CNN Anchor Roberts Leaves CNN, Joins FOX
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A major CNN morning news anchor who left the network last month amid a ratings slide is now set to join Fox News Channel, TVNewser.com reports.
John Roberts, who anchored CNN “American Morning,” was originally set to join CNN’s Atlanta bureau after he moved there to be closer to his fiance and fellow CNN reporter Kyra Phillips. But instead of setting up shop at CNN, he’ll be reporting for Fox from the same city.
TVNewser.com says Roberts will be “reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network.” A news veteran, he joined CNN in 2006 after spending 14 years at CBS and is considered a “top-notch journalist.”
His time at CNN, however, was plagued by poor ratings. In 2010, his show “American Morning” saw total viewership drop 31% compared to 2009. But that was during a year which was the network’s worst ever for ratings.
“For Fox News, he brings a ton of credibility and experience to the network’s news programming,” TVNewser reports. “For Roberts, he gets to join the top-rated news channel, albeit without his own program.”
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Comments (268)
Werkovart
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:11pmO’Reilly will put him in his place.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:13pmNot put him there, but expose him for what he is, good or bad, left or right.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:10pmTo all my fans who have asked me to post my picture. Well, mostly the ladies……. I look a lot like this guy only I‘m 6’9″and much more manly.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:17pmWait for Barney Franks opinion
Report Post »Buck_Ofama
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:08pmI think I remember him. He’s a lib but not sure if he is NancyPelosiPsychoNutBitch Progressive (sorry for being redundant)
Report Post »mickie4
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:07pmJust what Fox needs…..another Lib!
Report Post »bookofwisdom
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:07pmGood for you John Roberts. Just goes to prove you are an intelligent man moving to FOX. Now, show us what you can do (tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you GOD). May God Bless.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:05pmthere is only one person on Fox that i would love to see go and thats Heraldo, and i know thats not spelled right but ya know who i mean,i wish Lou Dobbs had his own place on Fox ,he appers as a guest from time to time
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:13pmI heard Fox has tried getting rid of Geraldo, but no other planet or alternate universe will have him.
Report Post »kkfedup
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 6:23pmI would not miss Geraldo at all. He makes my blood boil in the morning going on and on about whatever is on his mind. He talks over everyone else and is in love with illegal aliens. Good riddance, maybe he could go over to CNN for the morning show, I hear they have a vacancy!
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:03pmI’ve never heard of the guy. Anyone know if he is a Lib? Lord just PLEASE NOT another Alan Combes! Token lib dude. Even Alan can’t possibly believe all the crap he spews…can he???
Report Post »JohnZiraldo
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 5:41pmHe is a Canuck and therefore raised on a more liberal diet of news reporting. I have hopes though that he will do a good job of balanced reporting at Fox. Go Fox!
Report Post »franknshadow
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 5:41pmI hope to God not!! How can anyone worthy of national exposure be that stupid?? It’s staggering…
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:02pmIf this guy truly leans Left and stays that way, it’s the perfect propaganda ploy for Fox. When accused of being unfair or right-wing, Fox can point to Roberts and say, “See! We’re fair and balanced.as we always said.”
This is a no-lose situation for Fox.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:01pmHe always reminded me of Chris Wallace a bit… seems professional enough, from what I’ve seen of him.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:59amHe’s a mole. Beware.
Report Post »david3755
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:58amHow can you work for CBS for anytime and have credibility? Chris Wallace barely passes after being infected by his father. With Wallace and Rivera, Fox may be diluting the gene pool. Let’s see if he can report without bias.
Report Post »winterhawka7ac
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:55pmI agree. Riviera is not a conservative. That is certain. Wllace is on the line I think. Sometimes he comes off as a lefty.
Report Post »jorge_washington
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:58amThis is not the first time. There has been Brit Humes and well as Lou Dobbs that I can recall. Though, I can’t ever remember a major news personality of the Fox News network ever leaving Fox and landing a position on any of the news networks.
Questioning with boldness.
