To spin-off from the Trump thread, where Rachel Maddow's future was raised, were these channels ever worth watching or have they always been the cable equivalent of Guardian clickbait? How is Maddow still employable and, if not, with what would you replace her?
On CNN, WTF is Anderson Cooper still doing there? Awesome journalist ten years ago but now spends his time baiting or being baited by Trump trolls for no good purpose. They have some interesting pundits, e.g. I think Jeffrey Toobin is good (but Ursus may be qualified to judge him), but they use them awfully, giving them far less airtime than the trolls, and then usually to answer agenda-driven questions on a fatuous premise. In addition, as an obvious ethical decision, it was impossible to continue watching the channel after it started paying Lewandowski, which to me was the CNN equivalent of Newsnight interviewing a neo-Nazi on the night of the Christchurch atrocity, except that CNN were paying him a salary to be on every fucking day spewing racist lies.
On CNN, WTF is Anderson Cooper still doing there? Awesome journalist ten years ago but now spends his time baiting or being baited by Trump trolls for no good purpose. They have some interesting pundits, e.g. I think Jeffrey Toobin is good (but Ursus may be qualified to judge him), but they use them awfully, giving them far less airtime than the trolls, and then usually to answer agenda-driven questions on a fatuous premise. In addition, as an obvious ethical decision, it was impossible to continue watching the channel after it started paying Lewandowski, which to me was the CNN equivalent of Newsnight interviewing a neo-Nazi on the night of the Christchurch atrocity, except that CNN were paying him a salary to be on every fucking day spewing racist lies.
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