{"id":1501174,"date":"2022-06-02T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501174"},"modified":"2022-06-02T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:00:17","slug":"cnn-to-cut-back-on-labeling-everything-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-to-cut-back-on-labeling-everything-breaking-news\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN to Cut Back on Labeling Everything \u201cBREAKING NEWS\u201d"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fcnn-to-cut-back-on-labeling-everything-breaking-news%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=1501174&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s new boss Chris Licht says that beginning today, CNN has added a &#8220;Breaking News\u201d guideline to its stylebook, to address overuse of the breaking news banner across its network and cable news writ-large. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Licht and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav have made it a priority to dial back on <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"partisan programming at CNN\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/02\/26\/cnn-chris-licht-liberal-partisanship\" data-vars-content-id=\"c9682be7-5190-4b70-a45a-b9322cd98e89\" data-vars-headline=\"CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as \" breaking news>partisan programming at CNN<\/a> in favor of traditional journalism.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers,\u201d he said in the note obtained by Axios. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You\u2019ve already seen far less of the &#8216;Breaking News&#8217; banner across our programming.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Licht said he agrees with complaints from &#8220;people both inside and outside the organization&#8221; that the network overuses the &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; banner.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It has become such a fixture on every channel and network that its impact has become lost on the audience.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>To address the issue, CNN bureau chief Sam Feist has led a team in building out &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; guidelines for CNN&#8217;s stylebook, per the note. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It certainly will need tweaks, so we are open to feedback, but this is a great starting point to try to make \u201cBreaking News\u201d mean something BIG is happening,&#8221; Licht wrote. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Zaslav and mentor and investor John Malone have been public about their push to bring CNN back towards hard news coverage, and away from progressive commentary. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Noting that the network is focused on &#8220;informing&#8221; and the truth, he said, &#8220;The tenor of our voice holistically has to reflect that.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;[W]e must be vital, relevant, and respected \u2013 and how we show up for our audiences, in every story, in every part of the country, and around the world, matters.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&#8217;s new boss Chris Licht says that beginning today, CNN has added a &#8220;Breaking News\u201d guideline to its stylebook, to address overuse of the breaking news banner across its network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1898222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501174","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=1501174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}