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The Hits Keep Coming For CNN

The day after a Los Angeles Times piece ripped into Anderson Cooper and CNN for their breathless promotion of an interview with Angelina Jolie, it was the turn of a San Francisco Chronicle scribe, who says the news network "hit a new low in smarmy" as it hyped a special edition of Cooper's program. "Start with Cooper, the glam, my-precious-feelings correspondent, whose ascent to cable-TV news stardom steamrolled over avuncular veteran newsman Aaron Brown and depressed the news slot's ratings for months," writes Debra Saunders. "Add Jolie, the tattooed ex-wife of Tinseltown bad boy Billy Bob Thornton, fresh from Namibia, where she had a baby with a trendy Hollywood name--Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt--sired by a movie star who just last year was someone else's husband." Saunders gives Jolie points for understanding that she has to talk about life with Brad Pitt in exchange for airtime to discuss refugees--but concludes that the interview was "silly," especially when Cooper asked if adoption was different from childbirth. Saunders' response? "Duh."

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