CNN's Bad Influences
Bernard Shaw, a CNN anchor until his retirement in 2001, doesn’t like how the network has changed since he left. Asked what he now thinks of CNN,
Asked what he now thinks of CNN, Shaw told WTTW-Channel 11's John Callaway: "I try not to. I'm very, very disappointed with the way the news management at my favorite network has gone. [...]
"Unfortunately, Fox News is the ratings leader ... on the cable side of the business, and what Fox puts on the air is not news." [...]
"CNN continues to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don't like that," he said.
None of us do, Mr. Shaw; none of us do.