DNC should just blackball CNN until she is gone. What next, they going to hire Sarah Sanders to run their fact checking team?
given Isgur’s alleged involvement in a right wing conspiracy theory about the murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich… who has no journalism background, as a political editor who will coordinate coverage of the 2020 campaigns.
I’d like to be appalled, but since when has CNN avoided hiring hacks? Smells like a corporate dog chasing money.
DNC officials were perplexed by the hire
Really? Anyone with two brain cells can figure out what this is about. And then we wonder why we lose…
CNN hired Isgur, who has no journalism background, as a political editor who will coordinate coverage of the 2020 campaigns.
Her real mandate is probably “how we can push for Trump’s reelection without alienating viewers”. Cha-ching!
She shouldn’t be participating in any editorial decisions on the 2020 election at all. The fox is in the henhouse.
Sure, she won’t be working the debates… She’ll be directing reporters to cover the following important 2020 campaign issues:
“101 Ways that Trump Made America Great Again”
“How Democratic Candidates Plan to Confiscate Your Weapons”
“Democrats: Socialists, or Communists?”
“Democratic Candidates and the Plot to Take Your Social Security and Medicare Away from You: Should you be Concerned”
I think the DNC should also review her time sheet.
After saying Isgur will not participate in presidential debates, CNN announced it is hiring Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Lou Dobbs to moderate Democratic candidate debates.
Why the hell hire someone to direct political coverage and they have to immediately set about recusing themselves from areas they’re supposed to be responsible for?
“People, meet your new used car sales manager. FYI, don’t go to him with any deals on a Chevy or a Buick, he has it in for General Motors. Oh, Subarus bother him too. And Fords. But other than that, he’s here to help you. Welcome aboard!!”
The Democratic National Committee extracted a promise from CNN that
Sarah Isgur, the network’s new hire who previously worked as Jeff
Sessions’ primary spokeswoman, would not work on Democratic primary
debates in any way, The Daily Beast reported.
Then why did you hire this nut in the first place? She has NO journalism experience and believes that goofy conspiracy theory about Seth Rich that Client #3 was flogging almost two years ago.
Remember this from May 22, 2017?
“ARE WE STILL AIRING THAT SHIT [Seth Rich conspiracy]?!” was the response of one anonymous Fox News political reporter.
My guess is that Isgur was hired to be the liaison to bring in guest “pundits” like Lewandowski and Sean Spicer and other equally awful RWNJ characters, to give their opinion and create the false illusion of balance.
I reiterate, just in case anyone from CNN is trolling these boards: I am not watching CNN until Isgur is gone. MSNBC is getting both of my commercial watching eyeballs (and Mrs. Jack’s two, too!)
So they won’t let her interfere in the primaries but she’ll be free to put her thumb on the scale for trump during the big show. Brilliant… not.
Everyone knows she’s just doing this to dramatically leave and go to Fox, right? She’ll be disgusted with the Left Wing Bias she could not overcome or abide, etc. The pay increase will be large. But mostly it’s about the dissing of CNN. Snore.
I’m glad for upcoming journalist graduates that the industry they have chosen is so lacking qualified applicants, because of extremely low unemployment rates, that CNN was forced to fill this position and so many others with unqualified people.
I knew from seeing Fox News journalists that the bottom of the hiring barrel was being scraped but to know now that we’ve completely ran out of journalist and none have recently become available for hire because boom times are upon us in the industry is refreshing.
So CNN is basically admitting that Isgur can’t be trusted as an honest broker. Why would anyone want to get their news from an organization demonstrating such indifference to intellectual integrity?
Nope. Not good enough since everything that leads up to the debates and everything that follows will be in the messaging, the decisions she makes to promote whatever narrative of the day she wants pushed forward, and the people she has on to promote tRump’s reelection. The only background she actually has is as a GOP political operative so how stupid does CNN think people are exactly? Fuck CNN…can’t and won’t watch them. They are so lost with Zucker in charge of making decisions there. He has an agenda and obviously, he thinks its a secret. Not so secret though from what I can tell.
Ok. Will CNN also be providing a list of all the things she DOES work on, or are we supposed to guess?
And what’s truly annoying is that CNN obviously only sees this as a “we’re being bipartisan and Democrats are complaining just like Republicans always do which means we’re doing it right,” instead of understanding that they hired a completely unqualified person for the job solely because they’re being played by Republicans just like they always are.
CNN’s main purpose is to give the centrist view of whatever Republicans want to talk about while cramming in as much political gossip as possible. They’re the enablers who normalize Republican bad behavior because they don’t like Democrats personally and only see politics as a game that’s good for ratings.
If Isgur isn’t biased against Democrts than why pull her from primary election coverage CNN? Maybe you should pull her from general election coverage then as well, because there is going to be a Democrat in that election. Maybe you should pull her all together because it was a poorly thought out hire in the first place?