Can Partisanship And Profanity Save CNN From Its Ratings Collapse?

CNN has changed dramatically since it went on the air in 1980. Back then, it covered news.

The Washington Post seems to labor under the delusion that it still does. In what was presented as a hard news story, the paper claimed that CNN only recently abandoned cable news’ “industry-wide standards of impartiality” to become more “authentic.” Reporter Jeremy Barr shoehorned that assumption into the headline, “The new CNN is more opinionated and emotional. Can it still be ‘the most trusted name in news?’”