Jon Klein's Dissociative Personality Disorder

TVNewser:   Newly-minted fourth place CNN menshevik (not to be confused with mensch)Jon Klein to quivering underlings:  "We refuse to do the things that might get us a quick number or cater to the extremes that would alienate our core viewers."

And who might they be?  Klein:  "Excellent journalism is what we are focused on." 

Like wall-to-wall Michael Jackson which pushed CNN's numbers through the roof.  Temporarily.  Universally derided and obscenely expensive holograms.  Manicures and pedicures.  Suntans. Teabagging jokes. The list goes on...

Delusional Klein drones: "Media writers might not understand that. Our competitors don't either. Despite the bad press we don't lose sight of OUR business. We, CNN/U.S., still attracts millions and millions of viewers a month, more than our closest competitors. Writers don't talk about our users -- we are on air and on line, globally -- rather they break it down to one part of the day."
 

"Attract" not "attracts."

I guess the King of Compartmentalization talks about specific dayparts when it suits him and CNN - and when it doesn’t, he then blames ink-stained wretched media writers for boiling it down to that. But wasn’t it him who said that 25-54 is crucial and he who singled out particular programs when those programs have done OK in a former life?

Case in point: Jon Klein to the Atlanta Journal Constitution in April 2008:

CNN officials say winning the 25-54 demo is crucial.  Klein: "That's the demographic that advertisers are buying."

And then there's Rick Sanchez....