This article convinced me to give CNN another chance, after being disgusted with it under Zucker.
IMO the USA does need an honest, unbiased news organization. If CNN can be it, then more power to them.
IMO the USA does need an honest, unbiased news organization. If CNN can be it, then more power to them.
They've been the exact opposite for so long, that I don't see how any sensible person could ever trust them to be "it" in the future. the brand is tarnished beyond repair.
No organization made up of humans can be unbiased.
You can have honesty, you can have forms of transparency, you can have adherence to various journalistic procedural norms, but you cannot have “unbiased”.
I could follow a simple format of topic, position one, position two. And obviously could be a debate platform but it could also just be a simple summary of facts
> Licht argued that the media’s blind spots owe to a lack of diversity—and not the lack of diversity that he sees newsrooms obsessing over. He wants to recruit reporters who are deeply religious and reporters who grew up on food stamps and reporters who own guns. Licht recalled a recent dustup with his own diversity, equity, and inclusion staff after making some spicy remarks at a conference. “I said, ‘A Black person, a brown person, and an Asian woman that all graduated the same year from Harvard is not diversity,’” he told me.
I feel this really gets to the heart of the problem at CNN. Sadly, I have doubts over whether Licht actually has the skill to pull it off.
In England, they are called newsreaders because that's what they do. And if you pay them as such, you'll get a lot closer to break-even.