Opinion: On Sarah Isgur controversy, CNN equivocates, waffles, embarrasses itself and retreats
Sarah Isgur as a Harvard Law School student in 2007. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 8 at 6:13 PM If CNN is going to announce that it has surrendered its vaunted editorial independence, it’s best to do it on a Friday afternoon, when people are unplugging a bit.
— Sarah Isgur March 8, 2019 The move from CNN political editor to political analyst is a significant one. As a political editor, Isgur would surely have shaped the network’s coverage in some way or other, though her precise duties were never terribly clear. At one point amid a backlash about the hire, CNN said that she would “coordinate coverage across TV and Digital,” as if there weren’t already hundreds of employees at CNN who tend that particular garden.
Among those disenchanted with Isgur’s accession to CNN was the Democratic National Committee , which managed to secure assurances from CNN that Isgur wouldn’t be involved in CNN’s work on Democratic debates.
The tweet from Isgur on Friday afternoon delivered on those CNN assurances. As a political analyst, she’ll be like any other pundit.
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