Yes, it’s true. TV Newser reports that controversial conservative pundit Bill Bennett will join CNN as a new political analyst starting in 2006….basically replacing journalist Robert Novak, who’s moving over to Fox News. Bennett is coming to CNN from Fox, where his contract just expired.
How will Bennett do? We’ll give you five to one odds he’ll be a hit. (And so will Bill…)
UPDATE: Crooks And Liar’s John Amato has some thoughts here.
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.