Outside Cable News

Via AP
CNN, Newsweek editor starting international show
By DAVID BAUDER

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is starting a weekly talk show on international issues led by Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria that will debut next Sunday with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as an interview subject.

“Fareed Zakaria — GPS,” which stands for “global public square,” will air Sundays at 1 p.m. EDT and be rebroadcast at a yet-to-be determined time on CNN International.

CNN U.S. chief Jonathan Klein approached Zakaria about a year ago and was told that “the only show I want to do is one that fills in the huge gaping hole in American television, which is 95 percent of the rest of the world,” Zakaria said in an interview with the Associated Press on Monday.

Zakaria, a columnist and editor of Newsweek International, wrote the just-published book, “The Post-American World.”

He said he’s frustrated when he turns on American news networks to hear endless discussions about why Hillary Clinton should or shouldn’t leave the presidential race, because there is legitimate news elsewhere. He fears a vicious circle is at work: Networks don’t show much international news because they fear viewers aren’t interested, and viewers aren’t interested because they get so little of it.

>Update: New CNN promo after the jump.

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Via USA Today
NBC News, MSNBC: Uneasy coexistence?
By David Bauder, Associated Press

NEW YORK — NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree on something.

That something, however, is antipathy toward NBC News.

Through its unusual public criticism of NBC’s handling of Richard Engel’s interview with the president, the Bush administration struck at the soft white underbelly of the news division’s co-existence with the opinionated personalities of MSNBC.

“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Bush counselor Ed Gillespie wrote to NBC News President Steve Capus in a letter pointedly released to the public.

Capus said viewers are smart enough to understand the difference and that the criticism is a reflection of MSNBC’s growing popularity.

>Read the rest at USA Today.

>Earlier: Is MSNBC a Political Liability to NBC?

>Just caught a bit of Sky Business Australia on FBN from 6-7am Eastern. Strangely, at the end, Alexis Glick had a canned piece talking about love down under? Anyway, I don’t like FBN’s chyron all over the other one of course.. Another capture after the jump.

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