CNN host and reporter Brian Stelter wrote Wednesday that many of his fellow colleagues are up in arms about the network’s hiring of Sarah Isgur, previously the head spokesperson for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as a political editor.
Isgur has no experience in journalism, having spent most of her time as a Republican operative, but she would help direct coverage of the 2020 campaign in her new role.
Stelter reported that many of his coworkers have reached out to him with concerns that the hire is an ethical breach and that Isgur is unqualified for a managerial position. Some others are reportedly angry that they found out she’d be coming aboard through a Politico story and not from the company itself.
CNN executives told Stelter that people are blowing the hire out of proportion, and that the revolving door of political operative jobs and news networks has been turning for years.
Megan Kelly was otherwise engaged. This should work out well.
It’s not just where she comes from, the lack of experience, or the political bias; it’s that she’s evidently a particularly clownish true believer who has a lot of nonsensical statements and positions trailing in her wake. CNN hires really astonishingly bad people for all kinds of positions but this is pretty close to incomprehensible. There are really crackerjack people out there looking for work right now. It’s indefensible malpractice to do this.
CNN: it’s okay if we hired an unqualified partisan hack to oversee 2020 election coverage, because our lousy hires never last more than an election cycle.
“CNN executives told Stelter that people are blowing the hire out of proportion, and that the revolving door of political operative jobs and news networks has been turning for years.”
Not seeing a reason being given as to why they hired her.
If they hired her as a contributor… ok, stupid, but whatever, ratings.
This hire makes no sense. EX-trump admin folks should be blackballed…