CNN chief Jonathan Klein says of his broadcast network competitors, "“What they’re playing is golf...That is, they’re trying to get there in as few strokes as possible." But at CNN, he says, they want to "Run up the score." And he promises, "We're not going to trim our sails." If you can afford three different sports metaphors in three paragraphs, you're doing just fine. [NYO]

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