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Anyone else think it's time for CNN's anchors to return to their studios and get out of Boston?

I'm not talking about field reporters - I'm talking about the likes of Brooke Baldwin and Jake Tapper still doing their shows from the bombing site.

Agreed.

And without naming names or turning this thread into a political female dog session or a Fox V. The Rest of the Media argument, the Boston marathon bombing has been turned to hash by the TV journalist media. From the initial speculations as to who carried out the bombing to the current pretzel-twisting and navel gazing in reasoning why they may have done it, I have lost all interest in following this case.

And you're right, Fishoil. Everybody needs to stop wringing this out, quit trying draw their travel per diems, and go back home.

I was asking the same question a few days ago Fish. It's ridiculous at this point. But any gimmick to try and boost their sh*tty ratings I guess. I doubt it's working though.

I think what's going on is CNN saw that they got a ratings boost when they went wall-to-wall with their coverage of the cruise that had human excrement pouring down the walls and had to turn back to Louisiana and CNN set up base camp at the dock and proceeded to interview the passengers as if they former captives returning from the Iran hostage crisis. It was way over the top but the ratings didn't lie.

That's not to compare that to what happened in Boston, but I think they are looking to replicate that ratings success by "owning" the Boston marathon bombing while the other news outlets start to turn to other stories. I was anxious to see who would be hosting CNN weekend AM last Saturday and there they had Poppy Harlow live from Boston repeating the same stuff that we've been hearing.

While I admire them not going away like everybody does when there's a new tragedy or some other big event, I do feel that they are going overboard for now. They can do a week of reports in a month or two or something. Let the healing process begin and the investigation takes its course. Then, maybe not at the time of an anniversary(heaven forbid), go back and do updates on the victims and so on. We do have a 24 hour cycle on the news and it's a shame that stories and people are forgotten but I think this is too much for so many of them to be still there.

The fact that they're still in Boston can be annoying, considering they only reason they are still there is for ratings and ratings only. What made me stop watching CNN a couple weeks ago isn't because they're still in Boston, it's because of who's doing the coverage. It seems that no matter what time you tune into CNN, you see either Berman (douchenozzle #1), Cuomo (douchenozzle #2), or Blitzer. Can't stand any of them... And to top it all off, you can tune in on Friday Afternoon to still hear the 'exact same' talking points from Monday Morning. No new information...no thank you.

" or turning this thread into a political female dog session or a Fox V. The Rest of the Media argument," Darn

Erin's been back in the studio since Friday. Now if we could just get some more leg segments.

I couldn't agree more about the updates. At least CNN went back to Haiti a year or so after the earthquake to find out how the rebuilding was going - the other networks haven't paid it any attention since the wall-to-wall coverage after the event.

On a side note - I'd love for CNN to start to cover Afghanistan again. Afghanistan has become a nothing on cable news and given the fact that we still have our troops engaged in a war over there and I can't find anything on how the effort is going in Afghanistan on any of the big three networks is a disgrace. Sure, they cover the occasional copter going down and I saw that O'Reilly did a segment on Karzai being a gangster (that's old news) but no news on how the war effort (whatever the objective is at this point) is going. CNN could fill this void in a meaningful way.

CNN's ratings have been so bad lately maybe they couldn't afford the plane tickets for them to fly back and they all had to take to temp jobs in Boston to earn some extra $$ so they could pool their money and rent a car to drive back to NYC.

Carol was anchoring from Atlanta today.

Brooke Baldwin is still in Boston and there is no reason for it whatsoever. At this point it's weird when the majority of her reporting is on stories that have nothing to do with the bombings.

I just hope they don't waste another pair of CNN AM weekends with Poppy Harlow or whoever by reporting on California wildfires live from the streets of Boston.

Brooke tweeted that she's leaving Boston tonight.

UPDATE: She is officially out of Boston. And tweeted this lovely pic

https://twitter.com/BrookeBCNN/status/3 ... 48/photo/1

Randi Kaye finally returned. But oh, guess where she was?

Going back the studio doesn't mean a thing. An entire week in studio for Erin and not a single leg segment.

Don't get me wrong I still love looking at Erin's gorgeous face either way.

Yeah, I saw that this morning.....had the DVR set up for the mystery host in-studio. The big news from Boston was that they released the cause of death of the one terrorist who died during the gunfight when his brother got away and ran him over with the getaway car. Cause of death.....gunshot wounds and getting run over.

On a side note....does Randi Kaye's return mean no more Alison Kosik?

I hear you, thatguy. Every day during the week I DVR Erin's show and the total lack of a leg segment reminds me of buying a priceless painting and hanging it on the wall at a height where half of it is hidden behind the dresser. It is really, really confounding.

I know, right? Erin should be the linchpin in their primetime lineup. Use her to pull in the viewers and hook them for the rest of the evening.

Just the latest example of CNN craziness
Ashleigh Banfield and Nancy Grace doing a split screen from the same parking lot
For all we know, they could have been standing right next to each other

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nan ... ot_b178260

Wow. That is really bizarre.

I don't know where CNN is going but so far I don't like it. They've had Brooke Baldwin camped out in front of the house where the women were kidnapped. She was there on Wednesday and Thursday and will probably finish out the week there. I hope this isn't going to be the norm because outside of the obvious (all shots above the waist) it is going to make for some bizarre newscasts when there isn't much to add and they're talking about other stuff.