change across the company, including here at cnn. and i m sad that i won t be here to cover it. but since this is our final episode, we re going to do something today. this is a special hour and it s about change. it s about change all across the media world. what s changing? what might change? and what must never change about the accountability function of journalism. i love this show. this small but mighty show punched above its weight for so many years. even a former president commented on the cancellation. reliable sources has been a one of a kind show, and a popular show. this is one of cnn s highest rated weekend shows. so i want to say thank you to all of you watching around the world. i was lucky to be a part of it for nine years. but it began 30 years ago after the gulf war. so here s what the iconic former cnn ceo tom johnson said on facebook when he heard the show was canceled. he said it was founded by ted turner and leaders of cnn who felt deeply that media org
can the press help get to the truth? and a dismissive response to senator chuck schumer s plea for change. and, later, why afghanistan needs to stay in the news. two afghan news anchors are going to join us live from kabul with another oppressive taliban ruling. breaking news this hour. president biden about to land in texas. it is his second trip to the site of a mass killing in as many weeks. the president and first lady will be landing in san antonio this hour. then they re going to board those helicopters and fly to the memorial site in uvalde. they will attend mass at the sacred heart catholic church. they will meet with victims families. cnn will have live coverage throughout the day. we ll be watching to see if president biden makes any remarks as he lands there in the next few minutes. in uvalde and beyond, people are searching for answers. people like kimberly rubio, a reporter at the local paper the uvalde leader news. the paper s front page this morning
Go online and say give us facts. no, this is a larger thing. we also set the parameters of what of the civic conversation of american life. that s what you also do on this show. my hope for cnn, just as i said local news is pretty much gone and you have these big papers, the times, the post, the wall street journal, a few others. it s the same thing on tv news. local tv news is not very good in a lot of cities. i don t think it s very good in baltimore. except my wife s show. new york is different. tv news has been hollowed out. and so my hope for cnn, more than ever, this is the most important cable channel, i think, right now, to set a standard for journalism, brian. i pray to god they do it. my old mentor david carr would say, it s getting nice sp
Particularly for self-defense, but restricts an 18-year-old from buying a murderous weapon after one of his late night video game binges and the answer is, it may not be possible to have that moderate conversation. brian, i think you re absolutely right and that is so depressing that someone who s covered media for 40 years and thought i was working in the direction of helping to facilitate the conversation of american life, the civic conversation of american life. we have so hopelessly lost any semblance of a conversation. we just have people screaming at each other in a way and i don t think we re going to get it back. i think technology took off. we didn t think about it. we don t care about philosophy and ethics anymore in the school, in the colleges. we have to learn the technical trade to make money. we didn t think about the technology, brian, before it
Cummings fingered this group to the irs, urged the irs to go after them, even though there was evidence that they had been investigating this texas conservative group six months before. and when i wrote about that and when i called fox up, their response was, it s an opinion show. it s not part of our hard journalism lineup. which what is that? breitbart and jeff schmidt. but that s their excuse, that s their response to this, and brian, it isn t, even if you re not doing hard journalism, especially on a news channel, you have a tremendous responsibility because all of the shows help set the parameters of conversation in america, the civic conversation of american life. and when you are as reckless and in some ways, even i would say dishonest as these guys, you re