Report Post »CALIDUDE
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:22pmPaula Zahn went from Fox to CNN, but, good riddance. Although, Kiran Chetry went from Fox to CNN and I miss her somtimes.
Report Post »jorge_washington
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:44pmPaula Zahn worked at a news network, CBS before coming over to Fox News. She only worked at Fox for a couple of years before being fired from Fox. What must she have done? And that was 10 years ago when she left Fox news. I hear Rick Sanchez is available. I think he’ll fit in perfectly with Fox News.
Questioning with boldness
Report Post »FORLORNHOPE
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:16pmI have seen Roberts snipe at Kiran Chentry a few times I think he was rude to her. If he tries that crap with Megyn Kelly he will get his a$$ handed to him so fast his head will spin
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:58amKea, The reason his ratings dropped is because the American people know they are not getting the truth when they watch CNN. It was not only his show, it was all of them. If he reported the truth, they would have let him go.
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 6:13pmYou just said it all.
Report Post »RDWD32
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:57amWhen you know that the company you work for is on it‘s last leg you don’t want to wait for the pink slips.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:57amOFF TOPIC:
New pictures of George Soros on Minyanville. He looks better all a sudden.
http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/five-chickens-that-look-like/?camp=syndication&medium=portals&from=yahoo
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 4:58pmOh my!
Report Post »They DO look like their namesakes!
Amazing!
drhunt
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:56amHe’s probably thrilled at the prospects and watch his ratings soar at Fox. Untethered by the Communist News Network, perhaps he can let his journalistic skills blossom. Glenn Beck was restricted by them, and now, at Fox…he is a ratings juggernaut.
Report Post »hud
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:37pmDifferent sides of the political spectrum, unless he’s had a change of heart or an epiphany.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:55amThat is too bad for CNN, he lent them quite a bit of credibility. CNN needs to unload Fareed Zakaria and the Parker – Spitzer duo. They’ve made some very poor management decisions in the past few years.
Report Post »Ella
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:55amAnother rat jumping a sinking ship. I guess he has had an attitude shift.
Report Post »sodizzy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:36pmI agree! I think this is probably what’s going on.
Report Post »exATCer
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:54amGreat move Fox and please let him speak his mind..
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:58amJournalists report the news, they don’t “speak their minds.”
wow
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:54amseems like CNN is losing a lot of GOOD commentators as well as journalists because of their gag order on presenting the TRUTH.. well so be it.. we will have a #1 news show at FOX …OH that’s right we already do now it will just bring more of the left to join us as they FOLLOW their favorites.. time has come.. we ARE going to experience CHANGE..
Report Post »Redwood509
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:53amIn the spirit of the new 2011, one should admit that Fox has been absorbing many of the C types, the rejects of the major media, which is a bad commentary on Fox, which is in a position to attract higher caliber lot than the dimmest bulbs in the room. This fella has no idea about anything, no opinion, no particualr access, just another face near the age of retirement.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:58amNO OPINION??? Perfect journalist. I would love some more journalists that thought it was just their job to report the facts. I will form my own opinions thank you.
Report Post »syllabucks
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:12pmRE: Redwood509
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:53am
“… This fella has no idea about anything, no opinion, no particualr [sic] access, just another face near the age of retirement.”
He shouldn’t have/EXPRESS an opinion – he’s a REPOTER. His job is to REPORT stories, not comment on them, not reflect upon them, not give an opinion on them: REPORT. The first lesson of journalism should be learning the damned definition of the word REPORT ….and the second lesson should be the difference between REPORTER and commentator.
How do these poor hapless complainer sheep get through life without someone at their elbow explaining to them what they should think?
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:18pmLet the left bashing start. Oops, I guess it already did. Hero to zero in the wink of an eye! That’s the progressive way.
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:49amFrom CNN anchor to Fox reporter….upgrade, I’d say.
Report Post »angelia
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:49amGood going Robert :)
Report Post »KEA
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:49amCredibility? If he had credibility wouldn’t his raitings reflect that?
