Crossfire Returns to New Cable News Landscape

摘要

With Congress Prepping for a vote on U.S. military intervention in Syria, CNN last week announced it would move up the premiere of the relaunched Crossfireby a week, which will be hosted by Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter and Van Jones. The long-running political debate program first debuted in 1982 with hosts Pat Buchanan and Tom Braden and over the years made cable news names out of Tucker Carlson and James Carville before being canceled in 2005 in the face of declining ratings and an on-air attack by Jon Stewart (YouTube views: 5.9 million) that the show was "hurting America." Ahead of its premiere on Sept. 9 at 6:30 p.m., B&C programming editor Andrea Morabito spoke with Crossfire executive producer Rebecca Kutler about how social media will affect the new version, what advice she's given the hosts and how Crossfire can compete in a partisan cable news landscape. An edited transcript follows.