New ‘objective’ CNN appears to be making itself objectively rightwing

The cable network's CEO dramatic hiring and firing of on-air talent seems designed to woo the Fox News crowd

CNN wants to be the new Fox News and it's not even trying to hide it. Earlier this year Chris Licht became the new CEO of the cable network and immediately made it clear that he was going to change the network's direction. One of Licht's first moves was to embark on what Axios described as a Capitol Hill diplomacy tour" and others described as a Republican boot-licking tour. Licht met with key lawmakers who had become wary of cable news and promised them that CNN was moving away from alarmist" programming towards more neutral, objective reporting.