“Cheer Up, Things Could Be Worse”

Now updated with truth-telling from @JohnJHarwood, which was followed moments later by his departure from CNN. https://t.co/5UfghMdlXg pic.twitter.com/4F1XHisPS9

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) September 2, 2022

Sure enough:

The Diet Fox era begins. https://t.co/Im4lYu54An

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 2, 2022

John Harwood's departure makes a lot more sense, now. Too bad CNN is so far behind the public interest; and attitude.

He tried to introduce one degree of complexity about "taking sides," just one. But it was too much for CNN executives. He had to go. There can be only one continuum: left to right, with the journalist in the middle. It's not their thinking so much as their prevention of thought. https://t.co/XUq03u4gzL

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 2, 2022

The narrative must be preserved. Blessed be the name of the narrative.