"Asked what he now thinks of CNN, Shaw told WTTW-Channel 11's John Callaway: "I try not to. I'm very, very disappointed with the way the news management at my favorite network has gone. CNN has fine women and men working there. Lou Dobbs, one of the leaders there. "Unfortunately, Fox News is the ratings leader . . . on the cable side of the business, and what Fox puts on the air is not news." What Fox does, he said, is "commentary, personal analysis." Calling himself "very straitlaced [and] very old-fashioned," Shaw said: "When anchors are reporting the news, they should report the news and allow the viewers at home to decide what they think about issues. "I don't want to hear an anchor's personal opinion about anything. Just report the news. "But CNN continues to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don't like that," he said." (When I lived in DC, I got to know Shaw pretty well. He would interview me regularly. It took me one year in the US to not believe in writing letters to the editors, etc. But with him, I used to make an exception. He was a most decent and most open-minded person. When he was the anchor of CNN, I would call him with extensive complaints about CNN's coverage of Arab-Israeli issues. He was always most sympathetic and most understanding. CNN under him was so much better; he left, as CNN was changing direction.)