Aaron Brown

This is what I pulled off the Internet tonight:

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Farewell, Mr. Brown,  by Michael Stickings

You'll be missed, Aaron Brown.

Aaron Brown is out and Anderson Cooper is moving up. I don't mind Cooper, but I've always like Aaron Brown, from the days I first watched him doing the overnight show on ABC. While Cooper showboats in hurricanes and empathizes incessantly with victims of one tragedy or another, Brown brings a quiet, calming assuredness to television news. Where Cooper is the one who feels, however smart he may be, Brown is the one who thinks. Cooper is the rising star with the hot ratings, Brown is the writer and intellectual who lifts television news to a higher plane. Cooper has his place, to be sure, but so does Brown -- even if it's no longer at CNN, which is trying so desperately to compete with the Fox News and its debasing sensationalism.

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What else can I say?  Aaron Brown was there the day the towers fell, and he stayed there until we all felt that we could tear away from the television for just a moment and look outside at the changed world around us.  Mr. Stickings says it better than I, but Aaron is the one you look to for the truth, for the news.  His replacement is the one who ties himself to mailboxes to get reviews - he doesn't report the story; he tries to become the story and that just isn't news to me.  Aaron, wherever you land, you have a family of faithful watchers here.

And to Klein, pres. of CNN-US...you never liked Aaron, never supported him.  You wanted to replace him all along.  Your an idiot.  You have fallen into the Amreican frenzy of creating spin and headlines instead of thoughtful and professional news.  In your race to "beat" Fox you have abandoned what real news is all about - the facts.  So, go ahead and get your ratings and forget about the facts, the roots of the story, the details.  Showboat away and get that money rolling in!!!  Money has become a replacement for authenticity and quality - how sad.