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CNN’s Abby Phillip admitted that her network probably leaned to the left during a conversation on The Breakfast Club Tuesday.
After the cable news star inveighed against ideological “silos” in the media, she was asked the following question by one of her interviewers:
How do you feel when people say that CNN is a network that just does what you just said you don’t want to do? Like your show is different because you bring on these different voices. But I’ve even seen people say that they feel like sometimes the other voices that are brought on are kind of brought on just because they have to be there, not because like anybody truly wants them there, because CNN is known to be, or people think CNN always leans one way. How do you feel about that?
“Well, look, I would say it’s fair to say that that CNN, we’re not Fox News. But we’re also not MSNBC. We’re probably center-left, and I think that has a lot to do with our audience. But we-, watch-, when you actually watch CNN, we have Republicans on every hour of the day. Every single one, I’m pretty sure, maybe with very few exceptions, but virtually every hour of the day,” answered Phillip. “So they’re not always on in the context that we put them on, but we as a network have a diversity of viewpoints on the air, more so than our competitors.
She continued:
And so, I mean, Liberal media is a criticism that I think we hear a lot, but there’s also way more liberal media and way more conservative media. And so I don’t-, I don’t know, I don’t put that much stock in it. I think it’s a little bit a reflection of the cable news audience, but I also think that there are extremes on both sides, and we’re not in the extremes.
Watch above via Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM on YouTube.
