“News” organization are incestuously intertwined with government... Family members, marriages, relatives where one works in government and the other in ‘news’ is common.
One hand washes the other - and the general population stops trusting...
CNN is delusional if they think they have much left to protect...
Indeed, Pols wanted to harness the power of earned media for re-elections and "reporters" wanted the inside scoop as they wanted to save the world from another Watergate. Sprinkle in massive liberal bias and you have lost all credibility as a straight news organization.