{"id":1631162,"date":"2022-09-02T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631162"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:50:14","slug":"cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood Out At Network"},"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-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network%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=1631162&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>CNN White House correspondent John Harwood is out at the network as its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, overhauls its composition and lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Harwood announced his departure Friday on Twitter. In a brief message, Harwood said he was proud of his work and thanked his colleagues. He added that he \u201clook[s] forward to figuring out what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">personal news:<\/p>\n<p>today&#8217;s my last day at CNN<\/p>\n<p>proud of the work<\/p>\n<p>thanks to my colleagues<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve been lucky to serve the best in American media \u2013 St. Petersburg Times, WSJ, NYT, the NBC family, CNN<\/p>\n<p>look forward to figuring out what&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnJHarwood\/status\/1565731351617277957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harwood\u2019s departure comes weeks after former CNN \u201cReliable Sources\u201d host Brian Stelter recorded his last show and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-after-network-cancels-his-show\">exited<\/a> the network. Stelter\u2019s exit reportedly came at the behest of CNN chief Chris Licht, who took over the network in February after Jeff Zucker\u2019s exit. Licht has reportedly been driving CNN toward adopting a more nonpartisan stance in its news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Harwood joined CNN in January 2020 after a stint at CNBC. In his previously role as editor-at-large for CNBC, where he played a central role in the outlet\u2019s election coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Harwood\u2019s professionalism and partisanship came under fire after he moderated a Republican primary debate in 2015 for CNBC. Harwood\u2019s performance reportedly left the newsroom split on whether it was a good look for the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in the newsroom knows he\u2019s extremely far Left,\u201d a network insider told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/cnbc-divided-extremely-biased-john-harwood-moderate-gop-debate\/\">TheWrap<\/a> at the time. Knowledge of Harwood\u2019s political leanings was well-known within the network before the debate, the insider said.<\/p>\n<p>Harwood is \u201cnot just extremely biased and partisan, but he\u2019s the worst kind who isn\u2019t self-aware that he is,\u201d the insider said. \u201cBlindness to that is what allowed him on the debate stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harwood\u2019s conduct during the debate played a major role in the Republican National Committee\u2019s decision afterward to suspend its debate agreement with NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates\u2019 visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC\u2019s moderators engaged in a series of \u2018gotcha\u2019 questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates,\u201d then-RNC Chairman Reince Priebus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/rnc-suspends-participation-nbc-news-debate-msna714261\">said<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>After the debate, leaked emails revealed that Harwood had reached out to the Clinton campaign about what he should ask Republican primary contenders. \u201cWhat should I ask Jeb?\u201d Harwood <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/media\/304686-campaign-collusion-is-cnbcs-john-harwood-too-close-to-the-clinton\/\">asked<\/a> then-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in a September 2015 email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN White House correspondent John Harwood is out at the network as its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, overhauls its composition and lineup. Harwood announced his departure Friday on Twitter. In a brief message, Harwood said he was proud of his work and thanked his colleagues. He added that he \u201clook[s] forward to figuring out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1631164,"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-1631162","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\/1631162","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1631164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}