans was outstanding.
And the man has a good heart, really he does.

I didn't appreciate KO zinging him....there was not sustenance to that zing either. Cooper would never say anything bad about KO, whom I like too.
I'm a big fan of all three of these guys.

[AlCzervik]

14. i was referring to Rick Sanchez and not Anderson Cooper.

[Synnical]

10. And drunken murderer

Everytime time he shows up on CNN in the AM I send them an e-mail and switch to local news. That man makes my blood boil. Just hearing his voice makes me angry.

I always enjoyed Aaron Brown.

[longship]

8. I don't know how anybody could like him as a journalist.

He was decidedly lightweight. But I suppose by today's standards he might be considered another Walter Cronkite. I'm sorry. I grew up watching Walter Cronkite. Aaron Brown, you are no Walter Cronkite.

[PhilipShore]

9. He actually responded to one of my ideas for a story -- I had

Most MSM reporters -- ignored some of my story ideas -- but I received letters from him and Sam Donaldson, and the NY Times.

[saltpoint]

11. Agree with you. Brown was intelligent and interesting. He could

interview with the best of them -- far better than some of the other talking heads on the various news networks.

I thought he made a great news editor as well. His interview of the late teens who drove a small vehicle into Katrina-damaged New Orleans to rescue people (even as the Bush administration said they couldn't get troops into the city) was one of the highlights of the coverage that week.