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Honestly this article convinced me there is no chance for CNN. To fix it you would need to rebuild the entire organization from scratch, it seems increasingly c
by yesco 3y ago
Honestly this article convinced me there is no chance for CNN. To fix it you would need to rebuild the entire organization from scratch, it seems increasingly clear to me that the tabloid elitism they call "journalism" at CNN, was just as much a bottom up issue as it was top down under Zucker.
> Licht argued that the media’s blind spots owe to a lack of diversity—and not the lack of diversity that he sees newsrooms obsessing over. He wants to recruit reporters who are deeply religious and reporters who grew up on food stamps and reporters who own guns. Licht recalled a recent dustup with his own diversity, equity, and inclusion staff after making some spicy remarks at a conference. “I said, ‘A Black person, a brown person, and an Asian woman that all graduated the same year from Harvard is not diversity,’” he told me.
I feel this really gets to the heart of the problem at CNN. Sadly, I have doubts over whether Licht actually has the skill to pull it off.