The firing of Chris Cuomo, coupled with the announced merger of Discovery with WarnerMedia, the owner of CNN, suggest the possibility of great changes at the network. But it’s not a sure thing.
From its launch in 1980, until the arrival of Jeff Zucker as CEO in 2013, CNN was a network that employed journalists, and practiced the kind of journalism, that won it a wide and approving audience. As the first cable network CNN was the ideal place for coverage of ongoing stories like the invasion of Kuwait.
And that wasn’t the only subject that CNN used to handle well. In a content analysis published by The Media Institute in 1983, it was revealed that CNN’s coverage of business and economic issues was better than legacy networks. The study, called “CNN vs the Networks: Is more news better news?” found that not only did CNN cover many more such issues than the broadcast networks, but that its coverage was journalistically superior.
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