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Article: A Change of Venue: Van Susteren Quits CNN For Fox News Channel
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- The Washington Post
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- January 3, 2002
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Four months after CNN spirited Paula Zahn away from Fox News
Channel, Rupert Murdoch's network has struck back.
Greta Van Susteren, one of CNN's most visible and voluble talkers,
said yesterday she is leaving the network that gave her cable stardom
and joining Fox, which occasionally beats CNN in the prime-time
rating wars.
"This was never about money," said the 47-year-old defense
lawyer, who sources say is being paid less by Fox -- about $900,000 a
year -- than CNN had offered to keep her. "I needed a change. They
seemed to have an exciting group over there that's having a lot of
fun."
Van Susteren will take over the 10 p.m. slot vacated by Zahn when
Fox fired her in September for ...