The news channel I like best nowadays is Aljazeera. I like some shows on RT, but it is not really a news channel either.
That means as little flying to flyover states as possible, never leave WDC or Atlanta, certainly dont send Anderson Cooper to Egypt where he could get beat up by government thugs.
Thus its a lot easier to make the news about yourself; reminds me of the ESPN morning SportsCenter from years ago -- when they ran out of sports lowlights the anchors would get caught abusing people on tape.
Are you saying they changed in the last 10 years? CNN has revenues in excess of $1 billion, so they are likely spending millions of dollars a day.
AC used to go to interesting places and do interesting things. After he got beat up they'd have him sit behind a desk and report on WDC politicians acting like children except he had to take them seriously instead of calling out their behavior.
Before Trump came on the scene you would hear them talk about themselves on a slow news Sunday, and the big problem they face was low ratings. You might think they just chased away people with saturation cover of school shootings and plane crashes, but they tried many different things and convinced themselves they were doing the optimal thing.
Probably the owners thought about shutting it down, but the presence of Fox News made that seem really irresponsible.
Trump came and it was great for ratings, like 9/11 every day. That's over now.
There will always be another storm season for Chris Cuomo and AC. :-)
News is a business like any other. They require money, which is equal to clicks in the online world. Hate the game, not the player (unless they are purposefully distorting reality).
Also, we are really stretching the meaning of the word "news" nowadays. Remember this piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixEahmx0Btw
While i have great respect for Larry King, i have lost nearly all respect for CNN. By the way, the same applies to Fox.
Look at them now. The emotionality of everything is amped up to 11. They reference Twitter constantly. Everything is an existential crisis, and when Trump was in office, everything was his fault. During the 2015 democratic primaries and 2016 election, CNN got the nickname "Clinton News Network" because of how one-sided the coverage was.
There's a reason that trust in news is decaying. Though this is kind of a tangent from the main topic.
That restraint has been lost. Watching young reporters is painful in his much they are tying to get jabs in. Like a dog being rewarded for killing neighbors chickens.
You don't have to be on the left to be critical of Trump. Plenty of right wingers (including Bush Jr) are critical of him. He's made a lot of enemies all over the political spectrum.
To me CNN is basically a right-wing channel, just not as right-wing as FOX.
For real left-wing media, watch Democracy Now! or read The Nation.