I've decided I'm going to start my own news network, and here is my all-star anchor/reporter line-up

[Darth_Ole]

Keith Olbermann
Rachel Maddow
Chuck Todd
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
Jeffrey Toobin
Bill Moyers
Jim Lehrer
Charlie Rose
Amy Goodman

These, I think, are the most level-headed and intelligent people taking up space on my TV screen today.

So given the chance to assemble the best news team possible today, who's on your list?

[Lasher]

1. Bill Maher

But he took the summer off. :-(

[Syrinx]

5. HBO made him take the summer off

I saw an interview with him once where he said that he would like to do the show 50 weeks a year.

[Lasher]

7. I did not know that.

Real Time is one of the few shows that Mrs Lasher and I actually plan to watch on a regular basis.

[Syrinx]

9. yeah, I really like it too

Once in a while, Maher will make a comment that I think is particularly boneheaded. I find his antipathy toward children to be especially peculiar. But overall, Real Time is one of my favorite shows. I think it will be back in about a month. Maybe five weeks.

[Lasher]

10. I sometimes watch an old episode via on-demand.

But since his show is so focused on current affairs it's not the same as watching a nice fresh broadcast.

[grasswire]

2. some of yours...

...plus Eric Alterman, Dan Froomkin, Ronnie Reagan, Phil Donahue and maybe some others. I'm not crazy about Chuck Todd or Charlie Rose.

Or we could just let Bill Moyers be in charge of the whole thing and it would be perfect and excellent. He's amazing.

[Skittles]

3. may I ask whatever happend to Michael Kinsley

is he ever on TV anymore? I heard he did have health problems. Gawd I loved that young smartass on Crossfire :thumbsup:

[Syrinx]

11. I don't know what he's doing these days

I think he has Parkinson's.

Yeah, I used to enjoy him on Crossfire, too.

[Skittles]

16. Crossfire used to be one hell of an awesome show n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Linda Ellerbee. n/t

[comtec]

6. And dont forget teh funny... MORNING SEDITION!!!!!

hee hee sorry, but I really miss marc and Mark in the morning, with the entire cast n crew.
They really made swallowing the poison pill of the daily news, and the fact that my country is going into the toilet so much easier.
I kept my sanity, and lost it a bit when they went off the air :cry:

[Indenturedebtor]

8. Nance Greggs :D n/t

[Syrinx]

12. here's an obscure name for you

I like Stewart Cheifet. (I may have spelled his name wrong.) He used to host a show on PBS called The Computer Chronicles. More recently, I've seen him on LinkTV.

[Contrary1]

13. You have to include Christiane Amanpour. n/t

[Syrinx]

14. yeah, she's great

Is she even on CNN anymore. She's far and away their best reporter, and I don't think I ever see her on there anymore. But I don't watch CNN much these days.

My late dad had a crush on her. He called her something like "that bad-ass news lady." :rofl:

[Ian David]

15. Dan Rather and Jack Cafferty,

http://pdberger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Jack+Cafferty.jpg

[underseasurveyor]

17. Great lineup. The one person I'd definitely add as a reporter

would be Ashleigh Banfield.