I don't mean for this to sound like a defense of the article, which it emphatically is not. >Imagine the bad old days of the 1980s when everyone had to get the

I don't mean for this to sound like a defense of the article, which it emphatically is not. >Imagine the bad old days of the 1980s when everyone had to get their news from CNN! Important to remember in this that they would have had 1980s CNN, which I presume is significantly different from modern CNN. NPR, for example, was a mostly even-keeled news source as recently as 20 years ago; no one was surprised to find a dedicated NPR listener who was conservative in 1980, which is certainly not true today. Without having any personal experience of CNN, past or present, I imagine they have followed a similar trend.