Make CNN Independent Again

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/opinion/how-to-save-cnn-from-itself.html

 

 

But from CNN's perspective, a pundits-on-panels model offers several benefits. To start with, it's cost effective. On-the-ground reporting requires expensive crews, satellite trucks and travel. With far less effort, news executives can present polarized, high-drama debates that spike viewers outrage and short-term ratings. Most of that recent drama was centered on Donald J. Trump, who, during the early months of the campaign, got coverage from CNN that dwarfed that of the other 16 Republican contenders.

 

All this was about one thing, and it's not better journalism.

This is probably the most effective argument I've read regarding the media's failings in giving Trump so much free attention in this election cycle.

 

There was absolutely a way, and a compelling reason, to focus the political debate less on sideshow and more on policy. It is indeed in the public's interest to have prominent media sources servicing this need. They fell quite short.