Rick’s List: A New, Twitter-Happy CNN Show For Rick Sanchez; An Hour Less Wolf

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by Robert Quigley | 11:29 am, December 22nd, 2009

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Welcome to the new world of press releases: earlier this morning, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez Tweeted out the news that he would be anchoring a new CNN show, Rick’s List.

“Hey guys, new CNN show beginning Jan 18th, weekdays 3-5pm ET. “Rick’s List”- Who will make the list?” reads the tweet, which was picked up by CNN PR’s Twitter account. Could Twitter play a starring role in the much-tweeted about show?

Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room will also be affected by the shift: Blitzer tweeted out that “New SitRoom start time. Beg. mid-Jan, we’re on 5-7p ET. Our excellent team can focus on 2 solid hrs. Less becomes more.”

In an email, CNN PR confirms to Mediaite that starting next month, Rick’s List will air from 3-5pm, and Situation Room will air from 5-7pm.

How Twitter-centric will Rick’s List be? Politico’s Michael Calderone reports that he hears that Sanchez “will be incorporating Twitter on the new show.” Sanchez is himself a bit of a Twitter fanatic, with more than 117k followers and 3,900 tweet to his name. In another tweet about Rick’s List, Sanchez took a ‘powered by you’ tack that sounds like it could have something to do with social media: “Every day “Rick’s List” will be full of newsmakers and thinkers we- and u- think are relevant to CNN. My access = your access.”

On a recent CNN Newsroom – which Sanchez currently hosts from 3 to 4 pm — Sanchez and CNN Interaction Producer Eric Kuhn did a demo of something they called “Rick’s List,” which Kuhn referred to as “a continuation of Rick’s Twitter page.” The demo made heavy use of Twitter lists (at least someone makes heavy use of Twitter lists), aggregating Tweets from celebrities and public personalities about Tiger Woods and other hot-button news topics.

As Kuhn put it at the end of the segment: “Rick’s list is not going away. We’ve unleashed a Twitter monster!”

Here’s the segment in question:

(h/t Inside Cable News)

CNN, CNN PR, Eric Kuhn, rick sanchez, Rick's List, Tiger Woods, twitter, Twitter Lists, Wolf Blitzer

roxsteady

This comment that I’m about to paste in is from Media Matters. Yesterday, many on this site were trashing Media Matters for never going after “Liberals”. Well, here’s a story from what many of you consider to be a Liberal cable network.

You know the drill. Inside the Beltway, only polling trends that show Obama’s popularity declining are considered newsy and important and worthy of trend stories. Polls that show Obama gaining support? Not so much.

In other words, good news is no news.

And that’s why you haven’t heard much about the latest CNN poll that has Obama’s approval rating spiking six points in just the last two weeks. Heck, even CNN didn’t think that was the news hook for the polling data, which is why in its online write-up, CNN didn’t mention Obama’s approval bump until two-thirds through the article.

Question: If CNN’s poll, on the eve of controversial health care reform passing, showed that Obama’s approval rating had dropped six points since early December, do you think that would qualify as ‘news’?
Yeah, me too.

Chew on that one!
ImNotBlue

roxsteady says:
December 22, 2009 at 2:08 pm

So MM puts up an article criticizing CNN for not talking enough about a poll that shows the Democratic President (allegedly) “spiking” up 6 points (even though other polls don’t show that at all)… and you think that proves what?

MM will criticize any network… that’s not the argument against them, Roxy. Rather, they’ll criticize anyone who doesn’t tow the leftwing line, or doesn’t help to advance liberal causes. Networks don’t matter… certain people and personalities apparently do… but more over, it’s the causes and content. They are an advocacy group for the left… and they complain about anyone and everyone who isn’t equally an advocate.

Get it?
StewartIII

ChickaBOOMer — Peter Principle: CNN’s Rick Sanchez
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/12/peter-principle-cnns-rick-sanchez.html
JAMAICACNN

Surprized that Larry King never expected earthquakes in the Caribbean; Jamaica lost an entire city to the sea, because of the 1692 quake. Port Royal – one of the world’s richest cities was lost!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lillie-Littles/1528539494 Lillie Littles

I HOPE THAT THE PEOPLE WE VOTED IN TO OFFICE WILL DO THERE JOB AND STOP THIS MESS.AMERICAN ARE WATCHING. THOSE PEOPLE ON THE HILL ARE MAKING ME NOT WANT TO BE AMERICAN. THIS IS BAD TO SEE THIS IN AMERICAN. WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH WAS PRESIDENT WE DID NOT SEE SO MUCH COVERS ON ALL HE DID. TO ME.****** THIS IS NOTHING BUT COLOR BLIND PEOPLE. THANK YOU HOPE THEY GET IT TOGETHER.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-L-Davis/1615700214 Gary L Davis

Congress needs an education. Do they not realize that the reason we have a difference between between capital gains taxes between long term and short term is that they wanted to grow the economy in the United States and give a preferential treatment to those who invested in a company for more than a year which indicated that the investor was investing for the good of the company not just for a short gain. However we have allowed this to also carry to investments in foreign corporations as well as US companies. A way to fix the countrys losses in jobs and companies is to only allow this special treatment in taxation is to only allow this treatment for US companies with more than 50% of their employees in the United States and disallow this for foreign companies and those US companies with less than 50% of their employees in the United States. The difference in the tax rates would ensure that US companies keep their jobs in the United States/Stop out sourcing and provide more investors for expansion and more US jobs.