A Pretty Sweet Deal
In the New York Times account of CNN's decision to replace Aaron Brown with Anderson Cooper, it appears that the whole thing went very smoothly:
Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN/U.S., said today that he and Mr. Brown had mutually agreed that Mr. Brown would leave the cable news network because the new CNN lineup left "no options" for a program that would include Mr. Brown. "It is, unfortunately, a zero-sum game," Mr. Klein said.
I'm just glad that it was a mutual agreement. It would have been quite sad if Brown had been fired.