Headline Roundup • January 23rd, 2025
CNN Staff Instructed to Mitigate Personal Bias During Trump’s Inauguration
Media Bias,Media Industry,CNN,Liberal Media Bias,Inauguration,Donald Trump,Politics,Journalists,Television
Summary from the AllSides News Team
In a meeting on January 19, CNN (Lean Left bias) head Mark Thompson told over 100 of the network’s top journalists to attempt to be open-minded and remove their own biases while covering President Trump’s inauguration, according to a new report.
The Details: The report came from former Senior CNN reporter Oliver Darcy. In Darcy’s words, Thompson told meeting attendees, which included hosts Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper, to “be forward-thinking,” “avoid pre-judging Trump” and not express “any outrage of their own.” Thompson reportedly convened another similar meeting on January 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration.
Right Media Bias: The New York Post (Lean Right) added context on the state of CNN and other corporate media peers. The Post noted that CNN is slated to lay off “hundreds of employees” on January 23 and that during the inauguration ABC News (Lean Left), NBC News (Lean Left), CBS News (Lean Left), and its sister company Fox News (Right bias) all had far more viewers.
Left Media Bias: The Daily Beast (Left) mentioned Trump’s “scandals” which it says range “from sexual misconduct allegations made against him by over two dozen women to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.” The Daily Beast also noted that after the meeting, “no one spoke up” and that “the message to treat the president with kid gloves.”
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CNN boss Mark Thompson told more than 100 journalists and top on-air talent including Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid “pre-judging” President-elect Donald Trump while cautioning them “against expressing any outrage of their own” during the inauguration, according to a report.
Thompson convened a virtual editorial meeting Sunday that included Tapper, Cooper and scores of other senior news personalities to discuss CNN’s coverage of the inaugural ceremonies that took place the next day in Washington, DC, according to the Status newsletter.
During the meeting, Thompson “made it clear that he did...
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CNN journalists avoided mentioning the most sordid elements of President Donald Trump’s past—including his felony conviction and two impeachments—during inauguration day broadcasts after the network’s top boss told them to show some deference to the most powerful person on earth.
That’s according to a report in media news publication Status, authored by the well-sourced erstwhile CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.
During a routine editorial meeting on Sunday, meant to plan the extensive logistics of an inauguration, CNN CEO Mark Thompson told journalists to avoid “pre-judging Trump,” Status reported.
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