CNN’s No Good, Very Bad Year

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The consequences of CNN's internal turmoil; how to cover Trump; why we’ve been having the same debates for over a century.

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0:00.0	Well Chris, Lick Day is officially out at CNN after a chaotic run as Chairman and CEO
0:07.1	the network announced that Lick Day is leaving immediately.
0:10.0	The dramatic culmination of CNN's chaotic year, but the guy, though, a problem, wasn't
0:16.4	a real issue.
0:17.4	It's the network's evolving approach to covering politics in the age of Trump.
0:23.2	Can it be 1995 again?
0:25.0	Can we turn back the clock?
0:26.5	Can we ignore the extremist attitudes that are infecting our politics?
0:29.8	I would say no.
0:31.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:33.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:35.6	New threats call for new solutions, yet most of today's moral panics have been repeated
0:41.3	in the press just about every decade.
0:44.0	A nightclub operator has made the most significant forecast for the 1970s.
0:48.2	Nobody laughs anymore, he said seriously.
0:51.1	Humor is dead.
0:52.4	The hazards of longing for yesterday year and other funny business.
0:56.4	That's all coming up after this.
0:59.4	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:05.3	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:07.8	When reviewing CNN's recent run of mishaps, ranging from mere dust-ups to dumpster fires,
1:14.8	I recalled Queen Elizabeth's famous description of 1992.
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