CNN is not about news, it is about opinionated hosts and guests, i.e.: not journalism.
Journalism is about reporting events, not interpreting them. Tell me what happened, not what you think about it.
Journalism is about reporting events, not interpreting them. Tell me what happened, not what you think about it.
CNN’s problem is that their “personalities” are absolute snore-fests. Fox’s bread and butter are their hosts but they are doing fine for now (cable will die eventually). In the current post-ironic zeitgeist, audiences are drawn to more transgressive discourse. But Don Lemon can’t make hot takes when his audience is Deloitte managers and urban moms (also he’s terminally unfunny).
The left leaning media has become too safe and staid. I think that’s why left sympathetic people are drawn to the new “left” podcasts like Chapo Trap House
And sit in a sofa instead of a news room.
> Journalism is about reporting events, not interpreting them.
This is a description of an idyllic fantasy world that's never existed.
One can (I think reasonably) argue that the current generation of for-profit news is far more likely to spin the facts according to a predetermined agenda in their never-ending pursuit of viewership and associated profits.
But journalism has never, ever, involved simply "reporting events". Just the decision as to which events to report on is an editorial decision.
Your service as a journalist is to serve as a witness for people that was not there.
Not to take advantage of that situation to persuade people into believing your perspectives.
Sports journalism is the only objective journalism.