Jason Gay has always been a good read – from his days as media critic for the New York Observer to his current sports gig at the Wall Street Journal.
On Monday, he ran this sporting tribute to totally gone CNN fixture Larry King:
My Two Cents: Larry Says Goodbye
Last week, the nonpareil Larry King signed off his CNN interview show after 25 years. In tribute, here is an unworthy homage to Mr. King’s late, beloved USA Today column.
What, Brett Favre is the only guy who can unretire in this country? Give me Adrian Peterson, a wool peacoat and a 1960 Angie Dickinson and I’ll dump 44 points on the Chicago Bears Monday night…Friends, I once saw Don Knotts stroll down Hollywood Boulevard with a ferret on his forehead. But I’ve never seen anything like that crazy Eagles-Giants finish on Sunday…It’s 17 degrees in Cleveland. LeBron James is fixing a daiquiri in his Miami pool. Sounds like a terrific decision to me…The last time the UConn women lost a basketball game, I had six-pack abs, a mustache and a Plymouth Duster…How about a buddy comedy with Adam Sandler and Bill Belichick?
Fuhgeddaboudit. How about a buddy comedy with Larry King and LeBron James?
Boffo! as Larry would undoubtedly say.
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Retirement… not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Larry King’s retirement gives CNN the opportunity to do something that no other national cable news network is doing in the 9 pm time slot: do a news show. You know, actual news stories and analysis, where the audience learns something they didn’t know by the end of the hour.
Sadly, CNN continues to take on FNC and MSNBC — badly! — doing talk, talk, talk shows. While those other two networks get a core of viewers for their partisan-fests, there are plenty of viewers who don’t bother with them because they are so tedious and unilluminating. CNN missed their opportunity to forge a different path.
Me? Back to NECN or NewsHour OnDemand. It’s sad that the only place to get live national news at 9 pm is on the New England Cable News network.
WSBK-TV channel 39 (although they would have you believe they still broadcast on channel 38) runs a WBZ-TV newscast at 9:00 pm with about the same local/national/galactic news, weather and sports as NECN.