Friday, 2 December 2022

The Morning Briefing: CNN Continues Overhaul but How Far Will It Go?

The Morning Briefing: CNN Continues Overhaul but How Far Will It Go?

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Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Feldson was dismissed from his duties as Cribbage Club Snack Chairman for insisting that Peeps were a superfood.

It's been so long that it is difficult to remember, but CNN was once not a network full of leftist crazies. It began its drift into biased madness many years ago but greatly accelerated when Donald Trump began running for president. Trump broke a lot of organizations and people, but practically shattered CNN.

The network had once been positioned as a bit of a centrist option between the Fox News Channel and MSNBC. CNN's obsession with Trump made it outflank MSNBC on the left, which didn't seem possible.

Of course, the people involved in that leftward lurch didn't see it that way, which Matt wrote about the other day:

While CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht has been pushing for more balanced coverage on the network ...