re: James Carville joins Fox News

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The real battle is Fox vs CNN.

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MSNBC beats CNN day and evening, virtually every day of the week, at most any hour of the day of live programming. MSNBC pretty easily beats CNN day in and day out.

Zucker has taken CNN straight down a black hole by pushing a strong left agenda when the "market" called for a middle ground between Fox and MSNBC.
He could have revitalized the network when he took over a year ago by placing an emphasis on straight news reporting and a centrist culture.

Instead, he went after his former long-time in-house rival at NBC, Phil Griffin, and the MSNBC audience, and lost much of his network's viewership.

MSNBC, as despicable as I find that network to be, is holding its own as a liberal/leftist network. Its management team knows it can never seriously contend with Fox and is content with being a niche network.

The only "battle" in network news is between CNN and MSNBC, and CNN is currently losing that one badly. Their programming is beyond horrible and they have no ratings winners at all, at any hour, on any day. If Zucker left tomorrow, and they made major changes in their on-air talent, went back to being a straight news network, they could likely move back ahead of MSNBC. In the meantime, CNN is among the walking dead.