08-06-2023, 12:11 AM
(07-06-2023, 02:15 PM)Luc Wrote: What a disastrous tenure that was - you cannot 'both sides' the news in the age of Trump, Republican lies and social media disinformation, let alone slag off your staff in a magazine profile of yourself.
This.
Also as much as they emphasise how profits supposedly are not a priority (ha! since when?), at the end of the day it will always be a consideration. Losing the left who still watch CNN thinking that they can attract Republicans by being 'centrist' (essentially turning into a bothsidism false equivalence-type coverage -- why would they quit Newsmax or Fox for that?) is delusional and does not do any favours for ratings.
The bigger picture issue is that the US political spectrum is so skewed to the right that bothsidmism doesn't work. Without the panels and with less blatantly opinionated shows (Cuomo's and Lemon's monologues for example) the coverage was actually pretty balanced considering the state of affairs. The Overton window is just so messed up that calling out blatant lies is seen as being biased.
As Amanpour's promo used to go ad-nauseam: 'truthful not neutral'
On a tangent, it's actually an amusing coincidence how the Licht profile includes a passage on this very topic and the line in the promo happens to be from Amanpour who criticised the Town Hall publicly.