Title : "At Zucker’s Trump-baiting CNN, Stelter thrived.... But Zucker was forced to resign from the network, and a new regime under Chris Licht stepped in..."
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"At Zucker’s Trump-baiting CNN, Stelter thrived.... But Zucker was forced to resign from the network, and a new regime under Chris Licht stepped in..."
"... with a goal of rejiggering CNN’s programming, scrubbing it of liberal political valence....Under new ownership, CNN’s parent company was in thrall to the libertarian billionaire John Malone, who said that he wanted to see 'CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing.'"Writes Clare Malone in "A TV Face of the Trump Resistance Exits/Brian Stelter, the host of the CNN show 'Reliable Sources,' which was cancelled this week, went from media chronicler to media-chronicled" (The New Yorker).
I had trouble understanding that headline because I have been using the tag "the Trump resistance" to refer Trump and his supporters as they've resisted accepting Biden's victory in the 2020 election. That includes the January 6th riot/insurrection and the investigation into it. So it took me a couple seconds to see "the Trump resistance" as meaning the resistance to Trump and not the resistance by and on behalf of Trump. That reveals how little I have bothered with the CNN eminence that was Brian Stelter. The truth is, I don't watch any TV news channels.
Back to the article. This next sentence had me almost changing course and inviting readers to participate in a sentence-diagramming contest (or just to rewrite this in as few words as possible):
Stelter’s firing and CNN’s broader mandate to shift toward more straight news reporting and less host-opinionating is perhaps part of a larger recalibration in media, as outlets try to find their footing in a post-Trump world; better to emphasize the 'unbiased' nature of your journalism than engage in constant debates about how attacks on the press threaten American democracy—though there’s definitely something to that.
Is that stream-of-consciousness or how you write when you're straining to tart things up? I think she's saying bias against Trump won high ratings when Trump was President, but now, the cost/benefit analysis is different, and the strategy of seeming "unbiased" is probably better.
The next sentence may be even more challenging:
As the country’s political system has devolved and journalism has been sucked into the jet stream of the Democratic Party—the only major party committed to defending First Amendment freedoms—news organizations are trying to break through to a greater number of Americans.
I cannot get my head around the Democrat Party as "committed to defending First Amendment freedoms." What's that based on? It doesn't resonate with me, and I've been watching the Democratic Party closely every day since January 14, 2004. I'm going to omit that phrase entirely and edit the rest into something as clear as I can make it: TV news, coopted by the Democratic Party, would like non-Democrats to watch.
Figures like Stelter, CNN bosses seem to have determined, endanger their ability to appeal to a wider audience. It’s unclear, though, whether the mealy-mouthed center will hold any allure, either."
"Mealy-mouthed" means "Reticent; not outspoken; afraid to speak one's mind or to use plain terms. Also (now the usual sense): ingratiating, unctuous; hypocritical" (OED). That's about all it's going to be, isn't it? Viewers can tell, can't we?
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