Brian Stelter to depart CNN as it cancels 'Reliable Sources' media show

[brooklynite]

NPR

CNN is canceling its Sunday media affairs show Reliable Sources, and host Brian Stelter is departing the network, Stelter tells NPR.

In a statement to NPR, Stelter says he's grateful for the show and his team's examination of "the media, truth and the stories that shape our world."

"It was a rare privilege to lead a weekly show focused on the press at a time when it has never been more consequential," Stelter said, promising to say more on Sunday's show — its final episode.

Stelter got his start blogging about cable news as a student and went on to become a media reporter for The New York Times. Reliable Sources is the longest-running show on CNN; Stelter has hosted it for the past nine years and celebrated its 30th anniversary in March.

[PCIntern]

1. Jeez...

Yeah… Why would CNN want to have a show that more or less objectively examines media coverage of events? Why, next, Time-Warner will eliminate color commentary during baseball games and football games because, well you know, God forbid anyone has an opinion about the truth or lack thereof.

[brooklynite]

2. Perhaps its being cancelled because people aren't watching?

Brian Stelter’s ‘Reliable Sources’ on CNN draws lowest ratings since 2019

CNN’s media-centric show “Reliable Sources” hosted by Brian Stelter had its worst-rated episode since September 2019.

Stelter’s show logged just 580,000 last Sunday, and a mere 73,000 viewers in the all-important 25-to-54-year-old demographic, Fox News reported. The show lost 13% of the total audience and it marked Stelter’s smallest audience since Sept. 15, 2019.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/15/brian-stelters-reliable-sources-on-cnn-has-lowest-ratings/

[PCIntern]

3. 580000 TV sets on a Sunday morning is not "nobody" in cable news IMO.

[brooklynite]

4. It is in the opinion of cable news channels.

By comparison:
CBS Face the Nation (1/2 hr) 3,100,000
NBC Meet the Press 2,835,000
ABC This Week 2,731,000
Fox TV Fox News Sunday 1,095,000

Keep in mind, they're not running a test pattern in its place; they'll look for programming that attracts a larger audience.

[IcyPeas]

6. the number of people who watch fox news dumbfounds me

(emphasis on the "dumb" )

[W_HAMILTON]

12. If CNN started canceling every show that people weren't watching...

...I don't know that they would have anything left to air.

Brian Stelter's version of Reliable Sources originally seemed to be very both sides'y, but in recent times, it seemed to call it more fairly, which, yes, means criticizing conservatives more. Given that CNN is apparently trying to get back in the good graces of fascist Republicans, I wonder if that isn't the real reason that this show got the axe...

[Sympthsical]

5. His "objectivity" was being Zucker's stenographer

However Zucker wanted things spun is what Stetler scrambled to do. As soon as he was given the heave ho, Stetler's cancellation was only a matter of time.

This has been openly acknowledged and discussed in media circles for months. It started being discussed the instant Zucker left.

[BlackSkimmer]

9. I predicted this some time ago to a friend of mine who was a fan of his lol.

I always thought he was such a toadie, and I figured the new broom would sweep this clean.

[Sympthsical]

15. What's funny is

His departure is pretty much being universally celebrated, Left and Right. If you look up "corporate supplicant" his picture will come up first.

I think "objectivity" is being mistaken for "Gets in constant slap fights with Fox News."

If that's your thing, sure. But it's not objectivity, lol.

Right now the overriding sentiment I'm seeing in all corners is that the corporate brown-nosing kiss ass got shit canned.

D'aw.

[Beaverhausen]

11. Time-Warner no longer exists

CNN is part of Warner Bros. Discovery

Disclaimer...I work for them too.

[Coventina]

7. Every time I see this thread I think it says: Brian Setzer

I can't help it: I love the Stray Cats!

[hamsterjill]

10. Same here!

I always think of the Stray Cat Strutt!!!

[JoanofArgh]

8. John Malone is a Trump donor. Or was.

Among those publicly joining in on the broader criticism of CNN as having become politicized was the investor John Malone, a major financial stakeholder of the new WarnerDiscovery conglomerate. During an episode in February, Stelter cited Malone more than a dozen times in coverage of the Discovery deal for CNN and its sister properties, expressing some concern about the investor's influence.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118197553/brian-stelter-cnn-canceled-show?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


I never thought Reliable Sources was that "ideological" but I guess criticizing Trump at all will do it.

[Baggies]

13. Doubt anyone will notice.

[ForgedCrank]

14. I just

sat down for the night and saw this.
I kind of enjoyed his show, I'll miss it.