{"id":1409982,"date":"2022-03-30T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409982"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:14:57","slug":"former-cnn-anchor-complains-about-how-much-the-channel-sucks-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cnn-anchor-complains-about-how-much-the-channel-sucks-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CNN Anchor Complains About How Much the Channel Sucks Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-cnn-anchor-complains-about-how-much-the-channel-sucks-now%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409982&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>To help ring in the first day of CNN+ on Tuesday, <em>Reliable Sources Daily<\/em> host Brian Stelter brought on CNN\u2019s first two anchors Dave Walker and Lois Hart (a married couple) with the idea that they would tell some stories about the early days at the network and give advice to the hosts on their new streaming service. They did get some of that, but oh man, was it also embarrassing as Walker griped about CNN\u2019s leanings with opinion content and Hart touted her influence in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, 42 years later, do the two of you \u2013 now happily retired \u2013 do you still watch CNN,\u201d Stelter asked. But little did he know what he just invited.<\/p>\n<p>After announcing that they both still watch \u201call the time\u201d like \u201ceverybody,\u201d Walker disclosed that major difference: <strong>\u201cI used to anchor at CNN, now I just yell at CNN.\u201d<\/strong> \u201cEverybody does that too, right,\u201d Hart said as she laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter laughed too and said Walker could just e-mail him his feedback instead and it would be welcomed. He then wanted to know how cable news has \u201cevolved\u201d and what their \u201cimpressions now versus when you were on the air?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, Walker gave an answer Stelter probably didn\u2019t like, that opinion has taken over and drowned out the news:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Well, I think originally, <strong>it was pretty much 99 percent news content.<\/strong> There were a few evening programs we had, talk shows. But mainly it was the news. And that was the major concern at the time: is whether or not we could feel 24\/7. As it turns out, we could. We had more than enough news.<\/p>\n<p>And I think, as cable news evolved and more completion came into the fray, <strong>you had more opinion, particularly in the evening hours. <\/strong>And I would say that\u2019s the major difference now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cBut maybe with the new ownership that may revert to more just basic news coverage,\u201d<\/strong> Walker hoped, likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2022\/02\/26\/back-middle-new-cnn-boss-wants-hard-news-not-red-hot-liberal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citing reports<\/a> that incoming network boss Chris Licht has said he wants CNN to return to \u201chard news\u201d with less \u201cred-hot liberal opining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hart immediately jumped in with her own tale that she wanted to use to slime Fox News but inadvertently seemed to hint that she was a voice calling for CNN to be involved with taking sides politically.<\/p>\n<p>According to her story, in the early days of the network, they asked everyone for \u201ctheir ideas for how they would model CNN for the future.\u201d And live with Stelter, Hart admitted she told them they needed to adopt a \u201cpoint of view\u201d with which to frame the news:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And I wrote a note and I said CNN lacks a point of view. And I didn\u2019t necessarily mean that it had to have a political point of view, but I thought it needed some sort of point of view.<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s the 20th anniversary, one of the executives comes running up to me waving this piece of paper that I had written, you know, 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cSo, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s kind of interesting that in the years after CNN was founded, that the subsequent networks \u2013 we won\u2019t mention which one \u2013 went way over the line with that one,\u201d<\/strong> she huffed as if that said something about Fox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes. Sometimes, that\u2019s true,\u201d Stelter simply responded, perhaps shocked.<\/p>\n<p>The transcript is below, click &#8220;expand&#8221; to read:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"collapsible\">\n<p>CNN+\u2019s <em>Reliable Sources Daily<\/em><br \/>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>(\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>BRIAN STELTER: So, 42 years later, do the two of you \u2013 now happily retired \u2013 do you still watch CNN?<\/p>\n<p>DAVE WALKER: All the time.<\/p>\n<p>LOIS HART: Of course! Everybody watches CNN.<\/p>\n<p>WALKER: Here\u2019s the difference though. Here\u2019s the difference though. I used to anchor at CNN, now I just yell at CNN.<\/p>\n[Laughter]\n<p>HART: Everybody does that too, right?<\/p>\n<p>STELTER: You can just e-mail me, Dave. It\u2019ll be great feedback. We\u2019ll take your feedback anytime.<\/p>\n[Laughter]\n<p>WALKER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>STELTER: How do you view how cable news, and now streaming news has evolved or devolved. What are your impressions now versus when you were on the air?<\/p>\n<p>WALKER: Well, I think originally, it was pretty much 99 percent news content. There were a few evening programs we had, talk shows. But mainly it was the news. And that was the major concern at the time: is whether or not we could feel 24\/7. As it turns out, we could. We had more than enough news.<\/p>\n<p>And I think, as cable news evolved and more completion came into the fray, you had more opinion, particularly in the evening hours. And I would say that\u2019s the major difference now. But maybe with the new ownership that may revert to more just basic news coverage. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>HART: I\u2019ll tell you a true story. At the 20<sup>th<\/sup> reunion, one of the executives had \u2013 many years ago \u2013 asked everybody\u2019s ideas about where CNN could change or what they would \u2013 how they would alter it. And this was every early on, maybe in the first couple of years. And everybody had to submit their ideas for how they would model CNN for the future.<\/p>\n<p>And I wrote a note and I said CNN lacks a point of view. And I didn\u2019t necessarily mean that it had to have a political point of view, but I thought it needed some sort of point of view.<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, one of the executive comes running up to me waving this piece of paper that I had written, you know, 20 years ago. So, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s kind of interesting that in the years after CNN founded, that the subsequent networks \u2013 we won\u2019t mention which one \u2013 went way over the line with that one.<\/p>\n<p>It is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>STELTER: Sometimes. Sometimes, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>(\u2026)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help ring in the first day of CNN+ on Tuesday, Reliable Sources Daily host Brian Stelter brought on CNN\u2019s first two anchors Dave Walker and Lois Hart (a married<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}