Sarah Isgur: CNN's hiring of a GOP operative as political editor is even worse than it looks [View all]
Source: Washington Post
CNNs hiring of a GOP operative as political editor is even worse than it looks
By Margaret Sullivan
Media columnist
February 20 at 10:23 AM
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Now CNN has hired Isgur who has no journalism experience and once slammed her new employer as the Clinton News Network as a political editor.
The network, under heavy fire for the move, was insisting by Tuesday night that she wouldnt be directing political coverage, although that surely is what a political editor might be expected to do.
She is helping to coordinate coverage across TV and Digital, a spokesman told Vox, and will be making sure that stories are featured on the right shows and articles get posted online at the right time.
That sounds a lot like damage control.
But why CNN made this move to begin with is the deeper and more troubling question.
It strongly suggests that the networks big thinkers including head honcho Jeff Zucker are aiming for a kind of false fairness: a defensive, both-sides-are-equal kind of political coverage that inevitably fails to serve the voting public.
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