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Editorial: CNN is hewing toward the center? That’s good for our democracy.

Under its new head Chris Licht, the original cable news network is making strides toward reasserting itself as a neutral news source. This is causing some apprehension on the far left, which has come to see CNN as an ally in its fight against the Fox News Channel for the hearts and minds, and political loyalties, of Americans. To some, this is an example of the so-called both sidesism, a ...
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer speaks to the audience ahead of the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on Jan. 14, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Under its new head Chris Licht, the original cable news network is making strides toward reasserting itself as a neutral news source.

This is causing some apprehension on the far left, which has come to see CNN as an ally in its fight against the Fox News Channel for the hearts

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