” Aug. 21, the number of mainstream vehicles analyzing an increasingly confusing media industry shrank even further.
In doing so, however, CNN is tossing out a program launched with the best of intentions. Bernard Kalb first anchored the show, followed by Howard Kurtz and, in 2013, Stelter, a former New York Times reporter who worked closely with late media columnist David Carr.
“I wrote recently about the end of a number of forums for media criticism, and there really was no common thread at all, ranging from cancellation to retirement to death,” says Dan Kennedy, a former media critic for the now-defunct Boston Phoenix and currently a journalism professor at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design. “But I don’t have the sense that we’re going to see replacements for any of these outlets.
He certainly didn't while he was there.
What an indictment of cnn leadership
Well that ain’t cnn