Journalism is about going to the fucking place, narrating exactly what happened in the most unbiased way possible, talking to witnesses and then shutting the fuck up. No opinions.
If you do deliver an opinion, it stops being journalism.
(The changes came as part of the discovery merger with hbo, etc., which also led to mass show cancellations.)
My favourite is when the Clinton emails were leaked, they straight up told the viewers on TV that the viewers will go to jail if they read the emails and that only they (CNN) could legally read the emails and tell the viewers the content. That was a funny episode of political damage control.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...