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
Now. eric, what would you add about the future of cnn? the problem is people put a political lens on something that is about preserving democracy and holding politicians accountable. when you have one politician denouncing the press as the enemy of the people, when you have one politician that insists he won an election he did not win, when you have one politician that is blaming immigrants for america s ills, you have to have a journalism apparatus that is free to call out those excesses, without fear of being accused of being unfair. and i think that s the problem. i hope that what we re not going to see cnn do is institute some sort of false equivalence, where the extremism of one party is balanced with the regular dysfunction of another party. we need to be free to call out when someone breaks the law,