Aaron Brown's Posthumous Victory over Anderson Cooper

Despite the Cabalmeisters Graydon Carter and Jann Wenner's strenuous efforts, the Nibelung strategy to boost Anderson Cooper into MSM superhero status continues to falter.

Or could it be part of CNN's feckless [successor to feckless Eason Jordan] Jon Klein's herculean efforts to utterly destroy CNN's brand, at least in its news division, by offing Brown and jabbermouth ratings winner Larry King to gain some sort of cred as a counter to Fox behemoths in the nighttime cable lineup.

If Klein and his chattering-class Vanity Fair/Rolling Stone allies have a plan, it has not worked for Anderson, a nice enough fellow, but without gravitas or perspective to match his predecessor, Aaron Brown, whose opinions were always couched in terms that were accessible, if not always believable.

Cooper is in touch with his own passionate inner-child, but does this guarantee viewers, especially with the geriatrics still awake after 10PM?

Perhaps if the hyperventilating Klein would switch Cooper with Wolf Blitzer, the kiddie-corps demo that CNN aims at would occasionally watch the news. But then again, maybe not. Hard nowadays to make the news watchable unless it's infotainment.