Sarah Isgur: CNN's hiring of a GOP operative as political editor is even worse than it looks

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

CNN’s 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 wouldn’t 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 network’s 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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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cnns-hiring-of-a-gop-operative-as-political-editor-is-even-worse-than-it-looks/2019/02/20/93d03fa4-350b-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html

[Iliyah]

1. Why?

shit there is fake news (Murdoch) and more fake news on hate radio and that other fake news outlet (Sinclair). We need a balance. Actually we need the "Fair Act" reinstated.

[Power 2 the People]

2. Dancing to the tune of their corporate masters.

[AJT]

3. I can't find a "contact us" on the CNN website.

How do we let CNN know of our displeasure?

[angstlessk]

5. From jimtkr in reply's

9 minutes ago
This is what gaming the ref looks like: call foul so many times that they go out of their way and give the offended party more power so as to appear "fair."

Let CNN know this is outrageous:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback

The phone number for CNN HQ in Atlanta is 404-827-1500

[Taraman]

4. Good article. This is a serious mistake by Zucker that causes harm like in 2016

Sullivan's final paragraph:

"What it lacks is a public-spirited mission, articulated at the highest level and backed up with every hire and decision."

In other words: Journalistic integrity.

[fascisthunter]

6. Billionaires who want to take over have spoken

Their twisted interpretation of Freedom of Speech. Goebbels would be proud of the GOP I’m sure.