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Anderson Cooper of CNN, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, and Sean Hannity of Fox News are three of the biggest primetime anchors in media today.
Each anchor and their respective cable news network takes a unique and different angle on the news of the day during primetime programming. As a result, their audiences can come away with different perspectives on what’s happening in the US today.
Because of the role and platform that each host has, all three are able to shape and influence what viewers believe is the most important news in the world.
For a week, we watched all of their shows to compare what news each led their program off with. Here’s how the three primetime cable news anchors opened up their shows every night from September 10-14.
Monday, September 10: Anderson Cooper, CNN
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Cooper, who frequently opens his 8 p.m. ET show with his “Keeping Them Honest” segment, led off his show discussing the White House’s response to the anonymous op-ed in the New York Times and its search to find out who wrote it.
He also talked about Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House“, and how President Donald Trump and his administration were responding to the book.
Monday, September 10: Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
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Maddow, who comes on the air on MSNBC at 9 p.m. ET, opened up her show discussing the developments on Hurricane Florence. She was the first of the three anchors sampled to discuss the hurricane at the top of her show, and the only one to discuss the storm at the top of the show all five nights that week.
She also talked about: the Republican attempt to set up a confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh later in the week, the Democrats’ attempts to delay the vote, the court proceedings surrounding Russian agent Maria Butina, the White House’s response to Woodward’s forthcoming book, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos being sentenced to prison for 14 days, and Trump’s expected declassification of Justice Department surveillance documents.
Monday, September 10: Sean Hannity, Fox News
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Hannity, who comes on at 9 p.m. ET on Fox News, led off his show with his well-known “Opening Monologue” discussing the Democrats’ desire to impeach Trump if they win back the House of Representatives in the midterm elections this fall.
He also addressed policies Democratic candidates would support if elected to Congress, the impact the midterm elections could have on the Trump agenda, and the alleged bias and corruption of the “deep state” in the Justice Department and FBI toward Trump.
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