Last week’s shake-up at
CNN, in which not-related
American Morning anchors Soledad O’Brien and Miles O’Brien were “reassigned” within the network, marked a happy turn of events for Fox News Channel refugee Kiran Chetry, who’s becoming a co-anchor of the show. In February, Fox News accused Chetry, who’d been in talks with
CNN, of demanding it fire her
Fox & Friends co-anchor Gretchen Carlson. Chetry says that didn’t happen, but Fox had her escorted from the building, and her husband, Fox weatherman Chris Knowles, had to raid her office to recover her personal belongings. Knowles was released from his Fox News contract the following day.
CNN president Jonathan Klein says that Chetry’s adjusting well. “I was blown away by her almost encyclopedic knowledge of
CNN,” he says. “I was amazed that she was even getting reception behind the iron curtain.” Watching
CNN at Fox News? That alone was probably enough to get her fired. —
Emma Rosenblum
