Remember the adage of “Those who can, DO, those who can’t teach!”, well the journalism schools where this generation of news-beasts almost exclusively come from, are taught by the 1960-80s radicals who couldn’t do! The gent who is the subject of this article as a co-founder of CNN, went on to keep on DOing, just not there at CNN. This is a good expose of how TV news becomes personality / celebrity TV.
Much of the reason is barely mentioned: the insular culture of the old media, where conservatives need not apply, or are drummed out when they dare reveal themselves.
You do not see Conservative celebrities in the old media.