<p>I just realized that Judy Woodruff has left CNN. I will miss her “Inside Politics.” That was the only CNN show I watched; Wolf Blitzer will never fill her shoes.</p>
<p>You thread title scared me! I thought she had died. I once had dinner with her in Atlanta (before she became famous), but even then she was career-driven.</p>
<p>Lucky guy. I think she is originally from Oklahoma. She was young and green when she came to DC. I enjoyed her reporting when she was on PBS. Guess she doesn’t get along with the new regime at CNN. I was glad when they axed Crossfire, but Inside Politics is a different story. The wags say Judy Woodruff was old CNN; new CNN is Nancy Grace!</p>
<p>She gave the commencement address at Smith College in 5/04.</p>
<p>Watching Judy Woodruff was like watching the grass grow. On the other hand, I can see how one would obtain an attachment to her, but I suspect that attachment occured over a long period of time. CNN has been getting toasted by Fox News. It has made some positive changes, but it still has a long way to go.</p>
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<p>I’ll take quality over quantity any day. Bill O’Reilly? Sean Hannity? GMAFB.</p>
<p>Or, as the FAUX NEWS execs admit:</p>
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<p>Faux News has an audience of Wingnuts. Shrug. They deserve each other.</p>
<p>Quality - I guess some people have low standards. Have you read “Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News” by Bernard Goldberg (30 years an insider at CBS News - no axe to grind)</p>
<p>It’s so interesting to me how upset liberals have become by the success of Fox News. It’s a free market of ideas in our country and no one is holding a gun to anyone’s head to watch it. But for most of my 50-year life the media was absolutely and totally biased toward the liberal point of view. Did we hear any complaints then? On the eve of the election, even Walter Cronkite, who’s been held up as the bastion of fairness by liberals, made an outrageous claim on the air that Karl Rove had orchestrated the release of the last-minute Bin Laden tape. Every poll of newspeople reveals taht 90 percent of them are Democrats - what viewpoint do you think they express on the air and in their writing? Do they make any attempt to be fair and balanced? </p>
<p>Last - anyone who relies on tv news for their worldview must be crazy. I may not agree with the NY Times of the Wash Post but I read them to see how they are influencing their readership - and ocassionally they actually REPORT the news without bias. </p>
<p>I’m sure Judy Woodruff is a very nice woman - and she’s pleasant to watch and listen to. But how much substance and real thought did she or does any broadcast journalist really convey. Everything is now reduced to a soundbite - and even print media, i.e. Time, has moved in the same direction. Do people really depend upon Time for their news??</p>
<p>Does anyone know what Judy is doing now ?</p>
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<p>She’s always reminded me of an old hen clucking around the barnyard. </p>
<p>I find CNN’s anchors basically unbearable. Woodruff, Blitzer, the whole crowd. Stale. Boooooring. Almost as bad as watching netword news. </p>
<p>Fox News isn’t eating CNN’s lunch because of the rigth wing slant. They are eating their lunch because they produce a more entertaining, intelligent product (putting aside Sean Hannity, who is insufferable in the self-righteous Newt Gingrich/Bill Bennett mold). Shepard Smith is the best talking head in the business – terrific sense of humor.</p>
<p>While Brett Hume is a pompous windbag, he’s a smart guy and his show is prettty solid, often with guests who actually shed a little light on complex issues. Better than listening to Judy Woodruff clucking for an hour.</p>
<p>I do agree with the editorial. The fact that Fox News is upfront about their bias does make it more palpable. It’s more honest than the networks that pretend to be agenda-free.</p>
<p>I always though she was just going to fall over in the middle of a broadcast. She was always there. I don’t know if she left willingly as many CNNers contracts are up and some changes are being made there.</p>
<p>Watching Judy Woodruff was like watching the grass grow.</p>
<p>Youre too kind.
I would have said, like watching paint dry, as ultimately grass does grow and is therefore a living and moving thing which is on occasion enlivened by a gust of wind or driving rain. </p>
<p>No amount of wind or water seems to move Miss Judy.</p>
<p>We seemed to succumb too easily to the tendency just because someone is out there, has a name, we can poke fun at him or her, with or without justifcation. Free speech is not free license to slander.</p>
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Actually, slander is spoken defamation. Since this here computer thing don’t talk good English, I recon you mean libel.</p>