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
Some things wrong. have you thought about what we got right and wrong in the past decade? yeah, i think we ve gotten a number of things wrong. and i probably have myself. but i think the primary thing we got wrong in cable news especially is when donald trump was running for president in the primaries, we gave him unprecedented free air time. and i think that unprecedented free air time, because we thought it was such good theater, that we covered his plane swooping down to a campaign rally. we were there waiting brathlessly. i think it was a kind of irresponsible coverage that we did, all the cable news networks did it. it gave him free ammunition to spread lies, to essentially give campaign speeches with us not making a decision about what is news. and that s the other thing that we do as reporters, editors, what is news is as important a