CNN has distinguished itself from Fox News and MSNBC in more ways than one in its coverage of the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic
. But the spread of the coronavirus has temporarily negated those two points of contention.
CNN's primary industry sparring partner, Fox News, has used the network's personal involvement against it. Primetime host Laura Ingraham said last Wednesday that CNN has "increasingly become the story" and asked, "What is happening over there at James Earl Jones' old 'This is CNN?'" Her partner, Raymond Arroyo, said, "It almost appears as if they've launched a series of new reality shows.
The duo of Gupta and Cooper have already moderated eight weekly town halls on the virus, which CNN employees see as a massive public service. Another element of CNN's coverage of the crisis has been the continuation of a long-standing beef with the Trump White House, which has attacked the network verbally, pulled a reporter's press pass, sued them , and recently told campaign supporters —
But, the longtime former employee counters, "I think there's a very serious journalistic argument that could be made for not carrying these briefings. I think they should be discussing it every single day. I think it's a sort of tango with Jeff Zucker and Donald Trump, always." According to the executive, CNN's standard for determining whether to air portions of the briefing is: "Is it newsworthy? Is our audience going to learn something? Is it important for our audience to see this? Is it more important than something else we might put on?"
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