Following up on our post below, this is from the media columnist at the Washington Post:
CNN’s hiring of a GOP operative as political editor is even worse than it looks. ...My column on what this terrible hire says about 2020 coverage, whether CNN has learned anything (no) and the defensive addiction to both-sides 'journalism' https://t.co/Uik4EjePDO— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) February 20, 2019
And more --
Qs @CNN needs to answer about hiring GOP operative Sarah Isgur to edit its political coverage:— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 20, 2019
1. Did Isgur sign a NDA while working for Trump?
2. What was Isgur's role in spreading the Seth Rich conspiracy?
3. Will Isgur have access to the identities of confidential sources?
Sorry, didn’t get the latest memo after 1,000 experienced + qualified journalists of all stripes were let go w/o warning a few weeks ago and still looking for work: are we still pretending that hires like these are evidence of a meritocracy? https://t.co/Qb9JNgcdT2— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 20, 2019
Congratulations to @CNN on its new era of JournaMAGAlism!https://t.co/8D6XHK5MGO— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 20, 2019
Finally --
wild that so many people treat CNN's hire of Flores as some sort of black swan event and not a thing that's thoroughly in keeping with the organization's well-known level of institutional rot— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) February 19, 2019
