It's Monday, March 23rd, 26 from Peachfish Productions.

It's The Gist. I'm Mike Peska. The Gist, a podcast. You might be confused because maybe

you were watching CNN and you said to yourself, isn't this a cable news network? In fact,

isn't that what the letter CNN stand for? But no, they were trying to

be a podcast. They brought out the desk microphones as Anderson Cooper and guests talked into

them. They did the entire show from Jake Tapper's office, which is a really cool office. He has a lot

of good political memorabilia on the wall. One note, he has his jackets and pants hanging up pretty prominently.

You can might move them to the side, even though it's a podcast. Doesn't mean the sets of the podcast

have to be exactly what the office is all the time. Status, an online newsletter that could be

subtitled, what did Barry Weiss do today, looked at the CNN move to fake podcasting

or the gesture at podcasting, and they shat all over it. A person familiar with CNN's thinking,

told status, the podcast format has become a natural environment for Cooper. And with the network

and special programming since the Iran War started,

there was an opportunity to experiment with different deliveries for news. It was a person familiar

with CNN's thinking, like someone who watch CNN, someone who can't identify who gave that

anodyne quote saying, well, they did a podcast looking thing because I thought they wanted to do a podcast

looking thing.

Status goes on to give anonymity to people behind these other quotes.

Quote, I am not convinced that podcast microphones and behind the scene shots are enough

to move the needle.

One former television executive told status.

So not even someone currently in television.

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