{"id":16595,"date":"2022-08-22T10:50:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T10:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/cnn-plays-down-the-hype-of-everything-as-breaking-news\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T10:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T10:50:28","slug":"cnn-plays-down-the-hype-of-everything-as-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=16595","title":{"rendered":"CNN plays down the hype of everything as &#8216;breaking news&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s new chief Chris Licht says that starting today, CNN has added a &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; guideline to its style book, to address overuse of the news banner breaking news on their network and cable news to a large extent. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Licht and the CEO of Warner Bros.  Discovery, David Zaslav, have made it a priority to reverse CNN&#8217;s partisan programming in favor of mainstream journalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are truthful, focused on informing, not alarming, our viewers,&#8221; he said in the note obtained by Axios.  &#8220;You&#8217;ve seen a lot less of the &#8216;Breaking News&#8217; banner in our programming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Licht said he agrees with complaints from &#8220;people both inside and outside the organization&#8221; that the network overuses the &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; banner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has become such a staple across all channels and networks that its impact has been lost on the audience.&#8221;  To address the issue, CNN bureau chief Sam Feist has led a team to develop &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; guidelines for CNN&#8217;s stylebook, according to the memo.  &#8220;It will definitely need tweaking, so we&#8217;re open to feedback, but this is a great starting point for trying to make &#8216;Breaking News&#8217; mean something BIG is happening,&#8221; Licht wrote. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Zaslav and mentor and investor John Malone have gone public about their push to bring CNN into hard news coverage and away from progressive commentary. <\/p>\n<p>Noting the network&#8217;s focus on &#8220;reporting&#8221; and the truth, he said, &#8220;The tenor of our voice has to reflect that holistically.&#8221;[W]We need to be vital, relevant and respected, and how we present ourselves to our audience, in every story, in every part of the country and around the world, is important.&#8221;<span id=\"midStoryAd\" data-ad-status=\"NO_AD_LENGTH\"\/><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/02\/cnn-breaking-news-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&#8217;s new chief Chris Licht says that starting today, CNN has added a &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; guideline to its style book, to address overuse of the news banner breaking news on their network and cable news to a large extent. Why it matters: Licht and the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, have made it a priority to reverse CNN&#8217;s partisan programming in favor of mainstream journalism. &#8220;We are truthful, focused on informing, not alarming, our viewers,&#8221; he said in the note obtained by Axios. &#8220;You&#8217;ve seen a lot less of the &#8216;Breaking News&#8217; banner in our programming.&#8221; Details: Licht&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}