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
Donald trump is a serial liar, as i once called him on the air, and i said to myself, i hope that doesn t sound pejorative, because that s what most republicans in the senate in the united states regard him as. so we have to do explaining what we do and how we do it, and the bottom line has to be the best attainable version of the truth, a and the truth is not neutral. ask yourself, is a lynching neutral? i ve covered those kinds of stories. it s not neutral. it s not neutral. i didn t know if the former president s name was going to come up so early in the hour, but it s appropriate, because i think about my tenure here at cnn. he s the story. he s been the story. he s been the defining story for the last decade, for better or worse. when we think about the media s response to trump, maybe we got