It's been the week of
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"Twilight" sequel, which is sizzling at the box office, but also of
personalities, as in Larry King.
The talk show host has decided, or was
gently prodded to decide by his
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after 25 years in the saddle, as he puts it, "to hang up the
suspenders."
What's happened with and to him is what's
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no longer warrant his primetime position, and his paycheck -- rumored to be as
high as in the $10 million range -- is way out of sync with the belt-tighteners
in the accounting
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King's exit also reflects the retooling at
the cable news
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decline 30% or even 40% year-over-year depending on the metric, chunk of the
day or demo one chooses. All of the network's primetime hosts, including
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have seen their numbers slide. Another primetime anchor, Campbell Brown,
recently
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performance this year averages 745,000 viewers, down 36% from 2009, and only
199,000 adults aged 25-54, off 38% from 2009.
Not that it was always so. Despite the
twilight,
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records, seeming most proud of the Guinness Book record for longest-running
talk show in the same slot on the same network: 25 years. CNN used to pivot
around King, giving him enormous leeway in terms of the kind of show he would
do and even building identical sets in
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accommodate him.
As impressive as King's streak is, it just
doesn't resonate with
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Thing is, those coming up are not at all
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one is on, or how long one has been there. Track records, well, they're for the
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Once the lone round-the-clock global news
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with rivals on either flank -- Rupert Murdoch's hopped-up Fox News Channel
routinely eating its lunch and GE's MSNBC taking occasional bites out of its
other
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or supra-national news services abroad that have sprung up to beam their own
information services to their constituencies.
It was in a time of war that CNN
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Gulf War -- remember King quizzing Wolf Blitzer and Bernard Shaw as they ducked
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the invasion of
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Age, well, it does catch up with one --
Iraq,
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When clips of King in earlier decades are
CSI
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shoulders and the tilt of the body are more eager, the acid on the tongue a
little sharper.
With the newsmakers of the day -- from
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with New York Gov. Mario Cuomo through the Reagans and eventually the Clintons
-- the indefatigable interviewer held his own. And got something, sometimes a
lot, out of his
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Things weren't always overtly sexy or
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Gaga, to draw an audience. During the mid-'90s, the political debate over the North
American Free Trade Agreement, of all things, was a huge ratings grabber, and
King was right in the
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But it's been awhile since a guest chose
"
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1992: declare his candidacy for the presidency.
There are just too
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personalities nowadays to shape and deliver their messages, including what we
are bound to see much more of: the famous taking charge of their own
communication with
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websites. (They'll still need crisis managers, but PR people?)
