CNN is the lowest of the low. At this point, it's simply Weekly World News with a thin veneer of fake respectability based on past accomplishments. I think people are remembering what it used to be and not what it has become. I think many media outlets are coasting on previous reputations since most people do not read most of their news from a single source. So you might not notice the bad CNN stories, if you only see the few stories that are mostly okay. But those stories are definitely becoming fewer and fewer.
I think this is a problem on both sides of the fence, this is the second coming of yellow journalism. I hope it doesn't last too much longer, because it's so hard to sift through biased stories and figure out what is fact and what is opinion.