Hey, it’s bound to happen, isn’t it?
What if a cable network launched attack ads on another cable network much as politicians — who increasingly enrich consultants and ad mavens — now do? Here’s Comedy Central’s attack ads against Fox News and CNN. Two things (1) WHAT? No MSNBC? and (2) Life could one day imitate art. I could forsee Fox News getting more aggressive with MSNBC and MSNBC getting more aggressive with Fox News. (CNN is like TMV: they get it from both sides..)
Indecision 2012: Fox News Channel
“Indecision 2012: CNN”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.