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CNN president Jeff Zucker said in a recent interview with the Wall 
Street Journal that critics’ past claims that the news network “was 
a little too liberal” were legitimate and that steps have been taken 
to reach a broader audience.

“I think it was a legitimate criticism of CNN that it was a little 
too liberal,” Zucker is quoted as telling the outlet. “We have added 
many more middle-of-the-road conservative voices to an already 
strong stable of liberal voices.”

He continued, “And I think that we are a much more-balanced network 
and, as a result, a much more inviting network to a segment of the 
audience that might not have otherwise been willing to come here.”

These comments come amid an ever-contentious electoral season — one 
in which CNN has seen its ratings more than double to 435,000 
viewers among 25-to-54-year-olds.

That’s a notable jump for the network’s target demographic, as the 
Wall Street Journal reported.

But while Zucker said that CNN’s recent success is predicted upon 
concerted efforts to reach a broader audience, a representative for 
competitor Fox News had an entirely different view.

“CNN has been languishing in the basement so long that they consider 
getting to the ground level in an election year a wild success,” the 
unnamed spokeswoman said. “That speaks volumes about Time Warner’s 
low expectations.”

-- 
Nick Gillispie describes the Obama-era media as "more prone to being 
lapdogs than watchdogs." That has a nice ring to it, but it seems to 
us the metaphor is a little off. The pro-Obama media are acting like 
watchdogs--but watchdogs whose master is Obama rather than the 
public.

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