How did CNN choose to cover the departure of Chris Wallace from Fox News and his move to CNN?
CNN’s Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy penned a snarky story about Wallace, calling him “one of the few high-profile news personalities who retained a reputation of integrity as the channel he worked for leaned hard into right-wing and conspiratorial programming…”
Does any name come to mind of a different “high-profile news personality” whose “reputation of integrity” was recently shredded? Wouldn't a genuine news story mention the fact that Wallace's move from Fox to CNN comes barely one week after Chris Cuomo's exit in disgrace from the CNN news lineup? After all, the CNN story mentions a previous newsroom exit from Fox: “Wallace's announcement was as surprising and abrupt as Shepard Smith's sign-off from Fox in 2019.” If this were a normal news story, that had some purpose other than promoting CNN over Fox, wouldn’t it include mention of this month’s other major cable news personnel change, especially when both changes affect the CNN lineup of on-air news personalities?
In what passes for news at CNN, Darcy and Stelter wrote that “In recent years, Fox News, which always did tilt toward the right, has transformed itself into a hyper-partisan, right-wing talk network that regularly pushes conspiracy theories on a wide variety of topics. Even many of the network's so-called ‘straight news’ anchors have abandoned any pretense of impartiality.”
Of course, one thing we can all agree upon is that CNN, unlike Fox News, demonstrates its complete and total political impartiality