CNN's No Good, Very Bad Year

Note: I originally posted this in Video & Multimedia but one of our posters suggested I re-post because it might get locked in Video/Multimedia.
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I found this week's "On the Media" (NPR) to be particularly interesting. It's a perspective on what is wrong at CNN. I enjoyed hearing from Brian Stelter, who was one of their very best journalists. I rarely missed his show and was so disappointed when he was let go (and Tiffany Cruz, too, who spoke her mind).

How to cover a candidate like trump is also discussed.

The program is broken into three segments so you can just listen to the parts that interest you.

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CNN recently ousted CEO Chris Licht after a bombshell profile brought up questions about CNN’s editorial direction. On this week’s On the Media, what the turmoil at CNN can teach us about how to cover politicians who continually lie on air. Plus, a deep dive into newspaper archives reveals that we’ve been having the same debates for over a century.

1. Brian Stelter [@brianstelter], former anchor of CNN's now-discontinued Reliable Sources, on the origins of CNN's tumultuous year and the ongoing fallout inside the network.

2. Jay Rosen [@jayrosen_nyu], a press critic and professor of journalism at New York University, on CNN's dilemma of trying to both interview GOP candidates and pursue accuracy, and how networks should learn how to cover Trump in 2024.

3. OTM correspondent Micah Loewinger [@MicahLoewinger] speaks with political scientist Paul Fairie [@paulisci] about the big media narratives that still animate online debates and press coverage, and how little has changed in our political discourse from decade to decade.

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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-cnn-no-good-very-bad-year