Dominic Holden

Paula Zahn is off the air.

The unraveling of “Paula Zahn Now,” which made its debut at 8 p.m. in spring 2003, was ultimately a function of ratings. Though CNN took pains recently to note that the number of viewers for the show had ticked upward earlier this year, Ms. Zahn’s task remained a herculean one. The estimated 558,000 viewers her program has been drawing, on average, each weeknight this year, according to Nielsen Media Research, represents less than a quarter of the nearly 2.3 million who watch “The O’Reilly Factor” with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News. Ms. Zahn’s program also draws about 100,000 fewer viewers a night than “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC.

In a telephone interview shortly after breaking the news of her departure to her staff, Ms. Zahn said the decision was a mutual one between herself and CNN management. Her contract, she said, was up at year’s end.

Gotta say, I always hated her… like watching FOX News-lite.

I’m cleaning my house and I come upon my fax machine, covered with dust: “Why do I still own a fax machine? Nobody has a fax machine anymore, do they? Hell, I don’t even have a landline.”

Beside, it always printed weird—I haven’t the heart to saddle it on some Craigslist sap.