• Faced with declining ratings, CNN will create an entirely new metric to measure its success against Fox News Channel, running full-page ads that read, "Fewer of our viewers fall asleep in front of the TV."
And Lowry also shrewdly predicted:
• Kathy Griffin will say something outlandish while emceeing CNN's New Year's Eve coverage with an uncomfortable-looking Anderson Cooper. This will prompt an immediate apology from the network, which will wait a few months before designating her as Eliot Spitzer's new co-host.
Which does make one wonder: Why is Griffin always on CNN? Does CNN deliberately want to put off viewers? Isn't that the sort of blunder that new chief Ken Jautz was supposed to put a stop to? Or is Jautz more like Jon Klein than we realized?
(And thanks to Jim Hubbell for the graphic assist.)
