Wolf Blitzer’s Awkward Segue

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Wolf Blitzer’s Awkward Segue

November 25, 2013

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Wolf Blitzer’s seque into Saturday night’s airing of a CNN Special on the Kennedy assassination caught a few people by surprise:

Coming out of a breaking news segment detailing Secretary of State John Kerry’s Iran deal announcement late Saturday evening, CNN anchorWolf Blitzer threw to the network’s special documentary about the assassination of John F Kennedy. He just could have done it a li’l more gracefully:

“I’m Wolf Blitzer, reporting from Washington. The assassination of President Kennedy begins…right now.”

To be fair to Blizter, The Assassina tion of President Kennedy is indeed the title of the CNN film that has aired a few times this month. Nonetheless, it could’ve been handled just a little bit better.

Here’s the video so you can judge for yourself:

4 responses to “Wolf Blitzer’s Awkward Segue”

John Peabody

November 25, 2013 at 9:18 am

Aw, give him a break. For years, he’s announced “[Name of Show] begins…right now”. These guys don’t have time to read ahead.
grumpy realist

November 25, 2013 at 1:50 pm

What I found…..perplexing….was the chirpy attitude taken by our local Chicago newshawks when commenting on the 50-year memorial services.

I mean, shouldn’t the assassination of a dearly-loved president always remain a tragedy? And deserving of a serious attitude when being reported on?
JohnMcC

November 25, 2013 at 4:48 pm

For CNN and by extension all of cable news and the persons presenting it to us, what they produce is a commodity. Mr Blitzer could as well have been presenting Firestone Tires or Dove Body Wash. If it involved the actual murder of and actual president, so what?

And it is very very late in the game to act all huffy about it and put a blog post up essentially saying ‘isn’t ANYthing sacred?’ Hell no, nothing is sacred if it can pin enough eyeballs to enough screens, as you ought to have figured out by now, sir.
Barry

November 27, 2013 at 8:27 pm

To be fair, Wolf is long past the time when he could be taken seriously.