Report Post »canuck44
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:57amRatings decline on a liberal network = doing something right. He might just find FOX a little freer with respect to actual reporting and the lack of a need to insert monosyllable editorial content for the lib audience.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:59amGood point KEA.
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:59amNot necessarily Kea. If no one watches the Network. Maybe he personally has credibility, just doesn’t get seen.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:01pmExactly. But in true Fox News mantra, fair and balanced. Amazing how many personnel are bailing from the sinking ship called CNN, the most mistrusted name in news.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:54pmDo not forget he is not a reporter. he isd a reader of a telepromter of something written by some one else. He is paid to read not have opinion Just like Obama.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:48amWell, this should be interesting to see how he holds out at Fox News. Of course the Progressives will shortly denounce him as a traitor and all the usual responses their dried up brains use all the time.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:53amExactly snowleopard – Just wait until the liberal media gets on this story. This guy will be labeled a right wing nut by the end of the day. They don’t like it when people move to Fox News. Look what the left did to Juan Williams because he appeared on Fox.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – Anti mainstream media news source.
Report Post »Green Eyed Lady
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:56amI never heard of him because I never watched him. Is he any good? Or just Katie Couric in a business suit?
marhee9
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:58amHey snow – That artwork is pretty cool.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:59amRoberts is a liberal and not afraid to use this in his reporting. I wish Fox would re-hire Kiran Chentry back, she was really good there. Also, this should really be interesting as Roberts wife is really a lib and not afraid to bloviate this whenever she gets a chance on the air. Should be an interesting time in the household.
Report Post »But, I say give the guy a chance and see what happens. His first appearance should be an interview on O’Reily, see how he handles that one.
EgoBrain
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:59amDon’t know him, welcome and Fox already has credibility.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:02pmDont forget they will soon be calling him racist and part of the KKK.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:09pmIt will be inreresting to find out what Mr Roberts true beliefs are now that he will be free to speak his mind.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:12pmI gave up cable long ago — too little of value to bother — so I’m not familiar with Roberts. Since he’s coming from CNN, I would assume he’s a liberal. I would hope that he’s more of a Juan Williams than an Olberman, Matthews or Maddow.
Report Post »IVillageIdiot
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:25pm@SPOT_OF_TEA
Good point… one isn’t likely to be able to tell what they really believe when at Networks where a single Orthodoxy is dominating. Free of that constraint (vapid constraint BTW) it will be interesting to see what a newly emancipated voice has to say.
On the other hand, if Ailes isn’t carefully, he will eventually ingest enough infection to kill the Golden Goose…. A perennial pursuit of every Leftist organization on the planet.
Report Post »hud
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:26pmThink fair and balanced.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:46pmI’m all for fair and balanced…but…I for one do not want to start hearing about alot of libral stuff on fox news…juan williams and colmes are enough for me…with all of these cnn reporters jumping ship and coming over to fox…I hope Fox stays true to the American people…
oldoldtimer
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:51pmThis is nothing more than a cheap trick to get more libs to watch Fox. This is the same way it started at the other networks. One liberal at a time. Look where they are now. Is there no Constitutional Conservatives left?
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:08pmAnd somehow, the idiots on the Left will *still* blather on about how Fox isn’t the “real” news.
Report Post »JustAGuy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:09pmKiran Chentry wanted Gretchan Carlson’s job. Fox News told her to not let the door hit her on the way out.
Report Post »The Libertarian Atheist
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:09pmI wonder how he will adapt to having to tell the truth…
Report Post »Ken
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:54pmAt least he didn’t work for MessNBC and those liberal nut jobs.
Report Post »WhatsUp
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:08pmI’m actually tired of Fox being “Fair and Balanced”! The majority of the “lame stream media” are so far left/progressive, why doesn’t Fox just continue to capitalize on being “conservative”?
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:09pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glHoIDF-fD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_I_cbKW5o
JD Roberts mullet alert!!!
