Top CNN Parent Company Shareholder Tells CNN's Kara Swisher Flat Out That Left-Leaning Bias is Embedded' at CNN

"I mean, let's face it, when you have a comedian, Greg Gutfeld, right, is getting a big audience, and his personal political position is very, is very right-wing, okay? Uh, you know, is it entertainment or is it news? Well, I think it's, it's entertainment. They don't try to be overwhelmingly factual, Malone added. They try to be controversial and funny and keep an audience, he concluded."

"You've had some controversy around stuff you said about CNN. And I want to just go over it a little bit. Let me go backwards for a second, because in November of 2021, in the middle of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, you criticized CNN and said it should actually have journalists. You compared it unfavorably to Fox News. And now you're criticizing them again, Swisher said during the interview, recapping some of that criticism:"

John Malone, a major Warner Bros. Discovery shareholder and chairman emeritus, criticized CNN as overly political and lacking traditional journalistic standards. Malone contrasted CNN with Fox News and MSNBC, arguing that competition drove cable outlets toward political programming. He described Fox as openly mixing entertainment and partisan commentary through hosts and quasi-celebrities such as Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld. Malone characterized much of that programming as entertainment rather than strictly factual journalism, prioritizing controversy and audience retention. He stated that Warner Bros. Discovery leadership, including CEO David Zaslov, has been unable to meaningfully reduce CNN's left-leaning bias.

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