CNN Parts Ways with Tucker Carlson, Prepares to Cancel Crossfire

(andPOP) - CNN wants to focus more on news oriented programming than verbal tirades, which is why they may cancel Crossfire and have already parted with the show's bowtie-wearing Tucker Carlson.

Carlson actually quit the show in April but agreed to stay on until his contract expired, which is apparently now.

Carlson may not be off television for long. He may already have a job lined up at rival station MSNBC.

An executive at NBC News told the New York Times that they are speaking with Carlson about the 9 p.m. slot, though nothing is confirmed yet.

Jonathan Klein, the new president of CNN, told the Times that Crossfire, the show that features battling (loud) left-wing and right-wing political pundits, will soon be cancelled.

The show might still exist in another format; perhaps as a brief segment on another show, like it was during election night.

As Carlson exits, one can't help but reminisce not long ago, late last year, when Jon Stewart of the Daily Show was a guest on the show and took it upon himself to say that the show was "hurting America."

Klein told the Post that he agrees.

"I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise." Viewers want information, he said, not opinion.

This could be the first move of many. Klein says Larry King will stay, but most other shows will be hard news oriented as opposed to debate. King, after all, isn't much of a debate show, but rather it's more of a butter-up-the-guests type a show.