CNN”s American Morning goes Mark III tomorrow with the O”Briens (Soledad and Miles) getting kicked to the curb in favor of two new robo-anchors: Kiran Chetry and John Roberts.
Because, clearly, the problem with American Morning is that the anchors haven”t been white and plastic enough. 
American Morning is in a tough spot. CNN wants it to be a news-based morning show, but it gets crushed by the unwatchable Fox & Friends on Fox News and – as hard as this is to believe – barely kept a lead over the (former) MSNBC simulcast of Don Imus” (former) radio program. Yes, a radio show being shown on TV was almost as popular as American Morning.
So I guess their solution is to make “news” look more like the “coffee talk” garbage on Fox & Friends by bringing over one of Fox”s almost-but-not-quite-hot Stepford Anchors and pairing her with a plastic “serious” anchorman to read the news.
Good luck with that.
Poaching a Fox roboanchor chick to appeal to the Fox & Friends crowd is just dumb and lazy programming. If CNN wants to make a run at having a real news show, here”s a tip: make the news real.
A great example is the “Minding Your Business” segment, which is supposedly a business news piece. But that”s rarely the case. The pet food recall, the rats-in-Manhattan restaurant story and product recalls are the kind of things they turn to most often there. Either make the business news segment about business news or just kill it.
It”s too much to ask, I guess, that a morning news program report a lot of different news rather than recycling everything every half hour. And to think CNN would abandon the kind of fluff crap that fills cable news is right out of the question.
No, just try to put people in front of the camera that Fox America will identify with and go from there. Pathetic.
