I remember when CNN came on the air. Everyone thought they were without bias, that they didn’t give opinions like the networks did, that their news reporting was facts only and not suppositions as the network did.I remember when Reagan was shot and it was CNN that refused to make comments that were not known facts. Everyone was glad there was an alternative to the networks that lied, added emotional commentary, and reported things not true. Well, we quickly found CNN to be liberal; that while they, then, didn’t report anything but facts, they left out facts about conservatives.
It was a dark time for about ten years before Rush came about. Rush single handedly started the public campaign for conservative news outlets. Rush gets a load of credit where the other media failed.
CNN in the 80s had “Crossfire” where you culd at least hear the conservative point of view given equal time.
It was a step up.
Then Begala got put on it in the 90s and it was trashed and destroyed.
I lived in Atlanta in the mid-70s. Everyone watched cnn cause it was on all night. It was great when it first started. At night, Ted Turner’s tbs station would put a German Sheppard dog in a suit and hat, place peanut butter in his mouth and someone would read news while the dog licked his chops. It was so funny