Many in conservative media circles were not disappointed to see CNN fire Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter. News/Talk 1130 WISN host Jay Weber was included in that camp, but also says CNN’s credibility problems don’t end with Stelter.
While discussing new CNN President Chris Licht’s intention to move the network back to a news reporting agency rather than a “conservative bashing” outlet, Weber said more people needed to go from CNN before they could be viewed as an unbiased network.
“If (Licht) wants to return CNN to credibility as a news station, he is going to have to fire every single on-air personality, and the producers of every one of their shows, and probably half of the building. Because this rabid leftism has become a cultural thing at CNN. Donald Trump’s run for office, somehow, gave them tacit permission to abandon all pretext of objectivity and simply reinvent themselves as the ‘Trump opposition’. And they’ve kept it up for six years now.”
Weber went on to call out specific hosts that he couldn’t view as switching their tune by name.
“Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon and Jake Tapper will not, over the span of a few months, morph back into more credible journalists just because they stop bashing Trump,” Weber said. “And no, their way of thinking, their ‘go to biases’ of the last six years, and the tone of their panels is not going to revert to being ‘fair’ and ‘balanced’ and credible.”