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:14pmOh..your liberal bent is negotiable depending upon who signed your paycheck. Yeppp! Sounds like integrity to me. Liberal turncoat is more like. Why should we listen to you…After all you can be bought.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:29pmI remember him as a VJ on MuchMusic (Canada’s MTV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_I_cbKW5o
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 2:43pmQuestion: We do bad news reporters go to die
Report Post »Answer: Fox News
http://maboulette.wordpress.com
natstew
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 3:48pmWill the Liberal Left Wing Media call him a, “House Whitey”?
Report Post »bigbud
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 4:40pmWe’ll have to see what “they say”. If they go after him hard,. well he might be OK.
Report Post »Southern Rebel
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 5:11pmVan Grungy?? From Toronto and poster on the Toronto Sun online? Are you the same?
Report Post »If so..Happy New Year to ya!!
EnlightenedinGA
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 5:24pmDried up brains. I like that. lol!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »smithedwards
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 5:49pmI don’t trust EVERYbody at FoxNews. I don‘t trust Bill O’Reilly, Chris Wallace and Charles Krauthammer and I‘m not impressed with Juan Williams and I don’t trust him either. I don’t want “fair & balanced.“ I want ”truth and justice.” All people do. Why do I want to balance truth & lies. Hello?
Report Post »TRUSTNO MAN
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:15pmIf this is a ‘dog n’ pony show’, the pedigree on “fair and balnced” is becoming somewhat CNN bleached.
Report Post »I believe in keeping ones enemies closer but please, “Let’s be careful there Fox”!! No Glenn Beck there!
Joogy123
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:27pmI agree with SMITHEDWARDS and ALCARFL.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:49pmSouthern Rebel
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 5:11pm
Van Grungy?? From Toronto and poster on the Toronto Sun online? Are you the same?
If so..Happy New Year to ya!!
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Report Post »jeremy error
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:31pmHE’S A FREAKIN MOLE!!! FOX NEWS IS SCREWED AND GLENN IS NEXT!!! Don’t doubt me fools.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:06amI won’t doubt you…this may be their very tactic…get hired on at Fox….say something so outrageous or worse…have Fox news in court on FCC violations….hmmm….I think Fox should be really careful who they give a job to…
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:25amAnybody notice that Fox is becoming more and more leftist. Each time a leftist journalist leaves the left wing news Fox has been picking them up. Even O’reilly has been leaning left. Coincidence with this socialist government that has taken control of most of the other industries and has been attacking Fox ever since it got into power. I do not think so.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:05amoperation mocking bird ?
Report Post »http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html
Gutenberg
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:46amTo Spot of Tea who said “It will be interesting to find out what Mr Roberts true beliefs are now that he will be free to speak his mind.”
He is considered a “top-notch journalist”. If he is truly a journalist in its purest form, he will objectively report the news/journal what is happening in our world. I got my degree in 1974 and met many good journalists over the years and many of them did not necessarily agree with my politics. I know journalism has changed, but I also believe Foxnews is aware of what journalism should be. Everyone wondered when Geraldo was hired on at FoxNews, but he has been an interesting and entertaining addition to the lineup. They mostly put him on assignments that he can’t politicize. Let’s give this guy a chance. FoxNews knows what it is doing to stay fair and balanced. The other news outlets can’t come close to saying that.
Report Post »kreese
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:46amJEREMY ERROR may be right. If Fox goes the way of CNN, we now have the internet and talk radio for our news—–at least for NOW.
Americans, our freedoms are being assaulted from more than one direction. I see some on the Left are talking about violence to achieve their goals. We saw this years ago. They better be careful what for what they wish. Once, they were dismissed as a bunch of misguided long-haired maggots–it may not be that way now.
Report Post »patriot308
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:58pmI will give him a chance but not expecting much, most likely another version of shep. And we don’t need Kiran Chetry back. I know people that have worked with her; a major liberal nitwit. That’s why she is not on fox.
Report Post »desertspeaks
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 3:05pman interesting question comes to mind, just as in our government which has been INFILTRATED by left wingnut socialists, communists etc. Is fox now being infiltrated? destroy from within?? Just a thought.
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